Crossing the Styx

[ardcarp]

Can anyone remind me how to enter the underworld of Politics and Current Affairs (and more particularly the discussion about Gove)? Can anyone suggest a good tune to charm it back to the land of the living...well Platform3 anyway.

[Gordon]

Orfeo!!! When i am laid in Earth....

[jean]

The link is on the Forum home page, on the left, scroll down from Useful links past Radio 3 links to Other links.

Or bookmark it - that's what I did.

[ardcarp]

Thanks, Jean. I've found it and I'm tuning my lute as we speak.

[Don Petter]

Thanks, Jean. I've found it and I'm tuning my lute as we speak.

Euphemism?

[Flosshilde]

Thanks, Jean. I've found it and I'm tuning my lute as we speak.

I thought it was a lyre.

(Hmm - "I'm just tuning my Clegg"? or Blair, or (almost) any other politician you care to think of))

[ardcarp]

I thought it was a lyre.

...pants on fire. Yes, I'm sure it was, but can't help remembering "Orpheus with his lute, with his lute made trees and the mountaintops that freeze". And I was made to pronounce it 'Lyute'...very embarrassing for a 12-year-old.

[Don Petter]

I thought it was a lyre.

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took - the same as me!

So perhaps it should be loot?

[Radio64]

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took - the same as me!

is that the Pam Ayres version?

[Don Petter]

is that the Pam Ayres version?

It's yer actual Kipling.

[Radio64]

It's yer actual Kipling.

[Gordon]

It's yer actual Kipling.

By G(i)ove!! I believe it is.

[Serial_Apologist]

Kipling? I've never tried doing it.

[Richard Tarleton]

In Luis Milan's 1536 collection El Maestro, Orpheus plays a vihuela - you can see Charon, the Styx etc. just right of centre.

[ardcarp]

Wonderful pic, Richard T. So a six string 'guitar' was around in the 16th cent? (Forgive my ignorance on the subject.)