Off Subject: Can Anyone tell me the theme music of the holiday programme on BBC1
Kevin Lynch
I know it's not Radio4 related but, I know the readers will know. I
have not watched the holiday programme in 5 years, but they used to
use a gordon lightfoot guitar track I think, but the more I write I
realise I'm thinking of the R4 programme that used to follow the sport
30 mins on sat morning so it's ok it is a R4 question.
Kevin
Tiddy Ogg
wrote:
>Can Anyone tell me the theme music of the holiday programme on BBC1?
they used to
>use a gordon lightfoot guitar track I think, but the more I write I
>realise I'm thinking of the R4 programme that used to follow the sport
>30 mins on sat morning so it's ok it is a R4 question.
iirc it's Gordon Giltrap, but can't remember the title.
Tiddy.
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David Wright
>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:11:26 +0000, Kevin Lynch <kevin...@avid.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Can Anyone tell me the theme music of the holiday programme on BBC1?
>
>they used to
>>use a gordon lightfoot guitar track I think, but the more I write I
>>realise I'm thinking of the R4 programme that used to follow the sport
>>30 mins on sat morning so it's ok it is a R4 question.
>iirc it's Gordon Giltrap, but can't remember the title.
Could it be something like "Heartstring" or maybe "Heart Song"?
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Kevin Lynch
wrote:
Thanks I think it must be Heartsong by Gordon Giltrap.
Kevin
Tony
What a load of fatuous nonesense. Do people really enjoy this dribble, or is
it just there to provide employment for lonely clerics?
Personally, I'd rather hear the sound that used to accompany the Test Card
on TV, or Forsite's miserable 'the world is ending' bi-weekly lecture, than
another innofenseive Bishop waffling on about.....what.....I have no idea
Does anyone like it. Or is it like the Dome, there untill someome gets rid
of it?
Tony
What a load of fatuous nonsense. Do people really enjoy this dribble, or is
it just there to provide employment for lonely clerics?
Personally, I'd rather hear the sound that used to accompany the Test Card
on TV, or Forsite's miserable 'the world is ending' bi-weekly lecture, than
another inoffensive Bishop waffling on about.....what.....I have no idea
Does anyone like it. Or is it like the Dome, there until someone gets rid
of it?
john langford
Gordon Giltrap was the man. John the Fish.
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timothy.howes
another pompous politician.
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Mark Lamb
months ago who reiterated R4's commitment to wasting 3 minutes of
Today every morning. Oh well.
Cheers,
Mark
Tony Green
>
> I would rather listen to a spiritual slant on life occasionally rather than
> another pompous politician.
Pompous politician, pompous vicar. At least we can vote out the
politician!
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Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to uk.media.radio.bbc-r4:
> "timothy.howes" wrote:
> >
> > I would rather listen to a spiritual slant on life occasionally rather than
> > another pompous politician.
>
> Pompous politician, pompous vicar. At least we can vote out the
> politician!
Thought for the day:
It's 7.50 am. Go back to bed.
Somewhere I have a recording of the KYTV TFTD. About 30 seconds of Angus
Deaytom umming and ahhing.
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Chaz
<sp...@nukesoft.co.uk> writes
>On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:47:11 +0000, Tony Green <to...@beermad.clothing.org.uk>
>wrote the following to uk.media.radio.bbc-r4:
>
>> "timothy.howes" wrote:
>> >
>> > I would rather listen to a spiritual slant on life occasionally rather than
>> > another pompous politician.
>>
>> Pompous politician, pompous vicar. At least we can vote out the
>> politician!
>
>Thought for the day:
>
>It's 7.50 am. Go back to bed.
>
>Somewhere I have a recording of the KYTV TFTD. About 30 seconds of Angus
>Deaytom umming and ahhing.
That would be better than the dire offering we had this morning from
some bod, who I think was introduced as some journo (can't be right, I
must have misheard).
Anyway, he waffled(sic) on about 'sandwich/lunch breaks' in the
workplace (using a really static, boring monotone) and after a minute or
so I thought that a TFTD editor had abandoned the mould of religion for
a jape (or testing the water) - to see if anyone detected the lack of
God!
