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  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 9173

    #16
    i do that is why i choose to miss it ...
    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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    • amateur51

      #17
      Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
      You don't know what you are missing!

      Last night 11pm: Anna Massey in terrific form: Miracles R Us. Glad, the dreadful title didn't put me off listening.
      I caught this quite by accident and completely agree with you, pianorak.

      It was rather sad to realise that she's died recently - a fine performance, one of many of hers that I've enjoyed over the years

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      • Anna

        #18
        I really enjoyed Private Passions with Craig Revel Horwood today, I look forward to him having a regular slot (perhaps Saturday Classics) in the future.

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        • gurnemanz
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7377

          #19
          Originally posted by Anna View Post
          I really enjoyed Private Passions with Craig Revel Horwood today, I look forward to him having a regular slot (perhaps Saturday Classics) in the future.
          I usually enjoy PP but will admit to not knowing what to expect since I am not watching Maestro and had really never heard of him. As it started with a discussion of his rent-boy past and he continued to camp it up big time for the rest of the show I also found it very entertaining. Any programme where Mme Netrebko sings about her hot lips must have something going for it. MB also seemed to be having a good time.

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          • Anna

            #20
            Indeed, and it was his enthusiasm that is infectious. Quite honestly, the last few Saturday Classics have been dire, yesterday, with Kathryn Stott and the previous with Brigit Forsyth, were, I think, awful and hackneyed. I'd rather have Craig RH and a bit of spikiness, albeit camp, on a Saturday afternoon .

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            • Pianorak
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3127

              #21
              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              . . . the last few Saturday Classics have been dire, yesterday, with Kathryn Stott . . . were, I think, awful and hackneyed. . .
              Bydd yn ofalus! Lèse-majesté!
              My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26506

                #22
                It was an excellent Private Passions last weekend with historian and biographer D.R. Thorpe (including the priceless RVW quote from a conversation at Charterhouse with a beak who asked him whether his 4th was triggered by forebodings about WW2 - the reply: 'No, I was just rather exercised by the Dorking by-pass' )...

                And there should be more laughs in prospect this Sunday: Brian Blessed

                http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k9sng
                "...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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                • Northender

                  #23
                  Brian Blessed? Don't you mean

                  BRIAN BLESSED?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26506

                    #24
                    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                    "...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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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      #25
                      there's no need to shout

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                      • Northender

                        #26
                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        there's no need to shout
                        You try telling Mr. Blessed that....
                        A clip from the show Room 101. Kirsty Young's pet hates include people without a volume dial when they speak. But with actors at least, it's okay. A good ...

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26506

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          It was an excellent Private Passions last weekend with historian and biographer D.R. Thorpe (including the priceless RVW quote from a conversation at Charterhouse with a beak who asked him whether his 4th was triggered by forebodings about WW2 - the reply: 'No, I was just rather exercised by the Dorking by-pass' )...

                          And there should be more laughs in prospect this Sunday: Brian Blessed

                          http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k9sng
                          Just bumping this, re: fun at noon
                          "...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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                          • Northender

                            #28
                            Listening now ...he's certainly on form! He's somehow managed to link a hushed invocation of a dream of going to Brazil with Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe (Le jour se lève).

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                            • antongould
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8774

                              #29
                              I very much enjoyed it - they don't make them like him anymore........

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                              • JFLL
                                Full Member
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 780

                                #30
                                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                                I very much enjoyed it - they don't make them like him anymore........
                                The man surely needs a series -- we might even hear him singing Siegfried!

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