That's quite an ideal to aim for: to perform, once a year 1000th as well as Ken Dodds... Doug On 2011-12-31, at 6:55 PM, Max Richards wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: rise, sir geoffrey + bbc interview, five minutes + on Prospero, the Economist's blog >> Date: 1 January 2012 12:39:53 PM AEDT >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> >>> Subject: : rise, sir geoffrey + bbc interview, five minutes >>> Date: 1 January 2012 12:34:03 PM AEDT >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>>> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> >>>> Subject: rise, sir geoffrey >>>> Date: 1 January 2012 12:15:13 PM AEDT >>>> To: [log in to unmask] >>>> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> >>>> >>>> http://geoffreyhillzinger.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> Geoffrey Hill was featured on BBC's Newsnight on December 8, 2011. >>> >>> Will the link to this video be gone after only a few days? It would be so great if BBC News would leave it active for a while, especially in these days when literature and the arts receive diminishing funding worldwide. Thanks to Stephen Smith for "asking" (to understand the illusion, watch the link below) ! >>> >>> This link works from outside the UK: >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9658789.stm >>> >>> And this one, from inside the UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0183ll7/Newsnight_08_12_2011 >> >> Hill on Prospero, The Economist's blog >> >> http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/12/economist-books-year-festival-geoffrey-hill?fsrc=rss > > fourth item: > is a fifty minute lecture given at that festival, but I seem to have mislaid the link! Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html The foreign city of two minds is my home Michele Leggott