But, my hopes were dashed when he then introduced 'thanking God' for the
lunch break and the Godly sanctioning of the long lunch break etc. - so
it was doom again! Albeit dressed in some anti-NewLabour 'spin &
babble' (regarding the cash-4-wigs dinner whip-round) - which was
ironically apposite in TFTD!
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Andy Taylor
wrote:
>Somewhere I have a recording of the KYTV TFTD. About 30 seconds of Angus
>Deaytom umming and ahhing.
It is on the Radio Active LP
Richard Caley
t> Oh Lord..............I hate Thought For The Day I really do.
t> What a load of fatuous nonesense. Do people really enjoy this dribble, or is
t> it just there to provide employment for lonely clerics?
I haven't heard a reasonable on in _ages_. Anything with a christian
on it has always been fatuous, and the token humanist that
occasionally pops up is worse, these guys all seem to be christians in
denial.
Presumably the other religiouns don't enforce personality removal on
their priest-equivaents, so it has usally been the occasional Jewish,
Muslim, Hindu, Seek etc. who has said something worth the airtime. But
not recently.
I think BBC religious broadcasting must have gotten nobbled by the
same chunk of the CofE who got the Religion Zone of the
Dome. Eliminate all big questions and concentrate on the sub sunday
school drivel.
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Richard Caley
th> I would rather listen to a spiritual slant on life occasionally rather than
th> another pompous politician.
Yes, it would be good if they replaced thought for the day with a slot
which discussed spiritual ideas or looked at life from a spiritual
POV.
Unfortunatly we are stuck with TFTD which is just pompous people,
often effectively politicians (albeit in some church rather than party
hierachy).
Brian D Milner
>I haven't heard a reasonable on in _ages_.
OK, I'll give it a go.
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Good Morning Richard and Good Morning Listeners,
I remember when I was a little boy that the local vicar told me a parable
about heaven and hell. The actual story I don't remember, but I can
clearly recall that it made no sense to me at the time.
In our complex modern world, there's no time any more for parables that
don't make sense. Sometimes I feel that's a great shame. But mostly I
don't.
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Tony Green
>
> Richard Caley <s...@cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >I haven't heard a reasonable on in _ages_.
>
> OK, I'll give it a go.
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Good Morning Richard and Good Morning Listeners,
>
> I remember when I was a little boy that the local vicar told me a parable
> about heaven and hell. The actual story I don't remember, but I can
> clearly recall that it made no sense to me at the time.
>
> In our complex modern world, there's no time any more for parables that
> don't make sense. Sometimes I feel that's a great shame. But mostly I
> don't.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Gosh that's more difficult than I thought. Can you do better?
Good morning listeners (that's the hard bit out of the way)
Reading my newspaper yesterday, I see that a vicar who had fiddled his
church out of thousands of pounds has just been released from jail
early, whilst yet another priest has been jailed for sexually abusing
children.
Maybe you should think twice before falling for everything men in
dog-collars tell you you should believe.
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Tony Green <to...@beermad.clothing.org.uk> writes:
> Maybe you should think twice before falling for everything men in
> dog-collars tell you you should believe.
Given that I nearly ended up in a ditch through uproarious laughter while
driving when Elaine Stalkey recently revealed that her first grandchild has
been named `Zadok', you're going to have to go some to come up with an
effective parody for TFTD.
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Ronan Flood
> [...] you're going to have to go some to come up with an
> effective parody for TFTD.
Rabbi Lionel Blair, occasionally to be heard on Mark Radcliffe's
programme on R1. "And I thought to myself, this is just like life ..."
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>
> I haven't heard a reasonable on in _ages_. Anything with a christian
> on it has always been fatuous, and the token humanist that
> occasionally pops up is worse, these guys all seem to be christians in
> denial.
>
> Presumably the other religiouns don't enforce personality removal on
> their priest-equivaents, so it has usally been the occasional Jewish,
> Muslim, Hindu, Seek etc. who has said something worth the airtime. But
> not recently.
