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Category Archives: TV and Radio and other media
Game of thrones III – a rough Guide to the Wars of the roses
Game of thrones III – Lancaster bombs and York’s son rises: Some events no sooner have passed than they are bound with a tissue of myth. It is part of our cultural response to certain events – the assassination of JFK … Continue reading
Reported speech – Pope Francis – what he said and what he didn’t say….
Popes speaking….. The papacy has a long history of speaking its mind and saying things which do not meet with much favour. It can defend itself. it does not need me to argue its case. It could pay for a … Continue reading
Provocative – Hilary and the Wolf –
The Tudors & Wolf Hall – or who’s afraid of Hilary Mantel’s wolf? Below a Rood Screen – in Brittany – these were also typical of northern European church interiors before the Reformation – before the art, the stained glass … Continue reading
From Je suis to J’accuse in one short week
Murder most foul in Paris Ghost : Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. Hamlet: Haste me to know’t that I with wings as swift as meditation….may sweep to my revenge. Shakespeare seems a … Continue reading
I Have a Little list or Grade II Listing in London Borough of Lambeth
The colours that you find inside Comrade Chyorniy’s mind…. There is nothing more incomprehensible than the mind of a bureaucrat. This is not my judgement but rather a paraphrase of Tolstoy’s famous judgement. In some ways it is refreshing to … Continue reading
King of Queen’s
Championship Point? Andy Murray began the grasscourt season with a victory at Queen’s club. He won an uneven final in the rain. It was a convincing win as he played his best tennis after losing the first set. It is … Continue reading
Shirley Verrett RIP and Don Carlos
I discovered this in an idle moment …. Shirley Verrett was one of the greatest mezzo sopranos of the twentieth century who sadly died last year. Here she’s singing Princess Eboli’s great aria from Act IV Verdi’s Don Carlos….O don … Continue reading
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Metropolitan Opera New York Enchanted Island Joyce Didonato
This has had such amazing reviews and this must have been taken on a i-phone….but even so Ms Joyce Didonato can be heard….she’s not only a fabulous singer and a great actress but extremely conscientious towards her public….La Diva…asboslutely… I’m … Continue reading
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Taking the high road and the low road……
I’ve been back from my close encounter with stand-up comedy in Edinburgh for a week. And yet I feel eerily in the same unreal comic reality…… Take this furore for example over Dr David Starkey’s appearance on Newsnight. The first thing … Continue reading
Edinburgh – the good life on fringe benefits….
My festival Sun-day At least it was sunshine all the way. I’d caught the train from Lancaster in the driving rain and the mist engulfed the hills of the Lake District but as if by magic after we pulled … Continue reading
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