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The Musicians of Bremen (1974) Artists: Robert Lumley, John Berry

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The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists

This year, the fascinating tale of the skilled artists who brought Ladybird books to life for over three decades was explored at The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. The exhibition featured rare books, original artworks, and artefacts, demonstrating the role of the illustrators for Ladybird. The exhibition also looked into the…

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Art by Michael Whelan

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There have been 82 Doctors at this point!

Keep reading line because the list is so damn long.

Main Continuum

(In order of appearance)

Classic Who

First Doctor (William Hartnell 1963 – 1966, Richard Hurdnall 1983, David Bradley 2017, 2022)

Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton 1966 – 1969)

Third Doctor (John Pertwee 1970 – 1974)

Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker 1974 – 1981)

Fifth Doctor (Peter Davidson 1981 – 1984)

Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker 1984 – 1986)

Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy 1987 – 1989)

Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann 1996 movie)

Nu Who

Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston 2005)

Tenth Doctor (David Tennant 2005 – 2010)

Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith 2010 – 2013)

The War Doctor (John Hurt 2013)

Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi 2013 – 2017)

Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker 2017 – 2022)

Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant 2023)

Fifteenth Doctor (Ncutu Gatwa 2023 - ?)

Pre - Memory Doctors

(Timeless child my beloathed)

Morbius Doctors (Robert Holmes, Graeme Harper, Douglas Camfield, Philip Hinchcliffe, Christopher Baker, Robert Banks Stewart, George Gallaccio and Christopher Barry 1976)

The Other (Sylvester McCoy, 1990)

The Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin 2020)

The Timeless Child(ren) (TBA, Grace Nettle, Leo Tang, Jac Jones, TBA, Jesse Deyi 2020)

Brendan (Evan McCabe 2020)

Possible Future Doctors

(italicized parts of names are the title of that Doctor's first appearance, if I can't find a better name)

Father of Time (No Actor, 1987)

"Merlin" or The Battlefield Doctor (No actor, 1991)

The Army of Shadows Doctor (No actor, 1991)

"Fred" (No actor, 1993)

The Relic (no actor 1997, 2002)

The Storytelling Doctor (Tom Baker 1999)

The Web of Caves Future Doctor (Mark Gatiss, 1999)

The Blue Angel Future Doctor (No Actor, 1999)

The Curator 1 (Tom Baker, 2013)

The Curator 2 (Collin Baker, 2022)

Pseudo-Doctors

The Watcher (Adrian Gibbs 1981)

The Valyard (Michael Jayston 1986)

The Obverse Eight Doctor (No actor, 1999)

The Metacrisis Doctor (David Tennant 2008)

The DoctorDonna (Catherine Tait 2008)

The Dream Lord (Tony Jones 2010)

The Ganger Doctor (Matt Smith 2011)

The Spriggan (David Tennant 2022)

Alternate Realities

Dalek Films

Dr. Who (Peter Cushing 1965, 1966)

The Inferno Universe

The Leader (Jack Kine, 1970)

Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday

The Doctor (Trevor Martin 1974)

Previous Doctor (Nocholas Briggs 2008)

The Lenny Henry Show

The Seventh Doctor (Lenny Henry 1986)

What If?

The Eighth Doctor (No actor, 1997)

The Infinity Doctors

The Infinity Doctor (No actor, 1998)

The Curse of Fatal Death

The Doctor (Rowan Atkinsen 1999)

The Quite Handsom Doctor (Richard E Grant 1999)

The Shy Doctor (Jim Briadbent 1999)

The Handsom Doctor (Hugh Grant 1999)

The Female Doctor (Joanna Lumley 1999)

The Chronicles of Doctor Who?

The Doctor (no actor, 2000)

Klein's Story

Johann Schmidt (Paul McGann, 2010)

Father Time

The Emperor (No actor, 2001)

Scream of the Shalka

The 9th Doctor (Richard E Grant 2003)

Doctor Who Unbound

The Doctor (Geoffrey Bayldon 2003)

The Unbound Doctor (David Warner 2003)

The Heartless Doctor (David Collings 2003)

The New Heartless Doctor (Ian Brooker 2003)

Martin Bannister (Derek Jacobi 2003)

The Victorious Valyard (Michael Jayston 2003)

The Previous Doctor (Nicholas Briggs 2003)

The Exile Doctor (Arabella Weir 2003)

The Warrior (Collin Baker 2022)

Gallifrey - Disassembled

Lord Burner (Collin Baker 2011)

Gallifrey - Regenerators

Commentater Theta Sigma (Collin Baker, 2011)

False Negative

The Doctor (No actor, 2017)

The People Made of Smoke

The Sixth Doctor (Dan Starkey, 2020)

Unspecified Doctors

Yeah sometimes they just say "The Doctor" and don't bother specifying...

