Talk:Baldi (radio series)

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Theme music[edit]

Does anyone know anything about the theme music for this show? Two (I think) classical guitars. Lovely. Can't get it out of me noodle.Vinny Burgoo (talk) 23:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll ask on the Radio 7 message board when it reopens tomorrow. DuncanHill (talk) 23:47, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good man! Yes please.Vinny Burgoo (talk) 20:58, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently we are not the first to ask - it is a track by Sting called "Saint Agnes and the Burning Train", taken from the album The Soul Cages. DuncanHill (talk) 15:44, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Good work. (If a little discombobulating. Sting came up with that fine music? Shome mishtake, shurely?)Vinny Burgoo (talk) 20:30, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a field on the infobox which could contain that information? It seems like the kind of thing which should be on the page. --Neil (talk) 11:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the link to the identification by a BBC7 employee [1]. DuncanHill (talk) 11:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The "Seal of the Confessional"?[edit]

It’s stated in the article that "the Seal of the Confessional encourages participants to open up to him". This really isn’t reflected in the series, and I think it misrepresents it - to me it seems that people are more inclined to find Baldi an irritant, and very often they stop talking when they discover that he is a priest, thinking he is a do-gooder, an authority figure with whom they do not wish to deal, or just discredited for his faith in a secular situation. Baldi stories are characterised by the fact that his deductions of what happened come from him connecting many tiny details of what people have done and said, or what they don’t do or say, with analagous situations he finds in art, history, literature and other areas he has studied for his work in semiotics. Baldi certainly never takes advantage of his rôle as a priest to lull a person into a false sense of security, and often never tells people that he is in fact a cleric. Jock123 (talk) 09:47, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - and actually the article misses the real point, which is that Baldi's sleuthing is informed far more by his knowledge and use of semiotics. 87.244.77.217 (talk) 10:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]