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Beautiful/Carole King musical

I’m not the biggest fan of the rock musical finding it formulaic and more of a tribute concert than genuine musical. Thus when Daffers suggested I join her  party for her South African visitor I was not 100% sure. In fact, I enjoyed it immensely, a moving tribute in words and music to one of [...]

June 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Foreign Country/Charles Cumming

The espionage novel has taken on many forms and genres in the years I have read these with enthusiasm. As a child I loved Erskine Childers and John Buchan and each dare-devil adventurer normally from public school taking on international conspirators on his own. Then came Ian Fleming and James [...]

June 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Barely out of second …

And so to BBC2 at 8.00pm last night, on a whim, in order to see the first outing of what Chris Evans and the BBC had achieved with their much hyped-reboot of Top Gear. [For more expert critical reviews Rust readers should go to today’s newspapers and social media]. The disappointing answer was [...]

May 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Il Barbiere di Seviglia/Glyndebourne

It’s always difficult to assess with Glyndebourne whether the patrons go for the occasion or for the opera. Certainly the operas have high production values – and ticket prices- and the organisation is efficient but you do feel you are there for picknicking in black tie in the lovely [...]

May 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Burt Kwouk

I was saddened to learn of the death of Burt Kwouk aged 86. His career began in the fifties with Hancock’s Half Hour and he was always in work typecast as the Oriental. He could do humour as in the Pink Panther movies or sinister as in Tenko and Goldfinger with equal capability. As with many [...]

May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Midnight in Berlin/James MacManus

I very much enjoyed Sleep in Peace Tonight by James MacManus , built around Harry Hopkins, envoy of President Roosevelt’s trip to London in 1941. So when the helpful people at Amazon as part of their “If you liked X ,  you would like Y ‘ service, recommended his Midnight in [...]

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Alfie’s Boys

It was inevitable in the 50th anniversary of the World Cup victory there would be a tv tribute to the victors of 1966.  Sadly with Alan Ball and  Bobby Moore lost to us , substitutes had to be found in the form of The son of  Ball and Tina first wife of Moore.  Footage could also be used  for [...]

May 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Travels with My Aunt/ Chichester Festival Theatre

Once again but sadly for the last time as he is leaving the post, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Jonathan Church has come up with an enticing programme of new and old, classic and innovative, for the festival season.  I never cease to be impressed that every year in a place with an [...]

May 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL / JOHN PRESTON

Perhaps the most stupefying part of John Preston’s engaging account of the Jeremy Thorpe Trial is that it actually happened. If this was a fiction no one would believe it. At the heart of it lies the extraordinary notion   that a successful politician who aged 37 was party leader should [...]

May 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

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