Nick Hely Hutchinson @NickHelyHutch Twitter profile

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 months

1/2 Otd 1944. My father was President of the Political Society at his school. In early 1944, he went for the top man, General Dwight Eisenhower, inviting him to address the Society on Monday June 5th (he was very specific about that).

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6 years

@JamesMelville @jessphillips ‘Everything is Remain minus.’ Spot on.

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@NickHelyHutch

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2/2 Less than 2 weeks before the Normandy Landings, he got this reply. ‘Some time in June’ was not in Dad’s letter; and Eton Society notepaper has no address on it. The letter was missing, thought lost, for 50yrs, until unearthed by @ctussaud in a scrapbook!

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

Friend, not on Twitter, has proposed revision of Rule Britannia refrain. Rule Britannia, Britannia waives the rules.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

I draw your attention to this excellent letter by a friend of mine about @E_N_O in today’s @dailytelegraph @spconnolly @mikeirons12

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@NickHelyHutch

6 years

@evolvepolitics @nw_nicholas Her remark was only just audible, which Speaker was happy to repeat with some gusto: looks more like an endorsement than a rebuke to me.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Congratulations to @PennyMordaunt for exceptional grace and dignity in today’s Royal Proclamation as Lord President of the Privy Council.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 years

Measured, persuasive. Worth a listen.

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@starbie99

6 years

now @BBCRadio4 - Michael Morpurgo argues is time to think again on Brexit. "It is surely time to accept that we have made a mistake", he writes, "that whichever way we voted, things are not turning out the way we expected". "Or are we too proud?" he asks.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

4 years

I write this with some trepidation. This Sunday, 14th, at 10.00 a.m., I will be presenting a two hour slot on MeridianFM 107 about classical music, in an aim to debunk a lot of the negatives which surround it. I’d be honoured if you were able to dip in.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

#viewfrommyMSchair right now. I know the piece,Elgar’s Dream of G’s, divides opinion; but I love it, and am just a little excited. @bbcproms @LPOrchestra ,

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@Baddiel When my youngest daughter was learning to drive, her instructor told her to drive straight over the next roundabout. So that’s exactly what she did.

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@NickHelyHutch

3 years

No amateur podcaster could hope for a better endorsement. Thank you very much @spconnolly ! Join the following on

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Yes, I know a lot of you don’t like Elgar’s ‘This is the best of me’ Dream of Gerontius. But it’s on @BBCRadio3 now with an ace line up and @LPOrchestra One of the best proms I’ve ever been to.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

1 year

#viewfrommyMSchair last night. 10 minute standing ovation after blistering, spine-tingling Mahler 2 with @LPOrchestra and chorus. Astonishing, thrilling, music-making.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@TheFastShow1 For the love of God, will somebody, somewhere, please re-run all these series. Character acting at its very best. If it’s not for you, turn it off; but it’s by far the best comedy in recent decades.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

7 years

@terry_winter @Andrew_Adonis True. And if Corbyn had galvanised the youth vote in the referendum in the same way he did in the election, the referendum result may have been v different. Why didn’t he? Because he didn’t believe the stance he was taking, that’s why.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@RolandRudd Everyone, on both sides, wants the whole thing over: that is not the same thing as ‘getting on with it’. Leavers are using this ridiculous line to try and make out they speak for the whole country. On a par with that other daft one ‘will of the people’.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 years

Amidst all the anger and vitriol on Twitter, @GylesB1 is someone who unfailingly lifts the mood. Forgive me for sounding like a sycophant, but thank you.

Gyles Brandreth

@GylesB1

6 years

We all need something to live for...

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@NickHelyHutch

4 years

@IanDunt Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin arse!

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@NickHelyHutch

7 years

@Andrew_Adonis Maybe. But they could have saved themselves the trouble by turning up to vote in the first place.

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@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@JamesMelville

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 months

@bazzdgrogan There was definitely some unease at the time. Quite separately, and unknown to Dad, Eisenhower had been invited by the Provost to celebrate Fourth of June celebrations at the school. There was clearly some concern!

