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About Bernadette Angell

After cutting her journalistic teeth in Boston USA, Bernadette met and married an Englishman, whom she followed back to London. Two decades and three children later, they divorced. She now occupies herself as a freelance writer (credits include television soaps and radio plays) and occasional amateur gardener. More Posts

Carry On Barging (Channel 5 Friday 8-30)

When I joined the Rust I made it clear I was not going to review celebrity/ reality tv programmes as I do not watch them. However a few years ago I met Lorraine Chase at a health farm of all places (as she is so slender) and we kept in touch. On a whim I emailed her yesterday and she replied with [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Not elementary enough, Doctor Watson

Yesterday after my evening meal (having recorded the same on Sunday) and because Monday is worst night of the week for television I watched the third and final episode of the BBC drama’s blockbuster Sherlock’s fourth series. By now most UK viewers will know that this incarnation of Sir Arthur [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of ‘making up your own rules’

One of the great things about the Rust – and it took a while to dawn upon me – is our laissez-faire editorial policy. When I first joined I found it all rather disconcerting. Indeed I found I wasn’t by any means the only correspondent who had initially felt it that represented [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Making of World at War

As one of my colleagues on the Rust worked at Thames shortly after the series was made I write these words with some trepidation and indeed asked him to cast his eye on them before they are published. Last night I watched the final dvd disc on the making of World at War in which the staple force [...]

November 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

National Treasure

I was disappointed by the second in the series.  It all became rather formulaic typifying modern drama: the wife Marie played by Julie Walters exemplifies the tough woman who accepts her husband’s philandering and holds the situation together , In the interests  of diversity some of the [...]

September 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

National Treasure

Operation Yewtree is always going to be a fertile area for drama and National Treasure succeeds in delivering it. The central role of a superannuated comedian ( Paul Finchley) arrested on rape charge allegedly perpitrated in the 70s is well played by Robbie Coltrane. A strong cast also features [...]

September 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘Bake Off’ is off, then

Two of the great things about being over the age of fifty (well, okay fifty-five) is that one can retain one’s propensity for having firm, not to say strident, opinions on areas of life and commerce in which one was once proficient and/or knowledgeable about whilst simultaneously absolving [...]

September 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

THE REUNION

It’s good that The Reunion series is back on Radio 4 to replace Desert Island Discs. The formula is a simple one: the excellent presenter Sue McGregor convenes a group of individuals associated with an event.  Yesterday’s broadcast was about Private Eye. One assumes that Richard [...]

September 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Good Read…is it?

When I first started writing for the Rust I was concerned whether there was a sisterhood advocating feminist values and was pleasantly surprised that Jane Shillingford and others do not bang the drum of woman’s rights. Feminism reigns at the BBC. Sue McGregor is a brilliant presenter, it [...]

April 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Night Manager

Rarely has a series of drama attracted such favourable critical acclaim and popularity from the viewing public as The Night Manager. At a recent Sunday lunch I attended it even was discussed before Brexit. A lady friend of mine, an academic poet who never watches television confessed to being [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

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