“QUOTE ... UNQUOTE”
BROADCAST NEWS
Series 42 (six programmes) will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at lunchtimes
from Wednesday 21 May. The Listen Again
facility should be available at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
. These programmes will be repeated not
within the week (as hitherto) but on Tuesday evenings at 11pm from 22 July.
Taking part will be: MICHAEL ASPEL, PAM AYRES, ALISON BAVERSTOCK, CLIVE
COLEMAN, DAME ANN LESLIE, GWYNETH LEWIS, SUE LIMB, SIR TREVOR McDONALD, KATE MOSSE, JOHN JULIUS
(left to
right) Nigel Rees Pam Ayres Gervase Phinn Sue Limb Sir Trevor McDonald (note halo)
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Series 41 of Quote ... Unquote (six
programmes) has now been broadcast.
Programme details:
41.1 [16.01.08] #405 Mark Billingham,
Francesca Beauman, Ian McMillan, Katharine Whitehorn
41.2 [23.01.08] #406 Stephanie Merritt, Ben Moor, Barry
Norman, Michael Simkins
41.3 [30.01.08] #407 Simon Brett, Jilly
Cooper, Valerie Grove, Michael Winner
41.4 [06.02.08] #408 Mark Billingham,
Francesca Beauman, Ian McMillan, Katharine Whitehorn
41.5 [13.02.08] #409 Stephanie Merritt, Ben Moor, Barry
Norman, Michael Simkins
41.6 [20.02.08] #410 Simon Brett, Jilly
Cooper, Valerie Grove, Michael Winner
The reader was Peter Jefferson and the producer Claire Bartlett.
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WHAT IS THAT SIGNATURE TUNE?
If you have ever asked, ‘What is the QUOTE ... UNQUOTE signature tune?’
and wondered if you could get hold of a copy, there is after all these years,
both good and bad news.
Entitled DUDDLY DELL, written and performed by Dudley Moore, it was the
B-side of his single STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS (Parlophone
45R 4772) in 1961.
For years, when people asked me what it was, I had to tell them the
record was no longer available. But in
April 2002 it was re-released on an album entitled AUTHENTIC DUD, VOL. 2 by Harkit Records (HRKCD 8019). Alas, jubilation was short-lived as this
record has now been withdrawn for legal reasons.
If you are still very keen, I might even be able to let you see the sheet
music.
For the full story, see http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/p0000029.htm
e-mail now: nigel.rees@btinternet.com