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    Default Walton's Belshazzar's Feast: M Berkeley, BBC4

    Just noticed - and no one seems to have posted about it - that on BBC4 in about 1 minute is a 90 minutes documentary about Walton and Belshazzar's Feast, presented by Michael Berkeley

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077t05

    Doesn't seem to be the customary early morning repeat...
    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9

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    I'm recording it even as I write. What I would REALLY like is for the whole 'Masterworks' series to be repeated, especially the programmes on the Tallis Fantasia and Britten's 'Serenade' (the latter performed, if memory serves, in Blythburgh Church and featuring Ian Bostridge).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norfolk Born View Post
    I'm recording it even as I write. What I would REALLY like is for the whole 'Masterworks' series to be repeated, especially the programmes on the Tallis Fantasia and Britten's 'Serenade' (the latter performed, if memory serves, in Blythburgh Church and featuring Ian Bostridge).
    I saw none of them (there's no sign that they're repeats - but then that's the norm on BBC4 it seems) and I too would REALLY like the same thing as you (and am watching it and recording it and writing this)!

    Presumably you're recording it because you are watching that other great North WEstern cultural product, Corrie NO SPOILERS please about the trial!! I intend to be enthralled this weekend...
    Last edited by Caliban; 04-02-12 at 14:04. Reason: Correcting geographical brain fade! Thanks fhg!
    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9

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    I managed to start the recorder in time for the performance itself. The iPlayer will have to suffice for the documentary section of the programme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caliban View Post

    Presumably you're recording it because you are watching that other great North Eastern cultural product, Corrie NO SPOILERS please about the trial!! I intend to be enthralled this weekend...
    Nope. no soaps here. have stuck with Walton from the beginning this evening! Er, there is a Corrie omni ... Sundays. As to what is on - try the Radio Times!
    edit: Now on, BBC Wales, docu about the Welsh Wizard, Shane Williams Six Nations starts tomorow, Engand v Scotland! Ireland v Wales Sunday, being talked up big time on Welsh radio and tv as the grudge match of the year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anna View Post
    Nope. no soaps here. have stuck with Walton from the beginning this evening! Er, there is a Corrie omni ... Sundays. As to what is on - try the Radio Times!
    Err... yes, I always watch the Corrie omni, Anna! Early Saturday morning, actually - now relegated to ITV2 (to the cast's fury: lower repeat fees... ). Phone calls interrupted the Walton, so I'm going to resume.

    Lady W came across as a poppet, didn't she (she and Andrew Davis were the best in that extract from 'Façade' I thought - Willard White surprisingly poor!) but she was tough as old boots. A former law firm of mine acted for the Waltons, and I had dealings. Her approach to matters legal was... crisp!!

    My Agèd P performed 'Façade' with the Northern Sinfonia when I was about 8. I remember the rehearsals with the lady speaker with whom he performed it, in our dining room, and then P reciting them non-stop around the house. His half of the work is still engraved in my brain... I can do the 'Tango-Pasodoblé' from memory even now. I loved the rhythmic, evocative, exotic words...

    "Through trees like rich hotels that bode
    Of dreamless ease fled she,
    Carrying the load and goading the road
    Through the marine scene to the sea."


    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9

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    I recorded the programme and must watch it later.

    Lady W's approach to everything/everyone was 'crisp'. She even terrified Malcolm Sargent I believe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caliban View Post
    Presumably you're recording it because you are watching that other great North Eastern cultural product, Corrie
    North Eastern???

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    Quote Originally Posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    North Eastern???


    I was trying to be clever with Manchester and Oldham but settled for a compromise and the Friday evening brain let me down. Glad you pointed it out! Don't want the world silently thinking me an ignoramus!
    "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
    The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caliban View Post

    Don't want the world silently thinking me an ignoramus!
    ... he thinks the world would be silent ?!!

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