I have been staying in The Athenaeum on the Caltech campus. A faculty club for the university, it was completed in 1930 and is a gloriously sturdy and determinedly old-fashioned institution of English descent. Jackets and more
Andrew O'Hagan's essay about the Savile scandal in the London Review of Books, Light entertainment, is (and I know this is much over-used adjective) indispensable. Amongst much else it is a truly remarkable portrait of the post-war BBC, but more
After a string of posts about Julius Caesar, this one stays with Shakespeare but shifts the focus to another programme. I want to muse today about the first in the series Shakespeare Uncovered (and I would be grateful if more
I have been thinking about how to create a new form of my links page that is useful but also sustainable (in the sense that it doesn't take too much time to post). Here is the first outing for a more
Twice before I've looked back to what lay ahead for viewers fifty years ago. The Illuminations blog archive (which holds pretty much everything we've ever published) has my post about the television year that was 1960 as well more