This was like an especially bad edition of Late Junction.
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I'm afraid I wouldn't know about that, however I always like listening to Lucinda and miss her television programmes exploring architectureThis was like an especially bad edition of Late Junction.Last edited by mercia; 16-10-11, 13:03. -
Belgrove - why so?Originally posted by Belgrove View Post
I found it enchanting. Her views on the music that mattered to her were highly personal, but also very intelligent, and well articulated.
She has had a distinctly odd life, and has remained very much her own person. It was good to hear such fresh, uncluttered thinking, free of clichés. I approved of her musical taste.
But then I am completely beguiled by the Hon. L Lambton, Lady Worsthorne...
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Yes I wish her programmes could be repeated. She did a very interesting one on Hall Place, a beautiful early Elizabethan house near me in Bexley.
She is always worth hearing.Comment
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Yes, Belgrove - how so?Comment
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Indeed - she is a national treasure, and entertaining at all times.Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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I agree.
Like Late Junction, LL is a national treasure.
Caption anyone ?
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His Master's Ringtone?Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View PostI agree.
Like Late Junction, LL is a national treasure.
Caption anyone ?
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She is certainly a lively if slightly batty lady! Recording commentary with her for her programmes was always an entertaining nightmare!
The problem was that you could never get her to read a script in the same way twice, and unfortunately her words, piquant as they often were, were meant to fit the pictures on the screen. This caused a certain amount of pain for the editors.
All the same, I enjoyed it all!Comment
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We are fellows in that beguilement, vinsanto. I have always carried a candle for her. Only her taste in men is questionable - Peregrine WOriginally posted by vinteuil View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Agree - Lucinda Lambton is a very interesting person and her TV series was (were?) certainly most interesting. I only caught the end of PP and will listen to it on i-player. Her father was involved in the Profumo scandal. I think she is also related (by marriage) to Jools Holland.Comment
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everyone has their cross to bearrelated (by marriage) to Jools Holland.
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sorry, are you quite sure about that?Her father was involved in the Profumo scandal.
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Lord Lambton was not connected with the Profumo affair, but he was photographed in bed with two prostitutes, and smoking a spliff to boot! This shocking behaviour lead to his downfall as a possible threat to security.
Interviewed later, he said that his way of relieving the tensions of office was " Vigorous gardening and debauchery "
He clocked up 84 years while pursuing these pursuits, one of which was definitely worthwhile!Comment
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Yes it was the Lambton scandal, really - he had one all his wery own
And the Holland connection is rather tenuous - LL's much younger brother's wife left him for Holland. So as this article succinctly puts it, the genial Jools is her ex-sister-in-law's second husband
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...hats-life.html
The late Lord Lambton sounds rather a card, holed up in his Tuscan villa with his mistress serving frozen fish pie to Prince Charles & the Blairs...
Glad to know one can relive Lucinda's 'Alphabet" series on youtube though - cheers!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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