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The Unfortunate Englishman/John Lawton

One of the attractions of Amazon is their recommendations based on the premise that  if you enjoyed reading A, you might well enjoy reading B. Generally this works for me in one of the genres I most enjoy: the espionage novel. I was introduced to Charles Cumming who has brought espionage into the [...]

September 6, 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

Aladdin

Yesterday I went to see Aladdin the musical. It was a slick production as you might expect from Disney which bore little relation to the pantomime version. For a start it was set not in China but in Aqaba and the flavour was Arabian rather than Oriental. The costumes and sets were stunning and [...]

September 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Television is a transient art form

Although I’d happily confess to watching far more television than is good for me, I have only rarely dipped into the realms of cultured middle-class mass viewing – most particularly the seriously cutting edge, hard-hitting, political, thriller-drama series box sets such as Wired, Breaking Bad, [...]

September 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well that’s hardly news …

On my tour of newspaper websites this morning I alighted upon this report of ITV’s supposed ‘switch off’ stunt designed to encourage its viewers to go outside and take some exercise. It seems that it did not quite have the desired effect with some ITV viewers – see here – THE INDEPENDENT [...]

September 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Knuckling down to it

With apologies to those who have not been following my progress since having a full right hip replacement in July, and (now I think of it) probably also to those who have, I return again to my chosen subject rather more swiftly than I might otherwise have done for the simple reason that on Bank [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of ageing

We all know the harsher facts of 21st Century life. Perhaps save for in some distant, Third World, geographically-or-climate-change-challenged countries, continents and regions, the civilised human world faces an innumerable series of societal issues of which ongoing medical advances and healthy [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Christopher Wood

Before going to  the Chichester Festival Theatre to see Half a Sixpence we visited the Pallant Gallery to view the Christopher Wood exhibition. Wood is an artist whose life is more interesting than his work. Born in 1901 in Knowsley he went to Marlborough School where he sustained a blood [...]

August 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Half a Sixpence

Having suffered through No Man’s Land it was an unadulterated pleasure to visit  the Chichester Festival Theatre for Half A Sixpence. I remember the impact that musical and film with Tommy Steele had on me for the perception of the cruelty of the upper class provincial snob. The story as [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

No Mans Land

There is a considerable body of theatrical opinion that holds that Harold Pinter is Britain’s greatest living playwright and another less vocal one that cannot fathom his works. I belong to the second school. Last night I saw No Man’s Land at the Theatre Royal  Brighton. I was more [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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