What's in a Name?

FEB 10, 202244 MIN
Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring

What's in a Name?

FEB 10, 202244 MIN

Description

<p>From The <strong>Great Sardine Litigation</strong> to the <strong>taxonomy</strong> of the herring; <strong>evolution</strong> to the <strong>racial theory</strong> of the herring; from ice ages to <strong>global warming</strong>... Featuring <strong>Enoch Snow</strong> of <em>Carousel</em>, <strong>The Notorious B.I.G.</strong>, <strong>The Junk Yard Band</strong>, the <strong>Oscars Hammerstein</strong> I, II &amp; III, Edward Rigby, the Tyneside grocery entrepreneur <strong>Angus Watson</strong>, father of taxonomy Carl<strong> Linnaeus</strong>, Charles <strong>Darwin</strong>, Francis <strong>Galton</strong>, Marcus Eliezer <strong>Bloch</strong>, Friedrich <strong>Heincke</strong>, William<strong> Hodgson</strong> played by <strong>Kenneth More</strong>, Anatoly <strong>Svetovidov</strong> &amp; <strong>The Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR</strong>:a A podcast in eight fitts, each with its own specially-crafted limerick. What more do you want?</p> <p>00:00 Fitt the First: Sardines or Herrings - from Carousel to Biggie Smalls and The Junk Yard Band; 07:15 Fitt the Second: Angus Watson - My Life, Angus Watson and the The Great Sardine Litigation; 12:35 Fitt the Third: The Glory that was Rome - fish paste, binomial nomenclature and etymology; 17:11 Fitt the Fourth: Plain English - Evolution, The King James Bible and Scientific Racism; 20:14 Fitt the Fifth: A Taxonomic Descent of the Herring - from Empire to Species; 25:12 Fitt the Sixth: Oh, Friedrich Heincke - the Racial Theory of Herring, William Hodgson and Kenneth More; 35:52 Fitt the Seventh: Svetovidov &amp; Ponomareva - the great systematist against the system; 41:04 Fitt the Eighth: Change is Gonna Come - breakfasts of fragile diversity; 43:33 End/Acknowledgements.</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>