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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26539
    #9226
    Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
    But in #9215 you said 'Hans Sachs is the answer to part (i)'?

    Now I'm really Confused of Tunbridge Wells ...
    Sorry if I was ambiguous (though I'm not sure I was ). Hans Sachs is indeed the answer to (i): the shoemaker. (Neither he nor the answer to part (ii) of the question has anything to do with Le Carré)

    You need an "N" to connect Hans Sachs with the other 2 elements

    Angle has uttered the name of the fictional secret agent in question - but the connection isn't 'Nose".

    Look for a musical connection.

    Further clue: you're looking for two English people and one American.

    "...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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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163
      #9227
      So ... Hans Sachs, (James?) Bond ... Musical "N" connection ... Two Englishmen, One American ... and "spirituals involving a fight".

      This is good!
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Angle
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 724
        #9228
        Caliban: help!

        As we looking for three people whose names begin with N ?

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26539
          #9229
          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          So ... Hans Sachs, (James?) Bond ... Musical "N" connection ... Two Englishmen, One American ... and "spirituals involving a fight".

          This is good!

          You'll hear a further clue over the next 10 minutes or so if you watch the BBC1 news which is on now!
          "...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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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539
            #9230
            Originally posted by Angle View Post
            Caliban: help!

            As we looking for three people whose names begin with N ?
            Sorry Angle, we must have cross-posted before.... Yes, you are looking for a name. Not necessarily (though maybe) a surname...
            "...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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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26539
              #9231
              Last clue for the day - maybe one of the early birds will get it... The N you're looking for is (i) the first name of an Englishman connected with Hans Sachs (ii) the surname of an Englishman connected with James Bond and (iii) the surname of an American woman.

              Come on ladies and gentlemen!! I'm GIVIN' it away!!!!
              "...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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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8785
                #9232
                Dear Mercia would have demolished this at about 04.14 - is it Norman?

                Monty Norman seems to have written the James Bond theme
                Norman Bailey was a memorable Hans Sachs
                And did Jessye Norman do Joshua fit/fought the Battle of Jericho?

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26539
                  #9233
                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  Dear Mercia would have demolished this at about 04.14 - is it Norman?

                  Monty Norman seems to have written the James Bond theme
                  Norman Bailey was a memorable Hans Sachs
                  And did Jessye Norman do Joshua fit/fought the Battle of Jericho?
                  Good morning and well done, anton: an early Norman conquest

                  Yes to all of that with a caveat about Jessye Norman which doesn't affect your entitlement to the "O" - I was thinking that Jessye famously performed Spirituals with Kathleen BATTLE at Carnegie Hall (and elsewhere no doubt) as evidenced on video...

                  Incidentally, by way of a tangent, both Monty and Jessye were involved in memorable musical libel actions late last century: Monty sued The Sunday Times over claims that the Bond theme had in fact been written by John Barry (a trial including musical analysis from Stanley Sadie as expert witness etc etc) while Jessye sued 'Classic CD' magazine... They had retailed a story about her getting stuck in a revolving door and (when it was suggested that she should release herself by turning sideways) allegedly replying in a 'caricature' Black voice "Honey I aint got no 'sideways'!!". Her claim that it branded her with a racial stereotype was struck out by the Court of Appeal without going to trial - a very expensive failure which brought a tiny specialist article to hugely wider prominence: a classic instance of a misconceived libel action. Whereas Monty was successful in asserting his authorship of the Bond theme and was awarded a five-figure sum in damages by the trial jury.

                  Over to you, anton!
                  "...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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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8785
                    #9234
                    Excellent Caliban sad that boring accountants cannot fill their clues with work related anecdotes.

                    So I have awesome O yet again

                    This may connect

                    What follows the Letter T
                    Wallace, Smith and two others
                    Panorama's composer

                    2 clues musical 1 sporty O not musical as such. None accounting!

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                    • amateur51
                      #9235
                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      Dear Mercia would have demolished this at about 04.14 - is it Norman?


                      I do hope that the dear boy is alright

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8785
                        #9236
                        Me too

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                        • amateur51
                          #9237
                          Super puzzle, Caliban

                          Thank you for getting our bit o' fun under way again

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539
                            #9238
                            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                            Super puzzle, Caliban

                            Thank you for getting our bit o' fun under way again
                            The pleasure is mine
                            "...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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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920
                              #9239
                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              Panorama's composer
                              David Lowe?

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8785
                                #9240
                                Welcome back - sadly no, not this Panorama at least. PC fixed?

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