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@TheFastShow1 High time this was either re-run or all series put on @BBCiPlayer

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 years

@DeborahMeaden I don’t often enter the Brexit debate on Twitter. But one thing I have noticed is that anyone trying to remonstrate with @DeborahMeaden is on a hiding to nothing! Her answers are 100% convincing and persuasive.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 months

@TheCriticMag @amwilson_opera At the recent Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia, mobile phones were banned. Special booths were built in which to leave them. The crowd interaction with the live event was markedly different and improved. There’s your proof.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

Can’t equal #TomDaley knitting, but he’s not the first man to multitask. Here’s my 1st x-stitch, done while watching World Cup. Then tapestry – imagine looks on daily commute – MS ended that and piano. Former, a sadness for me; latter, a relief to many.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@FrDidymus @RobertBathurst put it best. “ I will never, in a million years, pass away. I’d rather die first.”

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Rather lovely, on the very day they would have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary, we were able to reunite them by placing my mother‘s ashes alongside those of my father. Thank you @SMBSLondon

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 months

@raymasseytweets It’s one of the great understatements, isn’t it?!

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

7 years

@FrankRGardner @BBCr4today @HeathrowAirport Thank you SO much for airing this, I only ever have trouble in the UK. No other country is so inept. I once stayed on a plane for nearly 2 hrs at Gatwick while 6 staff debated in front of me why it was not their job to get me off. The crew were powerless and embarrassed.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 months

This series, on Sky Arts and Freeview - Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra - is a MUST SEE. It oozes humanity.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

@LPOrchestra

6 months

Taking you through the extremes of human emotion. Introducing Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ symphony🎻

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

4 years

Well said, @StevenIsserlis on @BBCr4today speaking for all musicians here and in Europe. I hope that all governments take note and get this sorted in the interests of so many.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Any chance the @NationalGallery could consider lending this to Downing Street for a few days?

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@KathleenBraithw @sophieheloiset @KathyStMarks One hospital in the southeast has changed the name Maternity Ward to Parenting Ward and has replaced the word ‘breast’ in front of ‘feeding’ to ‘chest’. I didn’t know it could be done anywhere else.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 years

Somebody is trying to shut me up for a few days, but I’m only going to be even more vocal after this lot. ⁦ @mrjamesob ⁩ ⁦ @GylesB1 ⁩ @simonmontefiore ⁦ @NoahHarari ⁩

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

D-Day. As Ch’man of Political Soc’y, Dad wrote to DDE to invite him, quite specifically, to address them on 6/6/44. (Churchill obvious choice, but ruled out for having gone to the other place.) Note the date on this response. A prized treasure.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

This ruling about Care Homes should come as no surprise. @AlisonHoltBBC covered this exact concen on @BBCNews in the summer of 2020, including a very specific reference to the lack of a ring of protection.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Carer this morning, after commenting on the prospect of mild weather today: - I put the horses out naked earlier. Me: - Hope nobody saw you. Took her a moment or two.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@GermanyDiplo There’s a quirky irony in this. When Beethoven conducted the first performance of the piece, his deafness had taken such a hold that he had to be turned to face the adulation behind him.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@mikeirons12 I suspect I will be in a minority of 1. But Brahms.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

4 years

@ProfFeynman @exitthelemming Many years ago I worked as a fund manager. We had a good rule: never invest in a company the activities of which you could not explain to a 12yr old.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@DoubleDownNews @musica_callada I don’t agree with everything he says, but I find myself having an unexpected respect for his logic and quiet tenacity. People have likened him in the past to Arthur Scargill. He is nothing of the sort and will be heard by many more as a result.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@IainDale Yes, and I’ve been aching for the interviewer to intervene with “Thank you, that’s why I asked it”.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Forgive a little immodesty, but silliness comes easily to me. Bottom right hand corner of double page letter spread in today’s ⁦ @spectator ⁩

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@TheSimonEvans My Hungarian grandfather never arrived, not even once, at the breakfast table without being washed, shaved and clothed. He was never seen at breakfast in a dressing gown.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Just had the huge privilege of meeting @emanuelAx before watching him rehearse Brahms 1 with @LPOrchestra and @kcanellakis . If you’re at a loose end tonight, get yourself to the Royal Festival Hall. Amazing.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

#viewfrommyMSchair y’day, 10.30. Ist into the @southbankcentre for annual pilgrimage to St Matthew Passion. Eager anticipation rewarded as always by wonderful, singing and playing. Thank you @davidhconductor and @TheBachChoir

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@SamanthaQuek On June 23 1894, the IOC was founded. Any parent-to-be with Olympic aspirations for their offspring 9 months later can only be thinking of one thing.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

Finding Harpo's Voice - BBC Sounds Lovely, touching insight by ⁦ @StevenIsserlis ⁩. The cutlery prop had me laughing out loud.

