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Sorry but I couldn't resist an opportunity for puns galore

But I don't remember "A Handful of Dust" at all. (Guess it could be 25/30 years - surely it's ok to have completely forgotten?)

Now I'll have to read it all over again.

HELLO MINTYY!!!!!!!!!

It's brilliant, Gruach. It's one of the minority of books I was forced to read at school which I've re-read voluntarily since with pleasure, but then I love Evelyn Waugh.

Interesting thought: he died a few years after TA started broadcasting, so could have listened to it, but I'd bet he didn't. I wonder how many novelists nowadays are listeners? Susan Hill wrote for it at one point, I believe - in the 80s?

Oh, and hello, Mintyy!

Hello, I don't know why I never post on these threads ... I lurk all the time .

There was a passable film made of AHOD - Rupert Graves and Kristin Scott Thomas I think. Great novel.

Who else in the village has sussed that Rob's a wrong un? I know there was something happened at the cricket match (missed that episode) but is Helen on her own with her uneasy feelings at the moment?

Charlie, Adam, Ian, Shula, pc plod, Kirsty, grundies, all the other cricket teams they've played so far, stefan (if he is lurking!), alastair(flood) and Jim

That's a reasonable list - anyone else?

It seemed that Tom had his number when he came back but that seems to be forgotten at the moment

He was pretty nasty to Christine when rescuing her from The Stables in the flood, but she was so flustered she probably doesn't remember clearly and may feel it was justified (she was being incredibly annoying).

Fallon may now have an inkling. Kenton knows, because it was Rob who put him on a train to Wales at the end of Tom's stag do.

Fell asleep reading it. Caught a snippet of something on the radio yesterday about how even a three year old might feel nostalgia for the time before the new baby arrived. (Yup.) Later, in a cab, I was forced to listen to Smooth radio and had to try hard not to cry - every song took me right back to being young and hopeful. There was a time when I hoovered up Evelyn Waugh - I was probably my best self then - it's a little painful to go back. But he does slip down easily. And so cruel.

Love the thought of him listening to TA.

Mintyy They couldn't do that to a family that has already lost a son - surely?

(Sorry - slow typing!)

Sorry, off subject a bit, but perhaps Carol is supposed to fill the Marjory Antrobus slot, just a character to bring colour to the rich tapestry that is Ambridge. Ahem, got a bit carried away there.< slightly cynical emoticon>

Big BOOP Point for Lynda's " I've been through the whole pantheon from Albee to Weskar" Looking for the Christmas play FGS!!!!!

I LIKE Carol btw. She probably gets the same BBC abysmal money as the others.

Maybe she will do a Christmas carol with rob as Scrooge (highlighting how bad he is through the scenes mimicking his life), he will be found dead Backstage and it will become a murder mystery that works as a stand alone two hour drama for Boxing Day

That would be good BYOS But I reckon she's going to do Noah's Ark (flood) geddit?

Brilliant ppeat. I was too tired last night to even begin to speculate on what Linda meant.

(What is the musical called? I remember doing it at school.)

Didn't Benjamin Britten do a watery play? Or an opera\choir thing. Bit boring for AMB though IMO.

Hope you're feeling a bit brighter today Gruach I'm sure Lizzie would love a mock ocean set up at LL

Field of Dreams - The Musical. Build it the Village Hall and they will come!
Just think of all the old time characters that SOC can bring back to life as the 'ghosts'.

I guess we're all supposed to wait with bated breath until the big Friday episode reveal of what the Christmas show is going to be. As it's at LL, I was kind of hoping for Fiddler on the Roof (too soon?)

SO happy to hear Charlie back. Did I detect him waiting for Eddie to mention Adam's name in the list of village hall volunteers? So he could immediately jump and offer to carry his hod?

No - I can't see them doing Peter Grimes.

squeaver

And yes.

I thought it was more the 'village pulling together in the face of adversity' that gave Lynda her brainwave, rather than the flood. But I am hopeless at plays so I can't make a good guess. Makes me think of something wartime - blitz spirit and all that. Not very Christmassy though!

Yes thanks Gruach Peter Grimes. NOOOOOOOOO

Whoops there goes my litcred!

Argh I Meant AHOD - even went to the shelf to check as I know I'm in the company of intellectual Olympians on this thread !

Heaven knows what Lynda would make of that slip up!

Peter Grimes! Nooooooo !!!! (A level set text)

Too much implied bumming in Peter Grimes. I was wondering if Lynda might go for Noye's Fludde, though.

You took the words out of my mouth Wordsaremything! About the intellectual company on this thread.

And so did you AbuHmsta About the bumming, it's worse actually, I don't like the kiddy fiddling that seemed to be taken for granted by BB et al.

Also Noyes Fludde, that was the one I was thinking of too.

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Bumming in Grimes?
< off to re read for first time in erm, many decades >

I was thinking of the compulsory implied bumming in most BB operas, rather than the poem.

Noye's Fludde is perfect Lynda-fodder - ostentatiously cultural but written to be performed by amateurs (IIRC).