Archive on R4 8pm tonight. Bertrand Russell.

[amateur51]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

I didn't know that Simon smoked

[Chris Newman]

Thank you so much S_A, I love that Harry Enfield sketch, you have made my day and given me a laugh!

Ditto

...hic.......burp......quite right too....

[Serial_Apologist]

I didn't know that Simon smoked

Maybe not.. but I picture him in a bow tie. And tweeds. And flat cap. Pacing red-faced across the Derbyshire moors.

[amateur51]

OK I confess that this is wildly OT but it's been plaguing me for months.

Does anyone recall a woman who came over to England in the early-mid 1950s - in my childhood memory she was often on the radio, sometimes on the telly, walking from Land's End to John O'Groats, that sort of thing - I think she was Russian which was rather exciting in the days of spy-mania. I seem to recall that the Rosenburgs' trial was in the news around the same time and probably much-discussed on Brains Trust - phew! Back on topic

Any offers?

[Anna]

Maybe not.. but I picture him in a bow tie. And tweeds. And flat cap. Pacing red-faced across the Derbyshire moors.

Ah, I can correct you on the sartorial front. From memory of old R3 MBs he confesed he wore rugby shirts, jeans and trainers. At the time, some years ago, I said this was not fitting apparel for someone approaching 40! But he did have his own tankard at the local

[amateur51]

Ah, I can correct you on the sartorial front. From memory of old R3 MBs he confesed he wore rugby shirts, jeans and trainers. At the time, some years ago, I said this was not fitting apparell for someone approaching 40! But he did have his own tankard at the local

I know the type, Anna

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=wom...1t:429,r:9,s:0

[Chris Newman]

OK I confess that this is wildly OT but it's been plaguing me for months.

Does anyone recall a woman who came over to England in the early-mid 1950s - in my childhood memory she was often on the radio, sometimes on the telly, walking from Land's End to John O'Groats, that sort of thing - I think she was Russian which was rather exciting in the days of spy-mania. I seem to recall that the Rosenburgs' trial was in the news around the same time and probably much-discussed on Brains Trust - phew! Back on topic

Any offers?

Dr Barbara Moore?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Moore_(vegetarian)

[amateur51]

Dr Barbara Moore?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Moore_(vegetarian)

Bravo Chris! You've got her in one! Many thanks

[gurnemanz]

I can remember studying the works of Heinrich von Kleist as an undergraduate years ago. We were required to read Kant (in the original German) because he had a "Kant crisis". This task was at the time somewhat beyond me and I was therefore in sympathy with Russell's observation that pre-Kantian philosophers had the big advantage that they did not have to read Kant.