The Tempest (Arden Shakespeare). Edited by Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan.

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Even if, because I’m yet to see a convincing production, The Tempest isn’t my favourite of Shakespeare’s plays, it does contain my favourite...

"the longest running drama series ever"

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TV One of my indulgences during the VHS era was gawping at the massive box sets in HMV, massive boxes filled with video tapes collecting t...

a mass of new Freedom of Information disclosures

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Tea-V The BBC have posted a mass of new Freedom of Information disclosures . Plenty have a whiff of the right wing press about them (...

in footwear William Emms would be proud of

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TV John Caughie author of the excellent BFI Classics volume about The Edge of Darkness has this to say on the subject of The Edge of Dar...

"Operations at Oxford Circus"

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Film Civil engineering consultancy firm Halcrow (of Channel Tunnel rail link fame) have posted a small online selection of films from thei...

due for a remake

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Film Well, I suppose The Road To Wellville was due for a remake. Not that this doesn't look fun and with Maggie Gyllenhaal in the ...

Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool

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Art As I await the time to see the Magrite exhibition at Tate Liverpool, they've posted news of the next exhibition, and it's a pl...

arts and archive

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TV The proposed transformation of BBC Four's remit , as reported at The Guardian isn't unexpected (not least because the paper r...

the prequel to Let's Kill Hitler

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TV Find above ( and at this link ), as it says in the caption, the prequel to Let's Kill Hitler , the opening episode of second hal...

albeit with an extra "in" for clarity

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Film Conan The Barbarian premièred today at the Empire Magazine Big Screen thingy in The 02 Arena and apparently it's as good at you...

we haven't had one of these

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Life   Over the years we've had all manner of visitors to Sefton Park.  Circuses.  World music concerts.  Food festivals.  Dozens and do...

the knife-edge of taste Eric Saward was working under

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TV As I write, there’s another #newsglastonbury with a special Question Time and a typical Newsnight filled with experts and people wh...

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If you're wishing to support them ...

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Film As many of you will know the recent fire at the Sony distribution and manufacturing centre (the causes of which ... no that's for...

"the odd "very special episode" but"

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TV Sarah Hughes of The Guardian offers a nice piece about My So-Called Life which underscores that its brilliance was in its lack of sens...

"meeting artists and gallerists"

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Liverpool Life Sad but understandable times as Ian and Minako scale back Art In Liverpool the kind of amazing project that would take ove...

builder of the K9 prop

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TV Watching Edge of Darkness for the first time this morning, who should I spot escorting a radioactive corpse to the banks of a lake? ...

‘What’s a Congress?’

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TV Short quote from Steven Moffat on the subject of The West Wing and how it's compelling even if you don't understand everything ...

"Our graphics department — I’m sorry, our photojournalists"

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Journalism Nieman talks to Baratunde Thurston digital director at The Onion about adapting to social media . The method? Act like a real...

"his basic vision for Classic FM"

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Obituary Michael Bukht, or as us children of the 70s & 80s knew him Michael Barry, the chef from Food and Drink, has died. As The Gua...