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Radio Review: I first became aware of Jane Birkin in a 1967 copy of King Magazine that my sister Kath…
TV Review: Stonehouse, broadcast on ITV in three episodes on January 2-4, 2023.I would guess that pretty much everyone has…
Review: Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie GarmusAt turns funny and witty but also an all out assault on misogynistic 50s…
Not As Far as Velma. BBC4 Extra and BBC Sounds.First broadcast some 33 years ago with a youthful Keith Barron…
Radio Review: Charles Paris Mystery in A Reconstructed Corpse. BBC4 Extra.This episode of the thespian-solves-whodunnits is possibly my favourite Radio…
Review: A Brief History of Boomers. Presented by Joe Queenan. BBC Radio 4.I’m a Baby Boomer and so are all…
Radio Review: Marianna in Conspiracy Land. BBC Radio 4. There’s an old saying about conspiracy theorists that people who believe…
Radio Review: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr – read by Rosemary Leach and abridged in five parts…
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee, Book Review With so many characters in the sweeping family drama set over a century…
By Harry Mottram: Back in 2016 I attended a number of trade shows in Europe and the UK for business…