Episode 122 – Sail Away
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Walrus Island / “this the sofa where Bean makes her sofa Gin” Disenchantment TV Series. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363918/
Orinoco Flow – Enya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw We know: it’s going to get stuck in your head. You’re welcome.
Glastonbury Tor https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/glastonbury-tor
“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair” Ozymanidas https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
Stingray TV Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057786/
The Muppet Movie – Fork in the Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mGXLgGqkY
The Two Ronnies ‘Four Candles’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw
Ant and Dec https://www.antanddec.com/
“Always choose the lesser of two weevils” Master and Commander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAwIN8J3RAE
“Sail round and round the Isle of Wight until everyone gets dizzy and we go home” Blackadder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EfW9znJYjw
“I can’t help it, it’s so beautiful!” A Bugs Life 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCT88fmW8uo
Pining for the Fjords - The Dead Parrot Sketch https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoh8j
“Same thing we do every night, Pinky” Pinky and the Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGWKL-5ToD4
“Nor a drop to drink” Rime of the Ancient Mariner https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
The Draken https://www.drakenhh.com/
Everquest – crafting system in the first game was famously complex and required you to build each component before you assembled it into things you could use.
Sail fragments from Oseberg – showing that 2/2 twill was used: http://forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Oseberg/textiles/TEXTILE.HTM
The Trousers of Time – Terry Pratchett: https://wiki.lspace.org/Trousers_of_Time
“The Gloomy Trousers of Uncle Vanye” The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchet https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-fifth-elephant.html
Two one twill, thanks for everything Julie Neumar – paraphrasing Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Neumar
The Skuldelev Ships: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/the-five-viking-ships
An exploration of textiles and Viking sails: https://textileranger.com/2014/04/24/on-the-trail-of-sail-history-the-vikings/ and the follow up article here: https://textileranger.com/2016/07/31/following-up-on-viking-sails/
An exploration of a modern reconstruction Viking ship, and the sheep that made it possible: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/no-wool-no-vikings/
“We are Borg” from Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation
Independence Day 1996 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/
North Ronaldsay Sheep https://www.theorkneysheepfoundation.org.uk/the-sheep/
How to find us online
