Everyone can remember the first record they ever bought. I was reminded of this by a reader telling me that her’s was Lily the Pink, see London House Prices, mine was A Hard Day’s Night.
Category: Film, TV & Radio
An Irish Oscar (not Wilde)
The Jet Set
Walkies
Get Smart
Nie Yinniang
Figaro, Where?
The Metropolitan Opera in New York has been broadcasting Saturday matinees live to cinemas in Europe for ten years. It’s a super way to see tip-top productions with the bonus of watching what’s going on back-stage and hearing the singers being interviewed. Only been around for ten years but already I have my favourite moment.… Continue reading Figaro, Where?
Rebellion
Have you been watching War and Peace on the BBC? I haven’t either but what I’d like to see is Rebellion on RTE (the Republic of Ireland broadcaster). Just to bring you up to speed, 100 years ago, in 1916, when the rest of the world was concentrating on the First World War, Ireland had… Continue reading Rebellion