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Dear Rosemary,
Thanks! And since public television is always asking for money
(and asking what programs we like), pledge time might be the
occasion to put in a request. What about the other programs in
this series? Are they also recommended?
Meg
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Dear Meg
That actually is the title of the programme. It is on BBC4 at 9.00 pm
tonight as part of that channel's 'Medieval Season' (last week it was
Stephen Fry on the Gutenberg press). I hope I am not offending against
copyright if I append an extract from the BBC web site:
Rosemary (extract below)
How to Build a Cathedral
Part of the Medieval season.
The great cathedrals were the wonders of the medieval world. Many were
the
tallest structures on earth, the highest buildings created since the
pyramids and until the Eiffel Tower; yet they were built without any of
the
technological aids of the modern world and with little more than
set-squares
and dividers, ropes and pulleys, hammers and chisels.
The vision was to create a sense of heaven on earth and the medieval
cathedral aspired to be nothing less than 'the new Jerusalem'.
Spectacular
effects were achieved as this ambition was realised, leading to a
revolution
in design and a golden age for cathedral architecture in England.
Who were the people who built them? What drove them? And just how were
they
able to build with such stupendous skill, vision and ambition?
Architectural historian Jon Cannon, author of the recent, acclaimed
Cathedral, goes in search of the clues that shed light on how our
medieval
forebears were able to realise such bold ambition. From the fan vaulting
at
Gloucester to the stained glass at York, from the solid mass of Norwich
to
the soaring elegance of the Octagon at Ely, Jon climbs up above the
stone
vaulted ceilings, along the parapets, through the roof voids and down
into
the crypts of the greatest cathedrals to find out how - and why - it was
done. [S]
Mon 21 Apr, 21:00-22:00 60mins Stereo Widescreen
Website http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/medieval/
Subject Factual; Documentaries
Factual; History
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Subject: Re: [M-R] How to build a cathedral
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More to the point, what is the precise name of the program - if those
of us
this side of the pond write off to our local public television stations
and
ask them to broadcast (or sell DVDs) for "How to Build a Cathedral",
will
they be able to identify the broadcast? It sounds like something very
useful for
a number of deparments at my college. Not to mention the fact that the
local
cathedral is finally getting a spire . . . which, in the present day and
age, has to be hurricane-proof!
Meg
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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Anf for those who don't get BBC, or don't have TV (or neither), perhaps
you can explain some time how to build a cathedral. We have a desperate
need for cathedrals where I live.
cheers,
Frans van Liere
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