The Cabinet of Light Doctor (No Actor, 2003)

The Dalek Factor Doctor (No actor, 2004)

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 Baronet -> Coal-miners -> Royalty  

“A time may yet come, perchance, when a descendant of one of these simple artizans may arise, not unworthy of the Conyers' ancient renown; and it will be a gratifying discovery to some future genealogist, when he succeeds in tracing in the quarterings of such a descendant the unsullied bearing of Conyers of Durham." Sir Bernard Burke, 1861.

In 1861 the genealogist and publisher of Burke’s Peerage Sir Bernard Burke, in his book "Vicissitudes of Families", dedicated a chapter to the “The Fall of Conyers" which concludes with the following: "Magni stat nominis umbra! The poor Baronet left three daughters, married in very humble life: Jane, to William Hardy; Elizabeth, to Joseph Hutchinson; and Dorothy, to Joseph Barker, all working men in the little town of Chester-le-Street. A time may yet come, perchance, when a descendant of one of these simple artizans may arise, not unworthy of the Conyers' ancient renown; and it will be a gratifying discovery to some future genealogist, when he succeeds in tracing in the quarterings of such a descendant the unsullied bearing of Conyers of Durham."

Sir Thomas Conyers, was the 9th and last Baronet Conyers of Horden Hall. While a gentleman at birth, he was reduced to poverty and resided at the Durham Workhouse. His pride made him reject financial aid from his distant relatives, among them his second cousin Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, whose funeral he attended at Westminster Abbey in 1800. At the time she was one of the wealthiest women in England and is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, the late Queen Mother.

His later years were made somewhat more comfortable at the aid of another distant cousin, George Lumley-Saunderson, the 5th Earl of Scarborough who provided him with a small house. Sir Thomas died a pauper on 15 April 1810. His surviving children, three daughters had married working men in the little town of Chester-le-Street, County Durham. As if from a Thomas Hardy novel, his daughter Jane married a man named William Hardy. 

For five generations Sir Thomas Conyers descendants would work as labourers, and often in coal mines once owned by distant ancestors and now owned by the Bowes-Lyon family. By the sixth generation his descendant Robert Harrison, a carpenter left his family still working in the coal mines to seek opportunities in London. There he married and had a daughter, Dorothy who married a builder named Ronald Goldsmith. 

The early years of Dorothy and Ronald’s marriage and their children's upbringing were spent in a comfortable council house, providing the security needed to buy their own home. Their daughter, Carole, became a flight attendant and married a young flight dispatcher, Michael. They settled in Berkshire and spent a few years in Jordan, working for British Airways, before returning to Berkshire, where Carole started her own business at her kitchen table. 

Almost ten generations and 201 years after Sir Thomas Conyers died a pauper, his descendant Catherine Middleton married Prince William of Wales on 29 April 2011. 

Family Line 

Sir Thomas Conyers 9th Bt. Conyers of Horden (drawing) m. Isabel Lambton

Jane Conyers of Chester Le Street, County Durham m. William Hardy of

Jane Hardy of Biddick, County Durham m. James Liddell

Anthony Liddell of Little Lumley, County Durham m. Martha Stephenson 

Jane Liddell (photo) m. John Harrison 

John Harrison (photo) m. Jane Hill

Robert Harrison (photo) m. Elizabeth Temple 

Dorothy Harrison (photo) m. Ronald Goldsmith 

Carole Goldsmith m. Michael Middleton 

Catherine Middleton m. Prince William of Wales

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The Scottish actor David McCallum was born on 19th September 1933.

Born as David Keith McCallum, Jr in Maryhill, Glasgow, the second of two sons of Dorothy Dorman, a cellist, and orchestral violinist David McCallum Sr. When he was three, his family moved to London for his father to play as concertmaster in the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in the Second World War, he was evacuated back to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at Gartocharn by Loch Lomond.

McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys’ independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a career in music, he played the oboe.In 1946 he began doing boy voices for the BBC radio repertory company. Also involved in local amateur drama, at age 17, he appeared as Oberon in an open-air production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Play and Pageant Union. He left school at age 18 and was conscripted, joining the 3rd Battalion the Middlesex Regiment, which was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force.In March 1954 he was promoted to Lieutenant. After leaving the army he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (also in London), where Joan Collins was a classmate.

David McCallum’s acting career has spanned six decades; however, these days he is best known for his starring role on the police procedural NCIS as medical examiner as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard. I first really remember McCallum for his role in another US show, The Invisible Man which ran for 13 episodes in the 70’s. McCallum by then was a veteran of many TV and Film roles, starting in the 50’s including Our Mutual Friend and The Eustace Diamonds, in the 60’s he was in several ITV Playhouse shows before moving across the Atlantic to take roles in The Outer Limits and his big break as Illya Kuryakin in several incantations of The Man from Uncle.

His most notable films were The Greatest Story Ever Told as Judas Iscariot and of course Ashley-Pitt ‘Dispersal’ in The Great Escape.

As well as the aforementioned Invisible Man in the 70’s he took time to pop back over to our shores to star in two quality series, as Flt. Lt. Simon Carter in Colditz and Alan Breck Stewart in an adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s, Kidnapped.

The 80’s saw him team up with the lovely Joanna Lumley in Sapphire & Steel and several guest roles in the likes of The A Team, Hart to Hart and Murder, She Wrote as well as a one off reprise of Illya in the TV movie The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair.

The 90’s saw David in Cluedo and Trainer on our TV screens over here and American science-fiction series VR-5 in the states..

During the last 20 years or so he has been in the kids TV show, Ben 10: Omniverse as the voice of Professor Paradox and of course Donald Horatio “Ducky” Mallard in a remarkable  436 episodes of the popular NCIS.

David has been married twice. He married his first wife Jill Ireland in 1957. They met on the set of the movie Hell Drivers. Together, they had two sons and a daughter, Paul, Jason and Valentine, with Jason being the only one who was adopted. In 1963, David introduced Jill to his co-star on The Great Escape, Charles Bronson, and she left David and married Charles in 1968. In 1967,

David McCallum passed away aged 90 on September 23rd last year, he is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katherine McCallum, his sons Paul McCallum, Valentine McCallum and Peter McCallum, his daughter Sophie McCallum and his eight grandchildren. NCIS paid tribute to him in an episode called The Stories We Leave Behind when the tagents find comfort in working on one of his unfinished cases. The episode features clips from several old shows.

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List of Cthulhu Mythos books

Many fictional works of arcane literature appear in H. P. Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The main literary purpose of these works is to explain how characters within the tales come by occult or esoterica (knowledge that is unknown to the general populace). However, in some cases the works themselves serve as an important plot device. Thus, in Robert Bloch's tale "The Shambler from the Stars", a weird fiction writer seals his doom by casting a spell from the arcane book De Vermis Mysteriis. Another purpose of these tomes was to give members of the Lovecraft Circle a means to pay homage to one another. Consequently, Clark Ashton Smith used Lovecraft's Necronomicon (his most prominent creation) in Smith's tale "Ubbo-Sathla". Likewise, Lovecraft used Robert E. Howard's Nameless Cults in his tale "Out of the Aeons". Thereafter, these texts and others appear in the works of numerous other Mythos authors (some of whom have added their own grimoires to the literary arcana), including August Derleth, Lin Carter, Brian Lumley, Jonathan L. Howard, and Ramsey Campbell.

list-List of Cthulhu Mythos books - Wikipedia

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Found a programme for the London production of Rebecca das Musical on ebay, so I got it scanned in case someone would like to see. All 30 pages are attached below. It doesn't have a lot of photos, but it has full cast and song lists which I haven't seen anywhere else. Feel free to inbox me for a PDF copy that's easier to read. Enjoy!

Ich/I - Lauren Jones

Maxim de Winter - Richard Carson

Mrs. Danvers - Kara Lane

Mrs. van Hopper - Shirley Jameson

Beatrice - Sarah Harlington

Giles - Neil Moors

Frank Crawley - Piers Bate

Clarice - Emily Apps

Frith - Nigel-Joseph Francis

Jack Favell - Alex James-Ward

Ben - David Breeds

Colonel Julyan - Nicholas Lumley

Ensemble: Melanie Bright (u/s Mrs. Danvers), Rosie Glossop, Gail Mackinnon, James Mateo-Salt, Scott McClure, Tarisha Rommick, Elliot Swann

Directed by Alejandro Bonatto

Conducted by Robert Scott

Choreography by Ron Howell

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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks....

