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Steven Spielberg at 75

In the week I watched Mark Kermode interview Steven Spielberg, whose birthday falls today. It’s in the nature of such things that, if you interview arguably the most celebrated film director of our lifetime, you do not ask too many aggressive questions. Although Spielberg was not given a rough [...]

December 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

My TV sporting weekend

I’m not the biggest fan of Formula One, regarding it as no more than a sponsored procession and lacking that essential ingredient of sport – ebb and flow. However, the publicity got the better of me and at 1.00 pm for the final Grand Prix at Abu Dhabi  I was tuned into Radio 5 and Channel [...]

December 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

Valley of Tears

Last Friday I watched the final episode in the present series on More4. A further series featuring the Egyptian offensive in the southern  front in the Yom Kippur  is in production. I have written  before that films made by both sides in World War Two were motivated by propaganda and this is the [...]

December 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

View from the coal face

Last week I completed my annual medical review with a consultation with a cardiologist. I do not imagine this is is of great interest to the reader other than that I can report I passed my MOT and was signed off for another year. What may be of interest is how a medical professional views the [...]

November 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Nuremberg – The Trial of the Nazi war criminals. Podcast Radio 4 BBC

Jonathan Myerson wrote and directed this podcast, assuring us it was based on real events and testimonies. I could find no errors other than the emphasis on the role of certain women which may have been the influence of BBC diversity and gender compliance. So whole episodes were narrated by the [...]

November 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Simon Sebag Montefiore on The Making of Spain

Last night on BBC4 Simon Sebag Montefiore presented the first part of his early history of Spain. I can claim a family connection as I was at university with his brother Rupert and historian brother Hugh, whose wife Aviva regularly appears as a forensic art expert in BBC’s 4 previous programme [...]

November 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

I have been “off the air” these past weeks largely because I have been unsuccessful in my golf wagers. However this weekend I backed the Italian Francesco Laporta (50-1), who finished third in the Dubai championship won by Dane Joachim Hansen, and also had an each way tickle on Carmen Tringale [...]

November 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Police Paris 1900

Most reviewers will do their work after the first episode and might comment whether they will stay with it. This review comes after the concluding episode last Saturday. This French series about a decapitation of a woman set in post-Dreyfus Paris appears to be sufficiently successful that a second [...]

November 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

A Good Read

Few traditional radio programmes better illustrate the triumph of diversity in BBC programming than A Good Read  on Radio 4. The title and the introduction by well-read presenter Harriet Gilbert would surely indicate that  the purpose of the programme is recommendation. Yesterday a palliative [...]

November 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

My TV sporting weekend

Once again I found Premiership rugby produced the most enjoying sporting spectacle. My anticipation of Harlequins v Saracens was tempered by the absence on international duty of many of the stars. No Farrell v Smith, Dombrandt v Vinipola – nor the aggression of Joe Marler scrumming against [...]

November 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

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