Well, Radio 3 is more downtown than Downton these days.
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Moi aussi. But only once Carstairs has ironed it, natch...Originally posted by amateur51 View PostAnd both of you Radio Times readers ... hmmmmm
"...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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Do they have the leathere covers??!!Comment
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If you lot think the RTs 'posh' you should get out more. How else would I know what to avoid?
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Was "posh" or "class" or something not once defined as being able to hear "William Tell" without thinking of the Lone Ranger?Comment
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... the way I was told it - it was the definition of an intellectual, "being able to hear 'William Tell' without thinking of 'The Lone Ranger'."...Originally posted by mangerton View PostComment
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As best I recall it, it was in fact defined as not being able to hear the William Tell overture without thinking of the first movement of Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony, but then that may have arisen as a mere consequence of my underprivileged background, I suppose.Originally posted by mangerton View PostComment
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Haha my granny used to have those. Like putting a frilly toutou-clad doll on the spare loo-roll: all those funny bourgeois touches!Originally posted by Stillhomewardbound View Post
"...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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" The word intellectual suggests straight away a man who's untrue to his wife" WH AudenOriginally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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Country, the country, we're going to see the cows ...Comment
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My favourite overture, The Lone Ranger, is always spoiled for me when I recall that naughty little doggerel - 'diddy bum diddy bum diddy bum bum bum'Comment
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Speaking of 'posh', when my son was little he was convinced the lyrics to that Oz series were: 'Skippy, the posh kangaroo'....Comment
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... Mahler's Adagietto - Death in Venice.Comment
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