The Bradshaws because they keep looking at each other). Michael is based on a school friend of Buzz Hawkins (who was also called Michael Morris). Betty Morris is the mother of Michael Morris. She is having an affair with the coal man (although Audrey refuses to believe this). Betty and Audrey often love to go out for a game of housey housey (bingo). Mr Morris is the Father of Michael Morris (although Michael's real father is the Coalman), Mr Morris is tight-fisted and bald, he has stolen Alf's tools several times. Uncle Walter is Audrey's Uncle, he got a Gunshot to a
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel monumental work are easy enough to identify. In the scale and ambition of his conception both Bach's 'Goldberg' and Beethoven's 'Diabelli Variations' must have exercised a powerful if generalized influence; in specific features of form Beethoven's 'Eroica' Variations is a closer parallel. But the overall structure is original to Brahms." And MacDonald suggests what might have been a more contemporary source of inspiration, the "Variations on a Theme of Handel, Op. 26", by Robert Volkmann. "Brahms might well have known that large and often admirable work, published as recently as 1856, which Volkmann based on the so-called 'Harmonious Blacksmith' theme