Obi Egbuna and the BBC: the story continued
John Wyver writes: My previous post 'Earl Cameron and a lost play' traced my research explorations prompted by a repeat transmission in 1971 as a Play for Today of a more
John Wyver writes: My previous post 'Earl Cameron and a lost play' traced my research explorations prompted by a repeat transmission in 1971 as a Play for Today of a more
John Wyver writes: for the past week or so I have been ... what? 'attending', perhaps, or 'participating in', or 'watching', the Future States conference. I've posted before about this, and about its innovative online format, here and more
From the Guardian's daily US politics feed on Wednesday 20 March... the full Esquire interview with Pete Buttigieg is here and a backgrounder on the candidate (image: Joshua Lott/Getty Images).
John Wyver writes: for this collection of links I am interpreting the idea of 'writing' rather broadly, and so there are pointers towards pieces about writing, pieces about journalism, pieces about reading, and pieces of what I feel to be more
Yesterday's Observer carried a loving profile by Kate Kellaway of the writer John Berger. Berger's 90th birthday is this coming Saturday, and Kate Kellaway catches something of the achievement and significance of his life when she writes: Critic, novelist, poet, dramatist, artist, commentator more
On Wednesday this week RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcasts Gregory Doran's production of King Lear to cinemas across Britain. As preparation for this, my work as producer has meant that I've watched the staging half a dozen times more
With my colleague Dr Irene Morra from Cardiff University, I am working on a major international, interdisciplinary academic conference to be held at Senate House next June. 'Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal' will coincide with the 150th more
Last weekend our friend Dr Billy Smart circulated by e-mail to a handful of colleagues a touching tale of a second-hand book. Billy was Research Officer for the excellent and just-completed research project The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the more
A nation split in two, bitter struggles over national identity and the country's relationship with Europe, factional fighting for control of the ruling party, roiling discontent barely suppressed in the streets... This is England in 2016, perhaps, and most certainly England more
The best book that I read on holiday recently was a novel first published in 1963. My overwhelming feeling on finishing The Expendable Man was that both it and its author, Dorothy B. Hughes, deserve to be far better-known than, at least more