Category: Film, TV & Radio

I have been listening to a lot of Romanian on TV this week.

Few people enjoy paying taxes but I don’t mind buying a TV licence and a parking permit and would pay other taxes were they to be re-introduced; namely a wireless licence (abolished in 1971) and a dog licence (abolished in 1987). I don’t suppose either raised much revenue, a wireless licence cost £1 5s. in… Continue reading Radio Three – It’s For Me!

“Can you imagine a world without oil?”

I first noticed James Norton in the BBC drama series Happy Valley in which he plays Tommy Lee Royce; a cold, vindictive, psychotic, serial murderer.

At first sight some 19th century architects had improbably long careers; for instance Barry, Pugin and Scott. As you know, their children took up the architectural baton from their fathers’ giving this impression.