Tag: Harriet Walter

Posted in Alan Bennett TV

TV Review: Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads

“Her mother was blind but made beautiful pastry” Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads gets remade and added to…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Black Earth Rising

A cast led by Michaela Coel, Noma Dumezweni, John Goodman and Lucian Msamati make Hugo Blick’s complex…

Posted in TV Waking the Dead

TV Review: Waking the Dead Series 1

Turning my lockdown TV watching attention to the BBC’s Waking the Dead, a show I remember fondly…

Posted in Alan Bennett TV

News: Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads returns to TV

Along with the rest of theatreland, I’m already over-excited and impatient for all of these. Filming begins…

Posted in Lockdown Treats Shakespeare Theatre

Lockdown treat: an all-star quality of mercy

Talk about a powerhouse minute of Shakespeare! Paterson Joseph’s pacing, Meera Syal’s poignancy, all of Dame Judi……

Posted in Howard Brenton Spooks TV

Lockdown TV Review: Spooks Series 3

It’s all change at Thames House as Series 3 of Spooks sees the original core team leave…

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Lockdown TV review: Belgravia (ITV)

The first couple of episodes of Julian Fellowes’ latest TV series Belgravia are quite frankly an embarrassment…

Posted in Film Lee Hall LGBTQ+

Film Review: Rocketman (2019)

Elton John gets in on the self-produced musical biopic game, meaning Rocketman is gonna take a long…

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Book review: The Half – Simon Annand

The Half – Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage by Simon Annand Just a quickie for…