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What connects the answers to 15 Across, 30 Across and 56 Across?

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15 Across: TV programme, 1960-73 and 1987-89, whose presenters were James Cameron, Brian Inglis and Bernard Braden (3,3,10)

30 Across: First of a series of novels by H E Bates featuring the Larkin family (3,7,4,2,3)

56 Across: Play by Noel Coward written in 1939 but not staged until 1942, when it was performed on alternating nights with Present Laughter (4,5,5)
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  • Second one is The Darling Buds of May
    Thanks to all posters and contributers :beer:
  • First one is All Our Yesterdays
    Thanks to all posters and contributers :beer:
  • Third is This Happy Breed

    Now for the connection......
    Thanks to all posters and contributers :beer:
  • Melli
    Melli Posts: 4,602 Forumite
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    edited 11 October 2009 at 8:43PM
    Connection - based on Shakespeare quotations/phrases

    I'll find the links ;)

    All our yesterdays - Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5, line 22
    Darling Buds of May - Sonnet 18
    This Happy Breed - Richard II, act II, scene i

    eta: Wiki link HERE
  • I agree with Melli, was just trying to work out if all the quotes are from the same play but I dont think they are
    Thanks to all posters and contributers :beer:
  • Matryoshka
    Matryoshka Posts: 10,408 Forumite
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    You lot are brainy :j
    SECRET TO WINNING PRIZES ;):
    If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand.
    Thoughts become things!
    What you think about you bring about!
    No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
    Romans 12:15 Be happy with those who are happy :)
  • Matryoshka wrote: »
    You lot are brainy :j

    nah !! google did most of the work, although I did know The Darling Buds of May without looking !!!
    Thanks to all posters and contributers :beer:
  • Melli
    Melli Posts: 4,602 Forumite
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    Matryoshka wrote: »
    You lot are brainy :j

    Thanks Matryoshka but I just love using google :o (I'm a volunteer researcher in the rest of my time ;))
  • Matryoshka
    Matryoshka Posts: 10,408 Forumite
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    Winner: Deborah Gandley, Solihull
    SECRET TO WINNING PRIZES ;):
    If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand.
    Thoughts become things!
    What you think about you bring about!
    No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
    Romans 12:15 Be happy with those who are happy :)
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