Meanwhile: on perhaps same old, same old themes:
Okay, I dissent a little from the 'forgotten' in the title here when one discovers in the text that there are several biographies of her and she was involved with a number of famous names and presumably figures in theirs, but 'erased' in the history of this particular tarot desk, yeah: Meet the ( Read more... )

Okay, I haven't actually been watching Bridgerton because we really only get absolutely bog-standard what used to be terrestrial channels, pretty much, and anyway, I hardly ever watch television, so getting to grips with streaming is really low down on my list of priorities.
But anyway, there has been so much about it over various bits of social ( Read more... )

The longform patriarchs, and their accomplices: Beyond the white male canon: Bernardine Evaristo’s New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture offers a manifesto for the creation of a new, inclusive literary landscape: This essay notes that novels by women and about women are often demeaned by the longform patriarchs and their accomplices, as “domestic ( Read more... )

Have just been watching online, for research purposes, a documentary on a health topic.
And I will not fulminate here on said topic, as I daresay I will be having opportunity to do so on occasion for which this was research.
But I, as a person who has done interviews for ye televisuals, found it really, really weird that the presenter, who is a ( Read more... )

You know, I'm not sure I've seen any of the parts he played mentioned in this obituary - and, okay, I do not now and never have watched a great deal of TV.
But burnt to the discs of memory are three parts I did see him in, all an utter contrast to one another, all three-dimensionally amazing.
A brilliantly memorable and creepy Henleigh Grandcourt ( Read more... )

I've been seeing quite a lot lately about 'Hull, City of Culture' (Frankie Howerd voice: Don't Mock) and muttering to myself, 'and what about Winifred Holtby, author of the outstanding novel of the local area?'
But, anyway, there is a piece in today's Guardian Saturday Review that is all about her: Winifred Holtby: author, feminist, campaigner, ( Read more... )

I have no intention of linking to a particularly egregious example, with nasty personal attacks included, of whingeing about current manifestations in sff and how they are polluting its clean scientific lines with gender and race and diversity generally. However, I will suggest that, hello, these issues have been there for a long time, citing in ( Read more... )

Move over, Morse: female TV detectives are on the case now.
And, well, yay, but I have various cavils about that article.
One of which is, there's quite a long tradition of more or less dysfunctional/damaged male detectives - Lord Peter with his shellshock, anyone? - and I'm pretty sure I've seen comments about the recurrent motif of male leads in ( Read more... )

I gather, from an article about forthcoming Danish TV drama, that one future series from Danish Broadcasting(doesn't say whether this will be shown in the UK) is '1864, a historical drama about Denmark's most bloody war with Germany'.

This is the conflict known, I am led to believe, as the Second Schleswig War.

Yes, it's about the Schleswig- ( Read more... )

Man is the only animal to whom God has given a perfect hand. Even with our intellectual endowment, if God had not given us our hands it would have been physically impossible for man to have risen much above the level of the lower animals, but with his hands man prepares his food, compounds his medicine, manufactures his clothing, builds houses in ( Read more... )