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Bryn
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« on: 15:36:13, 17-07-2007 »
Just in case anyone is interested, "Private Walker", is kindly posting the series (ex Freeview) on the binaries groups, "alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc", and "alt.binaries.sounds.radio.british". So far, the trailer and the first 4 programmes are up.
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« Reply #1 on: 10:18:41, 25-07-2007 »
Is it any good Bryn? The model appears to be the Sceptered Isle series the bits of which I heard struck me as brilliant. There are a few journos hi can blue-pencil their way to a pellucid 15 min script on something big, but I had my doubts about the enterprise. SI
dwelt on chunks of history at some length, rather like the writings of someone like Alison Weir, whereby I guess the aim was to get to know a perod, but I don't think a R4 listener could do this in a week except at a cursory level which may be what RW wants but isnt I'd suggest what nurtures qualitative appreciation and a critical faculty. It would seem the equivalent of 'doing' the thing on a package tour with John Cleese's benighted tour guide -oldPython sketch?-cracking the whip. Come to think of it, Palin or Terry Jones (on early music, say ) would have worked.
Scuse the rant, how has it panned  out Bryn?
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« Reply #2 on: 10:26:20, 25-07-2007 »
Hmm... I heard some of the medieval / renaissance ones. and got very exasperated: the script didn't tell you anything about the music - mostly just bits of historical anecdotage - let alone WHY Jim Naughtie (or his producer) chose those particular music clips. Maybe if I'd stuck it out, or bothered listening to the accompanying music on R3, it would have improved. As it was, I kept thinking I'd rather have listened (had it survived) to the Third Programme's 1940s History of Music in Sound series, ropy as some of the performances must have been.*

You're certainly right about the Sceptred Isle approach though. I just don't think it worked for the music I heard.

*(Some were recorded by EMI soon afterwards with the same performers - some fascinating recordings there.)
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« Reply #3 on: 11:09:29, 25-07-2007 »
Well the whole of the first series of 30 programmes is now up there, though 5, 7 and 8 have brief sections missing on the server I access. The series seems to be more about the social and historical context in which the music developed. It's not really abour technique that much. I'd be very surprised if the multi-CD edition they have issued will sell many copies.
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