Finding Harpo's Voice - BBC Sounds

The cellist Steven Isserlis explores the silence of his idol, Harpo Marx.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

4 years

Ok, a sunset is just a sunset, and I know that lovely ones happen all over the world every night. But I’ve never seen one like this in North Cornwall before yesterday.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@ruth_hartt And, at the risk of sullying the tone,there’s a very good reason the boxes had curtains.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

Now *this* is what I call an honour. To be lifted in my w’chair up these steps to the small chapel at Knole to hear beautiful voices of Coro Spezzato. Featured in @BBCRadio3 Thro the night. Definitely need wider airing @BBCInTune

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

This is worth less than a minute of your time.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Here’s a slightly different approach to FB Friday. The only thing I really hate is excessive ranting on Twitter. So I will follow you if you appreciate the nice things in life, music, art, literature, humour, nature. This is almost an experiment!

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

You know you’re getting on when you notice with some delight that #UniversityChallenge returns tonight.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

#viewfrommyMSchair this evening. Night all.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

10 months

My reading @RochesterCathed recently concluded, “…and saw Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in a manger.“ Doubters of the use of the Oxford comma might consider the scene without its use in those closing words.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

I find the novels of Thomas Hardy relentlessly miserable, but his poetry is something completely different. @BBCRadio4 9.00 today.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

And how lucky we were that you were there! A team effort with a lovely outcome.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

I don’t normally do this. After all, we all have birthdays. But when I saw this this morning, I did wonder ‘will she still need me, will she still feed me?’ Need, after 36yrs, I doubt; feed, I can but hope.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@THemingford Saddening to read, but if you'll allow me some balance, my own experience is different. I have depended on a wheelchair for 20 years and never cease to be comforted and uplifted by the kindness of complete strangers. People are, essentially, good imho.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

⁦⁦ @simonmontefiore ⁩ In #WrittenInHistory , you refer to 2 letters written by Eisenhower before Normandy landings. In his role of President of the Political Society, my father invited him to address them on Monday 5th June. Here is his reply. NB date.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

Going to be a fabulous night. Please do join us. Poems written especially by #AlexanderMcCallSmith , with #FreddiedeTommaso and #MarkStone - and #RoyalBallet .

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

Some solace for self isolation.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@oykumuzik @cuppa_coffee You need to follow @deeplyclassical and @mikeirons12 for starters. That will keep you busy for years.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@spectator Is it too late to have mine re-marked (1976) ?

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

4 years

It’s official. 😱!

107 Meridian FM

@MeridianFM

4 years

Our new Classical show is hitting the airwaves this Sun10 till 12 Ft. #Bach Where sheep may safely graze #mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture #Schubert Impromptu No 3 along w/ some familiar & some new pieces #makeitmeridian #107fm Presented by Nick Hely Hutchinson

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

For those who miss out on tickets, the concert will be live-streamed on the night. It will also be broadcast on Classic FM before Christmas on a date tbc.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

1 year

With special thanks to @spconnolly and @davidmonteith

Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

1 year

I’m one man band marketing team, so need to retweet endorsements like this occasionally. It has helped to put the podcast in the top 2.5% globally. Not a commercial enterprise, a mission. Help me spread the word that classical music is for everyone.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@Adam_Creme @mrjamesob This is just out and out embarrassing. Anybody looking at this in the EU must be laughing uncontrollably. Who honestly believes this tosh? He certainly doesn’t.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

One final mention. The anniversary of my father’s death fell yesterday: such a shame he is not around to share the pleasure this anecdote has given.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Will Grant Shapps be the shortest serving Home Secretary (his immediate predecessor currently holding that ‘distinction’)?

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 months

@vincentadam1969 I don’t think so, no. Nothing ventured…and my father was the most self-effacing man. Chutzpah, maybe, but ‘presumptuous’ suggests, to me, a certain arrogance which none who knew him would recognise.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 months

When decency and integrity were once at the heart of the Conservative Party. My grandfather just after WWII. Front page news is rather different nowadays.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

Somebody has made this ‘naked’ cake for my wife’s big birthday. No eggs. Vanilla and white chocolate. Extraordinary creation!

