1. Golden means made of, or relating to gold. 2. The word beryl – Middle English: beril – is borrowed, via Old French: beryl and Latin: beryllus, from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος bḗryllos, which referred to a ’precious blue-green color-of-sea-water stone’;[2] from Prakrit veruḷiya, veḷuriya ’beryl’[8][a] which is ultimately of Dravidian origin, maybe from the name of Belur or Velur, a town in Karnataka, southern India.[9] The term was later adopted for the mineral beryl more exclusively. 3. A brief description for a comedy podcast is the least funny thing we could possibly think of doing.
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Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sir Crispin Gardner conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.
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geezerly diatribe
Thursday May 16, 2024
of, & intellectualism: the last’s all right, as long as you can have it for tea. As it happens, as a banally tangibles-inclined Brit myself I did find myself wondering if the two voices were the same man’s: ‘Sir Crispin’ reverting to his roots. Probably not, but. As is frequently the case the authentic-sounding precision of the vocab, thinking of SC’s opening spiel, is pleasurable even if one is not familiar with the musical styles/terminology; as is the energy and anecdote jumping of the
Thursday May 16, 2024
A favourite this one - gala performance a fit title given the two ‘voices’; the core of it, the struggle with the composers’ names, is a lot of fun, esp. in the generally increasing difficulty for the listener of identifying the composers through the mangling. The meat of it (treating the humour of it as the, er, skin) might be the two voices being drawn as Brit class counterparts, specifically in their shared Britishness, the common ground they find in mistrust of them funny foreigners, names
Thursday May 16, 2024
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