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The Making of World at War

As one of my colleagues on the Rust worked at Thames shortly after the series was made I write these words with some trepidation and indeed asked him to cast his eye on them before they are published. Last night I watched the final dvd disc on the making of World at War in which the staple force [...]

November 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all relative

Yesterday I was sitting in front of the television chatting to my 91-year old father. Somehow the death of Robert Vaughn aged 82 – best known to Brits from the ancient TV series The Man From Uncle and/or the movie The Magnificent Seven – came up. My parent commented, apparently without [...]

November 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Remembering WW1

Yesterday I was privileged to be invited to an august institution for special screening of a new documentary film commemorating the connection between a particular sport and its contribution to the First World War. Its intentions were noble – to commemorate those players who had died or been [...]

November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of coming up smelling of roses

Back in the day when I was a kid at boarding prep school our access to television was restricted to the whim of a bachelor assistant headmaster, who’d previously been in the navy, who used to operate an ‘open house’ on Saturday afternoons in his disorganised study which gave off a ‘twenty [...]

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

National Treasure

I was disappointed by the second in the series.  It all became rather formulaic typifying modern drama: the wife Marie played by Julie Walters exemplifies the tough woman who accepts her husband’s philandering and holds the situation together , In the interests  of diversity some of the [...]

September 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

National Treasure

Operation Yewtree is always going to be a fertile area for drama and National Treasure succeeds in delivering it. The central role of a superannuated comedian ( Paul Finchley) arrested on rape charge allegedly perpitrated in the 70s is well played by Robbie Coltrane. A strong cast also features [...]

September 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pushing a boulder up a hill

It’s well-known that two signals of old age are firstly, an entrenched belief that things were better ‘back in the day’ [what a horrible phrase!] and secondly, a tendency to repeat one’s own stories. Thus I begin my post today hoping, probably in vain, that in addressing today’s chosen [...]

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘Bake Off’ is off, then

Two of the great things about being over the age of fifty (well, okay fifty-five) is that one can retain one’s propensity for having firm, not to say strident, opinions on areas of life and commerce in which one was once proficient and/or knowledgeable about whilst simultaneously absolving [...]

September 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

To Get Back, or not to get back

Being roughly ten years younger than the Beatles, when they first burst upon national British consciousness I immediately became an obsessive wide-eyed fan of theirs in a male ‘from a safe distance, middle class, watching on TV, listening on radio, reading the newspapers and magazines, always [...]

September 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

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