It’s that time of year again: strawberries, rain, athletic young folk leaping about in whites, and the gentle thwack of balls. Tennis balls, that is. Yup, Wimbledon is here again. Two weeks of joy for tennis fans, two weeks of fuming and searching the tv listings for *anything* that isn’t tennis for those of a [...]
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Anyone for tennis?
Posted in Britain, Sport, TV, events on June 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Devil’s Whore
Posted in Britain, Erastes, People of Britain, TV on November 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Shown on Channel Four this week, I sat down to watch “The Devil’s Whore” with a great deal of interest. My next novel is about the English Civil War and having invested so much research into it, I was curious to see how Channel Four dealt with it. Was it going to be something along [...]
Lost In Austen
Posted in Austen, Erastes, Society, TV, tagged Austen, lost in austen, TV on September 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Last night I watched Lost in Austen, which I enjoyed, although it surprised me that I did. It’s fairly obviously a clever twist on the Life on Mars idea, someone thrown into an environment that they weren’t expecting.
Basically if you didn’t see it (and there’s bound to be a repeat, [...]
