Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: A Brief History of Boomers – Queenan’s take on the Post War generation
Review: A Brief History of Boomers. Presented by Joe Queenan. BBC Radio 4.I’m a Baby Boomer and so are all…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: Marianna in Conspiracy Land opens a window into the minds of those pushing conspiracy theories that lead eventually to violence and even a planned coup
Radio Review: Marianna in Conspiracy Land. BBC Radio 4. There’s an old saying about conspiracy theorists that people who believe…
Rapscallion Radio Review: behind the soft and reassuring voice is the sinister backdrop of Hitler’s rise to power as Rosemary Leach reads Judith Kerr’s 1971 novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Radio Review: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr – read by Rosemary Leach and abridged in five parts…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: sex, death and racism – life’s a game of chance in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and a Korean struggle for survival in wartime Japan
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee, Book Review With so many characters in the sweeping family drama set over a century…
Rapscallion Magazine Opinion: the resignation of Boris Johnson marks the collapse of the influence of his Praetorian Guard of MPs and his fandom support – plus marks the beginning of the end of Brexit
By Harry Mottram: Back in 2016 I attended a number of trade shows in Europe and the UK for business…
Rapscallion Magazine Restaurant Review: poissons, pastis and forgetting to order the national dish that’s been a favourite for 2,600 years in Marseille
Restaurant Review: Brasserie du Vieux Port, Marseille I had meant to have bouillabaisse – the poor man’s soup – and…
Rapscallion Magazine Restaurant Review: Afro beat and performers interrupt a lunch under the trees in Marseille’s Stalingrad Square
Restaurant Review: Les Danaïdes Restaurant, Marseille It was a question of passing out in the heat and collapsing onto the…
Postcard from Marseille: the not so edgy city with its tourists, the rain and my plastic mac – but no elephants
By Harry Mottram: Go to Marseilles they said, it’s edgy and dangerous – and there’s no tourists they said and…
Rapscallion Magazine Film Review: a pianist’s critical note to Stalin brings an end to the dictator as he lies dying in his own urine
Film Review: The Death of Stalin: Putin and his mafia cronies banned the 2017 movie because they are paranoid and…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: sex, secrets and violence – and a coming of age neo-Gothic mystery set within the shadow of Franco’s Spain in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlo Ruiz Zafon
By harrymottram DEC 5, 2020 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Teenager Daniel Sempere is the beneficiary…