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Pippin asked in Entertainment & MusicRadio · 10 years ago

What's the music on the latest Sky radio price freezing advert?

I heard the ad on classic fm, it was about sky price freezing and I think it was Victoria Wood doing the speaking.The music started off similarly to the Jeeves and Wooster title music. Can anyone identify it?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    The name "Easter Island" was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722, while searching for Davis or David's island. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (18th century Dutch for "Easter Island").[6] The island's official Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, also means "Easter Island".

    The current Polynesian name of the island, Rapa Nui or "Big Rapa", was coined after the slave raids of the early 1860s, and refers to the island's topographic resemblance to the island of Rapa in the Bass Islands of the Austral Islands group.[7] However Thor Heyerdahl argued that Rapa was the original name of Easter Island, and that Rapa Iti was named by refugees from there.[8]

    Claims about the "original" Polynesian name for Easter Island include Te pito o te henua, meaning "The Navel of the land" or "The ends of the land". Pito means both navel and umbilical cord, which was considered to be the link between the world of the living (kainga) and the spiritworld Po, lying in the depths of the ocean further east. Since Easter Island is the easternmost Polynesian island, the name may refer to it being the "end" of the world of the living; however after Alphonse Pinart translated it as "the Navel of the World" in his Voyage à l'Île de Pâques, published in 1877, this second meaning was lost. According to some oral traditions, the island was first named Te pito o te kainga a Hau Maka, or "The little piece of land of Hau Maka".[9] Another name, Mata-ki-Te-rangi, means "Eyes looking to the sky".

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