You're quite right about that. The Rabbis are often quite entertaining,
though Julia Neuberger can tend towards happy-clappyness. I thought the
old chief Rabbi was genuinely thought-provoking and often amusing (sadly
I can't recall his name at the moment :o[ ).
Max.
jolly sailor
>
> What a load of fatuous nonsense. Do people really enjoy this dribble, or
is
> it just there to provide employment for lonely clerics?
I agree. Except I'd rather hear something factually interesting..... like
the latest cancer cure, or latest theory on the evolution of the universe.
Ken Tough
>You're quite right about that. The Rabbis are often quite entertaining,
>though Julia Neuberger can tend towards happy-clappyness. I thought the
>old chief Rabbi was genuinely thought-provoking and often amusing (sadly
>I can't recall his name at the moment :o[ ).
Rabbi Hugo Gryn? (Wasn't chief, though, I think). I thought
he was about the only one worth listening to on TFTD (didn't
tend to ramble much about god) and was great on Moral Maze.
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timothy.howes
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>
> Rabbi Hugo Gryn? (Wasn't chief, though, I think). I thought
> he was about the only one worth listening to on TFTD (didn't
> tend to ramble much about god) and was great on Moral Maze.
That's the name, well done!
You could well be right about him not being chief Rabbi ... my mistake.
Max.
Richard Caley
>> Rabbi Hugo Gryn?
mt> You could well be right about him not being chief Rabbi ... my mistake.
and then some. Didn't the current chief rabbi get caught out for
having sent a letter commenting how awful it was that people like Hugo
were a threat to life, liberty and the Jewish way?
(well, OK, not those words, but petulant and nasty at any case).
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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>Personally, I'd rather hear the sound that used to accompany the Test Card
>on TV, or Forsite's miserable 'the world is ending' bi-weekly lecture, than
>another inoffensive Bishop waffling on about.....what.....I have no idea
The test card society (or some similar name) did manage to get a CD of
test card music released a year or few ago; there _was_ some quite
innovative (and technically very high quality) music, though they did
tend to over-egg the pudding in the sleeve notes rather.
Oh, you mean the sine tone ... well there is a few seconds of that on
the CD too ...
(Yes, sad I know, I _did_ buy the CD ... I could pretend I fancied
Carole Hersee, but not really ...)
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>The test card society (or some similar name) did manage to get a CD of
>test card music released a year or few ago; there _was_ some quite
>innovative (and technically very high quality) music, though they did
>tend to over-egg the pudding in the sleeve notes rather.
There are fuller details at www.testcardcircle.org.uk - AFAIK there are
about five CDs available of "Oscar Brandenburger" and his merry men.
>(Yes, sad I know, I _did_ buy the CD ... I could pretend I fancied
>Carole Hersee, but not really ...)
Sad to see that George Hersee, Carole's father and the BBC engineer in
charge of such things passed away last week.
Tez.
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<burkesworks-19...@host213-123-54-136.dialup.lineone.co.uk>,
Tez Burke <burke...@lineone.net> writes
>In article <+zi5sVAU$i26...@soft255.demon.co.uk>, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
><ju...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Sad to see that George Hersee, Carole's father and the BBC engineer in
>charge of such things passed away last week.
I worked with George for a while. He was responsible for all things
caption in P&ID.
There is a living testimony to George around other than test card F.
For a long time captions were generated by putting captions in front of
cameras. When the first Television Centre studios were commissioned
they had a caption generator provided for black and white captions.
They can be detected by the jiggle of the caption just after a slide has
been changed on air caused by the change mechanism for the next slide.
See current re-run of The Good Life end captions for example.
I often see this jiggle in the older programmes and fondly think of
George
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Paul
>In article
><burkesworks-19...@host213-123-54-136.dialup.lineone.co.uk
>>,
>Tez Burke <burke...@lineone.net> writes
>>In article <+zi5sVAU$i26...@soft255.demon.co.uk>, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
>><ju...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>Sad to see that George Hersee, Carole's father and the BBC engineer in
>>charge of such things passed away last week.
Tribute to George on Front Row tonight 7.15pm
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bought years ago. It suddenly become quite sentimental this week.
Tim