Yes, I’m smack in the middle of that cohort, and it’s not so much that I think FM are bad, more that I have the received impression that they’re a bit naff (or perhaps, rather, that they should be filed alongside other naff music from my youth).

A jig?!

Congratulations & thank you!
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I’m old, so I had to retrospectively reconfigure all my memories of university in order to align with the plot of the book.

Thanks. “Engineer” is a pretty old word, with perhaps more range of meanings back then than now. Eg. in Hamlet: “to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.”
“Architect” would actually be a very good alternative here, but the whole play rests on the main character being an architect!

Here’s another Baim page that has a script that does include the Shakespeare scenes, so I’m not sure why they don’t feature among the stills

bw.baimfilms.com/the-collecti...

Oh, yes, I like that!

It’s odd there’s no stills from the Hamlet on that page (or from a later sequence of a soliloquy of Juliet’s); both do seem somewhat shoehorned in.

I came across John Byron, as playing Hamlet in Stratford in 44, but found this (which doesn’t look like our Hamlet, but maybe uncertain if it’s the same person)

hi-in.facebook.com/BBCRadio4/ph...

and this

moviedude.co.uk/1Actors%20Pa...

Yes, looking at his records on Theatricala he must be too early. But the clip may predate 1944 somewhat, as it feels rather different in film quality etc, to the rest of the travelogue in the film.

And extra innings … ⚾️

Well, “Forget that I’m fifty / Cause you just got paid” feels a whole lot different now than it did when I first listened as a teenager in the eighties!