Showing posts with label John Osborne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Osborne. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Lloyd George’s oratory owed a heavy debt to the music hall

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Embed from Getty Images In 1992 the journalist Edward Pearce published a diary of that year's general election campaign. It was reviewed...
Friday, February 13, 2026

John Osborne, Desert Island Discs and No Room at the Inn

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I couldn't find room for it in my Lion & Unicorn article about the film No Room at the Inn , but I did blog here about my discovery ...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

The Exorcism: The scariest thing I have ever seen on television

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Written for Terence Towles Canote's  10th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon . What’s the most frightening thing you’ve seen on ...
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Saturday, November 26, 2022

How No Room at the Inn launched John Osborne's theatre career

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If you thought you'd heard the last of No Room at the Inn, you were mistaken. This was the play by Joan Temple that, like Agatha Christi...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Why was bondage gear dumped in a Leicestershire field?

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Embed from Getty Images My Liberal Democrat county councillor Sarah Hill is in the Leicester Mercury today: A dog walker says she was s...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Clun Bridge

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After having bored my mother for 20 years by telling her how wonderful Shropshire is, I took her there for a short holiday last week. One of...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Osborne's grave

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No, not George Osborne, though he does appear to be fighting for his political life. I am talking about the playwright John Osborne. I was i...