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  • Barbirollians
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11669

    Face The Music

    An episode from 1974 turned up on BBC Four tonight with Robin Ray,Joyce Grenfell and Richard Baker . Joseph Cooper sporting a combover of which Arthur Scargill would be proud and tamas Vasary as the special guest -it was dated but nowhere near as much as the episodes of Going for a Song they have been showing.
  • LMcD
    Full Member
    • Sep 2017
    • 8409

    #2
    Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
    An episode from 1974 turned up on BBC Four tonight with Robin Ray,Joyce Grenfell and Richard Baker . Joseph Cooper sporting a combover of which Arthur Scargill would be proud and tamas Vasary as the special guest -it was dated but nowhere near as much as the episodes of Going for a Song they have been showing.
    Also mentioned under 'Recommended TV Programmes'.
    I found Robin Ray, Joseph Cooper and Joyce Grenfell to be just as irritatingly self-aware, precious and smug as I did back in 1974, and switched off after 10 minutes. The whole thing was just too genteel for words.
    Call My Bluff, on the other hand, hardly seems to have dated at all, thanks in large part, I think, to Robert Robinson's refereeing skills.
    Last edited by LMcD; 23-09-24, 22:24.

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    • mikealdren
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 1197

      #3
      and Frank Muir who was genuinely funny.

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      • AuntDaisy
        Host
        • Jun 2018
        • 1621

        #4
        Yes, I'd agree about Call My Bluff & Frank Muir - both great fun.

        On radio, The Burkiss Way did a cruel, but accurate, spoof of "Face the Music" in "Lesson 41 – Eric Pode of Croydon’s Easter Special" - available to listen to on the Internet Archive or there's a transcript here.

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        • gradus
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5604

          #5
          Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
          Yes, I'd agree about Call My Bluff & Frank Muir - both great fun.

          On radio, The Burkiss Way did a cruel, but accurate, spoof of "Face the Music" in "Lesson 41 – Eric Pode of Croydon’s Easter Special" - available to listen to on the Internet Archive or there's a transcript here.
          Thanks for posting the transcript, excellent fun.

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          • MickyD
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 4748

            #6
            I remember taking enormous pleasure when Bernard Levin got an extract wrong by not identifying it as Schubert...he was mortified! So good to see him taken down a peg or two.

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            • pastoralguy
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7738

              #7
              Originally posted by MickyD View Post
              I remember taking enormous pleasure when Bernard Levin got an extract wrong by not identifying it as Schubert...he was mortified! So good to see him taken down a peg or two.
              Yes, I remember reading his ‘Conducted Tour’ book and thinking he was very much up his own ****!

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              • MickyD
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 4748

                #8
                Absolutely. And going back to what LMcD said earlier, they were all so supercilious, you really got the feeling that they considered themselves superior.

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12793

                  #9
                  Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post

                  On radio, The Burkiss Way did a cruel, but accurate, spoof of "Face the Music" in "Lesson 41 – Eric Pode of Croydon’s Easter Special" - ... there's a transcript here.
                  ... quality stuff, thank you. I loved The Burkiss Way

                  .

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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8409

                    #10
                    Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post

                    Yes, I remember reading his ‘Conducted Tour’ book and thinking he was very much up his own ****!
                    Watching him pretending to conduct Wagner was a highlight for me.

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                    • Dave2002
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 18009

                      #11
                      Originally posted by mikealdren View Post
                      and Frank Muir who was genuinely funny.
                      With one episode featuring Joanna Lumley - a great surprise. The older programmes do look really very dated now.

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8409

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                        With one episode featuring Joanna Lumley - a great surprise. The older programmes do look really very dated now.
                        Joanna Lumley on 'Face The Music' - why not?

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                        • Pulcinella
                          Host
                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10890

                          #13
                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post

                          Joanna Lumley on 'Face The Music' - why not?
                          Since 1986, she has been married to conductor Stephen Barlow.

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                          • Roslynmuse
                            Full Member
                            • Jun 2011
                            • 1236

                            #14
                            I recall Walton being the guest on one edition (it was, maybe still is, on YouTube) and claiming not to recognize one of his own compositions... ...I suspect as a bit of a wind-up...

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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8409

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Roslynmuse View Post
                              I recall Walton being the guest on one edition (it was, maybe still is, on YouTube) and claiming not to recognize one of his own compositions... ...I suspect as a bit of a wind-up...
                              Broadcast on 3rd April 1972 with regulars Robin Ray, Joyce Grenfell and Richard Baker.

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