The rebroadcast of episode two of the 2008 mini-series Sense and Sensibility concluded last night on Masterpiece Classic and I am duly satisfied, not only with this production but with Jane Austen… more →
Austenprosewrote 5 months ago: Well, you can’t get much more seductive than the new ten-minute videos from Carte Noire. It … more →
wrote 6 months ago: This Tom Stoppard play cleverly juxtaposes the modern world with the early nineteenth century, and i … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Arcadia 2009 poster I had a chance to see a preview matinee of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia yesterda … more →
wrote 9 months ago: I think we’ve already established that I’m a sucker for all things Austen but especially … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Hilde is the story of Hildegard Knef (or Hildegard Neff as she was known for a while), who was an ac … more →
wrote 9 months ago: I watched the lovely BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility yesterday for the umpteenth time. I rea … more →
wrote 10 months ago: The rebroadcast of episode two of the 2008 mini-series Sense and Sensibility concluded last night on … more →
wrote 11 months ago: They say that time and distance are the best healers. After revisiting the 2008 miniseries of Sense … more →
wrote 11 months ago: This early Noel Coward play is about a young man, Nicky Lancaster, convincingly played by Dan Steven … more →
wrote 11 months ago: A Accurately Advertised running time for once. 65 minutes long. B Brevity. The Whingers approve. C C … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Plot: A dissident (Millson) is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill, has been treat … more →
wrote 1 year ago: It isn’t just London Marathon runners that need to train if they are to avoid injury or death … more →
wrote 1 year ago: “I, and only I, knew your heart and its sorrows; yet, to what did it influence me? — not … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Have you noticed how dark the new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility seems? Every time I took a scr … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I love Jane Austen’s works, and Sense & Sensibility is one of my favorites. The plot revol … more →