Who was the dude in 'Diana and the Golden Apples'?

[Oakie]

Help required from the over 40s please.
For reasons that I won't bore you with, my wife and I are trying to remember the name of a guy. Back in the 60's when they had children's request shows on the radio there was a story called 'Diana and the Golden Apples'. Can't remember the whole story but Diana had a race with some dude and he kept putting golden apples in her path which she bent down to pick up, slowed down and lost the race. Anyone remember his name? I think he was a huntsman and I'm sure his name started with a 'D' ... and was something like d'Artagnan (of 'The Three Musketeers' but obviously not because that's about 2000 years later).

I've done a Google search and looked at a book of mythological figures to no avail. Please help me out with this so I'm not thinking about it instead of what's going on around me when we hit the road later on today.

Cheers

[scumdog]

Help required from the over 40s please.
For reasons that I won't bore you with, my wife and I are trying to remember the name of a guy. Back in the 60's when they had children's request shows on the radio there was a story called 'Diana and the Golden Apples'. Can't remember the whole story but Diana had a race with some dude and he kept putting golden apples in her path which she bent down to pick up, slowed down and lost the race. Anyone remember his name? I think he was a huntsman and I'm sure his name started with a 'D' ... and was something like d'Artagnan (of 'The Three Musketeers' but obviously not because that's about 2000 years later).

I've done a Google search and looked at a book of mythological figures to no avail. Please help me out with this so I'm not thinking about it instead of what's going on around me when we hit the road later on today.

Cheers

Can't vouch for the spelling but it sounded like 'Malanion" or similar.

[RiderInBlack]

This is why you were having fun finding him, read these links:

Hippomenes (also known as Melanion) knew that he could not win a race with Atalanta, so ... (from http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/A/At/Atalanta.htm)

Atalanta: (http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0805154) Princess who challenged her suitors to a foot race; Hippomenes won race and married her. (from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197622.html ).

Hippomenes: (http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0476654) Husband of Atalanta, whom he beat in race by dropping golden apples, which she stopped to pick up. (from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197622.html (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197622.html) ).

<DT>Atalanta, who was exceeding fleet, contended with Hippomenes in the course, on condition that if Hippomenes won, he should espouse her, or forfeit his life if he lost. The match was very unequal, for Atalanta had conquered numbers, to their destruction. Hippomenes, therefore, had recourse to stratagem. He procured three golden apples, and purposely carried them with him: they started; Atalanta outstripped him soon; then Hippomenes bowled one of his apples before her, across the course, in order not only to make her stoop, but to draw her out of the path. She, prompted by female curiosity, and the beauty of the golden fruit, starts from the course to take up the apple. Hippomenes, in the mean time, holds on his way, and steps before her; but she, by her natural swiftness, soon fetches up her lost ground, and leaves him again behind. Hippomenes, however, by rightly timing his second and third throw, at length won the race, not by his swiftness, but his cunning. (from http://www.mindmagi.demon.co.uk/Bacon/Works/wisdom/Atalanta.htm[/url] ).
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Atalanta: Princess who challenged her suitors to a foot race; Hippomenes won race and married her. (from http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~quizbowl/myth.htm).
Hippomenes: Husband of Atalanta, whom he beat in race by dropping golden apples, which she stopped to pick up. (from http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~quizbowl/myth.htm).

Just another link re: the Radio story:
[url="http://www.radionz.co.nz/index.php?nav=1&section=rr_cat&id=children"]Radio New Zealand (http://www.mindmagi.demon.co.uk/Bacon/reference/myth.htm)
... A double value double cassette of 90 minutes of stories and songs including
Diana and the Golden Apple, Sparky and the Talking Train, Little Toot, ...

[RiderInBlack]

Atalanta, left exposed at birth by a cruel king who wants only sons, is rescued by Diana, the Goddess of the Hunt. Raised by the goddess and Crona, a she-bear, the girl is happy in the forest until a young man, Hippomenes, thinks she is in danger and kills her foster brother, Obrin, a bear and son of Crona. At this, Atalanta conceives a hatred for the human race, which she brings with her when she is returned to her father. When he insists that she marry, she counters that she will only wed a man swift enough to outrun her. Hippomenes will risk everything to win her love, and receives help from Venus to do so. (from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803702485/104-9468674-3511123?v=glance).

