Unattended Articles

 My strongest memory by far of the time Grange Hill went to Chessington Zoo is of Annette Firman negging a posh, ginger kid from between th...

Hello friends/fellow students. As anyone who's subscribed to my YouTube channel might know, I've started a second one . And there, ...

 To know this show was to love it but if even you did neither, both Movie Club and "guest reviewer" are pretty self-explanatory, s...

 "It is wonderful, isn't, yes. Proper prestige telly! Yes. Glenda Jackson! And really, thank you all again for coming over, it'...

   And I got the job!  It's okay to post old auditions from 2023, right? And it's okay if you want a quick clip for your new showree...

 For some reason, colours always seem happiest working with David Hockney. Here's a small, room-sized fusion of Renaissance Florence, Br...

"This is the record of our second expedition to the site of Britain. It was a grim undertaking. But we had to go, otherwise all the mem...

 It occured to me yesterday, happily and suddenly, that my lack of engagement with the blog might not, in fact, be incontertible evidence of...

Margaret Cabourn-Smith reflects on her old sketch antics and why you shouldn't use real meat in your shows. You can listen to the full ...

The author, entirerly comfortable doing a first-time Northern accent in front of cameras.    I swear, I didn't just come back on this bl...

     Actually, there are a couple of self-tapes in here from August too now – I took down the original cut from youtube before I could blog ...

 Just as Autumn was beginning, sitting in a festoon-lit beer garden on the South Bank, I got to thinking about Pinocchio, and about how much...

        Also starring JEFFREY WRIGHT as Sidney Bechet!!!  Here's a Saturday treat! No need to wait now for "The Dial of Destiny...

   The beautiful Bob McGrath died today, which is also the day I learnt from an old American panel show that a couple of years before becomi...

  "I was really the very first, I think, to sing naturally, to sing as you speak. And of course, it wasn't accepted by everybody. C...

Orson Welles by Derren Brown    Another two-show day, so here's your Sunday shot of Orson Welles.   I first saw "cold reading"...

   Rab C. Nesbitt was my Holden Caulfield. At least I'm assuming he was, I didn't get past page two of Catcher In The Rye . But ...

 In 1953, over a decade before he would direct my Dad around a big white box in A Midsummer Night's Dream , a twenty-eight year old Pete...

     It's just after Frank Capra who directed "It's A Wonderful Life" talks about Hobart Bosworth losing his upper jaw to ...