Not R3 but the BBC 4 tele-vision - nevertheless . . .

[Sydney Grew]

. . . His Royal Highness on Sir Hubert. Everything so right. Unalloyed pleasure do not Members agree!

[mercia]

Everything so right.

in what sense?

please expand on your thoughts

[Serial_Apologist]

Sydney has just woken up from long hibernation...

[Norfolk Born]

Try the 'The Prince and the Composer (Parry)' thread, old chap!

[Bryn]

Syd recently been evicted from one of his homes (again), and the landlords have changed the locks. Have pity on the poor vagrant.

[Sydney Grew]

Actually - since you mention the subject - I have arranged for a revival of the [UNACCEPTABLE LINK DELETED]Art-Music Forum, where the full, true and entirely uncensored story will appear over the coming days. More generally, any Members here who would like to join in the revival will be most welcome. It is not a competitor to this Forum, since a) this Forum has a great and primary emphasis on Radio 3, and b) there are certain subjects that people here appear not to welcome or not to find particularly interesting.

To return to His Royal Highness (I did miss the other two threads, so sorry!) it was striking was it not to see him ringing Mrs. Ponsonby's door-bell - and having to wait before being let in. I suppose that impression was what was intended to be conveyed when a few years ago we saw William cleaning his "bathroom," with the difference that there it was done so crudely and shockingly, even, whereas this time it was tasteful throughout.

[ahinton]

. . . His Royal Highness on Sir Hubert.

Charles on Charles, surely?

[Sydney Grew]

Here is a wholly delightful photo-graph of the future Baronet Parry as a youth posing with a chair-back. It is one we have always enjoyed; he appears so comfortable in his own skin does he not. It will we surmise have been at Eton during his last year there. That is the age at which one is most sensitive, most impressionable, and most inspired! And indeed he was something of a prodigy.

It will be of interest to Members who do not already know that his Evolution of the Art of Music and his J.S. Bach may both be consulted at the Inter-net Archive. What an advance that is over the dark days of the late twentieth century when it was necessary to attend a large library whenever one wished to consult such indispensabilities.

[ahinton]

Here is a wholly delightful photo-graph of the future Baronet Parry as a youth posing with a chair-back. It is one we have always enjoyed; he appears so comfortable in his own skin does he not. It will we surmise have been at Eton during his last year there. That is the age at which one is most sensitive, most impressionable, and most inspired! And indeed he was something of a prodigy.

It will be of interest to Members who do not already know that his Evolution of the Art of Music and his J.S. Bach may both be consulted at the Inter-net Archive. What an advance that is over the dark days of the late twentieth century when it was necessary to attend a large library whenever one wished to consult such indispensabilities.

If "Inter-net", then "Baro-net", surely? (but not, please not, "Clario-net").

[Serial_Apologist]

And even hair-net

[Sydney Grew]

What a good King he will make one day!

[vinteuil]

What a good King he will make one day!

... a Good King, but Not Memorable. [Discuss.]

[ahinton]

What a good King he will make one day!

He will (allegedly) "make one day" do - or into - what? Or, were one to take your claim literally, on what grounds might you suppose that William V (or whatever they'd end up naming him) would even want or choose to be King of what if anything is left of the increasingly disunited kingdom at the time of his potential/putative accession let alone be a "good" one? And, for that matter, why not insert a couple of your bizarrely habitual hyphens into his name and title and turn him into Wil-liam, Duke of Cam-bridge?

Phew!...

[Tristan Klingsor]

Someone might have pointed out that chairs go the other way round, poor chap.