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Post by walt on Aug 21, 2013 6:04:53 GMT
Thanks a lot for the links Rueful!  They work outside the UK, too. - But my radio downloader doesn't work now after the update like it did before!  Fortunately the interview could be downloaded from the BBC homepage (I needed to check it before the radio play!)  Interesting find about Tom Stoppard and Pinter, Nell! Thanks! |
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Post by kygal on Aug 21, 2013 10:33:18 GMT
Thanks for the links and info!
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Aug 21, 2013 12:07:22 GMT
According to the Radio Times (listings magazine), Rufus's other role is Mr Baggott - presumably Ethics Man's alter ego?
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Post by adina on Aug 21, 2013 14:03:24 GMT
Umm, Rufus gave a description of his roles in the mini-interview. "Ethics Man is a thought experiment. He exists for the purposes of the thought experiment. He’s a kind of philosophical superhero who comes in and saves the day or does what has to be done...and Mr Baggott is the teacher who dreams up these thought experiments." "One of them is a person, the other is just an idea." Laila posted the link on the previous page: Thank you, Rueful, I listened to them both.   , Ethics Man! "Some day you'll understand." Oh, I hope so! |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Aug 21, 2013 14:21:37 GMT
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that!  Thanks for the reminder, Adina! |
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Post by walt on Aug 22, 2013 5:25:37 GMT
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that! Thanks for the reminder, Adina! Thanks a lot, Adina! I'm afraid I'm not sure whether I didn't stop to read the interview before or after the introduction and overlooked the most interesting part thereby:  |
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Post by Laila on Aug 24, 2013 7:49:51 GMT
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Post by kygal on Aug 24, 2013 11:43:26 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by kitty on Aug 24, 2013 16:50:25 GMT
This sounds great! |
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Post by walt on Aug 25, 2013 8:29:49 GMT
Thanks a lot! |
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Post by adina on Aug 26, 2013 6:51:42 GMT
Darkside Party!!  Wake up, everyone! www.express.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/424602/Play-sends-Sir-Tom-Stoppard-over-the-moonRufus: "This album has been omnipresent over the past 40 years. It’s had an extraordinary effect on us. People have always said things like, ‘Where’s Jeff?’ ‘He’s upstairs Floyding, man’.
The album possesses amazing drama and gravitas. It’s really powerful and has this incredible scope to it. It’s also very evocative. You could think you were having a flashback just by listening to it on good enough headphones."
"It’s a really entertaining, thought-provoking and fun play. If it’s not fun, there’s no point. It goes very deep, but you don’t need to have your thinking cap on to get it.
As always with Stoppard, if you don’t want to go too deep, there are lots of jokes on the surface that you can get something out of." Have fun, everyone! At one point her tutor tells Emily: “You’re an intuition-ist. If it caught on, it would lead to widespread unemployment among moral philosophers.”
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Post by kygal on Aug 26, 2013 10:25:15 GMT
"Floyding"...love it. Thanks. Should be lots of fun!
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Post by rueful on Aug 26, 2013 11:50:26 GMT
Cute  smiley! Thanks, Adina! It won't be long now! |
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Post by lassie on Aug 26, 2013 17:33:20 GMT
Not too long now - really hope I don't fall asleep just before it starts  !!! Thanks Adina I have a feeling I will be getting the 'surface Stoppard jokes' I love the sound of Rufus  |
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Post by Laila on Aug 26, 2013 18:33:54 GMT
This evening is going to be a "british" one. Chelsea - M.United and then BBC |
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Thanks for the reminder, Adina! 
smiley! Thanks, Adina! It won't be long now!
!!! Thanks Adina I have a feeling I will be getting the 'surface Stoppard jokes' 