Alphabet associations - I

[rubbernecker]

What T specifically links these composers in the given order?
Richard Rodgers; Richard Rodgers; Wilfred Josephs; Carl Davis.

Well, they all wrote music for Television, but I suspect it's more specific than that...

Of course Josephs wrote the theme music for the First World War TV series, and Carl Davis for the World at War, about WW2...

[rubbernecker]

A clue for T: Start your search in 1952.

Well, that's another WW2 docco, Victory at Sea

[Anna]

There is The Valiant Years about Churchill by Rodgers. That's 1965 when Churchill died.

King George died 1952 so that could be The King and I? (probably not!)

[Norfolk Born]

You've got them all between you - well done.
Richard Rodgers: Victory At Sea (1952) followed by The Valiant Years (1960). Wilfred Josephs: The Great War (1964); and Carl Davis: The World At War (1973). All TV documentary series dealing with world wars ('tho I'd settle for TV themes or TV documentaries for archival purposes). Over to U, rubbernecker!

[rubbernecker]

Sorry for the delay. A nice, straightforward one, hopefully:

What U connects a comic singer with a stiff legacy, a musician killed by the Nazis, and the schoolteacher in a musical rehash of a plane crash (which bombed)?

[Tapiola]

Oooh...

Ullmann?

Tracey (sang under contract with Stiff Records)
Victor (died at Auschwitz)
Liv (her musical film "Lost Horizons" crashed and burned in 1973).

[Nick Armstrong]

Oooh...

Ullmann?

Tracey (sang under contract with Stiff Records)
Victor (died at Auschwitz)
Liv (her musical film "Lost Horizons" crashed and burned in 1973).

And Taps has scored! Route one! What a finish! The crowd are going wild

[Anna]

Oh Ratz! I was just about the post the very same answer but delayed whilst I sorted out a V !! Well done Taps, lightning speed yet again. Btw, I was lured into the Patisserie today and emerged with a dark Belgian chocolate French Fancy.

[rubbernecker]

Oooh...

Ullmann?

Tracey (sang under contract with Stiff Records)
Victor (died at Auschwitz)
Liv (her musical film "Lost Horizons" crashed and burned in 1973).

Oooh... You're good.

Full house, Taps.

V good.

[rubbernecker]

Oh Ratz! I was just about the post the very same answer but delayed whilst I sorted out a V !!

Your presumptuousness has been your undoing, Anna

[Anna]

Your presumptuousness has been your undoing, Anna

Well, yes. Me presumptuousness always gets me in a bit of bovver!! Anyway, I have to go and do something complicated in the kitchen later on today involving pork and black pudding and apples.

[Tapiola]

[COLOR="blue"]

Don't mind if I do, Caliban. Cheers!

It'll have to be a quick one though. The solution to "U" was a bit of an opportunist's crime. I shall have to be offline again shortly possibly for the rest of the day. So an easy Veasy V:

This V connects works by Bellini, Rameau and Bernstein.

[Tapiola]

The V in question is a person.

[rubbernecker]

The V in question is a person.

Not sure we needed that clue...

Voltaire?

Bellini - Zaira
Rameau - a few operas
Bernstein - Candide

[Nick Armstrong]

I was lured into the Patisserie today and emerged with a dark Belgian chocolate French Fancy.

I have to go and do something complicated in the kitchen later on today involving pork and black pudding and apples.

A whole range of possible comments occurs to me in response to the above, Anna - but none of them fit for publication. Where are Julian and Sandy when you need them!?

All I can say is that I hope you and others will enjoy!!!

EDIT: mention of the dark Belgian fancy has made me all restless....