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Firstly, a word about Dr Sweet’s title. The phrase ‘God save Mrs Mopp and good old Mother Riley’ is a line from the lyrics of a Kinks’ song, ‘The Village Green Preservation Society’, and footage of a live 1973 performance with brass accompaniment was used in the presentation as the basis for an exploration of nostalgia (there are details of the performance in the footnote, if you’d like to break off at this point and watch it for yourself on youtube the song lyrics are printed towards the end of this piece). The characters mentioned in the quote from the song, Mrs Mopp and Mother Riley, are from the ‘It’s That Man Again’ BBC show from the 1940s, and a series of vaudevilleinspired films, respectively, and Dr Sweet’s address goes on to explore the idea of ‘holding things in common’ through the highs and lows of the BBC’s relationship with its audience. Dr Sweet regularly presents The Philosopher’s Arms on Radio 4, and Night Waves on Radio 3, and this address was his usual mix of entertaining thoughtfulness. Sweet presented a humorous series of seemingly disparate anecdotes threaded together around the central theme of nostalgia, but there emerged a unifying undercurrent, namely, the exploration of the importance for people to hold things in common, to identify our values collectively as a society, and Sweet thus raised larger issues about social cohesion and democracy. VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2 SPRING 2015 John O’Brien is a Murray Studentship PhD candidate in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London and holds a Master’s degree in Art History. His research considers Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology in the ceiling paintings of Andrea Pozzo.

‘God save Mrs Mopp and good old Mother Riley’: It’s That Man Again, the Kinks and the English Speaking Vernacular by Dr Matthew Sweet