Culture
On different days, experts would talk about their specialties, particularly in relation to Argonauts' contributions:
- Monday: Alan Colefax ("Tom the Naturalist") on nature and wildlife
- Tuesday: Albert Collins then Jeffrey Smart as "Phidias" on art and painting
- Wednesday: A. D. Hope ("Antony Inkwell") or Leslie Luscombe ("Argus") or John Gunn ("Icarus") on writing and literature
- Thursday: Lindley Evans ("Mr Melody Man"), introduced by a few bars of Anatoly Lyadov's The Music Box, played and spoke on music performance and composition.
- Guests on his segment included basso Alexander Kipnis, oboist Léon Goossens, singer Joan Hammond, Geoffrey Parsons, conductor Richard Bonynge, French horn virtuoso Barry Tuckwell, Patricia "Paddy" Tuckwell (violinist, model, sister of Barry) and conductor composer Malcolm Williamson. Several of these were Argonauts in their younger days.
- Friday was The Argosy, entirely devoted to members' contributions selected from the many thousands that might have arrived in the previous month, usually on a particular theme.
- Saturday featured Argonaut Charades when the three-syllable word and the skits leading to its solution were outlined by club members and played by professional actors
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“What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)