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The Man on the Clapham Omnibus L'homme dans le Métro Bus Riders

Just seen this newly released film. Very much liked it - a story within a story that blended genres. Some great acting, particularly by Michael Shannon.

Happy Birthday, Paul!

Spotty Muldoon Lorna Doone Doonesbury

Dead Poets' Society Thomas Rymer Rumer Godden

Watt Tyler Cowboy Roofers Ruth the Gleaner

The Hairy Bikers The Bald Prima Donna

B C Crouch Squattie Roo Squatters

Mick Dumper Hans Joby Shilpa Shetty

Those played a part in my early listening days, too. At a time when there weren't many records around and what we heard came in snippets, I recall that 2 EPs were always being played: one of the Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker ("Walkin' Shoes", "Lullaby of the Leaves", Nights at the Turntable") and Getz with Jimmy Raney ("Hymn to the Orient", etc.)

Uncle Tom Cobbley Hank Mobley The Wobblies

Glad you liked it - if you did! London to Brighton is another in similar genre that I found extremely grim.

I'm not a Dickens fan either, but that was my university Dickens text and certain passages and images, though read more than 50 years ago, have never left me.

"Wildwood" composed and arranged by Gigi Gryce on this:

In the mid-50s when I was in my mid-teens I used to make regular visits to my aunt's home in Cardiff (MG please note ). Her son, who would have been in his 20s, had been into jazz in previous years and the spare room contained a trombone, a wind-up gramophone and a few dozen 78s. The ones that caught my youthful ear were Meade Lux Lewis's "Honky Tonk Train Blues" and Bob Haggart's "The Big Noise from Winnetka". At that stage it was more curiosity than love of the music, which didn't happen till I was 17 in 1957.

Alocis Pepraluger Anna Gramme Michael Palin

Zac Goldsmith Arnold Ziff

Dr Jazz Madame Zzaj Zsa Zsa Gabor

Saw him with the Junior Mance trio in Leeds in the late 60s in a double bill with the George Shearing group which included Red Mitchell. Quite a night for bass players!

Rod the Mod Uri Caine Stix Hooper

Just finished rereading (after 50 years!) Bellow's 600-page picaresque extravaganza. Some vivid episodes, but some longueurs too.

The Magi Maggie May Immanuel Kant

William Wycherley Larry Hagman A B Spellman

Uttah Drivel Ed Balls Hieronymus Cock