Antiques Roadshow just keeps on trucking, doesn't it? Personally I find it a source of huge comfort in our ever-changing world. There will always be an England whilst there's a new series of AR showing on Sunday nights. It gives a peculiar insight into the middle-of-the-road genius of the English: drenched ... Read More...
Television
The Song of Lunch, BBC2’s filmed version of Christopher Reid’s long poem, was excellent. I had some misgivings because a poem’s own words should be able to take care of themselves without the help of images and it’s an abomination to put music behind a poem, but I found it effective ... Read More...
“As a writer and broadcaster about the arts, Jonathan Meades is essentially a nightmare that is happening to the spinning cadaver of Kenneth Clark.” Clive James Where is Jonathan Meades? In the mid Nineties, he seemed ubiquitous. Turn on a TV in the evening and he'd probably be there, caricaturing himself. ... Read More...
Richard Taylor’s programme Churches: How to Read Them is showing on BBC4 (let’s face it, BBC4 is currently justifying the license fee on its own, with precious little help from elsewhere) and, a few episodes behind, on BBC2 on Friday evenings. Despite our supposed national Godlessness, countless people visit Britain’s churches every day, but how many of us ... Read More...
Last night's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? was an excellent example of why this series is so compelling. The actor, Hugh Quarshie (above), was in search of his roots on West Africa's Gold Coast, modern-day Ghana. One scene had him in his ancestral village meeting the local ... Read More...
