Chris Chakraborty

Kirkcaldy, Wolverhampton, Oxford, London, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, London, Vancouver, Tlön Uqbar

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We Have Ways (Hood v Bismarck 1-4)
Never Strays Far (Kirsten Shaw)
Pod Save America (ICE kills Minnesota Mom)
Lovett or Leave it (Don’t believe your lying eyes)
Never Strays Far: Pune Grand Tour Ep 1-2

[Chris Chakraborty @uqbar2]

Read, Watched, Listened to…

January 2026

Read:
Little Dorrit
Oliver Twist
Hard Times
Our Mutual Friend
Jane Eyre*

Watched:

TV
The Lowdown S1 Ep 6-8
Fallout S2 Ep 3-5
Fallen Angels (“The Quiet Room”)
Can You Keep a Secret? S1 Ep 1-6
The World at War (Ep 23 “Pacific”)

[Chris Chakraborty @uqbar2]

Tragic Magic (Barwick & Lattimore)
Madrigals (Gesualdo)
Mass Teen Fainting (Plumtree)
Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
Madrigals (Gesualdo)

PODCASTS
Empire (Rudyard Kipling Ep 1-3)
The Rest is History (Joan of Arc 1-4)
Empire (India’s Greatest Rebellion 1-5)

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Trans-Island Skyway (Donald Fagen)
12 Spanish Dances (Granados)
German requiem (Brahms)
Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich)
St John Passion (Bach)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd
PODCASTS
Stringbags series (We Have Ways of Making You Talk)
The Adam Buxton Podcast (Joe Cornish)

[Chris Chakraborty @uqbar2]

Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Trois Leçons de Ténèbres (Couperin)
Concerto for Orchestra (Bartok)
Choral Fantasy (Holst)
The Planets (Holst)
A Meeting by the River (Cooder and Bhatt)
Sure ‘Nuff ’n’ Yes I Do (Captain Beefheart)
Blimp (Captain Beefheart)

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Rattlesnakes (Lloyd Cole)
St Elmo’s Fire Soundtrack (Various)
Silver Joy (Daniel Jurado)
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Combat Rock (The Clash)
Un Oratorio de Noël (Charpentier)
The Curlew (Warlock)
Six concertos (Albinoni)
Concerto for piano trio and orchestra (Beethoven)

[Chris Chakraborty @uqbar2]

Aja (Steely Dan)
Chamber music (Couperin)
Chamber music (Frescobaldi)
Variations, Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams)
Tragic Overture (Brahms)
Symphony No. 3 (Brahms)
Chamber music (Biber)
Quatuor pour le fin du temps (Messiaen)
Elizabethan Part Songs (Various)

[Chris Chakraborty @uqbar2]

Concertos for Oboe (Vivaldi)
Hatful of Hollow (The Smiths)
Piano Concerto No. 25 (Mozart)
Piano Concerto No. 27 (Mozart)
Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)
Orchestral Suites (Bach)
Sacred Music (Gesualdo)
Sonatas and Partitas (Bach)
Gymnopedies (Satie)
Why Don’t You Try Me (Ry Cooder)

[Chris Chakraborty @uqbar2]

Read, Watched, Listened to…
Nov/Dec 2025

Read:

Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Nicholas Nickleby
Martin Chuzzlewit
Little Dorrit (in progress)

Watched:

FILM
All of You
Apocalypse Now
Ma Nuit Chez Maud
The Odd Couple
Sentimental Value
When Harry Met Sally
Anaconda (2025)

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TV
Us S1 Ep 1-4 (BBC)
Fallout S2 Ep 1-2
Gone Fishing at Christmas
The Lowdown S1 Ep 1-5

Listened to:

Pelleas et Melisande (Sibelius)
Pelleas et Melisande (Fauré)
Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy)
Transfigured Night (Schoenberg)
On Wenlock Edge (Vaughan Williams)

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@cineworld Ta - will try that

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@cineworld Hey Cineworld! Tried renewing Unlimited membership but stalled at Upload Photo stage! Don’t you want my money? Product? Brilliant. Back end? Shit.

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How desperately unfunny Twitter is, is desperately unfunny.

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@itvcycling @TourofBritain @millarmind @MattBarbet @nedboulting @ITVX Cheshire of course is Alan Garner country - the crags and caves of the landscape feature prominently in many of his novels - the Owl Service, the Weirdstone of Brisangemen and others. Folklorist, novelist Garner is Cheshire born and bred.