Ian Hislop kicked off his new television series, The Age of the Do-Gooders, (the third and final part is on tomorrow night at 10pm, on BBC4 - you can catch up on the iPlayer) by revealing that William Wilberforce was not only an abolitionist but also, by today's standards, something of ... Read More...
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As I've mentioned before, on my own blog, one of the advantages of living in Australia is the access it gives you to European films and television programmes (odd, really, considering our geographical position, but no-one seems to be complaining). As a result, Danish programmes have become a staple of the Australian ... Read More...
I like watching television, but I think it is an entirely frivolous activity. I don't believe it works as an educational tool (who hasn't had the conversation that goes like this: "Did you see that amazing Attenborough programme last night. It was in ... I've forgotten exactly which country, but ... Read More...
If you would like to read the funniest book in the English language, get hold of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (available for 1p - or even less - here) Take no notice of those who tell you to read The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith ... Read More...
The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald (available at 1p here) concerns the attempt by a widow called Florence Green – “small, wispy and wiry, somewhat insignificant from the front view, and totally so from the back ” – to set up a bookshop in Hardborough, a small town on the East ... Read More...
In Anthony Burgess’ short story The Endless Voyager, a businessman throws away his passport and wallet mid-transit and, unable to enter any country, spends the rest of his life shuttling from airport to airport. He eventually goes mad. Today, of course, such a traveller might stave off purgatorial insanity by ... Read More...