Wait there's more:
Atalanta: Atalanta was a heroine who was exposed at birth and nursed by a bear before being brought up by hunters. When her father wished to marry her away, she promised to marry the man who could defeat her in a foot-race. After several young men were defeated and put to death, Hippomenes (or Melanion) was victorious in the test, having dropped some golden apples on the track, which Atalanta stopped to pick up. These married, and spent part of their honeymoon "frolicking" in Jove's temple, and for their impiety were changed into lions. (from http://www.ha.sad22.us/BenJohnson/certmyth.html)

[Oakie]

Cheers guys ... now I can sleep tonight.

[curious george]

Cheers guys ... now I can sleep tonight.
Was that conditional on the question being answered correctly? :msn-wink:

[Skyryder]

Cheers guys ... now I can sleep tonight.


Oh so you lost.

Skyryder

[boy_dreamer]

Help required from the over 40s please.
For reasons that I won't bore you with, my wife and I are trying to remember the name of a guy. Back in the 60's when they had children's request shows on the radio there was a story called 'Diana and the Golden Apples'. Can't remember the whole story but Diana had a race with some dude and he kept putting golden apples in her path which she bent down to pick up, slowed down and lost the race. Anyone remember his name? I think he was a huntsman and I'm sure his name started with a 'D' ... and was something like d'Artagnan (of 'The Three Musketeers' but obviously not because that's about 2000 years later).

I've done a Google search and looked at a book of mythological figures to no avail. Please help me out with this so I'm not thinking about it instead of what's going on around me when we hit the road later on today.

Cheers

THE DUDES NAME WAS MALANDIN -- better start taking something to help keep ur brain cell working dude . hahaha -- i [/COLOR] loved :bleh:that record and called all the way to NY city to to find out where i could find the other titles on that record - i got all the titles from him if your interested just e-mail me. the guy that told the storys was Art Gilmore (Jack benny's anouncer) - the record title was Childrens music Appreciation records search for the title in You tube -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJoDewTd1c there are 4 or 5 of his storys on there. i hope this is a help to you --- to an over 40's from an over 60's - a classical music lover

[boy_dreamer]

i cant hardly believe how many replies you got -

THE DUDES NAME WAS MALANDIN -- better start taking something to help keep ur brain cell working dude . hahaha -- i [/COLOR] loved :bleh:that record and called all the way to NY city to to find out where i could find the other titles on that record - i got all the titles from him if your interested just e-mail me - boy_dreamer@eml.cc. The guy that told the storys was Art Gilmore (Jack benny's anouncer) - the record title was Childrens music Appreciation records search for the title in You tube -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJoDewTd1c there are 4 or 5 of his storys on there. i hope this is a help to you --- to an over 40's from an over 60's - a classical music lover P.S. -there was a book with the same title as the record, HENCE THE DIFFERENCE YOU GOT IN ANSWERS.

[blackdog]

P.S. -there was a book with the same title as the record, HENCE THE DIFFERENCE YOU GOT IN ANSWERS.

Wow. You know who Malandin is, but you can't spell Harley.

Nice dredge btw.

[Winston001]

Okay then, since this has been dredged up, what about the song about the house built by Pete Peterson? And all the Petersons who helped him? For no good reason I'd like to hear it again. :D

[Berries]

Am I on the right planet?

[FJRider]

Am I on the right planet?

NO ... please leave now ... <_<

[Hitcher]

Right front wheel, right front wheel...

[Oakie]

Right front wheel, right front wheel...

Sparky? Is that you?

[PrincessBandit]

Help required from the over 40s please.
For reasons that I won't bore you with, ......... Please help me out with this so I'm not thinking about it instead of what's going on around me when we hit the road later on today.

