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Showing posts with label Michael Frayn. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Michael Frayn. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A 1963 television report on the satire boom by Bryan Magee

Now here's a find: a 1963 report on the satire boom by this blog's hero Bryan Magee. We see John Bird, Jeremy Geidt, Peter Cook, Ber...

Saturday, March 18, 2023

A tribute to Neal Ascherson on his 90th birthday

Last October one of my favourite journalists, Neal Ascherson , turned 90. To mark the occasion, he was interviewed by Tim Adams in the Obser...

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Tom Springfield died 10 days before Judith Durham

Embed from Getty Images When I chose Cloudy by the Seekers as my music video last Sunday I wrote about their producer Tom Springfield, who ...

Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Seekers: Cloudy

As I wrote when paying tribute to Judith Durham , her bandmate from The Seekers, Bruce Woodley, wrote three songs with Paul Simon. (Woodley ...

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Boris Johnson? Blame Have I Got News for You and Ian Hislop

Embed from Getty Images It's too hot to write, but I can't let the accession of Boris Johnson pass without saying it is all the fa...

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