Sorry I'll Read That Again

This was a great radio show from the 60's and 70's with John Cleese, Graham Garden, Bill Oddie etc. Still makes me laugh today. Wikipedia says - "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (often abbreviated ISIRTA) was a BBC radio comedy programme which originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. It had a devoted youth following, with live recordings being more akin to a rock concert than a comedy show – a tradition which continued right through to the days of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. The pilot programme and Series 1 were broadcast on the BBC Home Service (renamed BBC Radio 4 in September 1967). Series 2–9 were broadcast on the BBC Light Programme (renamed BBC Radio 2 in September 1967). It was first broadcast on 3 April 1964 – the pilot programme having been broadcast on 30 December 1963 under the title "Cambridge Circus" – and the ninth series was transmitted in November and December 1973. An hour-long 25th Anniversary show was broadcast in 1989. It is comically introduced as "full frontal radio". I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, a spinoff panel game show, was first produced in 1972. The title of the show comes from a sentence commonly used by BBC newsreaders following an on-air flub: "I'm sorry, I'll read that again." Having the phrase used to recover from a mistake as the title of the show set the tone for the series as an irreverent and loosely-produced comedy show."

Pilfered Quotes From Decent Coves

"The Christian god – the external personality – has been replaced by the intelligence of the First Cause…the replacement of the old concept of God as all-powerful by a new concept of universal consciousness. The 'tribal god, man-shaped, fiery-faced and tyrannous' is replaced by the 'unconscious will of the Universe' which progressively grows aware of itself and 'ultimately, it is to be hoped, sympathetic'" - Thomas Hardy

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New Collaborative Online Book

Just one of the many collaged pages from a new collaborative bookwork with Norman Conquest of Beuyscouts Of Amerika fame. Get it FREE HERE.

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

If this doesn’t move you someway, somehow, then you are probably an exhibit in the British History Museum. This is Beethoven at his best. This illustrates perfectly what genius really is but also reveals how a talent such as that displayed here by Wilhelm Kempff can best interpret it..
Kempf lived a long life. He was born in 1895 and died in 1991. He was highy regarded for his work on Bach, Liszt and Chopin but it is for his incredible empathatic performances on Beethoven that he is remembered.

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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

Terry Pratchett

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The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C intil 393 A.D, when the games were banned for being a Pagan festival. Then, in 1894, Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a revival of the anceinet tradition and bingo! the modern day Olympic Games were born.
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Fuzzy Old Facts From a Fuzzy Old World

The Olympic flag has a white background with five interlaced rings in the centre. They are blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design symbolises the five continents of the world united by the Olympic ideal. These self same colours are those to be found on all the national flags of the world at the present time.
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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams

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Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walaiewicz) won the women's 100 meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to break the 12 second barrier. After she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a robbery attempt, an autopsy declared her to be a male.

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