Cheers

I loved listening to the Sunday stories on 1ZB (I think it was) when I was a kid. No tv in the mornings, no computers, playstations, phones, electronic games - entertainment was comic books, yo-yos, stickers, and on a Sunday morning before mum and dad got up (oh, hang on, one of them probably turned the radio on for us) lying in bed listening to "Diana and the Golden Apples" and Clive Dunn singing "Grandad" etc. etc.

This dredge had just reminded me of some happy childhood memories which were buried under decades of technological advancement.

Cheers!

[schrodingers cat]

Don't worry conductor, I'll see to it that the boy is punished when we get home...

[allycatz]

I loved listening to the Sunday stories on 1ZB (I think it was) when I was a kid. No tv in the mornings, no computers, playstations, phones, electronic games - entertainment was comic books, yo-yos, stickers, and on a Sunday morning before mum and dad got up (oh, hang on, one of them probably turned the radio on for us) lying in bed listening to "Diana and the Golden Apples" and Clive Dunn singing "Grandad" etc. etc.

This dredge had just reminded me of some happy childhood memories which were buried under decades of technological advancement.

Cheers!

Remember Gossamer Womp and the 27 peanut sandwiches? "Jingle, jingle jangle I'm off to play my triangle"

[PrincessBandit]

Remember Gossamer Womp and the 27 peanut sandwiches? "Jingle, jingle jangle I'm off to play my triangle"

Not really, but I do remember the Billy Goats Gruff and Molly Woppy.




"...and he ran and she ran and he ran and she ran...until they came to the bridge of the single hair..."

[nadroj]

What a bunch of old farts!

I'm a little fire engine .....

[Lucyloo]

Flick the little fire engine was a favourite as was Little Toot and Sparky!

[scumdog]

Don't worry conductor, I'll see to it that the boy is punished when we get home...


Goooood...byeeeee...Spaaaarkieeee....:laugh:

[SPman]

oh shit - I've got a Sparky record somewhere - or maybe I gave it to my son - he ran a kids program on the Massey radio station a few years ago and was grabbing whatever he could from my collection.....

Just don't mention "The Golden Palimino".....aaaaaargh!

[Oakie]

Just don't mention "The Golden Palimino".....aaaaaargh!

you mean 'a horse that's free and wild'?

Ooh err. Look what I found ... http://www.donlinden.com/cds.htm

Oooh. What about 'The Foolish Koala'? "Oh no, oh no, oh no". Sad but I still say that from time to time in an aussie marsupial voice. (Koalas are marsupials aren't they?)

[Highlander]

We used to be able to recite Bad Jelly word for word.

[wtf?]

I still can.

Dull Boot. [thump] The giant.

Dont be so fucking stupid, Rose. There's no such thing as a lightswitch in little boys trouser pockets.

[Kaci]

Hey.. His name is Melanion. My Dad loved that story and always swore he would name his first son Melanion. My 14 yr old brother is Melanion :niceone:

[Murray]

Hey.. His name is Melanion. My Dad loved that story and always swore he would name his first son Melanion. My 14 yr old brother is Melanion :niceone:

He's posted this 8 years ago - good thread dredge

[Murray]

Cheers guys ... now I can sleep tonight.

Oh and he has rested easy for the last 8 years:laugh::laugh:

[avgas]

Sparky? Is that you?
This is ground control to major tom.

[scumdog]

Who was it that took out Butch Cavendish and his outlaw gang??;)

[bmwilly]

Who was it that took out Butch Cavendish and his outlaw gang??;)

Scumdog Squarepants?

[pete376403]

Who was it that took out Butch Cavendish and his outlaw gang??;)

Lone Ranger and tonto of course.

And "The Selfish Giant" and "The Happy Prince" used to have me in tears (I'm able to handle tough stories better now)

[unstuck]

Who was it that took out Butch Cavendish and his outlaw gang??;)

Well it wasnt the popo of the day anyway, that muppet Collins led the rangers into the ambush at Bryants gap where Butch cut out Dan reids heart and ate it while his brother John reid was playing dead. I wonder if that constitutes " Obstructing police".:shifty: