To mark the rechalking of the Cerne Abbas Giant, here is an extract from my book Upon A White Horse – in which I write about meeting the Giant on May Day. If you enjoy my writing, please do share.
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M's 95th anniversary ~ A landmark in filmmaking form, Fritz Lang introduces, and masters techniques like the leitmotif and diegetic sound to create now cinematic trademarks, the film remains more audacious than most contemporary films
One fun thing about Germany is that you'll be reading a long piece about housing policy in a sober news weekly and then just come across something like this
@StephenGParker We inherited one of these too - it’s beautiful! We prune it lightly after flowering but more major pruning we do in the winter. That works for us!
“Oh Christ, the cook is dead”
In February 1977, a chap wrote to SPIKE MILLIGAN after reading ‘Monty: His Part in My Victory’ - the third installment of Spike’s memoirs on his life as a soldier in WW2 - with some complaints.
This was Spike’s reply.
I was the junior writer on the Radio 4 newsdesk at BH when the first vague reports of a radioactive cloud broke that day. The editors asked me to write it up for the lunchtime news because it seemed a relatively minor story. When Moscow finally made an announcement the 6pm
“The young spent 18 minutes a day reading for pleasure compared with three hours and one minute looking at a screen. One third of 16 to 19-year-olds read nothing at all.”
Book lovers’ cathedral on the brink as Paris turns the page on reading
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