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The Bridge

Its good to see the Danish/Swedish co production of The Bridge back on our screens. A successful enduring series needs a memorable detective be him a scruffy sleuth like Colombo or a social inadequate like Saga Loren played by Sofia Helin. The Killing set the tone with Sarah Lund (Sofie Grabol) [...]

November 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

There was a young man from Cambridge …

Whatever our background, interests, intelligence or sensibilities, we all love things that are clever, witty or bring a smile. Here’s a piece by Robert McCrum on librettist/playwright Ranjit Bolt, who has recently turned his hand to writing limericks, that appears today on the website of [...]

November 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Lady In The Van

A film about a writer Alan Bennett caring for his demented mother and a homeless woman in a van who resides in his driveway for 15 years is hardly the stuff of box office success but nonetheless a refreshing and welcome break from the Hollywood blockbusters and the violence of Respect or of Mexican [...]

November 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Suitable Case for Corruption

The author Norman Lewis may not mean much to the contemporary reader but as a notoriously shy man the travel writer would have preferred this. He once described himself as the only man to come to and leave a party without anyone noticing. Like many private people,there was much to him. A gifted [...]

November 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

French concert at Dome Brighton

It was pure coincidence that several months ago I bought a ticket for the London Philarmonic recital of three French composers at the Brighton Dome. The pieces were Pelleas et Melissande by Faure, a piano concerto in G Major and waltzes by Ravel and Debussy’s La Mer. The conductor Robin [...]

November 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Platonov and Ivanov/ Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Theatre has put on this season three Chechkov plays – The Seagull and his first two, Platonov and Ivanov under the banner Birth of a Genius. This might be stretching it in the case of the latter two which I saw these past 6 days. Platonov is very much a first draft . Platonov is a [...]

November 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Beatles Top 25

Last night I was divided at 8pm between The Moral Maze on radio 4 examining the latest athlete drug revelations, Cuffs and a programme showcasing the best 25 most popular Beatles songs as selected by ITV watchers. I was put off The Moral Maze when presenter Michael Buerk attacked the taking of [...]

November 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Poster Art

A week or so ago I received a call from the Rust‘s resident expert on sports memorabilia Ivan Conway that there was a online auction by Christies of early James Bond ‘s film posters. He remembered I had one and thought it was the same as one of the lots. I duly checked and it was. I [...]

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

The voyage of life

When I signed up as an occasional contributor to this esteemed organ one of the things that persuaded me to do so was the editorial team’s determination that it should not just be a conduit for reflections upon the 21st Century from those of us who were ‘getting on a bit’, but would also [...]

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

John Wilson Orchestra/ Brighton Dome

There is an awful lot of snobbery in music, not least in its classification of classical, light orchestral and pop. Occasionally you read the the Beatles produced the classical music of our generation or that if Puccini or Verdi were composing nowadays they would be producing musicals. One [...]

November 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

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