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R4 7.15 today.

Should have put this in children's but no time to change!

Right I am clearly the only one to have been in love with Mark / William / Dick in Flambards.

Nope - a big fan of Flambards here. Couldn't decide between sensitive, tragic Will, rough and ready Dick or arrogant yet sexy Mark. Lucky old Christina had them all!

I am listening on behlf of dd1 who is out

She's quite an age now, is she not?

That was very interesting, she sounds as though she would be great company, full of interesting chat and not at all full of herself. I had asumed that she was already dead, I read the Flambards series when I was a child and thought it had been written a long time before when, in fact, it must have only been a few years before as Flambards Divided hadn't been published yet.

I liked Flambards but loved Fly-by-Night and The Team. I wantd to be Ruth. Are her books still in print?

I khew she was alive. I think she has a website. I looked at it with dd1. Certainly some books in print and she is writing new ones too.

I must admit I had assumed her to be dead too, how awful. Delighted to hear her alive! Comforting, almost.

I will look them up. Am stockpiling classic children's books for when the girls are old enough to read them.

I used to read lots of horsey books when I was going through my pony mad stage: "Mum can I have a pony? Can we keep it in the back garden? Can we? Mummmmmmm!"

aaargh missed it
am big big fan
patrick pennington and jonathan meredith are mine

ooh no! Patrick Pennington MINE!!

Sad to have missed this on R4

oh i think not
i bet i am older than you and therefore saw him first

Loved Flambardds - both books and TV.

Was lucky to hear her speak and meet and talk to her last autumn at a book fair. She is full of life and interest and very sparky.

Sorry I missed this!

here you go chaps

atarts at 18 mins 43

oh cool, will have a listen thanks FrannyandZ

ahem, but i would be surprised if you saw him first

starts

I just caught the tail-end of this & was gutted. I absolutely adore the tv series & the books. It was shown when I was about 14 & I was obsessed with it. I have the dvds now & sometimes watch it in bed while DH sits downstairs & catches up with The Wire (no, we have nothing in common!)

It's strange how hardly anyone in the tv version did much else after that, on tv anyway.

I wanted to be BE Christina for years. (well mainly I wanted her horses)(or indeed, any horse).

You can buy Flambards on DVD? I must buy it check that out and add it to my Christmas/birthday wish list.

Have just found this, am so sorry to have missed it. I wanted to be Christina sooooooooooooo much. And Will wins hands down, especially for what might have been