Sunday links
John Wyver writes: our break in Northumberland was glorious - thanks for asking - and I'm returning now with today's list of recommended reading, listening and viewing. • In Our Time - Walter Benjamin: let us now more
John Wyver writes: our break in Northumberland was glorious - thanks for asking - and I'm returning now with today's list of recommended reading, listening and viewing. • In Our Time - Walter Benjamin: let us now more
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 more
Following is my contribution to the week of top tens, and the last of this half-dozen offerings. Again - apart from the first - this in no particular order. Many thanks to Keith, Linda, Todd, Simon and Louise for the more
My 'Links for the weekend' is our blog's most popular offering. But given the length of this week's post as it first appeared, it is clear that the idea is in danger of getting out of hand. So I am more
Andrew O'Hagan's essay about the Savile scandal in the London Review of Books, Light entertainment, is (and I know this is much over-used adjective) indispensable. Amongst much else it is a truly remarkable portrait of the post-war BBC, but more
While I enjoy - and try to make some sense of - Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone (posts coming soon), let me recommend as warmly as possible two books and two terrific critical articles. The first more