Rochdale, Rock City/Quartet for the End of Time

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Notable

18 episodes

9 months ago

Stuart Maconie and Elizabeth Alker meet up to tell each other extra-ordinary tales from 400 years of musical history.

From a murderous 16th Century madrigal composer to Batley Variety Club - Yorkshire's very own Caesar's Palace... and from the espionage-tinted roots of the theremin to the wild weekend that was the Bickershaw pop festival... Notable has the lot. Produced by Geoff Bird, artwork by Rory Clifford.

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Stuart Maconie and Elizabeth Alker meet up to tell each other extra-ordinary tales from 400 years of musical history.

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Rochdale, Rock City/Quartet for the End of Time

Notable

28 minutes 24 seconds

4 years ago

Rochdale, Rock City/Quartet for the End of Time

Quite the contrast this week. Elizabeth waxes lyrical about the giddy years when her home town of Rochdale punched above its musical weight, partly thanks to the attentions of John Peel. Stuart, meanwhile, tells the extra-ordinary story of the premiere of one of the great classical pieces of the twentieth century - 'Quatuor Pour le fin du Temps' - which took place in the prisoner of war camp where its composer, Messiaen, was being held captive by the Nazis. Throw in a heated debate about the merits of Mike Harding's multi-coloured poncho and you've all the makings of a classic 'Notable'. .

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