Category: Film, TV & Radio

The Servant

There are so many niceties if you move in royal circles. The Duke of York has “stepped back”; Michael Fawcett has “stepped down”. It sounds as if they are Scottish dancing at Balmoral.

Cinemanship

Stephen Potter knew he was onto a good thing when he wrote Gamesmanship in 1947; Lifemanship, One-Upmanship, Supermanship, Christmas-ship and Golf-Gamesmanship soon followed.

65 Years On

I would very much like to see the 1956 version of Around the World in 80 Days in a cinema with a big screen.

Old Hammersmith

This is what I saw yesterday at the top of the escalators on the first floor of Charing Cross Hospital. It was commissioned “for the benefit of elderly patients” and being one myself I drank it in, so to speak.

Moo-vie Time

My first visit to a cinema since 2019 and my first visit to the Riverside Studios cinema since it re-opened.

May Gleanings

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. (Ode on Solitude, Alexander Pope) At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve… Continue reading May Gleanings

Essential Classics

Radio 4’s offerings on weekday mornings do not appeal to me: Woman’s Hour and You and Yours with nothing of much interest in between.

My Cup of Tea

I have not seen The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and didn’t intend to. The idea of seeing a bunch of elderly actresses hamming it up did not appeal.