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Bloomsbury Books have recently republished A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz. I notice that the 1955 film starring Celia Johnson and David Kossoff is being shown on Film 4 at lunchtime today and will presumably be repeated ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening I went to a rather special showing of Brief Encounter. It was at the Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne in aid of the mayor’s charities. What made it a gala occasion was the presence of Margaret Barton, who played the part of Beryl (or 'Berril!') the tea room assistant in the film. In Wimborne, where she lives, she is better known as Mrs ( Read more... )