Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

That's about the time the supermarkets start discounting their paella, I reckon Anna

You watch your step

[Nick Armstrong]

Underland?

That's not the U but you've almost got the right Alice...

[Anna]

Edited on the grounds of good taste and the reputation of this MB.

[cloughie]

No idea cloughie! Christopher Robin went down with her I think ........

Was she an affliction?

[cloughie]

That's not the U but you've almost got the right Alice...

The only other Alice-related U I can think of is Unbirthday!

[Anna]

The only other Alice-related U I can think of is Unbirthday!

Oh, my ears and whiskers! I am off to the kitchen now .....

[cloughie]

Oh, my ears and whiskers! I am off to the kitchen now .....

Me too!

[Nick Armstrong]

Edited on the grounds of good taste and the reputation of this MB.

Cloughie frustrated you!

The U connects to Alice and the other musical pieces. When Anna said 'Underland', as I said, the U was the wrong letter, but try doubling it and you might be on to something as far as Alice is concerned...

While you are busy in the kitchen, I am heading out in about 45 mns for curry and Cobra beer... so this could be some time in the solving I shouldn't wonder (but maybe you should )

[mercia]

is the fanfare a stand-alone piece or something like the one before Dukas's La Peri?
there's an Australian opera called Through the Looking Glass with a libretto by a U
I think chimerical just means fantastic or fanciful doesn't it ?

[Nick Armstrong]

is the fanfare a stand-alone piece or something like the one before Dukas's La Peri?

Stand-alone. For some reason, the composer (who is neither English nor French) gave a French flavour to the title (ditto the fantasy)

there's an Australian opera called Through the Looking Glass

Nor is the composer Australian but you're along the right lines, mercs

[Anna]

The U connects to Alice and the other musical pieces. When Anna said 'Underland'

Oh, I never said Underland!! Blame cloughie! He did!! Mercs may have got it ..... But a double U means a W, so, something to do with White Rabbit? But by whom? There is a brilliant one by Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick, which has nothing to do with anything.

[mercia]

along the right lines

a-ha, there is also an opera by a South Korean, called Alice in Wonderland, but I think I may hand over to someone else now

EDIT - has someone been looking ahead to tonight's Radio 3 schedule ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, I never said Underland!! Blame cloughie! He did!! Mercs may have got it ..... But a double U means a W, so, something to do with White Rabbit?

Oh sorry, lost track... Yes, W... But not White Rabbit....

....ah mercia's got it: Wonderland! yes... But mercia's retreated: c'mon Anna - South Korean 'Alice in Wonderland'.. you're there in two shakes of a Welsh lamb's whatsit!

[Anna]

a-ha, there is also an opera by a South Korean, called Alice in Wonderland, but I think I may hand over to someone else now

No, don't do that, we are all adrift, at sea, clinging to the wreckage, in fact, I feel like the wreck of the hesperus, just look at my hair! Carry on mercs.

[Nick Armstrong]

No, don't do that, we are all adrift, at sea, clinging to the wreckage, in fact, I feel like the wreck of the hesparus, just look at my hair! Carry on mercs.

Yes come along mercs!! I have to go in a while and I shall feel guilty all evening if i abandon my post without a solution!! You know you secretly want to set a of a V !!