Here’s a wonderful video, Roger Hallam, co-founder of Britain’s Extinction Rebellion talks to a hall full of people in Penzance:
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Reading & watching- Staged, Season 3 (Simon Evans & Phin Glynn 2022) 8 December 2022David Tennant and Michael Sheen are back as thoroughly unpleasant actors bickering over a show that almost certainly won't happen, except that we're watching it. Neil Gaiman has a guest appearance at the end of the first episode, and he allows himself to come across as equally unpleasant. It's very funny. Everybody despises Simon Evans, who is […]
- The Tale of the Unknown island (José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 1997) 8 December 2022A beautifully designed little book, with illustrations by Peter Sís, this fable about exploration may be for children, but meanwhile It's a perfect read for the sauna (assuming the heat doesn't damage it).
- Belvoir: The Jungle & the Sea (S. Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack 2022) 4 December 2022Image from Belvoir websiteFrom the opening moments in which a blindfolded older woman in a sari dances in silence on an almost bare stage, this is captivating. It's also epic, and feels necessary. It's a joy and a privilege to have seen it.
- Slow Horses Season 2 (James Hawes, from books by Mick Herron 2022) 3 December 2022This terrific show is back. Gary Oldman's character is as gloriously unsavoury and horrible as before.
- Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars (Waleed Aly & Scott Stephens 2022) 3 December 2022Subtitle: How contempt is corroding democracy. The Minefield meets Quarterly Essay
- Staged, Season 3 (Simon Evans & Phin Glynn 2022) 8 December 2022
Me fail? I fly! 