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Sue MacGregor and The Reunion

Following on from yesterday ‘s piece by Tom Hollingworth on the relative abilities of female presenters I would like to champion Sue MacGregor, in my opinion the best female broadcaster ever. She cut her teeth on the Today programme. She is so versatile that she presented the book programme A [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Female presenters

I was listening to TMS when the storm broke over the Stokes dismissal. The story will dominate the back pages as the cricketing press love controversy and confrontation as much as their football writers. I was struck by how acute the analysis of Australian cricinfo journalist Melinda Farrell was. [...]

September 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Nick

The Nick is a fly on the wall documentary on Brighton police. The problem, like all fly on the walls, is the filmed never quite behave as naturally as they would otherwise. They are aware of – and in some cases perform to – the camera. I have heard it said that after a while they forget [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Meursault Investigation / Kamel Daoud

Though largely ignored in British literary circles this first novel by Algerian  journalist Kamel  Daoud has created a sensation in France, won prizes, is a best seller, been translated into 17 languages and the film of it is to be released in 2017. The conceit is the brother of the Arab killed [...]

September 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

World War Two and cricket

On September 1st 1939 the Nazis invaded Poland. Two days later Britain declared war. All but one cricket county championship was abandoned.  Sussex and Yorkshire played on as it was George Cox’s benefit. Hedley Verity took 7-9 in dismissing Sussex for 60. By the time Yorkshire had won there [...]

September 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stanmer House

In my recent review of Brighton restaurants I omitted Stanmer House sometimes called Brighton’s hidden jewel. Stanmer House is more or less opposite the Amex stadium in Falmer adjacent to the university and a refreshing alternative to the busy restaurants in the Lanes or on the seafront. [...]

September 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Trials of Jimmy Rose

Superannuated actors are having a field day: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay in 45 days, Bill Nighy in everything and anything and now Ray Winstone in The Trials of Jimmy Rose, ITV’s latest effort for the Sunday evening audience. It dealt in too many cliches, it was edgy but not [...]

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Ladies Ashes

I went to the second game at the Hove for the Ladies Ashes with an open mind. Perhaps I have been too harsh in criticising the BBC for promoting women’s sport in general and cricket in particular. My conclusion was I have not. Why do spectators attend a sporting event? One obvious reason, [...]

August 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Machals

America has come in for criticism over the years as an interventionist imperialist state and Israel as the oppressive bully boy of the Middle East but it was not always thus. In 1948 with the approval of the United Nations the state of Israel was formed and promptly invaded by their Arab [...]

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

August: an apocalyptic month

There is a tendency to regard August as the least active of all months, the ” silly season” ,  but history shows otherwise. The dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan, the Kuwait war and the death of Princess Diana all took place in August and war was declared both in the Great War [...]

August 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

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