And now the two of them are lost in a screaming battleground

Our erstwhile arranger - melodizer and matchmaker succeeded in brainwashing the couple, from his cantata and motet marriage - the home schooling became an oft-repeated roulade passage which neither party pulls out he unendingly charged.

Rubin Hurricane Carter, who died this week, was a boxer in the United States. He was convicted of a 1966 triple homicide in two trials and became a cause celebre, inspiring Bob Dylan's song Hurricane.

In King Victor and King Charles Browning adopted, and no doubt deliberately, a plain, unfigured and uncoloured style, as suiting both the characters and the historical subject.