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What’s a chap got to do?

Arguably, there’s a certain in-built irony even in the themes that statistically most concern Rust contributors upon a regular basis. The Conservative and Unionist Party (or ‘Tories’) basically appeals to those – generally the older generations – who, under the guise of pretending to [...]

July 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A July sporting round-up

This morning, for the second day running, I awoke and spent the morning going about my usual business whilst feeling rather ‘empty’ and hard done by. Fortunately I didn’t need to be Einstein to work out why. After Wimbledon followed by the sporting extravaganza that was the back end of last [...]

July 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

New television series to be launched

I wish to make it plain from the outset of this piece that I personally have not seen a single trailer or even episode of Love Island, the current ‘cause célèbre’ of the reality TV genre – I didn’t even know which channel it was broadcast upon until I googled the answer just now (it was [...]

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hands up anyone who’s worth a hill of beans

Like most people I came across yesterday, I was fascinated to learn the details of ‘who gets what’ when the BBC published (in bands) the salaries of its presenters and actors who earn 150,000 pounds sterling or more and yet at the same time I also had misgivings about the disclosures. The first [...]

July 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fake or Fortune

I am delighted that Fake or Fortune the investigative arts programme presented by Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould is back this summer. Yesterday I watched a repeat of a programme I missed featuring three L.S. Lowry paintings. One had a stock number and label of dealer Lefevre and was readily traceable [...]

July 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

No doubt like many Rusters I have been enjoying my periodic dips into the BBC’s consistently excellent radio and television coverage of Wimbledon 2017. Call me old-fashioned, or Neanderthal – or even cod-nostalgic for the days of the British Empire that stretched across the quarter of the [...]

July 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Victim/ Sarah Wooley

This play written by Sarah Woolley, broadcast last Sunday on Radio 3, charts the making of the ground breaking film Victim (1961) as part of the Gay Britannia celebration of gay icons. Sarah Wooley The film itself addresses the issue of blackmail of homosexuals. Dirk Bogarde plays barrister [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Missing the great presenters

Watching a lot of sport over the weekend I not only missed the great commentators individual to their sport – Bill Maclaren, Richie Benaud, Henry Longhurst – but the legendary presenters too. Titans like David Coleman was editor of his local Stockport newspaper aged 23 and his [...]

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Riviera

They say the future of film production does not lie with the studios nor the massive film companies like Sony and Fox but with the networks. In the case of The Sopranos, Mad Men, the production values have produced ground-breaking television and Scandinavian noir has resulted in the The Killing and [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Phew!

With apologies for even mentioning it, especially in the context of the wall-to-wall, minute-by-minute, media coverage we’ve been subjected these last 24 hours, but I feel moved to provide some observations upon the result of the General Election. In no order of importance, especially since I [...]

June 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

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