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   Andrew Keener on April 10, 2023 at 9:57 am

   Heard it during my morning shower and breakfast. FANTABULOSA! Relish Douglas Smith as a ….er….cat/gun. And how did Jules and Sand get past the BBC censors??A mere year into the decriminalisation of homosexuality, I wonder if all who laughed uproariously knew exactly what they were laughing at/with. Half and half, maybe? Glorious, affectionate, victimless humour.

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   Edward Clark on April 10, 2023 at 10:02 am

   Totally agree Andrew.
   Those days are gone for ever.
   We are too smart for our own good now.

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   Andrew Keener on April 10, 2023 at 12:40 pm

   Oh, and I wonder how many folk know that Kenneth Horne lived in one of the flats above Sir Malcolm Sargent in Albert Hall Mansions (blue plaque for Sir M., not for KH…why?). In the course of doing research among Sargent’s letters and contracts in the British Library for talks and a Study Day I presented on Sir Malcolm a few years back, I found a rather endearing reference to sharing costs for repairs to the fabric of the building. According to Sargent’s secretary Sylvia Darley (still with us in her 101st year), that was the extent of their social contact, but I’d like to think that these two different personalities might have rubbed along happily enough! Incidentally, Miss Darley’s memoirs are available on the CRQ Editions website, transcribed from conversations with my partner Peter Avis over three visits to her London home. She lived an eventful life even before her career with Sargent, having been a WREN working in decoding during the Second World War. A good read!

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