TudorCast #19 – December 2007

Featured Website: The Museum of London

Link to the full text of An Audience with Queen Elizabeth

Music from Magnatune.com
La Primavera, The Dufay Collective (album “A Lestampida”) and Jacob Heringman (album “Blame Not My Lute”)

Intro – “Greensleeves” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After news – “A Hornepippe” by Jacob Heringman on “Blame Not My Lute”
After “This Month” -“Bransle de Malte” – La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After glossary – “Il Conto d’Orco” by Jacob Heringman on “Blame Not My Lute”
After text – “English Danse” by Dufay Collective on “A Lestampida”
After closing – “Recercata primera” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”

Episode Transcript

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Happy New Year (updates coming soon)

I would like to wish everyone a happy 2008 (still 11 hours to go here in Texas, but I know some of you have already changed calendars on the other side of the planet!)!

I have some updates and blog posts to make that were *supposed* to be done over the break, but my laptop died right after arriving in Alabama and then my boyfriend and I got really sick (I got the better end of the deal… he ended up with pneumonia, I just had a really bad cold). We made it back to Texas a couple of days ago but we’re both still recovering. And the laptop is a couple of days away from getting fixed, so I probably won’t be making any more posts until that is back up and running. I have back-ups of everything, but I like to keep my most up-to-date copies of everything in one place so I don’t get things mixed up. I usually have everything on my thumbdrive, but of course, I copied it all to the laptop shortly before it died so I wouldn’t have to worry about losing the thumddrive on the trip. Oh well! I’m guessing everything will be back up and running and as close to normal as they ever get the first full week in January.

So, once again, Happy New Year!

I had to go and use the word “promise”….

I really hate to break promises, but it looks like I’m going to have to this time. I’m pretty sure the earliest the podcast will get out now is going to be the first weekend of the new year (if I’m lucky). Due to a combination of a dead laptop, a bad cold, a boyfriend recovering from pneumonia and travel, I’m going to have to push the December podcast into January. I had about half of it ready to go but, of course, it is still on the laptop that won’t start. I should be able to get that fixed up in the next week or so. But, even if that worked, my voice is in no shape to record at the moment! Hopefully the cough and congestion will pass in the next couple of days and I’ll be able to record next weekend.

I hope everyone has a great new year!

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Traveling for Christmas

I’ll be on the road most of the day tomorrow and then visiting with friends and family for a while, so updates may be sparse and slow. So, if I don’t get a chance to post again until the new year, I just wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday season, no matter what you celebrate this time of year! Here’s to a great 2008!

Traveling for Christmas

I really, really tried to get the podcast finished by today so I could upload it before I went out of town, but last minute running around and packing has prevented it. I promise the December episode will be up before the month actually ends, but it won’t be until the 28th at the earliest.

I’ll be on the road most of the day tomorrow and then visiting with friends and family for a while, so updates may be sparse and slow. So, if I don’t get a chance to post again until the new year, I just wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday season, no matter what you celebrate this time of year! Here’s to a great 2008!

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More quick notes

First up, it looks like Showtime will be re-playing the first season of “The Tudors” in January [schedule], possibly as a lead-up to season two. Since the first season started at the first of April last year, I’m guessing the second season will run about the same time. Also, there have been stories floating across my news alerts that CBS is considering running edited versions of Showtime shows on the network, including Dexter, Weeds and The Tudors.

Next up was another thing that I kept seeing on my news alerts but I was dragging my heels about posting it (because I’m going to be green with envy for anyone who gets to do this!). Superbreak.com is offering a couple of Private Tours of Hampton Court Palace. You can find out more here (use the pull down menu to select the Hampton Court tour… there are two different date options right now).

It looks like things are gearing up for the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s succession to the throne, so there will probably be a lot more announcements of cool Tudor exhibits and things to do over the next couple of years!

TudorCast #18 – November 2007

Featured Website: The British Library

Music from Magnatune.com

La Primavera, The Dufay Collective (album “Cancionero”) and Jacob Heringman (album “Blame Not My Lute”)

Intro – “Greensleeves” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After news – “Passe Velours” by Jacob Heringman on “Blame Not My Lute”
After “This Month” -“Ya cantan los gallos” (excerpt) by Dufay Collective on “Cancionero”
After glossary – “Wolsey’s Wilde” (excerpt) by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After text – “Trenchmore” by Jacob Heringman on “Blame Not My Lute”
After closing – “Recercata segunda” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”

Episode Transcript

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I would like to wish all my fellow Americans a Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you had a chance to spend it with family and friends. I would also like to give thanks to all of you who read the site and listen to the podcast!

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