tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6737085165113711483..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Another Paper ReviewCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-66537565468659826132015-05-24T21:43:56.856+01:002015-05-24T21:43:56.856+01:00The comments by Mirza about Jihadi John were unbel...The comments by Mirza about Jihadi John were unbelievable. To think that the BBC has become an amplifier of ridiculous apologist viewpoints that espouse knife wielding extremists. Worse still, funded by the tax - I mean license fee payer. It's a genuine disgrace.<br /><br />For the record, I was driving at the time this was on the radio and managed to have a self contained road rage episode. How the car stayed on the road, I will never know. I'm glad the program didn't slip by this site.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-20392488466842643832015-05-24T17:23:04.938+01:002015-05-24T17:23:04.938+01:00Never worry about being off topic, David.
(Unles...Never worry about being off topic, David. <br /><br />(Unless Earls Court/Bunny la Roche starts commenting here, people can be as off topic as they like!)<br /><br />The visuals were stunning. I said "wow!" out loud at a few points. Ludwig's aesthetic tastes, architecturally and musically, seem just fine to me.<br /><br />Dan Cruickshank documentaries always feature a bit too much of Dan, however interesting many of the things he says might be. That's the BBC's fault, I think. Nicholas Crane from 'Coast' was given a series walking around Wales about ten years back. I got a bit obsessed in trying to find a single frame in any of the episodes of the series where Nick Crane didn't appear - either full-on, in the distance or merely as an arm or a leg. I reckon about ten seconds of the programme, including long stretches of stunning Welsh scenery, went by without the programme's producer feeling the need to put some part of his anatomy into camera shot. It was ridiculous and distracting.<br /><br />The programme was full of Wagner's impact (and music). I don't know about you though but DC's commentary dwelt much less on Wagner than I expected. From my previous reading about Wagner I'd gathered that Ludwig's bankrolling of Wagner played no small part in the king's bankrupting of Bavaria's coffers. DC placed that firmly on Ludwig's personal architectural spending. <br /><br />I do enjoy a good Wagner transcription.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-87861553305594940882015-05-24T16:44:23.841+01:002015-05-24T16:44:23.841+01:00Apologies for being off topic, but your post about...Apologies for being off topic, but your post about Cruickshank's documentary on Ludwig II's castles has been pushed off the page. I just saw it, and it was well done. I guess the subject matter leaves one with a rather limited set of adjectives, and he repeated himself occasionally. Either he should get a thesaurus or maybe talk less. I'd have preferred a bit less presenter jabbering and a bit more of the visuals speaking for themselves. That was meant to be the point of the whole thing after all. Still, I liked the way Cruickshank brought the real world into the foundations of the fantasy world. Made me think a bit about the whole rise of German nationalism.<br /><br />If you're in the mood, I can heartily recommend this recording of cello and piano transcriptions of various Wagner themes.<br /><br />http://www.bayermusicgroup.de/index.php?page=artikel&currentLimit=&perPage=&listorder=5&search_cmd=quick&return_cmd=search&search=K%25F6nig%2BLudwig%2BII&artnr=ebs6015&lang=<br /><br />Julius Berger on period cello, and Norman Shelter on the piano from the Hohenschwangau castle, on which Wagner actually played for Ludwig (not the one featured in the painting shown in the documentary). Recorded in situ.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-54997355075263229732015-05-24T15:29:24.889+01:002015-05-24T15:29:24.889+01:00Ian Blair , now there is a blast from the past ! ...Ian Blair , now there is a blast from the past ! What could he possibly mean by the "wrong side " ? Bit of a giveaway really. Grantnoreply@blogger.com