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BobbyZ
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« on: 19:15:48, 04-10-2008 »
....tomorrow. Should be interesting.
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #1 on: 20:39:37, 04-10-2008 »
Thanks for info, BobbyZ.     I'll listen with much interest.
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« Reply #2 on: 21:24:14, 04-10-2008 »
thanks for the tip-off, I shall tune in with interest Smiley

Bravo to them for featuring him Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: 13:42:39, 05-10-2008 »
Such a delightful and refreshing 40 mins.   Instant memories of my childhood in the Aberdeen of the 1930s.   The sense of isolation and prejudice was more prevalent than David McV experienced in the 1970s of Glasgow.   I was moved by his remembrances and understood his vulnerability when he started a new production with wide-open arms to all.   Laughed heartily at Tom Waits's rendering of 'Somewhere', yet admired the interpretation in his gravelly voice.   Can anyone out there give me the name of the folk singer who sang a Burns ballad?   I've listened to the recording again and it sounds like Eadie Burney but met with a negative on Google.   Any info on her recordings?   

Thank you again, BobbyZ, for the heads-up and a particular vote of thanks, of course, to David McVicar.  I now feel like the visitor to the Stanley Spencer Museum, at Cookham, who wrote in the Visitors Book:

                   "Lovely - me and you know each other better now."
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« Reply #4 on: 14:08:28, 05-10-2008 »
Glad you enjoyed the programme Stanley. The folk singer is Eddi Reader.

http://www.eddireader.co.uk/
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« Reply #5 on: 14:40:47, 05-10-2008 »
Thrice thanks, BobbyZ!    Smiley       Eddi Reader instead of Eadie Burney!!!    You see...well, er,.....emoticon of two hands fluttering and pressing in a downward  'never mind' gesture!     Shocked
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« Reply #6 on: 23:08:24, 05-10-2008 »
Yes, thank you, BobbyZ! Smiley I would have missed it, if you hadn't mentioned it here.  I like McVicar's productions very much, so I was interested to hear his choices.  I was surprised that he chose so little opera.  Gave me a little shock to find out he's HIV-positive.  I hope he may still have a healthy, long and fruitful career ahead of him.
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« Reply #7 on: 00:53:11, 06-10-2008 »
Quote from: MrY on 23:08:24, 05-10-2008
Yes, thank you, BobbyZ! Smiley I would have missed it, if you hadn't mentioned it here.  I like McVicar's productions very much, so I was interested to hear his choices.  I was surprised that he chose so little opera.  Gave me a little shock to find out he's HIV-positive.  I hope he may still have a healthy, long and fruitful career ahead of him.
No reason he shouldn't. The treatment can be pretty exhausting at times, but most HIV+ gay men in Britain now, as long as they're diagnosed, will be on extremely good medical programmes and are more likely to die with HIV but of something unrelated (although it's true that long-term combination therapy on certain retroviral drugs can increase the risk of heart disease in middle age).
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