Showing posts with label David Hemmings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Hemmings. Show all posts
Monday, July 13, 2026

Plans to bring Leicester's Il Rondo back to life

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The Leicester Mercury has a story, but doesn't know the half of it: New live music venue hopes for former board game cafe in Leicester ...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood: Some Velvet Morning

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The most 1967 track of all? More 1967 than David Hemmings Happens ? These random paragraphs from a Believer article by Madeleine Watts may ...
Monday, May 04, 2026

Maggie Smith: "I led a perfectly normal life until Downton Abbey"

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Here's the late great Dame Maggie Smith being interviewed by Mark Lawson in 2017. They talk about Alan Bennett, the fame brought by Down...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

The Joy of Six 1374

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Andrew Chandler makes a Liberal case for the right to die with dignity: "There’s a peculiar cruelty in forcing someone to live in unbe...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

The Joy of Six 1342

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"Part of this is down to the increasing centralisation of politics. The prime minister’s role has expanded dramatically over the decade...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Michael Crawford paints a picture of the young David Hemmings

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This blog's hero David Hemmings first made his name as a singer, being the first boy to play Miles in Benjamin Britten's opera The T...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Julie Walters' first screen appearance is on YouTube - and Don Warrington is in it too

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A thousand thanks to the Classic British Telly YouTube account - like and subscribe - for posting this television play from 1975 Julie Walt...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

There's nothing unique about the tradition that you don't reveal whodunnit in The Mousetrap

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Much is made of Mousetrap omerta - the taboo against revealing the identity of the murderer in Agatha Christie's record-breaking play. B...
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Friday, January 10, 2025

The Joy of Six 1310

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Helen Coffey argues that The Traitors, where intelligence is a hindrance that should be hidden at all costs, is a metaphor for society'...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

David Hemmings in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (BBC, 1980)

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Made by the BBC in 1980, this is a superior telling of the tale. It features David Hemmings in the two title roles, with support from Lisa H...
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Monday, November 11, 2024

Eric Portman proposes a murder in West 11

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Before Michael Winner became awful he was rather good. West 11, the postal district of Notting Hill at its seediest, tells the story of a dr...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Last Resort (2000): Paddy Considine, Margate and magic

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Written for Terence Towles Canote's  11th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon . I saw this film at the Renoir, an arthouse cinema near Russ...
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Sunday, May 05, 2024

The Joy of Six 1226

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He may be writing for Conservative Home, but William Atkinson has no comfort or advice for the party in the wake of Thursday's defeats:...
Friday, January 26, 2024

David Hemmings, David Warner and Felicity Kendall in Ken Russell's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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This is a find. Ken Russell's two 1978 television films about the Wordsworths and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, co-written with Melvyn Bragg...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Looking back on 'Satanic ritual abuse' and The Turn of the Screw

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Embed from Getty Images Like the December one before it, the Christmas issue of Fortean Times has an article from the era - the late Eightie...
Monday, July 17, 2023

A report from the shooting of Running Scared at Braunston in 1971

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Running Scared, David Hemmings' first film as a director, did not receive a general release. The consensus at the time seems to have bee...
Friday, July 07, 2023

Stage: The lost David Bowie film directed by David Hemmings

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Wandering around Braunston a couple of weeks ago, I thought of Running Scared , the lost David Hemmings film that was shot there. Released i...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Noel Coward, The Actors' Orphanage and The Italian Job

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Embed from Getty Images Who directed The Italian Job? I couldn't have told you until the other day, when I came across a page about the ...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Rival explanations of why Blow-Up is so difficult to understand

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Embed from Getty Images Part of the allure of Antonioni's 1966 'Swinging London' film Blow-Up is the feeling that, if you watch ...
Monday, January 02, 2023

David Hemmings at the Royal Opera House, Leicester

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The actor David Hemmings met and became engaged to his first wife Genista Ouvry, who acted under the name Jenny Lewes, during a two-week rep...
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