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

Stop press. Heard at 5.28 this morning – the unmistakable sound of a cuckoo. All is well in the world.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

7 years

@terry_winter @Andrew_Adonis The sad reality is that the lowest age group in the polls was also the lowest turnout. It is time this generation stopped beating itself up about depriving the youth of their future. Just VOTE if you want change, ok?

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 years

@Anna_Soubry Every time this man comes on, he seems to take dimwittery to new levels.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

It’s a bit gloomy out there – how about enlisting a new podcast? at your service…

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@NickHelyHutch

3 months

@PennyMordaunt Whether you agree with her politics or not, this is how to concede with grace and magnanimity. A pity #LizTruss couldn’t do the same.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@StevenIsserlis Many (many!) years ago I was in a tiny shop in Beauchamp Place, London. There was only one couple in there, but one half of it was JC. When your eyes meet with hers, and a smile, too, it’s not something you forget.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@FriseSally @Adrian_Hilton @water_mermaid1 Strongly recommend this book, fascinating insight into its creation, which can only increase your wonder.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

#viewfrommyMSchair right now. I can say with complete confidence that I have never seen a hailstorm like it before.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@spconnolly I have always hated this being presented as some kind of achievement. I can’t imagine my children not being able to roam freely as we did. (And as a wheelchair user, ending ‘freedom of movement’ somehow grates just a little more.)

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@AlStewartOBE @NadineDorries 90% of the country use the BBC according to recent estimates. 98% of the over 50s. I wasn’t aware that London was so over populated.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@Paul_McCreesh @CrossEyedPiano @Voices_Found Yes. Music has its own intrinsic value, first and foremost. Everything else = beneficial extras.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@guywalters When I worked as a waiter at Langan’s Brasserie 45yrs ago, people would frequently ask when booking “Is Peter in tonight?” Just as many changed their minds about coming if the answer was “yes” as those who made a booking. That’s how he was.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 months

That was a new low - didn’t think it possible - for @SuellaBraverman on @BBCr4today . Unbelievable that a barrister can have the brass neck to go on the attack like that while openly admitting not seeing the full video. What a shocker she is.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

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2 years

I’ve just asked my parish priest where he came from. “Nigeria”, was his immediate friendly response. To which I found myself replying, instinctively, – “No, no, I didn’t mean that in a Buckingham Palace way, I meant what was your last Parish?”

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

6 years

Daughter at lunch- ‘Who’s the Irish T-shirt, Dad?’

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 months

@Meliden Yes, as do I! Thank you.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 months

This week’s includes some chamber music by Fauré, piano played by @kathystott and Berceuse played by #ConnieShih and @StevenIsserlis

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@hairygit @gottfriedschmer Rembrandt has that effect, doesn’t he? I’ve done the same in front of this, although only once or twice, since it’s in Amsterdam. The Night Watchman.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

#viewfrommyMSchair now

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@NickHelyHutch

3 years

@ArmandDAngour @mikeirons12 @roseandfriends @profdwh @sloweyres @hairygit @JKAConductor @tomdoorley @RichardBratby @LevParikian @StevenIsserlis Wld be honoured if you cld listen to 1st Ep and comment - frankly!

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

5 years

@BBCPolitics @BBCNewsnight I’m beginning to wonder if the calendar has been unable to move on from April 1st.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

Have instinctively always preferred Brahms’s 2nd piano concerto. But @houghhough has just changed all that. What extraordinary majesty and drama, mingled with the utmost tenderness and lyricism! @BBCRadio3

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

2 years

@StevenIsserlis Interesting what he says about the piano. Reminds me of anecdote about Isaac Stern when someone observed what a lovely sound his fiddle made. IS, lifting it to his ear quizzically, ‘I don’t hear anything’.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

1/10 This is my beautiful mother who died at 21.21 on 1.1.22. A 10 yr old child in 1944 was quite well cushioned in the UK. Mum was 10 in Budapest and witnessed unutterable attrocities.

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Nick Hely Hutchinson

@NickHelyHutch

3 years

The lexicon of football commentary has been enriched last night with an animated new entry. “Déjà vu, all over again!”

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