Separating fact from fiction ?

[MrGongGong]

Who on earth is "Lord" Bell anyway?
And would you let him be scissor monitor ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/hilary-mantel-should-be-investigated-by-police-over-margaret-thatcher-assassination-story-says-lord-bell-9746747.html

I'm looking forward to reading this after hearing it discussed on "sell the book" on R4 this morning

Lord Bellend more like

Here it is if you want to read it

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/19/hilary-mantel-short-story-assassination-margaret-thatcher

[P. G. Tipps]

Who on earth is "Lord" Bell anyway?
And would you let him be scissor monitor ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/hilary-mantel-should-be-investigated-by-police-over-margaret-thatcher-assassination-story-says-lord-bell-9746747.html

I'm looking forward to reading this after hearing it discussed on "sell the book" on R4 this morning

Lord Bellend more like

Here it is if you want to read it

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...garet-thatcher

The Programme concerned is actually Start the Week (though 'sell the book' might indeed have been a more appropriate title) which I happened to hear yesterday morning. Sadly, as with so many other members, R3 does not have quite the same alternative attraction for me as it once so exclusively offered. However, that's quite another story ...

I agree it would be somewhat pointless, time-wasting and downright stupid for our already over-worked police to take up the good Lord Bell's suggestion and investigate Ms Hilary Mantel. To paraphrase Mr GongGong him/herself, who on earth is Ms Hilary Mantel, anyway?

At the close of the programme the only thing(s) that truly remained in the memory of one, Mr P. G. Tipps, were the delighted gasps and giggles of a group of apparently adult males fawning at every word emanating from the rarely-closed mouth of a distinctly haughty and self-satisfied-sounding Ms Mantel.

Once some of the posh, 'chattering-class' liberal elite get into gear the infamous Bullingdon Boys are simply no match for them, not least in matters of simple taste, I humbly submit!

[MrGongGong]

The Programme concerned is actually Start the Week

R4 used to always have in that slot

Monday: Sell the book
Tuesday: Dial a bigot
and so on

Keep up

I thought yesterday's START THE WEEK (for the pedants) was a really interesting discussion of all sorts of things.
"good Lord Bell" ???? more like Knob of the week

[amateur51]

Tim Bell was one of Margaret Thatcher's favoured PR folk, the one she turned to when something involving threats of malevolence were required.

[amateur51]

The Programme concerned is actually Start the Week (though 'sell the book' might indeed have been a more appropriate title) which I happened to hear yesterday morning. Sadly, as with so many other members, R3 does not have quite the same alternative attraction for me as it once so exclusively offered. However, that's quite another story ...

I agree it would be somewhat pointless, time-wasting and downright stupid for our already over-worked police to take up the good Lord Bell's suggestion and investigate Ms Hilary Mantel. To paraphrase Mr GongGong him/herself, who on earth is Ms Hilary Mantel, anyway?

At the close of the programme the only thing(s) that truly remained in the memory of one, Mr P. G. Tipps, were the delighted gasps and giggles of a group of apparently adult males fawning at every word emanating from the rarely-closed mouth of a distinctly haughty and self-satisfied-sounding Ms Mantel.

Once some of the posh, 'chattering-class' liberal elite get into gear the infamous Bullingdon Boys are simply no match for them, not least in matters of simple taste, I humbly submit!

Why am I not surprised at scotty's inverted snobbery?? A successful woman, you see!

Hilary Mantel is the only author to win The Man Booker Prize two years in succession, for the highly and widely acclaimed historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. They have been turned into very successful stage plays too.

Beat that, Sir Walter Scott!

[MrGongGong]

Beat that, Sir Walter Scott!

Who ?

[ahinton]

Who ?

am51 inadvertently left off the "y" at the end of "scott", that's all...

[P. G. Tipps]

Hilary Mantel is the only author to win The Man Booker Prize two years in succession ....

Beat that, Sir Walter Scott!

Well at least the 1st Baronet, FRSE, was a man ...

[amateur51]

Well at least the 1st Baronet, FRSE, was a man ...

But he didn't even manage to stay alive - typical man, no stamina

[ahinton]

Well at least the 1st Baronet, FRSE, was a man ...

"At least"? What do you suppose he was "at most", then?

[P. G. Tipps]

But he didn't even manage to stay alive -

Credit where credit is due, amateur51 ...

I believe that your claim regarding Sir Walter's ultimate demise is indeed based on fact and not fiction.

I therefore offer my congratulations that, on this occasion at least, you successfully managed to separate the two. <thumbsup>

[P. G. Tipps]

"At least"? What do you suppose he was "at most", then?

Sadly, I have very little idea as one look at a Sir Walter Scott novel made me wish I'd never picked up the book in the first place, so I quickly moved on to something rather more 'dumbed-down'.

However, some of his European artistic peers (the Germans in particular) were mightily impressed and indeed positively inspired, as history has inalienably recorded.

[amateur51]

Credit where credit is due, amateur51 ...

I believe that your claim regarding Sir Walter's ultimate demise is indeed based on fact and not fiction.

I therefore offer my congratulations that, on this occasion at least, you successfully managed to separate the two. <thumbsup>

Another quirk that scottycelt and Mr Tipps share is that they never appear to be online when they post or at any other time.

Not a coinkydink surely?!?

[P. G. Tipps]

Another quirk that scottycelt and Mr Tipps share is that they never appear to be online when they post or at any other time.

Not a coinkydink surely?!?

Mayhap magic ...

[ahinton]

Another quirk that scottycelt and Mr Tipps share is that they never appear to be online when they post or at any other time.

Maybe that's how they contrive to separate fict from faction (to return momentarily to the thread topic)...