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Sounds of the Summer

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1. At 02:48 PM on 27 Sep 2007, The Reverend Green wrote:

   It'll be great to have the bongs back.

2. At 03:25 PM on 27 Sep 2007, wrote:

   I disagree Reverend.

   What do the bongs actually signify?

   well??

   London for one thing.

   It's time ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 started edging out of history and the past.

   Nothing changes at that junction - except the headlines of course. Even Charlotte even sounds 'predictable' on ocassions.

   It's oh so cosy isn't it?. -

   Eddie and the team - (including us) have demonstrated various alternative different flavours have we not.

   So now back to that wretched gap again - and all the normality - and the World service floating the ship through the wee small hours.

   HAHAHAHA - and they preach to us about turning off the standby lights!
   

3. At 03:40 PM on 27 Sep 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

   My first 502 of the day - not bad going...

   What did I say (in case it fails to reappear)...

   Have missed the frisson of bong crashage but the SoS have been great; jolly, intriguing, smile inducing. Ol' Ben will sound staid in comparison.

4. At 03:41 PM on 27 Sep 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

   I miss the frisson of bong crashage. But the SoS have been great; jolly, intriguing, smile inducing. Poor ol' Ben will sound a bit staid.

5. At 03:55 PM on 27 Sep 2007, Mr Patell wrote:

   Jonnie dear boy (2)

   Re the chimes:

   The Revd Dr Joseph Jowett, a law professor, was asked to compose a chime but it is usually
   supposed that the composition was by his pupil, William Crotch (1775-1847).

   Crotch was a child prodigy and at the age of 11 was assistant organist at King's College, Cambridge. The tune of the chime is said to be based on a phrase from Handel's aria 'I know that my Redeemer Liveth'. In 1859 Lord
   Grimthorpe chose Crotch's tune for the new clock and bells in the Palace of Westminster. These words have also become attached to the chime:

   Lord through this hour,
   Be Thou our guide
   So, by Thy power
   No foot shall slide

   There are many more chimes. The Whittington chime, for instance, comes from the Church of St Mary Le Bow, in Cheapside, London. Dick Whittington, running away, heard the Bow bells and turned back - he eventually served three terms as London's Lord Mayor.

   Many churches have their own individual chimes played on three, four, six or even ten bells. Making History played the distinctive chimes of Merton College, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford.

   In the late nineteenth century town and city halls had chiming clocks installed as a symbol of civic dignity Very apt for Radio Four I think.

   
   

6. At 04:13 PM on 27 Sep 2007, Mr Patell wrote:

   Jonnie dear boy (2)

   Re the chimes:

   The Revd Dr Joseph Jowett, a law professor, was asked to compose a chime but it is usually
   supposed that the composition was by his pupil, William Crotch (1775-1847).

   Crotch was a child prodigy and at the age of 11 was assistant organist at King's College, Cambridge. The tune of the chime is said to be based on a phrase from Handel's aria 'I know that my Redeemer Liveth'. In 1859 Lord
   Grimthorpe chose Crotch's tune for the new clock and bells in the Palace of Westminster. These words have also become attached to the chime:

   Lord through this hour,
   Be Thou our guide
   So, by Thy power
   No foot shall slide

   There are many more chimes. The Whittington chime, for instance, comes from the Church of St Mary Le Bow, in Cheapside, London. Dick Whittington, running away, heard the Bow bells and turned back - he eventually served three terms as London's Lord Mayor.

   Many churches have their own individual chimes played on three, four, six or even ten bells. Making History played the distinctive chimes of Merton College, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford.

   In the late nineteenth century town and city halls had chiming clocks installed as a symbol of civic dignity Very apt for Radio Four I think.

   
   

7. At 04:32 PM on 27 Sep 2007, Gossipmistress wrote:

   Is it the sound of the blog grinding & shuddering to a halt?

   Grrr! 502 502!!

   Oooo! Now I'm malicious!

8. At 04:40 PM on 27 Sep 2007, Simon Clew wrote:

   I've grown really fond of the sounds of summer and will sorely miss them... I much prefer these to the big ben bongs which have a habit of rousing me from my slumber whilst I'm driving down the M11.

9. At 04:42 PM on 27 Sep 2007, Simon Clew wrote:

   I've grown really fond of the sounds of summer and will sorely miss them... I much prefer these to the big ben bongs which have a habit of rousing me from my slumber whilst I'm driving down the M11.

10. At 04:44 PM on 27 Sep 2007, wrote:

    Re: Mr Patell -

    Thank you for that insight.

    I had no idea.

    Therefore: Would it be asking too much for some of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ local Radio stations to send Radio 4 a feed of their local church bells.

    I believe Radio 4 is a National Station?

    For example: Next Wednesday ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Oxford could set up a microphone in the tower of either Merton College, Oxford, or Magdalen College.

    Another week ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Cambridgeshire could do similar.

    The cost would be minimal - it's what National radio is all about -

    Leave Big Ben to ´óÏó´«Ã½ London - if that what it's been called (once again) these days.

11. At 05:27 PM on 27 Sep 2007, wrote:

    To be perfectly honest (and here I know Appy will disagree violently!) my favourite was last night's sound. That really summed it up for me.

    An alternative sound, which I'd thought of recording and sending in (but didn't) was the sound of motorbikes screaming down the main road nearby. Like the mating birds, they appear in droves as the weather improves. Unlike the mating birds, they drive us crazy.

12. At 11:28 AM on 05 Oct 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Was it birds Big Sis? I'm glad I missed it!