What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?

[TheGreenGoblin]

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[Capetonian]

[TheGreenGoblin]

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Have just been listening to this on BBC Radio 3. Well worth a listen on catch up if you live in the UK.

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University in New York; he’s renowned for his ground-breaking discoveries in superstring theory. But the reason he's well known way beyond the scientific community is that he’s so very good at explaining science to a wide popular audience. He’s written six best-selling books, starting with The Elegant Universe, which explains string theory, and most recently Until the End of Time. In 2008 he and his wife founded the annual World Science Festival in New York, which is now held in Australia too, and gets forty million hits online. The son of a composer, he’s also worked extensively with musicians, and has collaborated with the composer Philip Glass.

He says: "Like a life without music, art or literature, a life without science is bereft of something that gives experience a rich and otherwise inaccessible dimension.” In conversation with Michael Berkeley, he shares his musical discoveries: pieces by Bach, by Beethoven, and by Philip Glass. He reveals how as a graduate student he learnt to play the piano purely in order to play the Brahms Rhapsody in G Minor. We hear too haunting cello music composed by his father, Alan Greene, and specially recorded for the programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_three

[TheGreenGoblin]

[TheGreenGoblin]

[TheGreenGoblin]

Sensible young Saffer musician living in Germany now.

[Capetonian]

I think she deserves more for looks than for talent!

[TheGreenGoblin]

I think she deserves more for looks than for talent!

I only half agree with you.

So do many other folks, she is a very talented young woman...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Phoebe_Lou

But undeniably beautiful too, as you say.

[TheGreenGoblin]

I think she deserves more for looks than for talent!

You do sound a little like the idiot who said something similar about

[Woody]

Don’t know why I keep thinking of this

[TheGreenGoblin]

A wonderful song... that takes me back to a transistor radio back in Johannesburg as a young boy...

[ian16th]

Wasn't Roger Whittikers dad killed by the Mau Mau?

[TheGreenGoblin]

Wasn't Roger Whittikers dad killed by the Mau Mau?

I don't know but I recently learned that he and I went to the same University.

[Capetonian]

No, he (Edward, Roger's father) was murdered by thugs in 1989, long after the end of the Mau Mau emergency, although he had fought against the Mau Mau.

There is footage of him in this video in the LH seat of a twin prop - maybe he had a pilot's licence of perhaps it was just for the shoot.


Wonderful performer, lovely songs. The geographical inaccuracy in 'Durham Town' has always irked me, as it's on the River Wear, not the Tyne. I'll forgive him. When he sings, and he does sing, not shout or bellow, every word is enunciated and clear. There's no one else who comes to mind to quite match his nostalgic and patriotic music, with the possible of my late departed friend Clem Tholet.

[TheGreenGoblin]

No, he (Edward, Roger's father) was murdered by thugs in 1989, long after the end of the Mau Mau emergency, although he had fought against the Mau Mau.

There is footage of him in this video in the LH seat of a twin prop - maybe he had a pilot's licence of perhaps it was just for the shoot.


Wonderful performer, lovely songs. The geographical inaccuracy in 'Durham Town' has always irked me, as it's on the River Wear, not the Tyne. I'll forgive him.

That is a right hand drive Land Rover Capetonian!

I am teasing you. I know you didn't mean that photo!

[TheGreenGoblin]

No, he (Edward, Roger's father) was murdered by thugs in 1989

The same year I lost my first brother...

22:21 UTC 04 November 1989

[Cpt_Pugwash]

This gets played a lot on the few times we have been out for hospital appointments.

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