A nation split in two, bitter struggles over national identity and the country's relationship with Europe, factional fighting for control of the ruling party, roiling discontent barely suppressed in the streets... This is England in 2016, perhaps, and most certainly England more
Last week BBC Archive Tweeted a wonderful image (detail above, full picture below) of the mobile television van at Wimbledon in 1937, the first year that BBC Television covered the championships. Inspired by that, and driven by my more
The official Twitter account of Sadiq Khan sent out this image yesterday at 4.30pm. It shows the Mayor of London at the Pride rally in Trafalgar Square, and as @dannybrown commented this morning 'This is like the poster for the more
Inevitably much of this week's reading has been dominated by the many excellent pieces about the referendum and its fall-out (especially from the Guardian, which has been playing a blinder), but here are links to a selection of other bits more
DO NOT READ THIS POST (OR LOOK AT IMAGE ABOVE) IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH THE GOOD WIFE S7 E22. My chosen method of coping with the hideous, disastrous events of Friday was not to resort to alcohol or other mind-numbing substance, more
Linda Zuck writes: Friday sees the release in the UK of Elvis and Nixon. Starring Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey, practiced presidential impersonator, as Nixon, the film is the truly bizarre story of the day in December more
Links spotted or recommended to me (for which thanks, and apologies for the lack of name-checks) over the past week. • Lost colours: The estimable Luke McKernan has added to his flickr site a wealth of images from filmmaker more
With just over a week until our release of the 1965 BBC-Royal Shakespeare Company production The Wars of the Roses as a 3-disc DVD box set, we are delighted to present here The Making of The Wars of the Roses. more
To Stockholm for meetings with colleagues on the 2-IMMERSE research project, and to dinner on the 28th floor of the television tower known as Kaknastornet. This truly splendid example of 1960s brutalism is 155 metres tall and remains a major hub more