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Rings of Power: Three Hours of Setup

Robin Catling / September 5, 2022

I don’t generally review film and TV here, but I have a problem with Amazon’s Rings of Power: Three Hours […]

Veteran BBC presenter Michael Mosley invites your to ‘Read’ Just One Thing. This episode of Mosely’s light-weight, feel-good, pop-lifestyle advice

This BBC Arts thread continues on the iPlayer with Inside Cinema’s Strong Female Characters. It’s a barely-there critique that fails

Robin Catling / September 25, 2020

Birth of the British Novel is back on BBC4’s freeview TV channel. Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works

Robin Catling / October 13, 2019

The History of the Future is a ten-part documentary on BBC4 Extra. Juliet Gardiner looks at how cultures of the

Robin Catling / September 27, 2019

The BBC’s Our World thread continues with Crossing Steinbeck’s America. As America grapples with a deepening recession, white-collar workers lose

“Irving Finkel collects ordinary people’s lives. He hoards their life stories in diary form and has amassed a collection of

BBC Radio 4, Front Row Hay Festival debate: “Do we publish too many books?” Podcast Fri, 29 May 2015, duration