BillF

Streaming please.

Marley's Ghost Ghost of Miles The Phantom Fiddler

Jaws Sharkey Bonano Shakey Jake

Boris Badunov Wolf of Badenoch Knocky Parker

Johnny Appleseed Gladys Knight and the Pips The Cookers

Mrs Trellis of North Wales Conway Twitty

The Kraken The Triffids The Chrysalids

Prod Rev Ian Paisley Gerald Scarfe

Nice one, Bev! I have to confess that compulsory Anglo-Saxon did survive as a small element in the first year at Leeds in my time, though it was seen as a laughable chore by almost all students, who couldn't wait to get to nothing-but-Lit in yrs 2 & 3. A tiny handful of geeks opted for Old Icelandic, etc in yrs 2 & 3 while the rest of us got on with everything from Chaucer to Arnold Wesker. The ghastly atmosphere of Oxford colleges which you describe is well captured in C P Snow's novel, The Masters.

Randolph Churchill Rudolf Hess Eric Dolphy

The Man with the Golden Arm Goldfinger Thumbelina

Dee Dee Bridgewater Robert Bridges Les Spann

The Artists Rifles Trigger Alpert Tigger

Too true! I recall reading an obituary a few years ago of an Oxford professor who caused shock and awe around 1960 by moving the English syllabus up to the ultramodern Thomas Hardy (1890s). At the same time I was beginning my English degree at Leeds with Ted Hughes's Lupercal (1960) and the ink was still wet on the page :-). Similar problems happened in Cambridge English studies when the followers of F R Leavis, a 1930s figure, tried in the 1980s to stop Critical Theory, which had swept French and American universities, from entering their domain. So where my subject, English Literature, is concerned, prestige attaching to Oxbridge is completely unmerited IMO.

Bo Hamburger Teddy Bunn Old MacDonald

Michael Winner Top Cat Numero Uno

I could do with some more of that ... http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/coltrane-giant-steps-solo-sung/#05bTARqio7HPhgoA.97 There's no stopping her! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhxHR9t9xY Though I don't know what drinking at Christmas has to do with "Blue Train" :-)

Let Marc Myers take the credit. http://www.jazzwax.com/2016/02/video-evans-and-bennett.html

On the subject of Tony and Bill ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LIW7q_cFeA

Lazy Susan Sue Pyne Eric Idle

Happy Birthday, Vic!

Smokey Robinson The Firehouse Five Steve Waterman

Jan Thor Prikker The Kicker Booty Wood

Bryan Batt Blake Fielder-Civil Stump Evans