Raymond Tallis on Private Passions

[Richard Tarleton]

Rameau perhaps

Oh it was Rameau alright!

Raymond Tallis was a fascinating guest - both in his selections, and with plenty of interesting things to say about life, death, Schopenhauer (music as direct expression of the Will), religion.....really worth listening to.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...really worth listening to.

.... yep nowt dumb about it eh .....

[teamsaint]

I looked up Raymond Tallis on Wikipedia yesterday for a bit more information. I also looked up Stewart Lee, the stand-up comedian and Observer columnist. I was amused that the latter's entry is three times the length of that for Tallis, described as one of the great polymaths. (Tallis's own website is also interesting.)

That could be a comment on Wikipedia, (unreliable) Tallis, (possibly unreliable) or Lee(reliable for laughs at least).

[kernelbogey]

Not the first time I've been struck by the disproportion of the length of articles in Wikipedia. Perhaps in this case the size of Tallis's entry reflects how well he's known - I hadn't heard of him before Sunday.

[teamsaint]

Not the first time I've been struck by the disproportion of the length of articles in Wikipedia. Perhaps in this case the size of Tallis's entry reflects how well he's known - I hadn't heard of him before Sunday.

Wikipedia is far from reliable.
there are many reasons for this, but they include the fact that there are plenty of people who have their online profile professionally "handled". I am not suggesting this is true of Tallis, but it does happen a great deal.