31st March 2024
John Wyver writes: I had been looking forward to Peter Biskind's latest book, which in the States is titled Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile and Greed Upended TV, and which over here carries the slightly desperate, and arguably
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24th June 2022
The final blog post for our 40th anniversary is an interview with Jeff Bezos circa 1998. This is the first time we've made this clip available and it's a fascinating glimpse of when Amazon was 'just' a bookshop but also
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7th June 2020
John Wyver writes: These are some of the things that have engaged me over the past extraordinary, historic week. The selection starts with four essential analyses, and with a powerful video made by actors who have worked with the RSC
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4th September 2015
Perhaps you've noticed that this blog has been sadly neglected over past months. I have kept meaning to return to it but I have been doing so much other writing across the summer that somehow there has never quite been
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10th August 2014
It's our boy Ben's 21st birthday today, and we have had an excellent party in Whitstable. This morning's links have now been added to, with - as before - apologies for not properly crediting those who highlighted for me many
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