Each time I return grumpily to the topic of today's post I feel the need to apologise to regular readers. I know that I have taken on several times before the vandalism represented by forcing 4:3 archive footage into contemporary more
Far be it from me to rain on the National Theatre's fiftieth birthday parade, but allow me to make a few slightly-less-than-gushing remarks about the recent two-part Arena documentary and tonight's compilation album of extracts. (The two films are on more
Earlier this month I was delighted to make a very modest contribution to a conference in Oxford about Louis MacNeice, radio writer and producer co-organised by my Screen Plays colleague Dr Amanda Wrigley. Amanda and Professor more
On Thursday evening Arena premiered the first of two films looking back at the history of the National Theatre. I am going to wait for the second to air before posting about them, but I do want to look today at more
We are thrilled to confirm that Illuminations is to release the BBC cycle of Shakespeare's History plays An Age of Kings as a 15-episode, 5-disc DVD set on 8 December. You can place your advance order here. An Age of more
How fascinating to see three different productions of the same great play in one week. Last Friday I watched a preview of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts adapted and directed by Richard Eyre at the Almeida (until 23 November). Over more
So just how excited are we? Homeland S3 starts in the States on Sunday - and a week later, on Sunday 6 October, on Channel 4. In one of my Sunday Links... columns I highlighted the recent Varieties more
Here was one we made earlier. More than fifteen years ago in fact, and now brought from the archive for an outing at BFI Southbank on NFT1's big screen. The production was Gloriana - A Film and the occasion last more
At the end of last week, I posted about the Spaces of Television conference at the University of Reading. I greatly enjoyed the three-day event and I learned a lot from many of the presentations. One of the more
The modern campus of the University of Reading is a pleasant place, especially when flattered by the late afternoon sun of a mild autumn day. That's where I have been for the last three days, taking part in an enjoyable more