Private Passions at Free Thinking - a very BBC coup

[Serial_Apologist]

On today (Sunday 27th) - 12 noon

"Michael Berkeley talks to Chris Mullin, thriller writer, political diarist and former MP. He looks back to perhaps the greatest achievement of his life, when he campaigned successfully for the release of the Birmingham Six in the 1980s, talks about his friendship with ther Dalai Lama and how his travels in the Far East have given him a different perspective on life. His musical choices include works by Handel, Chopin, Mozart and Tippett. Plus Tibetan, Vietmamese and African music and a recording by Northumbrian musician Kathryn Tickell".

And there's me saying you don't have to travel to change your p.o.v., and its more environment-friendly...

(Some of us may have met Kathryn??)

[Old Grumpy]

On today (Sunday 27th) - 12 noon

"Michael Berkeley talks to Chris Mullin, thriller writer, political diarist and former MP. He looks back to perhaps the greatest achievement of his life, when he campaigned successfully for the release of the Birmingham Six in the 1980s, talks about his friendship with ther Dalai Lama and how his travels in the Far East have given him a different perspective on life. His musical choices include works by Handel, Chopin, Mozart and Tippett. Plus Tibetan, Vietmamese and African music and a recording by Northumbrian musician Kathryn Tickell".

And there's me saying you don't have to travel to change your p.o.v., and its more environment-friendly...

(Some of us may have met Kathryn??)

One can certainly change one's view without travel - or only the distance to Sage Gateshead (not The Sage Gateshead - this was made clear on several occasions during the recordings I attended!).

I was fairly ambivalent towards Chris Mullin before attending the recording of Private Passions yesterday, but have certainly warmed to him since (not enough to buy all 3 volumes of his diaries though!).

Kathryn Tickell is indeed well known hereabouts (although I can't claim personally to have met her). Despite including a track by Kathryn Tickell neither Chris Mullin nor Michael Berkeley appeared to know how the Northumbrian Pipes were played.


OG

[antongould]

One can certainly change one's view without travel - or only the distance to Sage Gateshead (not The Sage Gateshead - this was made clear on several occasions during the recordings I attended!).

I was fairly ambivalent towards Chris Mullin before attending the recording of Private Passions yesterday, but have certainly warmed to him since (not enough to buy all 3 volumes of his diaries though!).

Kathryn Tickell is indeed well known hereabouts (although I can't claim personally to have met her). Despite including a track by Kathryn Tickell neither Chris Mullin nor Michael Berkeley appeared to know how the Northumbrian Pipes were played.


OG

Glad you you enjoyed it OG - I like Mr. Mullins and have to own up to being a, very distant, relation of Kathryn T!

[Serial_Apologist]

Worth listening to though eh, OG?

Like possibly quite a few others I'd always had Chris down as a bit of a champaigne socialist, his campaign on behald of the Birmingham 6 notwithstanding; this changed my view of him, and I hadn't realised he was married to a Vietnamese lady.

[Old Grumpy]

Music for a New Crossing is a fine piece composed and performed by Kathryn Tickell and Andy Sheppard for the opening of the definitive Millennium Bridge (no, not the wobbly one).

[Serial_Apologist]

Music for a New Crossing is a fine piece composed and performed by Kathryn Tickell and Andy Sheppard for the opening of the definitive Millennium Bridge (no, not the wobbly one).

Thanks for that link, OG. Fancy you being a distant relative, Anton! I once met Kathryn at a club being run by Keith Tippett in Bristol in the early 90s. He called it the Rare Music Club, and it had a slogan: No Baroque, No Jazzrock, and No Fred Wedlock!