The Kemps: All True.

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Music However much of a classic it's supposed to be, This is Spinal Tap felt unaccountably a bit flat. Perhaps I've seen too m...

NYCHistory:
New York on Film
in Chronological Order.

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Introduction. After ninety days in lockdown, my imagination is naturally trying to focus on other people and places, constantly remindin...

Susan's War:
The Shoreditch Intervention.

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Audio  As Eddie Robson explains in the behind the scene section of his contribution to Susan's War, when he wrote his Short Trip All Han...

The Time War 3.

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Audio Another winner. As I said last year , these Time War boxes are of incredibly high quality, as good a series of Doctor Who as we...

The Fifteenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books Does this count as a single book given that it's about the length of a New Yorker article and it has "an essay" writte...

The Spotify Playlist:
Revolution in the Headcover.

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Music During the process of reading Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head , it became apparent to me that much of The Beatles' ...

The Fourteenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Music At the beginning of the year, I had such plans, one of which was to read at least a book a week. Then the lockdown happened and in ...

Emergency Questions Twenty-One to Thirty.

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Life Where next, Richard? (21) How sensitive are your nipples? Not at all, at least when I'm caressing them myself. Tough as bul...

Watching Hitchcock's Downhill.

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Film Just over ten years ago I set myself the task of watching all of Alfred Hitchcock's films in order and writing about them on th...

Emergency Questions One to Twenty.

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Life After much thought, I'm taking a break of Twitter for a week which means my hands are idle and though there are jigsaws to do and...

The Road To Nowhere.

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Life The lock-down continues. How has it been for you? For various reasons we're pretty much permanently self-isolating, so I bare...

Is Everything Really Available?

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Film Wanting to revisit cinema's back catalogue but not knowing where to start, I decided to pluck a month out from the past and try t...

Unlocking The Disney Vault.

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Film Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo are still continuing with their Radio 5 show despite the lock-down. During Friday's programme, Sim...

Lockdown Links #12

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'Bird of Prey' Filmmaker Cathy Yan Reflects on Box Office and Scene She Fought For: "In a wide-ranging interview, the direct...

41: Michelle Terry.

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Theatre   During his interview for Playing The Dane, the BBC documentary which sparked this project, Richard Briers when asked what was pe...

How I'm dealing with the lockdown.

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Life After a fairly grim anxiety-fueled couple of days last week, on Saturday night, oddly after watching the Panorama about Harvey Weinst...

Lockdown Links #11.

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New on the streaming services. Hustlers , one of the best films from last year, has been added Amazon Prime. Season Four of Veronica...

Osskah (Short Trips: Snapshots).

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Prose Reminiscent of the parliament of birds sequence from The Scarlett Empress, Gary Owen's story describes an encounter between the ...

The Thirteenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books Rather like the Arden Shakespeares, The Black Archive has an eclectic author led format. Some include a thorough commentary on the ...

Lockdown Links #10

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New on the streaming services. Classic indie Big Night , directed by Stanley Tucci, has been added to Netflix . Although perhaps not th...