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4BR Midweek Quiz: What's the link?

A little brain tickler for a midweek workout to win a brace of great CDs.

SAINT
  Roger Moore has a link to Kenneth Downie and an old football pundit...

Our little midweek workout of the brain cells...

We will be posting regular quiz questions to win prizes over the coming weeks — some harder than others — but all a bit of fun to keep you in a good musical mood at home.

We have two great brass band CDs up for grabs today — both from Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

They come from the great 'History of Brass Band Music' series they made under Elgar Howarth — 'The Early Years' and 'The Modern Era'. Two cracking CDs to get reacquainted with some wonderful music spanning 150 years.

All you have to do is come up with the link between the following... and explain why.

Question:

What's the link between a test-piece by Kenneth Downie, the on-screen partner to Jimmy Greaves in a famous television football punditry programme and a fictional private detective played by actor Roger Moore?

What's the link between a test-piece by Kenneth Downie, the on-screen partner to Jimmy Greaves in a famous television football punditry programme and a fictional private detective played by actor Roger Moore?4BR

Answers:

Answers with explanation to be sent to: quiz@4barsrest.com

Closing date for answers: 12.00 (midnight) on Thursday 9th April.

Monday winner:

Alison Perry, the soprano player with the Watford Band was our Monday CD winner.

Alison worked out that the link between Percy Fletcher, Gilbert Vinter and Edward Gregson to something unfinished by Franz Schubert, the 94th by Haydn and one of the Angel Interceptor pilots in the 1960s television series Captain Scarlet was of the symphony; 'Epic', 'Marches', 'two movements', 'Unfinished', 'Surprise' and the name of one of the interceptor pilots.

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