Surely not - Archers 20th April - Widor toccata

[Pabmusic]

"We" didn't - and why apologise for this? That said, they should have paid Kevin Bowyer to play it (just to illustrate how common it is for English village organists to play Sorabji); after all, Bowyers have to come before Archers...

But Fletchers play an important part too - and Norman Stanley might just have complicated things too much.

[amateur51]

But Fletchers play an important part too - and Norman Stanley might just have complicated things too much.

Last time I listened, The Archers was a work of fiction!?

[Pabmusic]

Last time I listened, The Archers was a work of fiction!?

I understand yours might be a lone voice. I've never (ever!) heard it myself, but then I have unusual tastes, or so my concubines assure me.

[amateur51]

I understand yours might be a lone voice. I've never (ever!) heard it myself, but then I have unusual tastes, or so my concubines assure me.

My catamite assures me similarly

[ahinton]

I have unusual tastes, or so my concubines assure me.

What? ALL of them?...

[ahinton]

But Fletchers play an important part too - and Norman Stanley might just have complicated things too much.

Let's not bring Time's Arrow into this...

[MrGongGong]

. It's not just refurbishments, though - it's also redesigns, often on the advice of the incumbent.

Libel laws probably prevent me from telling a story I heard last week about this !

[Pabmusic]

Let's not bring Time's Arrow into this...

I don't get your point...

[Pabmusic]

What? ALL of them?...

Well, almost all... (© G & S - or rather G & T - now where's the bottle...?).

[Pabmusic]

My catamite assures me similarly

[Honoured Guest]

The organist at the Easter Day service in St Stephen's, Ambridge, Borsetshire was Patrick Hennessey.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr/profiles/patrick-hennessey

The Widor will be reprised there on Thursday at the exodus from the wedding of Tom Archer and Kirsty Miller.

[Dave2002]

I'm sorry to be so unknowlageable about The Archers (I thought that was Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger ) but did we hear how he played it?

Here - 20th April - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr

You could waste a year or more of your lifetime (with repeats and the omnibus edition) listening to this stuff, and many people do. If it's not the world's longest running soap opera it must be pretty near the top of the pile. I'd advise anyone not already addicted not to even go there. Why people need to spend time listening/watching to stories about fictitions people rather than living their own lives I'm not sure - I still keep hoping that something could happen such as in Hancock's "The Bowmans" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0595642/ - and then we'd be rid of it once and for all. Trouble is though, something else would "have" to fill the gap.

Watch out for "The Bowmans" on Youtube and similar places. I think there might have been a radio version before the TV version.

[Honoured Guest]

Why people need to spend time listening/watching to stories about fictitions people rather than living their own lives I'm not sure

Well, as a start, human needs to tell and listen to and share in story (and fiction) must have some relation to the needs to make and listen to and share in music.

Is it all about a genetic compulsion to search for pattern and meaning and to communicate and empathise with other humans in our family and community and with outsiders?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

That makes sense up to a point. But when the death of a soap character becomes front-page news in the tabloids, someone really has lost the plot.

[mercia]

Let's not bring Time's Arrow into this...

the spirit is willing but the fleche is weak