The Story of Ann Cargill: EMS 4 January

[doversoul1]

Lucie Skeaping visits the Scilly Isles to learn about the actress and singer Ann Cargill, who drowned in a dramatic shipwreck there in 1784 […] Ann made her London stage debut in 1771 at the tender age of eleven in Thomas Arne's opera "The Fairy Prince" at Covent Garden. Later she eloped with a married man eighteen years her senior, and her father washed his hands of her. She continued to be a popular draw at Drury Lane, in productions of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" and Thomas Linley's "The Duenna" […]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mrxcc

[JFLL]

Lucie Skeaping visits the Scilly Isles to learn about the actress and singer Ann Cargill ...

I'm always amused at how, in trails for programmes, experts travel to far-flung places to 'learn about' something they presumably know quite well already. (Classics professors travel to Athens to learn about Athenian democracy, for example.) What they really mean is 'to tell you about …', I suppose.

Programme sounds interesting, though.

[Old Grumpy]

Scilly Isles hardly "far flung places", I would have thought!

Perhaps anywhere outside the M25 constitutes a far flung place to Metropolitans

[Roehre]

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Perhaps anywhere outside the M25 constitutes a far flung place to Metropolitans

Most certainly true

[JFLL]

Scilly Isles hardly "far flung places", I would have thought!

Perhaps anywhere outside the M25 constitutes a far flung place to Metropolitans

I can't speak for 'Metropolitans' (I'm a Midlander myself), but I presume the Scillies are are even more far-flung (? further-flung) to those in Northumberland.

[Nick Armstrong]

A pity that the singer who 'represented' Cargill in the programme was hard to listen to, and led to this being switched off. One for the podcast (with reduced musical extracts), methinks...

[Richard Tarleton]

I can't speak for 'Metropolitans' (I'm a Midlander myself), but I presume the Scillies are are even more far-flung (? further-flung) to those in Northumberland.

I think the inhabitants prefer the Isles of Scilly to the Scilly Isles - and definitely not the Scillies

This didn't hold my attention, I'm afraid.

[JFLL]

I think the inhabitants prefer the Isles of Scilly to the Scilly Isles - and definitely not the Scillies

Ah, yes, if only we could persuade everyone to call us what we would like to be called ...

[pastoralguy]

I'm not really a devotee of the EMS but I found this programme fascinating. What a girl! Such a shame she came to such a sad end.