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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37691

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    I'm not convinced that guests always want to be manhandled
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/galleries/p01kgf2x
    He should be pulled over the carpet for that!

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    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25210

      was that a triple entendre (or similar), S_A?
      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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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37691

        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
        was that a triple entendre (or similar), S_A?
        As many as you like, TS!

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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25210

          ok, i just lost count.
          Impressive in a nine word sentence .
          Or Perhaps I have spent too much time in the car recently.
          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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          • Sir Velo
            Full Member
            • Oct 2012
            • 3229

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post


            - What do you think of it so far, Penelope?

            - Ruggish!!
            Does Penelope Wilton sport a wig then?

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            • Suffolkcoastal
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3290

              RC has had the dubious distinction this week of taking the number of Hungarian Dances broadcast on R3 so far this year past the 100 mark. Programmes presented by him have accounted for a considerable proportion of these as they have done with Slavonic Dances. RC seems to have as much an obsession with these pieces as the current regime does generally.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26538

                Hurrah for Philip Pullman selecting the Gilels reading of Medtner's 'Sonata Reminiscenza' this morning
                "...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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                • Barbirollians
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11688

                  I found my car radio was tuned in to music the other morning when the CD ended and after another piece when I realised it must be R3 ( never listened to of choice in the morning ) as it stopped after the first movement - I was greeted with the "brainteaser" not a description of the music just played - OFF switch pressed. It is so depressing.

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                  • Stanley Stewart
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1071

                    Spluttered this morning when Sarah Walker, Essential Classics, asked us not to go away as a recording of One Fine Day was scheduled. Wasn't quite sure whether Dr Walker was sending herself up, the programme, or the listeners. We got to the spot, a commemoration of Callas at 90 and heard her recording of Un bel di, aka, Un Del Boy di! Instant reminders of Two Way Family Favourites in the 1950s! Time marches on.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22127

                      Originally posted by Stanley Stewart View Post
                      Spluttered this morning when Sarah Walker, Essential Classics, asked us not to go away as a recording of One Fine Day was scheduled. Wasn't quite sure whether Dr Walker was sending herself up, the programme, or the listeners. We got to the spot, a commemoration of Callas at 90 and heard her recording of Un bel di, aka, Un Del Boy di! Instant reminders of Two Way Family Favourites in the 1950s! Time marches on.
                      Were you expecting The Chiffons?

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                      • Stanley Stewart
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 1071

                        "...the readiness is all:..." Hamlet, Act V, Sc II

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26538

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Hurrah for Philip Pullman selecting the Gilels reading of Medtner's 'Sonata Reminiscenza' this morning
                          Likewise, hurrah for Howard Brenton's choices this week. Timings have been very happy - this morning, Horowitz playing the tumbling opening of Schumann's Kreisleriana was a marvellous adjunct to a cycle ride down the Mall with the wind at my back with thousands of leaves chasing and racing past me...

                          And yesterday in the damp, wintry park, the second movement of Mahler 5 was terrific, reminding one of the quality of that Karajan / BPO performance: after the slow elegiac central bit, the return of the lilting dance music is given a real drunken, phantasmagorical quality by the use of portamenti, it sounded wonderful. Might need to get that performance (I recall borrowing the LPs from the local library 30 years ago, before I really knew the piece).
                          "...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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                          • Bryn
                            Banned
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 24688

                            In the online listing for this morning's Essential Classics:

                            Arnold Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor

                            Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

                            EMI
                            Somewhat underplays the role of Johannes Brahms, what?

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                            • ardcarp
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 11102

                              I don't know if this has been commented on before, but I find SW's use of the word 'there' most irksome, e.g.

                              Fred Bloggs THERE playing Beethoven

                              The Chipping Sodbury Philharmonic THERE, etc, etc

                              Once you've noticed it, you want to scream.

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                              • Barbirollians
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11688

                                She is generally irksome IMO . She sounds like she is auditioning for the Masterchef voiceover most of the time .

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