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(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 100 Voices That made the BBC - Elections: a glorious archive site about the televising of elections from the BBC and more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 100 Voices That made the BBC - Elections: a glorious archive site about the televising of elections from the BBC and more
A time there was when I used to post here regularly, including on each Sunday a host of links. In recent months I have fallen out of the habit. You've been so busy with other things, I tell myself. You've been more
Long ago and far away - in the autumn of 1971, I believe, and in Canterbury - I fell in love. The obscure object of my desire was Cinema, and two inamorata vied for my affections. One was the collective more
I have been reading with great pleasure the excellent Library of America anthology The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner. Edited by Laurence Senelick, this features numerous essays, reviews and poems across the more
Picturegoing is a splendid online resource compiled and curated by the estimable Luke McKernan, who also runs another richly interesting blog under his own name and in his spare time is the British Library's more
To Middleham Castle on Saturday evening for a unique 'performed screening' of a 1911 silent film version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Sited in the glorious Yorkshire dales, the impressive castle, now in the care of English more
Many of the world's most prominent Shakespeare academics are meetings this week in Stratford-upon-Avon for the invite-only International Shakespeare Conference. A highlight of the first day was the screening of Shakespearian Spinach as more
I am in Stratford-upon-Avon for today's first camera rehearsal for the RSC's live cinema presentation of Henry IV Part II on 18 June. One of the things that frustrates me about these broadcasts is that they rarely get more
Although there is no sign of this here, I have been thinking a lot about a new direction for this blog. I have remarkably downtime at the moment and I'm all too aware that I am not posting regularly. The 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