Would Jubileevit?

[gradus]

Paddington Bear was the best bit; singers were mostly execrable (excl music theatre people) but well-received by the audience.

[oddoneout]

This appears in the Freeview blurb for this evening's Antiques Roadshow episode. I thought it was 70 years, whether one's counting from accession this year or coronation next year?

As the 65th anniversary of the coronation approaches,

Where would 65 come from?

[french frank]

Where would 65 come from?

Maybe it's a repeat programme from 2018?

Edit: I am newly informed: "Coronation special first shown in 2018 (p. 66 of current Radio Times)"

[muzzer]

Don’t laugh but one of the few to sing naturally , largely in tune and with scrupulous diction was one Andrew Lloyd Webber. As did his singing companion Lin-Manuel Miranda . In fact the West End brigade showed quite a few of the rockers a clean pair of heels singing wise.

That’s a fair comment (and I detest musical theatre, don’t even get me started on ALW and his market making of hideous art - musical and visual).

[oddoneout]

Maybe it's a repeat programme from 2018?

Edit: I am newly informed: "Coronation special first shown in 2018 (p. 66 of current Radio Times)"

Ah, thank you for that. Just think, someone has got paid for making not one but two mistakes - 65 not 70, and wrong event, coronation not accession. You would have thought there had been enough publicity in the run up to the event that someone could/should have noticed the misleading text in the Freeview version?

[johncorrigan]

For a nice antidote to the jubilee fawning of the past wee while, may I recommend 'Hatpin Through The Brain', Jonathan Meades' review of Tina Brown's book, 'The Palace Papers', from the recent LRB, - beautifully caustic, if you like that kind of thing.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n11/jonathan-meades/hatpin-through-the-brain

[muzzer]

That’s fabulous, thank you. A blowtorch of Meades, I imagine largely if not completely unedited, given it’s the LRB. And long may he continue.

[Serial_Apologist]

That’s fabulous, thank you. A blowtorch of Meades, I imagine largely if not completely unedited, given it’s the LRB. And long may he continue.

Indeed so - I don't by any means always agree with Meades, who for me is too often merely contrarian, but I envy him his brilliantly Jacobean word smithery.

[LHC]

Indeed so - I don't by any means always agree with Meades, who for me is too often merely contrarian, but I envy him his brilliantly Jacobean word smithery.

It’s great fun, but it’s not much of a book review.

[Serial_Apologist]

It’s great fun, but it’s not much of a book review.

More what he thinks about the author than what she has written, I'd say. That said, he really gets the parasitic ambience surrounding "The Firm" with fake adulation and cliché.

[LHC]

More what he thinks about the author than what she has written, I'd say. That said, he really gets the parasitic ambience surrounding "The Firm" with fake adulation and cliché.

It’s more an excuse for him to write about ‘the Firm’ than anything else, but very entertaining none the less