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This coming Saturday BBC Television broadcasts both a documentary about the Jacobean theatre (on BBC Two, Saturday) and a recording of John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi (on BBC Four, Sunday) shot in the new more
This coming Saturday BBC Television broadcasts both a documentary about the Jacobean theatre (on BBC Two, Saturday) and a recording of John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi (on BBC Four, Sunday) shot in the new more
It has been just over a month since I last posted, for which I can only apologise. Not that I haven't had things to write about. Rather too many of them, in fact. Which in part accounts for my failure more
British Pathé has just published a wealth of new material on its wonderful YouTube channel (there is more about this from The Drum), and among the delights (only 5 views so far) is a newsreel spot about more
Following on from the successful Screen Plays 'Classics on TV' seasons 'Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen' (June 2012) and 'Jacobean Tragedy on the Small Screen' (March-April 2013), the project is delighted once again to be working more
There's something a bit superfluous and a bit naive and a bit daft about this post. But after last night and this afternoon I just want to express how much at present I love the theatre. Of course I am more
To Clapham Picturehouse for Saturday night's Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Puccini's La bohème. And "live" it most certainly was, for only around five hours earlier soprano Kristine Opolais replaced flu-stricken Anita Hartig in the main role more
Every conference is a curate's egg, and you always hope that the good parts make up (and more) for those that are less so. A two-day gathering in Brussels this week dedicated to the films of more
Remarkably, astonishingly, the image agency Getty Images has announced a new initiative to allow the embedding of many of its photographs for non-commercial use in blogs (like this one) and social media channels. A simple new embed tool more
I am reading a book that drips sex. Émile Zola's The Kill, in Brian Nelson's thrillingly good Oxford World's Classics translation, is one of the most sensuous, sexy books that I think I've ever read. This more
Until yesterday's Guardian article by Gareth Rubin I regret to say that I had not heard of the artist Miriam Elia and her totally delightful website Learning with Miriam. I had, however, seen several of her more