12th November 2017
It's unlikely that anyone will have noticed, but whether about links or anything else I have not posted here for some six weeks. Moreover, my contributions in the months before that were, well let's just say... sporadic. Maybe they are destined
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18th September 2017
I have just returned from a fascinating three-day trip to St Petersburg (of which more tomorrow), so the Links post is a day late . In other respects it is much as I try (but too often fail) to do
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10th September 2017
Links to articles that have intrigued, interested and informed me in the past week. Grateful thanks to all those who pointed me towards them, and apologies for not including more than this collective credit. I'll start with one of the
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3rd September 2017
Once more, I return to the blog with, I hope, sufficient energy to see us through at least part of the autumn. So to start with, as I've contributed in the past (even if not too often recently) here are
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23rd July 2017
Six weeks since I last posted. We've recorded another stage performance for BBC Two and a classical concert for Sky Arts - details of both of those soon. Our co-production with the Donmar of Julius Caesar has been launched into
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21st May 2017
This week's selection of links to articles and one video that have attracted my eye and ear, with my thanks to those who pointed me towards them. And just for a change, let's ignore the idiocies of the public world
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14th May 2017
A selection of links to interesting stuff from the past week, with the usual implied virtual thanks to those who alerted me to many of them.
• Who will be left?: among the many good points that Tom Crewe makes
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7th May 2017
Last weekend my sister Sheila celebrated her 60th birthday in Whitstable, and a lovely occasion it was - so that's my excuse this time for missing last week's links. Here's a selection from the past fortnight, with the usual implied
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23rd April 2017
Although I am posting more links on weekdays, Sunday is the day for a miscellany, which is what I offer here with thanks to those who alerted me to many.
• The real madman: Masha Gessen on Putin and Tr*mp
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16th April 2017
I have been wrestling with how best to contribute regularly to this blog while I am much preoccupied with a number of productions and several more extended pieces of writing. Sunday links columns like this have been the only ones
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