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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25209

    Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
    Just started Martin Chuzzlewit, part of my free Dickens on Kindle offerings.
    I’ll buy you a pint if, without googling, you can tell us who composed the score for the BBC adaptation !! ( Not that you should know , particularly).
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • Pulcinella
      Host
      • Feb 2014
      • 10921

      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
      I’ll buy you a pint if, without googling, you can tell us who composed the score for the BBC adaptation !! ( Not that you should know , particularly).
      No idea.
      Don't think I saw it, so I don't even know when it was, to hazard a guess!

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25209

        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
        No idea.
        Don't think I saw it https://youtu.be/wB7bv0rIjGY, so I don't even know when it was, to hazard a guess!
        It was definitely a tough question.



        Geoffrey Burgon. Some of his film credits are on the comments. Quite a career. He composed some choral instrumental concert music too, can’t remember if I have ever heard any though.
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • DracoM
          Host
          • Mar 2007
          • 12970

          William Golding: Close Quarters
          Part of his 'Fire Down Below' trilogy.

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          • Pulcinella
            Host
            • Feb 2014
            • 10921

            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
            It was definitely a tough question.



            Geoffrey Burgon. Some of his film credits are on the comments. Quite a career. He composed some choral instrumental concert music too, can’t remember if I have ever heard any though.
            This CD of his music (I've got a copy) will cost you quite a bit more than a pint!



            James Bowman/Charles Brett/City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25209

              Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
              This CD of his music (I've got a copy) will cost you quite a bit more than a pint!



              James Bowman/Charles Brett/City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
              Must be good at that price.
              Postage is free at least

              I’d get it listed if I were you !
              ( Discogs has a copy for £15, so don’t order anything fancy for the cellar just yet....)
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                Must be good at that price.
                Postage is free at least

                I’d get it listed if I were you !
                ( Discogs has a copy for £15, so don’t order anything fancy for the cellar just yet....)

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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30283

                  Having just finished the Čapek short stories (if you want to sample a couple, the first here, also known as 'Footprint' (Šlépěj ), was inspired by David Hume's 'footprint in the sand' philosophising), I'm thinking I might delve next into a double volume containing Thomas More's History of Richard III followed by Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III, since I think it was Walpole who first started querying the official narrative in print.

                  Both works have introductory material by Paul Kendall who wrote a popular (not intended dismissively) biography of Richard III which I have.
                  It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12815

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    I'm thinking I might delve next into a double volume containing Thomas More's History of Richard III followed by Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III, since I think it was Walpole who first started querying the official narrative in print.

                    .
                    ... a work much promoted by r3.org. No connexion with for3.org ?

                    .

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30283

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      ... a work much promoted by r3.org. No connexion with for3.org ?

                      .
                      Had to check - yes, I'm sure they love it: Exhibit A.
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30283

                        Just quickly checking up on Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale in case it proves to have topical resonances.
                        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                        • Rjw
                          Full Member
                          • Oct 2012
                          • 117

                          Originally posted by silvestrione View Post
                          Gosh, 5th time! perhaps we should have a thread, 'Novels You Have Read at Least 5 times'! (Struggling to get much beyond Pride and Prejudice, Women in Love, and Little Dorrit,).

                          But Eco now , I've not read any. Where should one start?
                          I read A Room with a View every January. I am already looking forward to next January. Forster is such a star!

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12815

                            Originally posted by silvestrione View Post
                            Gosh, 5th time! perhaps we should have a thread, 'Novels You Have Read at Least 5 times'! (Struggling to get much beyond Pride and Prejudice, Women in Love, and Little Dorrit,).
                            ... only one



                            .

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                            • gradus
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5607

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              ... only one



                              .
                              Congratulations on your longevity.

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                              • Sir Velo
                                Full Member
                                • Oct 2012
                                • 3227

                                E F Benson - Thorley Weir The Complete E F Benson (Kindle Edition)

                                A kind of Edwardian New Grub Street with a dash more humour and less downright misery. Benson manages to weave together strands of apparently disconnected people and incidents through a cleverly constructed plot and counterplot. Granted the romance is tame, but his depiction of the bent impressario Cradock manages the difficult balancing act of evoking both feelings of distaste and a certain sympathy. One of Benson's better non M&L novels IMHO.

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