Formed in 1955 as the successor to the BBC's Northern Variety Orchestra, but without the latter's string section. Disbanded in 1974.
Brochan Lom
Scottish Gaelic nonsense song about porridge.
By the Shortest of Heads
1915 British film starring a ten-year-old George Formby, now considered to be lost.
Carolina Nairne
Scottish songwriter, many of whose songs, such as “Will ye no’ come back again?” and “Charlie is my Darling”, remain popular today, almost two hundred years after they were written.
Chiaroscuro
Technique used in the visual arts that makes use of light and shadow to define three-dimensional objects and surfaces.
Chintz
Printed, painted, stained or glazed calico to which mordants and resists have been used to help dyes adhere.
Circe
Circe is the title given to two oil on canvas sketches by the English artist John William Waterhouse; he worked on both during the final years of his career from 1911 to 1914.
Circe Invidiosa
Painting by John William Waterhouse completed in 1892, his second depiction of the Greek mythological character Circe.
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
Oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse, created in 1891.
Consulting the Oracle
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, showing a priestess using a mummified head, a tephra, as an oracle.