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Fake or Fortune

I am delighted that Fake or Fortune the investigative arts programme presented by Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould is back this summer. Yesterday I watched a repeat of a programme I missed featuring three L.S. Lowry paintings. One had a stock number and label of dealer Lefevre and was readily traceable [...]

July 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

42nd Street

I have written before how a traditional musical has been bowdlerised by changes of plot, location or story. 42nd Street did not fall into this trap. You could have seen this production when the film was released in 1933. And why change anything? The musical has three songs which are still well [...]

July 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s real and what is not

Several years ago one of the newspaper cartoons that made me smile was a comment upon a report that British senior citizens were organising a protest march in Whitehall about something or another. It depicted a bunch of examples of said demographic, engaged in its march, holding placards saying [...]

July 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

No doubt like many Rusters I have been enjoying my periodic dips into the BBC’s consistently excellent radio and television coverage of Wimbledon 2017. Call me old-fashioned, or Neanderthal – or even cod-nostalgic for the days of the British Empire that stretched across the quarter of the [...]

July 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Victim/ Sarah Wooley

This play written by Sarah Woolley, broadcast last Sunday on Radio 3, charts the making of the ground breaking film Victim (1961) as part of the Gay Britannia celebration of gay icons. Sarah Wooley The film itself addresses the issue of blackmail of homosexuals. Dirk Bogarde plays barrister [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Ariadne auf Naxos / Glyndebourne

This innovative production with significant changes of location and period from the original Richard Strauss Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s comedy does not entirely work but fine singing, stage sets and orchestration saved it from disaster. In brief, the first story is a troupe of Commedia del arte [...]

June 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brothers in law (1957)

Contrary to reputation I do not just admire French cinema. I also love many British films from the forties to the sixties. This period of film making produced such gems as The Third Man, I’m all Right Jack, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Zulu, Lawrence of Arabia, Alfie, The Italian Job and Get [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Missing the great presenters

Watching a lot of sport over the weekend I not only missed the great commentators individual to their sport – Bill Maclaren, Richie Benaud, Henry Longhurst – but the legendary presenters too. Titans like David Coleman was editor of his local Stockport newspaper aged 23 and his [...]

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Southwold: an Earthly Paradise

For many years my second husband Laurie and I had a second home in Southwold. He is an a illustrator and taught in evening classes in Roehampton College. There a Polish student with blue eyes, glossy hair and full young breasts, none of which I possess, seduced him and our marriage broke up. We [...]

June 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Knebworth Festival 1974

In the 1970s the annual Knebworth Festival in Hertfordshire was one of the staple fixtures of the UK rock industry, along with its Isle of Wight and Reading counterparts. As with all walks of life – national events, football games, whatever – there’s a weird syndrome about in which if you [...]

June 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

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