It goes off BBC Sounds at midnight so I finally got round to listening to the Nick Drake prom, which was, you know, all right. Brief interview with his sister Gabrielle nice. Marika Hackman & BC Camplight best. Decent orchestrations but all a bit too polite. Here it is: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra, guest artists and conductor Jules Buckley.
The Moon Over Soho: 1985. C4 commissioning editor Peter Ansorge's only TV play, in which Leonard Rossiter (his last TV performance) tries to keep a Sight and Sound type journal going. A young Lesley Manville & a slimy Ken Campbell in strong cast. Stuart Burge directs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U558...
YouTube video by Charlie Bowser (Charlie Is Ma Darlin')
Or nowhere near London.
Congratulations to South Korea's Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwY...
YouTube video by Nobel Prize
Following Andrew Biswell's talk about Greene & Brighton Rock at the 25th International Graham Greene festival, worth noting that the original & superior movie is on the terrific TPTV tonight at 610. While I'm here, allow me to plug my blog all about the festival: www.davidbelbin.com/blog/2024/10...
Had a terrific time at the 25th Graham Greene International Conference in Berkhamsted. So good, in fact, that I got round to writing a new blog for the first time in months. Here you go. www.davidbelbin.com/.../25th-gra...
The first CD in 46 years from the original Gaffa line-up now available at Nottingham's Five Leaves Bookshop. Priced ridiculously low, so while you're there you can also buy the only book about the band (and the only one in English about the late, great Kevin Coyne + some obscure folky called Drake).
Nice piece on 'The Rubettes'. I'd never seen the video before and it's rather good, so thanks for that, too.
Here's Nottingham's Leftlion on this issue. Repurpose the cooling towers! leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
The end of September saw the closure of the UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station: Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Environment Editor Adam Pickering reflects on the past and future of this instantly recogni...
Here's @mrJamesGraham (at 2.28) on today's news talking about the campaign to save the cooling towers in Ratcliffe on Soar. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...www.change.org/p/save-the-b...