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Michael Kamen
I’ve only just learnt that composer Michael Kamen has died at the age of 55. Only a couple of weeks ago, I was transferring my cassette of his soundtrack (with Eric Clapton) for Edge of Darkness from cassette to my PC for burning to CD. He had loads of film credits and recently he did…
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BBC Charter Review
The DCMS have an initiative aimed at gaining responses to how the BBC’s Charter Review should procede. There’s a website as part of this, and they say that they’ll publish all the responses they get online. I shall certainly be participating and answering their eight questions. There’s an accompanying document available too (PDF).
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John Le Carré
An awesome piece by John Le Carré in The Observer this weekend, about his father Ronnie.
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Touching The Void
In 1985 Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, a pair of young climbers, went to Peru to climb an unscaled face of a 21,000 ft Andean mountain, Siula Grande. The journey went horribly wrong on the descent, with the pair getting separated and Joe Simpson being left, quite probably dead. Now obviously he wasn’t because he…
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BBC4
Nice piece in today’s Guardian about BBC4 by Toby Young. Sadly the one problem is that Freeview isn’t available universally, otherwise it’d be my parents’ default Christmas present.
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Weather’s Broken
My weather page is bust because the BBC have changed their format. Some reprogramming’s in order…
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Road to McCarthy
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Morality for Beautiful Girls
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Master and Commander
The novels of Patrick O’Brian are the preferred reading of a significant part of the population – and previously I’ve thought them to be a type of Telegraph reader. Anyway, this film comes along, and despite what I thought was a quite dreadful trailer, I went along anyway. I have to say that I thoroughly…
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Sexie
The new Eddie Izzard DVD/Video is out now, and is of course mostly notable for the fact that I’m in the audience! I’m told by friends who were there with me, that if you know where to look you can see us. Of course we were sitting in the middle of the fourth row right…
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Jumpers
I managed to get some tickets to the West End transfer of Jumpers a week or so ago. I’d never seen this play before – originally produced in the early 70s. Simon Russell Beale is outstanding however as the poor confused philosopher married to his philandering wife (Essie Davis was “indisposed” for the performance I…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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