Starting at school

5th October 2018

Even as I have been neglecting the Illuminations blog, for which apologies once more, I have been writing elsewhere. Today's brief entry here points to a post I've written for a History of the BBC blog; below there is news more

TV incognita

4th October 2018

To BFI Southbank on Monday for a triple bill of television dramas by women playwrights: The Tamer Tamed, 1956, by Elaine Morgan (above); Still Waters, 1972, by Julia Jones; and A Kind of Marriage, 1976, by Buchi Emecheta. The programme more

Sunday links

30th September 2018

Today's links to interesting stuff that has attracted my attention over the past week or so, with thanks to Twitter recommenders. You will doubtless be delighted to see that I have once again worked out how to embed videos. • They more

Judson Dance Theater at MoMA

29th September 2018

I'm not sure I'm ready - or have time - to return to contributing frequent posts, but I am interested to see if I can occasionally draw together notes and pointers about topics that are engaging me. I want to more

Sunday links

23rd September 2018

No post last week - apologies - but I'm delighted to offer here a new group of links to stuff that I've found interesting over the past week and more. Many thanks to those who alerted me to some, on Twitter more

Clowns for BBC Two’s Performance Live

21st September 2018

One of the highlights of the summer was working with Hofesh Shechter to film his half-hour dance work Clowns. The film is first screened tomorrow night, 22 September, on BBC Two at 10.30pm, and will then be on BBC iPlayer for 30 more