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Reading & watching- In the Long Run (Idris Elba 2018) 16 February 2019This is a wonderful show featuring an African immigrant family in London in the 1980s, tucked away on ABC Comedy. It takes a while to recognise Idris Elba as the genial father. Sadly it looks as if there are only 7 episodes. We started watching it after seeing If Beale Street Could Talk at the movies – it's an excellent pairing.
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins 2018) 15 February 2019The same slow pace as Moonlight, the same lingering on beautiful black faces and bodies, plus a reverential treatment of a James Baldwin novel make this a striking film. I wasn't completely pulled into the mood, and found myself thinking about the movie rather than being immersed, but it's pretty bloody great.
- A Very English Scandal (Stephen Frears 2018) 11 February 2019Written by Russell T Davies, starring Ben Wishaw as an emotionally voltile young man and Hugh Grant as a politician with lots of charm to which the viewer is immune, this is terrific.
- Anti-Semitism (Cherie R Brown & Amy Leos-Urbel 2018) 10 February 2019A short pamphlet that offers what it says on the lid.
- Lila (Marilynne Robinson 2016) 10 February 2019The third book in the Gilead series.
- In the Long Run (Idris Elba 2018) 16 February 2019
