Anybody listening to the play currently on radio 4?

No!

There isn't a play on Radio 4 - It is the "Today" show

You are not confusing fiction with real life are you? Real life is far more weird.

"Reality is not a concept I feel I have the energy to discuss but it was definitely as real as the Today program:

Unseen Austen

It had Lydia Bennet taking over P & P during quite scenes that the readers don't see. It even had "book jumping" ( and pirates) (no cake) the only thing that was missing was Jurisfiction agents. Though had there been any, of course, Lydia would have been kept in place and the whole play would have been a non-starter.

Curiously it was written by a women with the initials JF, I forget the details.

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By Judith French.
Impertinent young Lydia Bennet discovers that it is her sister Elizabeth who is the heroine of Pride and Prejudice and that her own love life is all offstage. She sets about putting matters right.

Pictures appear in my mind (TMreg'd) of travelling through the countryside in a coach and whenever there is a stop to rest the horses there is a serious amount of hey-diddle-diddle occurring on the road verges. this then merges with a theatre where all the action is in the stalls, which quite disturbs the horses (and Lady Astor).

Rumour has it that Lady Astor always up for a bit of hey-diddle-diddle on the verges, Lord Astor is popping in for scones ( though we normally give him scons because that is what he asks for) this afternoon, do you think it would be impolite to ask him?

No.

Took your advice, have since detected poison in my coffee so suspect you may have been wrong......

ah, that would be the difference between rudeness and suicide then.

Social suicide certainly. Lord A was orf in a right huff - didn't even pause at the offer of Battenburg.

Off in a right huff - is that like an early model Ford?

Thought that was a fliver...
Or was it flivver?

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Flivver seems to resonate, although it might have been in a Star Trek book and then not count.

Isn't flivver that bouncy stuff from the Disney film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?***

Or the rabbit in Watership Down?






***I know, I know

Wasn't it flubber in the Disney film, and fiver in Watership Down.

If anyone has a few spare fivers i'll take them, or tenners ....

Never saw the film, but I'm betting on you there CR! I believe it was one Robin Williams in that film. I remember I was young enough to actually want to see it, but I saw George of the Jungle instead.

Flubber was from the film 'Flubber' with Robin Williams. There is no knowledge here in the memory store on 'Watership Down'. It was exiled from memory due to sadness.

Edited to add:
flivver: @#$%& car or airplane
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2008 10:25AM by EgonSpengler.

If we are going to be pickky, Flubber was from the Film "The Absent-Minded Professor" and was re-made for you children as "Flubber". Much as I like some of Robin Williams' work, he is nowhere near as good as Fred MacMurray.