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Drive-Away Dolls

A new Ethan Coen film is released in the UK today.

The British Museum Had Lost Its Charm

Two short novels I read recently on rainy days and there have been plenty of those: The Tap Dancer, Andrew Barrow, 1992; The British Museum is Falling Down, David Lodge, 1965.

Few people enjoy paying taxes but I don’t mind buying a TV licence and a parking permit and would pay other taxes were they to be re-introduced; namely a wireless licence (abolished in 1971) and a dog licence (abolished in 1987). I don’t suppose either raised much revenue, a wireless licence cost £1 5s. in… Continue reading Radio Three – It’s For Me!

Bacon in Moscow.

Life is too short to listen to dull plays on Radio 3, or so I thought.

Local Hero

“Can you imagine a world without oil?”

War and Peace

I first noticed James Norton in the BBC drama series Happy Valley in which he plays Tommy Lee Royce; a cold, vindictive, psychotic, serial murderer.

The Davies Double Act

At first sight some 19th century architects had improbably long careers; for instance Barry, Pugin and Scott. As you know, their children took up the architectural baton from their fathers’ giving this impression.

An American Woman

Anthony Trollope wrote forty-seven novels, forty-two short stories and five travel books.

Paul Who?

A 20th century author (1897 – 1976) who wrote more than forty books, lots adapted for film, TV and the wireless, had four wives, two children and he has never been mentioned in almost 2,600 posts – incroyable!

The Big Shave

Yesterday, on a rainy Saturday afternoon in London, I went to see Martin Scorsese’s latest at the very comfy cinema within the Riverside Studios.

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