I want my girl and I want my pay

[sovay]

For some reason I did not know until tonight that W.H. Auden's "Roman Wall Blues" existed. (Thank Cyril Tawney.) Or that it had been set to music by Benjamin Britten in 1937 as part of a radio play called Hadrian's Wall, of which it is the only surviving part of the score. Or that a recent recording had been briefly available for download free of charge in 2013, which is most certainly not the case anymore.

spatch worked internet magic and got it for me. It's quite good and it does suggest that Britten had just heard Porgy and Bess for the first time.

Anyone with a decent tune for Rosemary Sutcliff's "The Girl I Kissed at Clusium," please feel free to chime in now.

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[isis]

I actually have a copy of the 1977 series that I got a few years back via a network of Eagle fans. It's - kind of ridiculous in ways, but a faithful adaptation (much more so than the movie!) and if you can ignore things like Cottia being far too old, and Esca's silly (but probably more authentic) facial hair, it's really fun.

I am delighted to see it's on Youtube now!

[sovay]

It's - kind of ridiculous in ways, but a faithful adaptation (much more so than the movie!) and if you can ignore things like Cottia being far too old, and Esca's silly (but probably more authentic) facial hair, it's really fun.

I'm looking forward! I expect nothing from the budget.

I am delighted to see it's on Youtube now!

It was definitely not the last time I went looking; I suspect it was not on DVD, either. This is the good part of the internet.