Just re-posting the elsethread recommendations for last Tuesday's edition of Great Lives on R4, where the subject was Herbert Howells - just in case regulars to The Choir might have missed it. 
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Proposed by Ed Balls, amazingly - the first time I’ve ever warmed to him...
Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostJust re-posting the elsethread recommendations for last Tuesday's edition of Great Lives on R4, where the subject was Herbert Howells - just in case regulars to The Choir might have missed it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007bd2"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Very much worth a listenComment
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Come on Rumpole you voted for him on Strictly every week .......Comment
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That was sadism, not "warmth"!Originally posted by antongould View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Ed Balls.
Sorry, thought this was Twitter for a moment.Comment
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Agreed! He was such a pugnacious politician; but everyone has a softer side. I leapt to the computer as soon as this programme finished hoping to start the thread with something like 'Balls on Howells'...but too late! I thought Matthew Paris, whom I usually admire tremendously, made (I thought) some rather crass remarks about being involved in church music and belief. And his comment on the hymn tune Michael (e.g. trite and repetitive) was well wide of the mark. Howells own descant to it...not often sung...is well off the wall.Proposed by Ed Balls, amazingly - the first time I’ve ever warmed to him...Comment
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Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
Always been somewhat... err... bumptious, has young Balls; “Eddie” (as he was then known) was a few years below me at school and I vividly remember as a prefect
giving him lines for being a complete **** in morning assembly 
At least if our paths ever cross again, we shall have a shared love of Howells to talk about
Originally posted by antongould View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I was so glad to have caught the programme, both for the chance to hear E.Balls in refreshingly un-bumptious vein and for the sheer excitement of his Howells appreciation. It was a pity about the 'crass remarks' (to borrow Ardcarp's phrase) from Matthew Parris, but I suppose you can't have everything.Comment
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