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Post by rondetto on Jun 5, 2017 17:01:52 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Jun 6, 2017 6:49:05 GMT
Yesterday: Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic musicand musique concrète. She is best known for "creating a howling masterpiece" in her electronic music arrangement of Ron Grainer's written theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Post by aubrey on Jun 6, 2017 6:56:13 GMT
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. With Jess Franco:
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Post by ARENA on Jun 6, 2017 8:02:52 GMT
Billie Honor Whitelaw, CBE (born 6 June 1932) is an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and is regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She is also known for her portrayal of Mrs Baylock, the demonic nanny in The Omen. In 1991, Whitelaw was awarded the CBE. Whitelaw was born in Coventry.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 7, 2017 7:17:45 GMT
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design. He was born in Glasgow and he died in London.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 8, 2017 7:53:45 GMT
Frederick Edgar Dinenage, MBE (born 8 June 1942) is an English television host and newsreader, based in the south of England. Dinenage has appeared as presenter of many British television programmes (most of them produced by Southern Television and its successors TVS and Meridian), such as Tell The Truth, How and its successor How 2, as well as the BBC quiz show Pass The Buck and Gambit.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 9, 2017 7:23:55 GMT
Anoushka Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is a Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar. She is the paternal half-sister of Norah Jones. Shankar was born in London and divided her childhood between London and Delhi.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 10, 2017 7:39:51 GMT
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark 10 June 1921) is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch. A member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
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Post by marispiper on Jun 10, 2017 19:00:12 GMT
I liked Possession (AS Byatt)
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Post by aubrey on Jun 10, 2017 21:27:12 GMT
I liked Possession (AS Byatt) You and me and going to have words. I mean really - what did you like about it? I just found it really annoying and bloodless, a massive pastiche with no heart.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 11, 2017 7:27:45 GMT
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women to have the vote. As a suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette), she took a moderate line, but was a tireless campaigner. She concentrated much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher education and in 1875 co-founded Newnham College, Cambridge. She later became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (the NUWSS), a position she held from 1897 until 1919. In July 1901 she was appointed to lead the British government's commission to South Africa to investigate conditions in the concentration camps that had been created there in the wake of the Second Boer War.
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Post by aubrey on Jun 11, 2017 10:20:08 GMT
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Post by marispiper on Jun 11, 2017 14:28:56 GMT
I liked Possession (AS Byatt) You and me and going to have words. I mean really - what did you like about it? I just found it really annoying and bloodless, a massive pastiche with no heart. 😄 I read it years ago...massive is right! I just love poetry and I recall liking it because of that. It's not on my shelf now (just looked) and I am wondering what happened to it? Maybe I loaned it to somebody as a doorstop 😁😁
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Post by ARENA on Jun 12, 2017 7:02:06 GMT
Reg Presley (born Reginald Maurice Ball, 12 June 1941) is an English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer with prominent 1960s rock and roll band The Troggs, whose best known hit was "Wild Thing", though their only UK number one single was the follow-up "With a Girl Like You". He was born at 17 Belle Vue Road, Andover, Hampshire.
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Post by marispiper on Jun 12, 2017 8:56:50 GMT
" He was born at 17 Belle Vue Road, Andover, Hampshire. "
You don't usually include specifics like this...was he your next door neighbour or something 😆 ?
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