Links for the week [Updated]

23rd September 2012

A time there was when I posted weekly a group of links to things that I recently read or watched online. Then I stopped for a while. And now - I think - I am going to start again. Maybe more

Whitstable times

18th September 2012

You will have noticed that I have not been blogging much over the past two months. I have been planning posts, writing parts of them in my head, even jotting down drafts. There is one that I want to offer more

From a not “proper” Shakespeare producer

14th July 2012

Grrrr! I know, I know that you should never respond to criticism, but today I can't resist a little rant. I am also by disposition a retiring individual not much given to trumpeting Illuminations' achievements. But take a look at more

‘Never till tonight, never till now’

24th June 2012

06:20 (Monday morning): In fact, I didn't add to the blog (see 22:23 below) after the end of the broadcast. In part this was because my two sons came back from the pub disappointed and dejected (no, they hadn't been more

‘Be thou my witness…’ [Updated]

22nd June 2012

As I have done previously with our productions of Hamlet (2009) and Macbeth (2010), I am using this page to draw together responses to our new film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Julius Caesar. The film is first broadcast by more

‘The order of the course’

20th June 2012

Today we started the grade for our film of the RSC's Julius Caesar. The final sound mix is underway too. So it's all a bit busy, and that's without the other projects to finish off and the new ones to more

‘Much that I fear may chance’

19th June 2012

It may be that in all the excitement about the imminent transmission of Julius Caesar you have missed the news that the England football team play Ukraine this evening. And although your faithful blogger would not normally bring his interest more

‘Read mine first…’

17th June 2012

There is something a little strange about seeing in print a review of your programme when it is not yet finished. But the transmission master of our film of the RSC's Julius Caesar will only be delivered  on the morning of more