FNiMN

[oddoneout]

I believe this week's FNiMN is an all-French affair and is being recorded tonight at Alexandra Palace. Petroc has reportedly declined the offer of a free flak jacket.
I'm looking forward to reading his book on Cornwall, which I shall be picking up from the library in the next few days. Apparently the section on the Duchy's previously secret role in hunting U-boats in the Bay of Biscay while the Battle of Britain was raging in the skies over SE England is particularly gripping.

French lessons next week according to the online schedules. This week is a repeat - stage and screen(American) theme.

[BillMatters]

....That,Sir, is a very Kenneth Hornean kind of ejaculation....which might introduce the Bona productions

....it's taken 72 years but i now know exactly what a Beaufort Gun looks like....(google0

Bofors gun?

[eighthobstruction]

Bofors gun?

....quite so , quite so....(I'd been reading about the Bristol Beaufort & Beaufighter and my dyslexic side did rest)....I'd never seen it down

Wiki says Bofors Gun used by both sides during WW2 - the company has a very interesting lineage
.......................sorry to be so OT, for so long....

[Nick Armstrong]

....I feel someone is being a little bit Boulton-Paul Defiant over this subject....

Better a Boulton Paul Defiant than a Fokker Eindecker

[eighthobstruction]

Better a Boulton Paul Defiant than a Fokker Eindecker

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....the Bona brigade has arrived........ooooo all flimsy in yer whirllygigs....

[eighthobstruction]

Oh dear oh dear we are still continuing to be OT....terrible people stoppimg folk yarning about the good (Ladies and gentlemen) ol' FNIMN....and it's ability to beckon a few old souls to it's doorstep....oh yai oh yai.....

[oddoneout]

Oh dear oh dear we are still continuing to be OT....terrible people stoppimg folk yarning about the good (Ladies and gentlemen) ol' FNIMN....and it's ability to beckon a few old souls to it's doorstep....oh yai oh yai.....

Nothing wrong with a Boulton Paul Sidestrand ...

[vinteuil]

... I'd been reading about the Bristol Beaufort & Beaufighter ....

my father-in-law was a Beaufighter pilot, at the beginning of the use of radar for night fighting. He wrote a pretty good book about it, 'Cover of Darkness'

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[eighthobstruction]

Nothing wrong with a Boulton Paul Sidestrand ...

....I hardly think we will see Guy Martin going to Norfolk to find and resurrect a Sidestrand (a between wars areoplane) - if Wilbert Awdry had written ref aircraft books Sidney the Sidestrand might have said " Oh me, I'm just a medium bomber from Norfolk one of only 24"...".I'm manoeuvrable and can mantain height on only one engine, but other the planes just make jokes about Norfolk"

* ref father in law....oooooooooooo pretty plane Beaufighter....book available on kindle and Hardcover/paperback....one now bought

[Historian]

my father-in-law was a Beaufighter pilot, at the beginning of the use of radar for night fighting. He wrote a pretty good book about it, 'Cover of Darkness'

That's a very impressive war record and an interesting and varied life,Vints. CBE, DFC, DSO and Bar. I agree that the Beaufighter was a lovely plane too.

(I hope you don't mind me looking him up and posting his details. Please let me know if you would rather I didn't post them.)

[LMcD]

Better a Boulton Paul Defiant than a Fokker Eindecker

I first encountered the dreaded Eindecker in the 1977-1978 TV series 'Wings'. Nicholas Jones, who played Triggers and has long been one of my favourite actors, went on to play opposite John Thaw in Kavanagh QC, which I'm currently enjoying for the third time.

[Nick Armstrong]

I believe this week's FNiMN is an all-French affair and is being recorded tonight at Alexandra Palace. Petroc has reportedly declined the offer of a free flak jacket.

The French concert starts shortly and The Squire seems to have made a tactical retreat - Sarah Walker apparently presented.…

Looks quite a decent programme in fact - Bizet, Fauré & the entire Ravel G major piano concerto if listings are to be believed - plus a reassuring lack of “vocalists”

[Roger Webb]

The French concert starts shortly and The Squire seems to have made a tactical retreat - Sarah Walker apparently presented.…

Looks quite a decent programme in fact - Bizet, Fauré & the entire Ravel G major piano concerto if listings are to be believed - plus a reassuring lack of “vocalists”

You're right, I've noticed over the last few weeks that the content has become progressively more 'Radio 3', less 'Radio 2', or more accurately less old 'Light Programme'. Could it be the early experiment of bringing FNiMN as heard on Radio 2 to Radio 3 frightened away the Radio 3 listeners, whilst not bringing enough FNiMN regulars from Radio 2 to compensate.

Anyway, the sound from Ally Pally is terrific....looking forward to the Ravel G Concerto....as you say, complete!

Just a thought, why do they persist with the title when every night is music night on Radio 3?..... especially when Sunday nights are soon to be drama-free.

[Nick Armstrong]

You're right, I've noticed over the last few weeks that the content has become progressively more 'Radio 3'…

Anyway, the sound from Ally Pally is terrific....looking forward to the Ravel G Concerto....as you say, complete!

… and the punters didn’t even whoop and holler and clap after the first movement!

[smittims]

I think it's a deliberate plan to insert a more Radio-3-ish FNIMN occasionally to stop us complaining.