Even more random than usual this week, and I sup­pose that’s saying some­thing. The playlist machine is broken so I can’t offer the tex­tual blow-​​by-​​blow, but the audio is still good to go.

A couple of people have men­tioned the Flanders and Swann. Here’s some more info on those wild and crazy guys. The only other back­ground I can offer is that in Peter Ustinov’s auto­bi­og­raphy (or maybe it was Alec Guinness’) he men­tioned that of all his Oxford bud­dies , Flanders and Swann stayed the most like them­selves over the years. Whatever that means. In ret­ro­spect I don’t actu­ally know them from my dad’s vinyl copy of At the Drop of Another Hat. Rather, I grew up lis­tening to a cas­sette tape copy I sup­pose he made to keep me away from the record player. When we were packing up to move houses I was sur­prised to come across the orig­inal vinyl copy, but I don’t know if I ever heard it played. I wonder where it is now. The tracks I’ve been playing came from the internet.

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The new improved player should play out all three hours in sequence, and I figure it’s more intu­itive to skip around using this ver­sion than the old one. Or you can down­load hour 1 2 3.

Leave a com­ment damn you.