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La Traviata

This Sir Richard Eyre production was streamed last night by Covent Garden. It was – thank goodness – a traditional representation of Verdi’s masterpiece based on Alexandre Dumas’s The Lady of the Camelias. It benefits from a strong story line of Violetta (Hrachuki Bajseoz) a [...]

May 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fauda (chaos)

This is a Netflix production featuring an operative unit of Israelis who conduct hit operations in Gaza. It’s obviously a hit as in its third series. Series like The Spiral in its 7th series show that team movies are popular. These have been the subject of successful films like The Magnificent [...]

May 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Bill Muddyman RIP

Last night I learned of the passing of a key figure in the boardoom in the last 43 years – Bill Muddyman. In the 1980s Fulham Chairman David Bulstrode and his property company Marler Estates who owned the club sought to merge us with QPR into Fulham Park Rangers. Fulham would be very much [...]

May 7, 2020 // 1 Comment

A birthday celebration with a difference

Yesterday my sister-in-law turned 70 and her son and daughter organised a sort of This is Your Life on Zoom. Three month ago I had never heard of Zoom. If you include my Spanish class quiz and a couple of cocktail hour chats with friends, it is now becoming quite a feature of my life. [...]

May 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

Bombon el Perro/Bombon the dog 2004

This is an Argentinian film about a mechanic (Juan Villegas) who loses his job as a mechanic and drifts round Patagonia to find a new one. In the course of various short term jobs he accepts a large white guard dog who turns out to be pure bred. An accountant in a bank he is visiting to cash a [...]

May 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Private Passions/Radio 3: Hannah Rankin

As previously noted here, if you seek the formula of interview coupled with musical choice Private Passions, not Desert Island Discs is for you. Yesterday the subject was Hannah Rankin who combines two unusual accomplishments: she is the IBF Super Welterweight boxing champion and a concert [...]

May 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Coventry 3 Spurs 2 1987 Cup Final

Yesterday afternoon ITV showed extended highlights of the 1987 Cup Final, generally acclaimed as one of the great Cup Finals. Can it be 33 years ago that I attended that Final with my now departed mother? My late father was medical advisor on inoculation and foreign travel to the England team. What [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

10 best sporting commentators

My colleague who has been sending out sporting lists has produced his latest: the 10 best sporting commentators – widely construed to include writers, presenters and analysts. Before I composed mine I gave some thought to the attributes of such best. I came up with: 1) the ability to bring [...]

May 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Alma Mater

I do not harbour strong feelings for my old school which I attended between 1967-71. I had my first year in a red brick Waterhouse-designed school in West Kensington and then it moved to Barnes, one of those 60s buildings which resembled a biscuit factory. There were a few teachers I liked, one who [...]

May 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

NOTORIOUS (1946)

I am sure that I have seen this Hitchcock/Selznick production starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman before but it was sufficiently long ago that I did not recall much of the plot. It was showing on the excellent Talking Picture channel. Ingrid Bergman plays the daughter of a Nazi convicted in a [...]

April 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

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ITV COVERAGE OF CHELTENHAM

March 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort. With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last [...]
Max Schmelling/ The Good German

March 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the unlikely event that I would be asked to nominate a Great Life on Matthew Parris ‘ show my choice would be the Black Uhlan Max Schmelling. In the 1930s thee [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 spurs 1

March 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the big match Revisited featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to [...]
The Six Nations

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations continues to throw up surprises. England could not bounce back against Ireland , a resurgent Wales gave Scotland à close game with the Millennium Stadium [...]
Brentford 0 Brighton 2

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

The heat is off Fabian Hürzeler with Brighton ‘s 1st win in 13 games. Club owner Tony Bloom was not at the G Tech stadium due to a long planned family engagement but had [...]