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Hartsbourne

I have always been fascinated by great houses. It’s not so much the architecture and grounds but those that lived and stayed in them. Melanie Gay, knowing that I always want to learn more about places I have visited or intend to, recommended me a book called the Riviera Set by Mary Lovell. I [...]

November 18, 2016 // 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

The Trinity Six/Charles Cumming

I am becoming a fan of espionage writer Charles Cumming having read and reviewed  favourably The Colder War.  Previous novels feature his hero Thomas Kell a wizard of detection through computer hacking and mobile surveillance and the French head of MI6 Amelie. The Trinity Six goes back in time to [...]

November 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Rebecca Notebook and other memories /Daphne du Maurier

The Rebecca Notebook is an account of how Daphne du Maurier wrote her most famous novel and a series of reflections on her life late in her life. Rebecca, like most of her novels, has a pleasing structure as the story unfurls. Few can tell a story as well as Daphne du Maurier which accounts for [...]

November 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all relative

Yesterday I was sitting in front of the television chatting to my 91-year old father. Somehow the death of Robert Vaughn aged 82 – best known to Brits from the ancient TV series The Man From Uncle and/or the movie The Magnificent Seven – came up. My parent commented, apparently without [...]

November 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Marseille

I  have yet to maximise the potential of Netflix as I am put off by any American movie mogul company. However after catching the excellent US Presidency documentary which I reviewed I decided to investigate further. I was talking about Gerard Depardieu to a French friend  of mine and she [...]

November 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Boys In the Band

I can remember when  the film The Boys In The Band was released in 1970 after the play had a successful run of 1000 performances in New York. My father liked it as an interesting depiction of diverse gays – my parents were always tolerant of homosexuals which was unusual for middle class [...]

November 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON

Abel Gance’s epic 1927 movie Napoleon is one of the most famous, important and influential movies of all time. Way back in the 1980s I went to see a ‘live’ performance of a restored version of it (with original new accompanying music by Carl Davis) staged in London by Thames [...]

November 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

How To Win The US Presidency

Last night I watched a documentary called and on HOW TO WIN THE US PRESIDENCY.  In surveying the Presidents from Washington to Obama, though referred to the 46th President Donald Trump, the programme identified the following requirements to reach the Oval Office: 1) Money 2) Message 3) Look 4) [...]

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Remembering WW1

Yesterday I was privileged to be invited to an august institution for special screening of a new documentary film commemorating the connection between a particular sport and its contribution to the First World War. Its intentions were noble – to commemorate those players who had died or been [...]

November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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