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 For the past couple of years, every time I've finished a book I've taken a photograph of it, maybe hoping that this will make me re...

  Illustrations by E. H. Shepard. That dragonfly is just perfect.   Ernest Hemingway, who liked big, short statements, f amously said, “All ...

 It's always fascinating to see who's worn your costume before you.    First day of the tube strikes. Choreography starts outside wh...

   Love Goddess , the musical in which I play – among other husbands of Rita Hayworth – Orson Welles, opens this Friday, and you can get t...

 I only finished reading Marianne Levy's Don't Forget To Scream on Monday so it's too early to say if it's changed my life,...

 Duck call as used in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme!    ANNOUNCEMENT: Series Nine of JFSP is getting a second airing, on Radio 4...

 Monday was shrouded in mist, or cloud (I don't know how high up we are, here in Languedoc). Sat around Mum's computer on three chai...

   April the Second marks one year since I decided to start reading aloud Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year" on You...

  Ten minutes walk from Kentish Town, there are roads entirely unchaperoned by lamplight, and where there is light, there are hills, and gre...

"A Dance around the Moon" by Charles Altamont Doyle  I knew that the author of Sherlock Holmes believed in fairies, and was happy ...