UK "culture"

[eighthobstruction]

Uncle Mac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_McCulloch

....ah yes, ta

[eighthobstruction]

Still in the 50's and 60's

....armies....
....the stereotypical personality traits of the other [not English]nationalities....
....Toffs and workers
....cowboys and steers and British Bulldog....
.....JUmble Sales....
....War Torn Teachers....
....Jack Hawkins on the bridge of Compass Rose....and John Mills Ice Cold in Alex....
....Race to the off switch when Victor Sylvester, Edmundo Ross or Mantovani came on....

[vinteuil]

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....Jack Hawkins on the bridge of Compass Rose....and John Mills Ice Cold in Alex....

. Jack Hawkins in The League of Gentlemen

. Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets



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[doversoul1]

RSPCA (this bit is just to keep in in the upper case)

[vinteuil]

Still in the 50's and 60's

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. Pelican books

. the Third Programme

. the LCC and the GLC

.

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RSPCA (this bit is just to keep in in the upper case)

... and the PDSA

.

[eighthobstruction]

....British coastline and pleasure resorts....and all they offered in many ways....Island Nation....

[vinteuil]

....British coastline and pleasure resorts....and all they offered in many ways....Island Nation....

... the pier.

( a 'disappointed bridge', as Joyce has it. )

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[Lat-Literal]

Harry Enfield
Harry Hill
Harry Redknapp
Harry Wales
Hurry Up Harry
Harriet Harman

[eighthobstruction]

....the richness of the English Language [stolen and accumulated, half-inched from all over the place]....and the rest of the world has to learn them all over again but spelled differently[ smeared and twisted]....some feat of culture that.....

[DracoM]

....The culture I was raised in as I saw it then

....highly able and virtioso whistling while working
....Uncle Bob on Saturdays (or was it Uncle Sandy) Childrens Favourites
....Flashes of the Third Programme as it was tuned past....
....Military Tatoo....and vast massed bands
....Sousa....
....House wives Choice....Music while you Work....Bernard Herman and the NDO
....Sunday Church Parade....Scout Drums and Trumpets
....Beatles and Dave Clark Five
....Sunday Family Favourites (no Radio One) during Sunday Roast with I the favourite son getting the outsise first slice of beef....
....Top of the Pops with Jimi Hendrix and Cream
....AND THEN

erm..........Uncle MAC, I think, on Children's Favourites.
And while we're on that subject:

Children's Hour
Regional Round
Nature Parliament
'The Wolves are Running' [ Box of Delights' yes, BUT on radio. Will never forget David Davis frightening the life out of me as I listened]
'Counterspy'.
...and of course 'Jennings at school'.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Third Programme
The Music Programme
Radio 3 pre Roger Wright
Composer of the week
Decca with John Culshaw
EMI with Walter Legg
Halle/Barbirolli
Halle/ Elder
CBSO/Rattle
British rope for tying prommers’ hands together
Many a Slip

[Richard Tarleton]

RSPCA (this bit is just to keep in in the upper case)

Sticking with NGOs and acronyms, the UK is unique in its enthusiasm for non-governmental conservation bodies. The idea of a conservation NGO with membership running into millions is often greeted with incredulity in other European countries, as I've discovered on conferences and seminars abroad (I couldn't find figures for the current memberships of the Audubon Society or Sierra Club in the US - richardfg might be able to find them?). The RSPB's membership is 2½ times that of the nearest sized political party (which is bigger than the rest put together), the National Trust's 10½ times. Likewise inconceivable elsewhere is the idea of a conservation NGO owning one seventh of the nation's coastline (not including Scotland). This is not to say that other countries don't have extremely effective government-led conservation, or better wilderness areas, they do - Croatia and Slovenia being my favourite European countries in this respect .

[Padraig]

Meanwhile in another part of the UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46934277

[subcontrabass]

'Counterspy'.

with music by Stravinsky