Shakespeare's Globe at the BBC: The Complete Walk.

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Theatre The Complete Walk was a "festival" of short films which appeared on giant screens in and around the Thames and through...

Soup Safari #65: Pea, Lettuce and Mint at the Hayloft Restaurant in Erddig.

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Lunch. £4.50. Hayloft restaurant, Erddig Hall, Erddig, Wrexham LL13 0YT. Telephone: 01978 355314. Website.

Erddig.

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Erddig’s story is all about relationships – those of the family, the servants and the wider community. It is unpretentious, unconventiona...

My Favourite Film of 1941.

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Film The only occasion I saw Citizen Kane in an auditorium was in screen six of the then newly refurbished Odeon cinema on London Road i...

38 Maxine Peake

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Theatre Let's begin at the ending or indeed further than the ending into the credits which include the following statement: "Th...

Art Museum.

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Books  In case you've been wondering why I've been a bit absent from around these parts this past couple of weeks, assuming it...

Emmy and the Doctor.

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TV Crikey, this is a turn up : "BBC America’s “Doctor Who” has been submitted for Emmy consideration for the first time ever. Now th...

Cooked.

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TV The BBC Genome blog regularly interviewed television and radio presenters with huge footprints on the scheduling archive database, a bi...

36 Stonyhurst College

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Shakespeare There's always something inherently disappointing about book exhibitions or exhibitions of books. All the visitor can e...

Mi Madre Cocina Mejor Que La Tuya.

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TV The Guardian has a piece listing European television shows and friends, there are few formats here which wouldn't work spectacularl...

The VHS Awakens.

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Film The official Star Wars website has an interview with Greg Grunberg which includes the revelation that VHS lives - as a way of showing...

My Favourite Film of 1942.

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Film It's I Married A Witch, but let's take stock. When I began this project, back in January 2015, I knew there'd be a p...

"Photographs are unreliable souvenirs."

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Dating Stand down. If you're a long term reader you'll know that the emboldened keyword in front of this sentence indicates this ...

"It is a beautiful day in Chicago. Temperatures in the upper 70's."

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Film Fans of the old Now and Then documentaries on the Doctor Who dvds and of Ferris Bueller's Day Off will like this AV Club article ...

Sunset at the Villa Thalia at the National Theatre.

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The National Theatre were kind enough offer a ticket for the press night of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play, Sunset at the Villa Thalia  (i...

The Curse of the Fugue (Big Finish Audio Short Trips)

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Audio  A pleasingly small scale adventure in which the Doctor drops Lucie off in the year of my birth (1974) amid the blackouts to help inve...

My Favourite Film of 1943.

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Extracting the BBC Genome: Shakespeare at the BBC: Hamlet.

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Shakespeare With the Shakespeare Festival still in full swing at the BBC, I thought it would be an idea to see how often some of my favo...

Dr. Love Actually.

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Film Some time today, Neil tweeted me a link to a rangey interview with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy which wanders about across a ran...

Bye, Bye BHS, Goodbye.

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Commerce Of all the shops that have gone into receivership recently, BHS is oddly one of the names which I've no particular affectio...