Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: Evelyn Waugh’s wartime drama Put Out More Flags is given a rich vocal texture in BBC Radio 4 Extra production
Radio Review: Evelyn Waugh – Put Out More Flags There’s something very louche in Anthony Valentine’s voice as Basil Seal…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: the coming of age story of Gothic fantasy obsessed Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen Part Gothic send-up, part coming of age bildungsroman novel and part…
Rapscallion Magazine: National Treasure? Dame Maggie Smith was my step Godmother! (Well not quite but there is a rather tenuous link to this family myth)
By Harry Mottram: She may have been Dame Maggie Smith to the world of theatre, the movies and TV dramas…
Axbridge News: Cheddar Reservoir owners hit by £16 million costs after pollution causes illness in Devon as plans for a second reservoir appear to stall
Cheddar Reservoir News: In 2021 the Pennon Group based in Devon and whose main firm is South West Water acquired…
Axbridge News: everything you wanted to know about the Annual Axbridge Charity Progressive Supper but were afraid to ask – including the things you should never do on the night
By Harry Mottram: Trying to explain how a progressive supper works is like trying to explain the off-side rule in…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: the grim reality of Franco’s Fascist Spain in the aftermath of the civil war in a story of survival, love and loss in CJ Sansom’s novel Winter In Madrid
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Winter In Madrid, by C.J. Sansom. It was one of those ‘what it’ moments in World…
Axbridge News: get ready for the sounds of the sixties as the music of The Kinks and Ray Davies are set to bring a Waterloo Sunset to Axbridge Town Hall
By Harry Mottram: The Bootleg Beatles, Brit Floyd, Bohemian Queen, The Iron Maidens, The Real Diamond, Counterfeit Kylie, Chic to…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: keeping it real in an engrossing, amusing and life affirming novel – in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies
Book Review: The Brooklyn Follies, by Paul Auster The opening line of the novel seems at odds as to what…
ICSM Business Insolvency News: the rise and rise of Ghost Business Insolvencies – firms that don’t shut down when they go bust but enter a grey area of trading for a time
By Harry Mottram: ICSM has seen a rise in firms that say they are insolvent and lay off their staff and…
Rapscallion Magazine: notes on angry motorists, cowardly dogs, pointless cycle paths and Chelsea Tractors by a harmless cyclist
On a cycle ride across England recently Harry Mottram made some observations on cycle paths and road users that make…