I don't mind at all! You've opened up quite a can of worms, my friend.

Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender) I love Katara because she's a wonderfully complex character. She's kind and compassionate but she's also stubborn and has quite a temper. She gets pushed into being a mother figure, first for her brother and then for an entire crew of kids. I relate to her frustration with being forced to take that on way too young.

Carmen Sandiego (Carmen Sandiego 2019) Another beautifully rounded character. I love her poise and confidence, and also that we get to see her vulnerable side. I really love her journey in understanding that the way she was raised, everything she was taught wasn't what she thought it was. I relate super hard to her being raised to do something and deciding that no, actually, she didn't want to do what her parental figures decided she ought to do. Also the one heist set to the Four Swans dance totally confirmed my thoughts that ballet training makes a great thief.

Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) Oh where do I even start? He's a fantastic depiction of someone who endured terrible child abuse, and even years after leaving the situation it still affects him and his self-image. His journey of unlearning his father's abuse and indoctrination gets me every time. He's a compassionate person by nature, but was taught that he had to be cruel and angry to be taken seriously, and was always considered second best. I guess I have a soft spot for self-deprecating characters with loads of trauma 😂

Agent Twilight a.k.a Loid Forger (SPY X FAMILY) A highly skilled superspy who's also a chronic overthinker. Beneath the whole "for the mission" excuse, he is a genuinely kind character who has been through hell and back. And as for why I love him? Well, see my point above 😂

Yor Briar Forger a.k.a Thorn Princess (Spy x Family) Another girl pushed into being a parental figure much too young. I love her so much and my heart just aches at the way she sacrificed her childhood so that her brother would have one, and also at how she doesn't know much outside of what she was trained to do.

Suwa Rei (Buddy Daddies) Another assassin trained from a young age, and with a family life that severely traumatized him. I'm starting to notice a pattern in my favorite characters 😭

Flavia de Luce (The Flavia de Luce series by Allan Bradshaw) A precocious chemist and detective with a habit of sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. I love getting to see girls with a curious and analytical mindset in fiction, and also more girls in STEM, whether fictional or real-life.

Penelope Lumley (The Incorrigible Children series by Maryrose Wood) A down-to-earth and level-headed girl who finds herself in charge of three rambunctious children and in the midst of several mysteries. She's kind and firm with a tendency towards optimism that's very refreshing.

Hercule Poirot (from the books by Agatha Christie) A gentleman and a detective who isn't a misogynistic asshole. What's not to love?

Serafina (The Serafina series by Robert Beatty) A fierce and stubborn girl who takes it upon herself to protect those she considers family. She's also a catamount, a shapeshifter who can turn into a mountain lion. I adore her fierceness and dedication, as well as her ability to be stealthy.

Well there you have, it my top 10 favorite characters of all time! They reveal quite a lot about me if you read between the lines 😳

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Robert Lumley

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Birthdays 5.1

Beer Birthdays

Jacob Best (1786)

Frederick H. Krug (1870)

Robert Malcolm "Mac" MacTarnahan (1915)

Charles McCabe (1915-May 1, 1983)

Kyle Manigold (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Scott Carpenter; astronaut (1925)

Joseph Heller; writer (1923)

Mary "Mother" Jones; labor leader (1830)

Terry Southern; writer (1924)

John Woo; Hong Kong film director (1946)

Famous Birthdays

Joseph Addison; English writer (1672)

Wes Anderson; film director (1969)

Glen Ballard; songwriter (1953)

Julie Benz; actor (1972)

Jules Breton; French artist (1827)

Judy Collins; folk singer (1939)

Rita Coolidge; pop singer (1945)

Marie Corelli; English writer (1855)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; philosopher (1881)

Art Fleming; television game show host (1924)

Phil Foglio; comic book artist (1956)

Glenn Ford; actor (1916)

George Inness; artist (1825)

Calamity Jane; frontiersman (1852)

King Kamehameha; king of Hawaii (1738)

Morris Kline; mathematician (1908)

Joanna Lumley; actor, writer, model (1946)

