John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History

Subject: John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 29 May 07 - 11:10 AM

John Kirkpatrick was on Radio 4 today, Making History (scroll down) - talking about the non-use of concertinas on pirate ships, Captain Pugwash sig tune notwithstanding.

It'll be available on Listen Again in a while (when I last looked last week's programme was still up). His contribution is about 20 minutes in.

Subject: RE: John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History
From: treewind
Date: 29 May 07 - 11:22 AM

Pugwash theme for the TV show was played on Accordion, not concertina.

Anahata

Subject: RE: John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History
From: Bernard
Date: 29 May 07 - 11:28 AM

...and far too quick for dancing, too!!

Subject: RE: John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History
From: Jos
Date: 29 May 07 - 11:46 AM

Anahata, they did point that out during the discussion.

Subject: RE: John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 29 May 07 - 12:32 PM

Yes... and whatever the actual instrument used to play the soundtrack, Tom the Cabin Boy holds up a concertina and calls it such - as evidenced at 2:19 in episode "Monster Ahoy" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRMpSOkZcT8 . John Kirkpatrick did make the distinction but I guess I was remiss in not going into all the details in my intial post!

Subject: RE: John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 29 May 07 - 12:42 PM

See, what happened was I initially wrote that as an email note to my mate Mark, with whom I had seen John Kirkpatrick at the Old Down in Litton a few weeks ago, as I thought he'd be interested, and in that informal milieu I was no doubt slapdash with the terminology.

And then I thought, maybe some people on Mudcat would be interested, so I largely just cut and pasted my email.

Anahata - we saw Tom Napper and Tom Bliss last night at the Nova Scotia in Bristol and Bliss (Napper had a sore throat and wasn't supposed to talk or sing) said the club should get you and Mary Humphries as guests. So if you get an out-of-the-blue call from them, that's why!

Subject: RE: John Kirkpatrick on BBCR4 Making History
From: treewind
Date: 29 May 07 - 02:28 PM

Sorry - I was at work when I posted my earlier remarks about concertina vs. accordion so couldn't actually listen to the show at the time.

As for Bristol - Thanks for the heads-up and thanks Tom if you're reading this! (We've seen quite a bit of each other recently as we were all at Chippenham Festival, including jointly running one of the song workshops )

Anahata