Real Life “Wealth I Seek Not, Hope Nor Love…” Remembering Peter the Painter 15 Mar 202119 Apr 2021 “Sadly lost again in a longing for the past” (9) A timely cryptic-crossword clue this week made me realise not only that “nostalgia” is an apt anagram of “lost again”,…
television drama… High Spirits and Low Morale 29 Nov 201829 Oct 2020 This is a story not only about a forgotten story, but about a forgotten tragedy. It is a two-part tale. Bear with me. In the ever-changing sea of crime series,…
television drama Impish Hillmans 28 Apr 201729 Oct 2020 “I remember this thing I saw on telly once about a couple that had this old car they didn’t want, and they kept trying to get rid of it. They…
television drama A Dreadful And Despairing History 7 Mar 201729 Oct 2020 Few, if any, remember a late-night series of half-hour plays under the cumbersome umbrella title Conceptions of Murder, broadcast at various points throughout 1970 in several ITV regions, with no…
television drama Fear The Reaper 28 Feb 201729 Oct 2020 Sometimes you blow the dust off something that leaves you breathless with excitement. Nigel Hinton’s 1979 television play The Reaper has done just that. All I knew of it a…
