20th August 2016
I continue to lament that journalistic criticism about television in Britain today remains, with a few honourable exceptions, pretty poor. But if you know where to look, there is much rich writing about the medium's history - and I thought today I
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25th July 2016
A day late, I know, but here's this week's list of links to articles that I've found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as always to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in
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17th July 2016
Two Brexit links and a clutch pointing to pieces about Pokémon GO, plus other things that I've found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as always to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter
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3rd July 2016
Lots of post-referendum reading this week, but - with two exceptions - not here. These are links to other bits and pieces that I have found interesting the past seven days. Thanks as always to those who have pointed me
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6th June 2016
Links to interesting stuff that I have discovered over the past week. A day late, I fear, in part accounted for by the preparations for the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast of Hamlet on Wednesday.
• Hillary Clinton
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26th April 2016
Last weekend was a touch busy, what with getting Prince Charles, Judi Dench and one or two others on screen, so forgive these Links being a couple of days late.
• William Shakespeare, playwright and poet, is dead at
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23rd January 2013
Why is the work of one of our greatest filmmakers - the director Alan Clarke - all but invisible?
This is not a new question. Nor do I have anything original by way of an answer. But the issue is much
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