Radio listening for 4:30pm EST Monday December 29

[Rich Goodale]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g6hfb

The above link is to a BBC Radio Scotland programme which will be broadcast on Monday called "The Carnoustie Exodus."  It will describe how Carnoustie (and other nearby towns) exported over 200 professional golfers to the United States at the turn of hte last century.  For those interested in early golf history, I expect that it will be very interesting.

Rich

[Tom Naccarato]

Irch,
This does sound interesting because this is a very important history in the swing of golf over two continents. I hope they have a podcast available for download. Thanks for the Christmas present!

[Mark Bourgeois]

The "Listen Live" actually works! This could be really cool.  Barely apropos, I see the Reith Lecture for 2008 has been posted on the Radio 4 site.  For the Yanks out there, these are fantastic.  The O'Neill and Ramachandran lectures alone give enough food for thought to last an entire year.

Thanks for hipping us to this, Rich -- give us another bump Monday am, SVP.

Mark

[Rich Goodale]

Mark, Tommy et. al.

I'm only a day late, but I just listened to the broadcast, and it is absolutely SUPERB!  Click below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00g6hfb/The_Carnoustie_Exodus/

I often rail at the $200-250/year I pay for the "privilege" of watching/listening to the BBC, but in cases like this, they really do excel.

If anybody out there has even the slightest interest in golf history, golf course architecture or just listening to some great Scottish accents, tune in and tune often.  And, of course....

....Enjoy!

Rich

PS--as a bonus you get some lines from the 3*** Proclaimers song, "Letter from America."

rfg

[Tony_Muldoon]

Thanks Rich, an audio version of GCA . 

P.S. I don't know what you've got to complain about when they give you lovely weather reports.

[Mark Bourgeois]

That was very good, McGoodale.  The two angles I found interesting were Flagler-Findlay (wonder how Findlay managed to sidle up next to Rockefeller -- and being a Scot did Findlay try to get any of the dimes Rocky used to hand out on the course to kids) and the Carnoustie "pipeline."  The latter an example of historical "lock-in."  If anyone's interested we could lock into a great discussion of the principle connecting the Carnoustie Pipeline to Cambodian dominance of the Southern California donut industry!

Mark

[JohnV]

Too bad the Beeb requires Real Audio for this.  Guess I won't be listening to it anytime soon.