New Year links
Reading and viewing (with some listening as well) to ease you into 2015, with the usual apologies for the lack of appropriate thanks to those who recommended some of the following. • The Wire in HD (updated with video more
Reading and viewing (with some listening as well) to ease you into 2015, with the usual apologies for the lack of appropriate thanks to those who recommended some of the following. • The Wire in HD (updated with video more
Some reading and viewing for a post-Turkey moment or two... Happy Christmas! • Blue Christmas, by Michael Koresky and Casey Moore, from The Criterion Collection: Blue Christmas - An Original Video Essay from Criterion Collection on Vimeo. • more
As usual this a selection of articles and more that have engaged me recently; it is presented with my regular apology for not including appropriate thanks to those who alerted me to some of them. • Worse than a defeat: if more
Under the title 'Deep reading the Victorians', Susan E. Cook, Assistant Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, has contributed three fascinating articles to the Journal of Victorian Culture Online about the print-vs-digital question and what it means in more
On Sunday at BFI Southbank the estimable programming strand Miss Believed Wiped presented a screening of the ground-breaking 1967 BBC Television satellite broadcast Our World. The strand usually showcases programmes that were once thought lost but have been recently more
Let's get this on the table at the top: we believe our 5-disc box-set of the 1960 BBC Television series An Age of Kings, which adapts all eight of Shakespeare's great History plays, would make an excellent Christmas gift. You can more
Tonight's NT Live broadcast of DV8 Physical Theatre's John was not exactly business as usual. Absent was a live introduction by the bubbly Emma Freud. Instead we were treated to a video message from a serious-looking Nick Hytner telling more
I watched some terrific television over the weekend, and not all of it on television. Much of Sunday I spent at BFI Southbank with two screening programmes of the estimable Missing Believed Wiped project. This is the name that the BFI applies to showings more
I am touched and encouraged by the expressions of enthusiasm for this supposedly weekly offering, and I will now endeavour over the coming months to post it consistently. As before it is a selection of articles and more that have engaged me more
So I loved this week's episode of The Newsroom on Sky Atlantic. It was Episode 4 of Series 3 (only two more to go) and - spoiler! - it culminates in a wedding and a more-or-less simultaneous arrest more