It's one of those magnificent radio programmes where you won't like everything on it but you will always discover something new and amazing.
I chaired a gala for the NPG in March, to raise funds for its (magnificent) learning and outreach programmes and thus find myself at the director's annual reception.
"Melvyn's programme is magnificent, and when they [academics] do that they are excluding ordinary Joes and it's because they want to exclude us," he said.
Catherine de Medicii's investment in magnificent entertainments was part of a conscious political programme.
The world congress on justice, governance and law for environmental sustainabilty, which took place June 17-20 under the sponsorship of the UN environment programme, held both its opening and concluding sessions in the magnificent setting of Rio de Janeiro's Tribunal de Justiça.
Seen in this context, Padilha isn't franchise-building so much as sustaining a programme of social investigation (doubly so in his case: he also made the magnificent hijack documentary Bus 174.
If you watch any of Sky Arts' endlessly repeated programme output, you can't have failed at some point to chance upon the Moody Blues' magnificent performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight pop festival.
Beecham made his Proms debut two years later, conducting the RPO in a programme of music by Berlioz, Schubert and Sibelius; The Times commented on "an evening of magnificent playing".
The programme's sumptuous soundtrack is the work of Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer and it's used to magnificent effect, whether building tension in chase scenes or tugging at heartstrings when a fledgling dies.
Space enthusiasts, politicians and the public are, almost half a century later, still living in the shadow of the magnificent achievements of the Apollo programme achievements which seem all the more incredible as the years pass.