Sally Mann; photographer (1951)

Tim McGraw; country singer (1967)

Jack Paar; comedian, television talk show host (1918)

Ray Parker Jr.; singer (1954)

Kate Smith; singer (1907)

Little Walter; blues singer (1930)

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; politician, soldier (1769)

D'Arcy Wretzky; rock bassist (1968)

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Judith Krantz’s Mistral’s Daughter -  CBS  -  September 24, 1984 - October 1, 1984

Drama Miniseries (8 episodes)

Running Time:  390 minutes total

Stars:

Stefanie Powers as Magali 'Maggy' Lunel

Lee Remick as Katherine 'Kate' Browning

Stacy Keach as Julien Mistral

Robert Urich as Jason Darcy

Timothy Dalton as Perry Kilkullen

Stéphane Audran as Paula Deslandes

Ian Richardson as Adrien Avigdor

Stephanie Dunnam as Theodora 'Teddy' Lunel

Cotter Smith as Melvin 'Falk' Allenberg

Pierre Malet as Eric Avigdor

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Fauve Mistral

Co-starring

Alexandra Stewart as Mary Jane Kilkullen

Joanna Lumley as Lally Longbridge

Caroline Langrishe as Nadine

Jonathan Hyde as Philippe, Nadine's husband

Angela Thorne as Nanny Butterfield

Wolf Kahler as Major Schmidt

Michael Gough as Cardinal

Françoise Brion as Patricia Falkland

Shane Rimmer as Harry Klein

Victor Spinetti as Alberto Bianchi

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I've been a fan of David McCallum for about 50 years. I wasn't born when he co-starred in The Man from UNCLE but he seemed to be everywhere in the 1970s. He starred in an underrated spy series based upon The Invisible Man, made an appearance in an early episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, and in the late 1970s he co-starred with Joanna Lumley in Sapphire and Steel - which was doing The X-FIles a decade before the X-Files, only with two time lord-like characters instead of Mulder and Scully.

And then, of course, at a time when most people have entered quiet retirement, McCallum created another television icon, "Ducky" in the original NCIS series. (I appreciate that both David and his UNCLE co-star Robert Vaughn, who co-starred in the BBC series Hustle, were able to find great TV roles late in life.)

David McCallum will be missed.

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Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, Joanna Lumley, Cristin Milioti, Christine Ebersole, Shea Whigham. Screenplay: Terence Winter, based on a book by Jordan Belfort. Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto. Production design: Bob Shaw. Film editing: Thelma Schoonmaker. 

Leonardo DiCaprio has replaced Robert De Niro as Martin Scorsese's go-to leading man, but he has yet to make his Raging Bull (1980) or Taxi Driver (1976), which many people -- including me -- think of as the peak achievements of both Scorsese and De Niro. But The Wolf of Wall Street comes close to being DiCaprio's GoodFellas (1990). Both movies are based on true stories that illuminate the dark side of American experience: In the case of GoodFellas, the mob, and for Wolf, the unholy pursuit of wealth in the stock market. Both are in large part black comedies, full of sex and drugs, and both end in an inevitable downfall. And both have been criticized for excessively glamorizing the lifestyles of their protagonists. Terence Winter's adaptation of the memoir of Wall Street fraudster Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio) spares no excess in depicting a life corrupted by unchecked greed, and yet neither Winter nor Scorsese seems able to put the course of Belfort's corruption into plausible shape, the way Scorsese and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi made Henry Hill's rise and fall plausible in GoodFellas. It's a flamboyant film, with entertaining and sometimes frightening performances by DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Bernthal, and Jean Dujardin, but the film often seems to be carried away with its own determination to get away with as much outrageous behavior and language as possible. I would have welcomed a little less Jordan Belfort and a little more Patrick Denham (Kyle Chandler), who was based on Gregory Coleman, the FBI agent who finally managed to bring Belfort down. But as in GoodFellas, the emphasis is less on the law than on the disorder.

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Jamie is eagerly describing this book he’s reading. He’s not that big into sci fi unless it’s space horror, but he’s been sucked in.

The way he’s talking about it makes it sound like a mix of Brian Lumley, Bentley Little, Adam Nevill, Robert R McCammon, and with what sounds like a hint of Douglas Adams and that one sci fi story about the human equivalent of ants getting infected with that mold that turns them into zombies.

Yeah, I’ll have to check it out later.