Happy memories from the old R3 MB

[Flay]

Looking through old bookmarked "favourites" I found this gem from LeTombeauDeCooperman, his Circle Line of 5ths:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620064?thread=3113177

Was this really seven years ago?

Has anyone else got any gems bookmarked?

[Nick Armstrong]

It's pure class!

Seven years, indeed... Before my time (I think).

Where are they now? (Save Mary, who got it! #47)

[Flay]

Another cracker from him, Proms Theme Park - Announcement

[Flay]

And The Name's Bond.....

[Anna]

If these links work: Flay’s take on Peter Grimes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497566?thread=4863595

Flay again: Roger Wright – The Opera

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497566?thread=4485659

We had such a lot of fun on the old MBs! (I wonder why Flay persued a medical career rather than one of a scriptwriter! )

[Flay]

If these links work: Flay’s take on Peter Grimes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497566?thread=4863595

Flay again: Roger Wright – The Opera

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497566?thread=4485659

We had such a lot of fun on the old MBs!

You are too kind, Anna

(I wonder why Flay persued a medical career rather than one of a scriptwriter! )

Money!

[Flay]

BBC Phone-In Competitions - Radio 3

[Flay]

Flay’s take on Peter Grimes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497566?thread=4863595

Roger Wright – The Opera
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7...thread=4485659

Both were based on Grimes. "Fisherman returns from the dead" was my reaction to the saga of John Darwin faking his own death, and the RW opera was a response to some awful Raja figures.

Looking at them again, I ought to revise them...

[DracoM]

<< "It seem like you have two problems, the money and the punters. I solve the problems at a stroke. I get my compatriot, Gaetano Donizetti, to write for you a new opera. He love the English themes so I find him a plot with a strong but tragic central character, a story of power and betrayal, how the heroine she save her people but in the end they not love her anymore. Already I find librettist with actual experience of the lady, and you, Giovanni, we put you in opera too. Margarita, Signiora di Ferro. We plan it now. Everyone in East London they flock to see it, no? And they pay through the nostrils for the privilege." >>

My absolute favourite among many.

[Nick Armstrong]

If these links work: Flay’s take on Peter Grimes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497566?thread=4863595

An intriguing example in that wonderful thread of frenchie having temporarily been moderated!!

[french frank]

An intriguing example in that wonderful [post] of frenchie having temporarily been moderated!!

And a highly unusual example of a post that had been 'temporarily hidden' ever being restored again. Clearly someone told the moderator it was part of a joke thread

[Nick Armstrong]

And a highly unusual example of a post that had been 'temporarily hidden' ever being restored again. Clearly someone told the moderator it was part of a joke thread

What a contrast with the enlightened, common-sense approach to moderation today!

[french frank]

What a contrast with the enlightened, common-sense approach to moderation today!

Erm . Actually, reading the post again, I suspect that an eagle-eyed mod had spotted that the bungling lawyer had twice inadvertently referred to the anonymous 'Mr G' as Mr Grimes. Grimes would have taken the Beeb to the cleaners if that hadn't been removed

[Nick Armstrong]

bungling lawyer

Could such a thing exist?

[mangerton]

Could such a thing exist?

Bungling lawyer?

It's an example either of tautology or oxymoron...... one of these..... I always get them confused.