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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

Bring on Series 4 …

A word of salute to third series of BBC2’s police-procedural drama series Line Of Duty – first created and written by Jed Mercurio in 2012 – which finished on Thursday evening with an epic 90-minute episode. Having recorded the entire series, I watched said finale for the second time in [...]

May 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Grammar school

Two signals of the development of the human brain into something which gave Man primacy over other species, or so we may like to think, are its ability to pass on acquired knowledge via speech and then literacy. There are a number of examples of the former in animals and birds – two examples [...]

April 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some celebrations are always worth it

With the celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare now flowering into their full majesty, I suspect there are millions of literary and theatrical philistines around the world like me who going to enjoy and benefit enormously from the surfeit of media articles, [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Good Read…is it?

When I first started writing for the Rust I was concerned whether there was a sisterhood advocating feminist values and was pleasantly surprised that Jane Shillingford and others do not bang the drum of woman’s rights. Feminism reigns at the BBC. Sue McGregor is a brilliant presenter, it [...]

April 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Night Manager

Rarely has a series of drama attracted such favourable critical acclaim and popularity from the viewing public as The Night Manager. At a recent Sunday lunch I attended it even was discussed before Brexit. A lady friend of mine, an academic poet who never watches television confessed to being [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

You know the ‘mushroom’ theory, right?

Sounding like a stuck record is a tough state to be in, both for me as an individual and (I’m assuming) to those that I keep inflicting upon like my regular readers. I therefore apologise, even if I have to acknowledge my special place in the firmament of human existence as the leading 21st [...]

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Churchill’s Secret

ITV rolled out its mega Sunday Drama Churchill’s Secret last night but I cannot say I gave it the victory sign. A programme about a stroke sufferer albeit Winston Churchill is always going to struggle so it was starting at a disadvantage. As something of an aficionado of Churchill, I could [...]

February 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hang on a minute, folks!

One ‘it goes with the territory’ minus of being over the age of thirty and being frustrated with some aspect of modern life is that you tend to get dismissed as being an out of touch oldie. I must declare an interest here – I’ve noticed the syndrome, both with my parents and in myself, [...]

February 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

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