Tangents » BBC http://www.delexical.com/tangents Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:07:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Two stories on Bahraini persecution of medics http://www.delexical.com/tangents/2011/06/25/two-stories-on-bahraini-persecution-of-medics/ http://www.delexical.com/tangents/2011/06/25/two-stories-on-bahraini-persecution-of-medics/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:03:20 +0000 Ronan http://www.delexical.com/tangents/?p=301 Update: BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes had an item on From Our Own Correspondent reporting from Bahrain this morning on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service on the plight the doctors being persecuted there:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9521963.stm

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Just sharing two further, disturbing stories on the maltreatment and alleged torture of Bahraini medics published today:

Bahrain doctors tortured into confessing, say families
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, Bahrain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13851761

Bahraini leadership faces new claims that torture took place in hospital
By Alistair Dawber, The Independent, London
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bahraini-leadership-faces-new-claims-that-torture-took-place-in-hospital-2299944.html

]]> http://www.delexical.com/tangents/2011/06/25/two-stories-on-bahraini-persecution-of-medics/feed/ 0 Stan Tracey plays the Proms http://www.delexical.com/tangents/2009/07/19/stan-tracey-plays-the-proms/ http://www.delexical.com/tangents/2009/07/19/stan-tracey-plays-the-proms/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:14:24 +0000 Ronan http://www.delexical.com/tangents/?p=123 Prom No 3 Features 50 minutes of Stan Tracey playing Genesis.

If you’ve never heard Stan Tracey before this is worth a listen, big band jazz in an Ellington vein, with a touch of Bill Evans and Monk. It’s only up on the BBC website for 7 days so hurry over.

Further listening: Under Milk Wood and Alice in Jazzland are the two Tracey albums I’m familiar with. Under Milk Wood is a thing of beauty and definitely worth the price of admission. There’s a programme of reissuing his stuff underway I think, there’s been a bit of a mini-revival recently.

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