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@ChristopherTheKnight This must be from 'Becket'.

@shanepaulcoward Sheep, eh? And who do you expect to take you seriously with that kind of attitude? You don't sound any less ignorant and ill-informed yourself. When you despise people in the way you display here, that mass of people is entitled to regard such enemies with equal contempt, particu...

She seems to be a bit of a dud, being argumentative but not that bright. The kind famous for a recognisable face and voice (if a person watches Sky) rather than anything of note she might say.

Too cowardly to stand up to his employer, so he blames a selection of little annoyances about some people whom he defines by tea drinking or their membership of a website where mums consult and help each other. I remember pre-Murdoch when a Times journalist had to amount to a lot more than this.

He is good with words but gives the impression that any old words he has to say to get out of a tight corner he has got himself into, will do. He struggles to be consistent, or to consider anything that requires attention to detail. He likes big, windy broad-brush declarations. Do you choose to b...

This is a lovely piece of music. Seen with film of the waves lapping along the craggy shoreline and caves, the sound and visual images explain each other.

@rjplamf61 They might even have been Italian jewish actors, it being possible to be jewish and Italian.

All who feature in the video had integrity and courage.

Documentary-making Adam Curtis-style, may unsettle people who want their TV so that they always know where they are. Instead, Curtis grabs your attention and challenges your ideas, especially if you think your ideas are just obvious and have been around forever. He reminds viewers that ideas and ...

This is the kind of play the the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre in London is the perfect stage for, with a cast that does this interesting production justice. The Roman emperor who for his years running the still newly Christian empire, reintroduced the pagan gods, proves a fascinating subjec...

There is now a book on this, called 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot, published in the last year or two, which I browsed on a market bookstall a few months ago. I don't know if it's any good, but she certainly chose an intriguing, scientific, human-interest type of tale to...

@weezyheezy No, the programme says of 'Gunsmoke' of which Leo Strauss particularly enthused, that it presented a simple black and white view, a 'Good' vs 'Evil' kind of distinction, and thus was one such means of the kind of myth-making (even if not really true, he seems to have thought) he consi...

@zerotime2012 There is no respect for my opinion, nor 'all fairness' in your remarks, so why say there is, when you're abusive? Mild criticism, a 'drone'? Your posts as your 'dialogue', betray you. Your reply like the original post I commented on, includes words like: feebleness, hopelessly poor,...

@Wiseguy63 You're correct. Any regime can be criticised. Nobody is above criticism. This play is a fine piece of work, well performed and saying something important both about the situation between Israel and Gaza in 2009, which I believe was when the work was written and first performed, and the...

@AndrewJohnWalls, trace Cinema Action-made film of the early 1970s via BFI publication 'Rebel Reels', which will be in their library. Another b&w film I saw, a union history made in 40s/50s, about the AEU, featured actor John Slater. There is another, in colour, about AEU work and democracy from ...

'Women of Ireland' featured in 'Barry Lyndon', and years later was on the soundtrack of a fine BBC documentary about writer Sean O'Casey. From its opening notes, it holds the attention as a piece of beautiful music that in its melancholy captures something of Ireland's history.

@modsheff1 It's a terrific number, this. The sound is so similar to The early Who period generally. I'm surprised that more people aren't aware of this track from the early days at the Station Hotel, Harrow, and its namesake in West Hampstead come to that.

I saw them 'live' in the mid-1960s in a London club. They were a great band

@themightyjoseph "Assange should have defended himself", not at all. He listened attentively then, when he realised what was happening—a questioner doing a 'Borat', a piece of trollery for a US audience of a certain type—he did the right thing in walking away. "Tabloid schmuck" indeed, for the ag...

There was nothing quite like the Beatles.