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World War II and cinema

I very much enjoyed this Sky Arts 3 part series on cinema and World War Two. They assembled most of their usual film historians – Ian Nathan, Bonnie Greer, Derek Malcolm, but right wing columnist Simon Heffer also contributed. War films are a genre I like and believe underrated. At their best [...]

October 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Zoom or bust

I suspect a year ago few had head heard of Zoom, now it is an indispensable communication tool. It may be indispensable but it is not enjoyable. I do not pretend to be any sort of art expert but perhaps its the mercantile in me that makes Dutch art in its  golden age in the sixteenth century my [...]

October 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Barolo and Barberesco

Last night I went to a tasting of the two finest wines of Piedmont – Barbaresco and Barolo.  Both big expensive wines. Piedmont is surrounded by the Alps and almost every vineyard is on a slope. It’s truffle country with hazelnut trees where rice is grown too. The main grape is [...]

October 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Will the real Impressionists stand up?

Yesterday in our art course we studied the remaining two impressionists – Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. The feminists argue the inclusion of Berthe Morisot and Mary Kassatt and, though we did not study her, Eva Gonzales. Pissarro is my favourite. I have seen so much of Claude [...]

October 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

World War One/PBS

There is a tendency in covering World War One to which I plead guilty of limiting our interest to the loss of young life in the trench warfare. This excellent series gave a much broader canvas and I was particularly interested in 1916-18. With war bogged down in the trenches of northern France and [...]

October 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Wolves 1 Fulham 0

This was a far more encouraging performance but the table still shows Fulham at the bottom of it with no wins and no points. In particular the defence was more resolute with keeper Alphonse Areola giving his best performance to date. Areola was number three choice at PSG, ironically the number 2 [...]

October 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sporting interviews

There are three types of sporting interviews – those that promote a book, those that promote themselves and those that choose to reveal. The Times yesterday had examples of each. Jamie Redknapp is bringing about a book this week. Aged 47,  it is about his career. It’s familiar stuff [...]

October 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Execution/SJ Parris

Publishing is very much a copy-cat business. Thus – when one writer comes up with a successful genre – rest assured it will not be long before another follows. CJ Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake novels set in the reign of Henry VIII are immensely popular. SJ Parris’ novels are in the [...]

October 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sharks lose in quarters

Sussex Sharks lost their T20 blast quarter final to Lancashire Lightning by 45 runs at Hove. Lancashire posted 140, a low target.  However in reply we only amassed 95, only two getting into double figures. It was an ignominious performance to mark the final game of Dizzy Gillespie before he [...]

October 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Flintoff & bulimia

This is something of a first for me as I’m not so much reviewing a programme I have seen but explaining why I will not be watching one. The editor was comfortable with this. As he put it: “On the Rust anything goes …” I cannot  imagine why the BBC should make a programme featuring [...]

October 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

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