2008-02-16

tree_and_leaf: Two children playing on mudflats - colourised version of Ransom's pen-and-ink illustration for "Secret Water". (Secret Water)
2008-02-16 11:45 am
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Punctuation; flist filtering?

Why does the newsletter from Melvyn Bragg on 'In Our Time' always arrive missing every single apostrophe, except for the one in the programme title in the subject line? It's surprisingly painful to read, and it's odd that one of R4's most self-consciously Intelleckshul programmes thus comes out looking sub-literate.

Also: I've posted a fair amount of religious/ churchy stuff recently, and I'm wondering if it is a good idea to put it on some sort of filter. (Of course, that would entail finding out how to do so). I'm unsure about filters - they seem rather artificial to me, though that may be because I ramble a lot and am quite capable of talking about the C of E and fannish stuff in the same post... Thoughts?
tree_and_leaf: David Tennant in Edwardian suit, Oxford MA gown and mortar board. (academic doctor)
2008-02-16 06:24 pm
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Late Junction plays music from Doctor Who

Last Tuesday's "Late Junction" on BBC R3 featured music from the BBC Radiophonic workshop, including quite a lot of Doctor Who music - and interesting facts, for example that the music for 'Inferno", which is by Delia Darbishire, was partly recycled from a documentary about the Touareg, where it bore the positively romantic title 'Blue Veils and Golden Sands'. It's up on Listen Again until next Tuesday, and is well worth a listen (it also includes music from the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, which is always good).