Chalet School fans - Radio 4 programme with Val McDermid

[Northernlurker]

Just seen this on the R4 website and listened here Really good programme with Vam McDermid and I could answer ALL the quiz questions - mostly quicker than her experts. Experts? Pah!

Margot threw one of her bookends - 'quite an unpleasant missile!' I think it was rabbit shaped made by her cousin Bride?

Elisaveta was kidnapped by cousin Cosimo.

Grizel - hadn't some doctor gone and married someone else? Not sure - I lost track of who married which doctor...

Wasn't Grizel's secret heartache that her ?boyfriend (as if she's be allowed one in the CS!) ran off with someone else - the friend of hers she was working with, wasn't it? But then it was all OK because she married her very own doctor :o

Dunno about Margot

Elizaveta's cousin was called Cosimo.

Grizel and Deira were running a books and music business together after Deira had been widowed with one young dd. Grizel met a man and Deira basically pinched him. On the boat on the way way home Grizel met her doctor who coincidentally enough was perfectly qualified to become a San doctor and Grizel was still young enough to have children too.

What nationality was Elisaveta's mother?

What was the name of St Hilda's cat?

What do the Chalet Girls like to do in Berne?

Elisaveta's moter was English.

hmm not sure

The dentist was in Berne - but I'm not sure that they liked going there - Margot especially!

was the cat called Mimi? or was that one of the maids?

Feed syrup to the bears! (Does that really happen?)

More than one cat had the same name at various points - Minette. Do you think Elinor never had any idea what else they might be called.?

I don't think they keep bears in pits anymore for tourists to throw syrup at - I hope not anyway!

I saw the bears in Berne on a school trip - but that was 26 years ago!

But they couldn't remember the German for syrup so didn't they use condensed milk instead? Or was it the other way round?

I think they used the condensed milk instead!

My turn:

What did Grizel ask for and what did she think she asked for when she had her hair shampooed at the hairdressers?

What does SSM stand for?

What did Joey and Juliet dredge up from the lake?

Holy water & hot water. Heiliges wasser & heisses wasser?
Society for the Suppression of Matron (I think).
Don't know what J & J dredged up,though.

Asked for Holy water, thinking she'd asked for hot water.
Society for the Supression of Matron
A artist's model mannequin, with a long wig and clothes on, they thought it was a dead body.

Was the mannequin still & grey, DeWe?

I think the main thing they saw was the hair, I think the mannequin/manequin's face was described as "waxen".

Yes, I guess it would be waxen
Just remembering the number of people who ended up 'still, grey & to all appearances dead' at the end of various chapters.

And being revived by having brandy rubbed on their temples and wrists.....

or by Matron with the smelling salts.

Two people were kidnapped in The Head Girl of the Chalet School. Can you name both of them and describe all members of the immediate rescue party in both cases. (not the bunch of mistresses etc who comes along afterwards)

The Chester/Lucy/Ozanne clan play a big part in the middle and later years. How many can you name - and who amongst them were Head Girls or prefects?

How many San doctors can you name (and which would you have agreed to marry?)

Beth , Barbara Chester

Julie, Betsy Lucy

The ozanne twins - cant remember names

Dr Graves, Dr Courvsour, Dr Matnary, Dr Russel - can't remember Lens boyfriends name.

Reg Entwistle.

That's him.

Oh, Julie Lucy too, I think.

Cornelia was kidnapped, along with the Robin. Is it Jo (as usual) and Grizel who save them? Or does Corney count as rescuing?

Beth, Nancy, Barbara, Judy Chester - Nancy was a prefect with Bride as HG, Beth was probably HG.
Julie and Betsy and Viola Lucy - Julie and Betsy were head girls after each other. Was Vi the games prefect to Mary-Lou?
Nella and Vanna Ozanne - pretty and dim and never prefects - don't think they even reached the Sixth!

Their mothers were Anne Chester, Julie Lucy, can't remember Mrs Ozanne... I think all the fathers began with J? And there were a bunch of boys in the Chester and Lucy families - Barney?

The San - James 'Jem' Russell, Jack Maynard... Dr Peters, Dr Graves, Dr Courvoisier, [insert married name of random mistress here...] Reg Entwistle.

The mother was Elizabeth Ozanne.

Is nobody going to say which doctor they would shag marry?

Jo and Grizel were the rescuing party for the Robin with one other being and then there was another character involved in Cornelia's rescue.

At a push it would be Jack Maynard.