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  • Bax-of-Delights
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 745

    Originally posted by Paul N View Post
    Or say it even as it actually was:

    "Well, Barry .... drives a London taxi cab and he wrote to us for Your Call, morning Barry..."

    Not patronising at all.
    Perhaps you missed the earlier SM-P puff for this section "and coming up at 8.30 on Your Call a taxi driver who likes classical music".

    I don't know about you but that sounds failry patronising - as if a taxi driver of all people should even have a penchant for classical music.
    O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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    • Norfolk Born

      What ON EARTH is Radio 3 doing talking to TAXI DRIVERS? How much further can standards fall?
      Yours faithfully
      Brigadier Blatherington-Cholomondesley-Engpassbeseitigung-Smythe-Molestroker
      (Retired)
      (Mrs.)

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      • salymap
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5969

        You forgot........

        Norfolk, you forgot to add Featherstonehaugh, I once met one of those and messed up the name in speaking to her. Oh the shame of it.

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        • Don Petter

          Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
          What ON EARTH is Radio 3 doing talking to TAXI DRIVERS?
          Makes sense. They've lost their way, and might get a few tips?

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          • Norfolk Born

            Originally posted by Paul Sherratt
            Don't you mean " Cholmondeley ", chum ?
            Following a rather acrimonious dispute relating to the mysterious disappearance of some family heirlooms, we adopted the variant spelling on the advice of our solicitors. The 'other lot', as we affectionately call them, are sort of downmarket Downton Abbey, while we're more mid- to upmarket Eaton Place.

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            • kernelbogey
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5735

              Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
              What ON EARTH is Radio 3 doing talking to TAXI DRIVERS?
              I 'ad that Sarah Mohr Pietsch off the radio in the back of my cab...

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              • Norfolk Born

                Did she test you on The Knowledge?

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37589

                  Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                  Did she test you on The Knowledge?


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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22114

                    Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                    Did she test you on The Knowledge?
                    Did you test 'er on The Knowledge?

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                    • Ferretfancy
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 3487

                      Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                      Ferret - I recently learned that Fellini's actors in Ottemezzo (8.5!) spoke whatever they wanted on set and the words he wanted were dubbed in (as is usual in Italian films) so even the Italian words don't match the lips! You can see this clearly if you watch the long speech by the guy with glasses (sorry can't remember his name) sitting in the car talking to the Mastroianni character near the end of the movie. (Don't know if this applies to other F movies.)

                      Also, I thought that when I watched Heimat, I heard it in German. Was there a second broadcast with the original German soundtrack?
                      Just to avoid confusion, kernel, the German drama that I was referring to earlier was a similar family saga to Heimat, but it was much earlier, back in the late 70s some time. I'm sorry, but I can't remember the title.

                      Lots of Italian films seemed to employ non Italian actors, perhaps the most famous performer in one of the greatest films was Burt Lancaster in Visconti's The Leopard, but he was given a very convincing dubbed voice. Sadly, this film suffered severe cuts in the hands of the distributors, but a fully restored version is now available, and it's superb.

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                      • Chris Newman
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2100

                        I do not ever remember watching Heimat auf Englisch. It was wunderbar in German. In fact Series 1 and 2 are my favourite TV programmes of all time. It went a bit down hill (ging abwärts) after that.

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                        • kernelbogey
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5735

                          Yes Chris - close run thing with The Singing Detective for my rosette.

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                          • Roehre

                            Originally posted by Chris Newman View Post
                            In fact Series 1 and 2 are my favourite TV programmes of all time
                            As they are for me
                            It went a bit down hill (ging abwärts) after that.
                            Well, it had got to be more elaborate, as it was concentrated to one decade, compared to nearly half a century or so for the first two series each.

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                            • Norfolk Born

                              Some great contenders for the palm, but for me it has to be:

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                              • Roehre

                                Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                                Some great contenders for the palm, but for me it has to be:
                                www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmp1sGsHOAg
                                Comes very close, indeed.
                                I recall vividly how shocked I was following that assassination attempt/cliff hanger at the end of Season 1 e.g., or the story of CJ's dad's illness.

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