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Showing posts with label William Golding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Golding. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Alexander Mackendrick, Tony Hancock and Rhinoceros

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Embed from Getty Images One of the many unmade Alexander Mackendrick film projects detailed in Philip Kemp's biography Lethal Innocence ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

The making of Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies (1963)

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Lord of the Flies was first filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Gerald Fell , who died in 2021, was the editor of the film and also a sort of aux...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

James Hawes talks about his book The Shortest History of Ireland

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On Monday I went to the launch of James Hawes's new book The Shortest History of Ireland . I'm very glad I did, because Hawes gave a...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

The Joy of Six 1478

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"In a sense, Clegg is right: politicians are more focused on narratives than data. But it’s data they use to justify their policies the...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Joy of Six 1475

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Degenerate Art  on Donald Trump's concentration camps and what can be done to resist their building: "When you consider the number ...
Monday, June 02, 2025

Lord of the Flies: Had William Golding read Richard Jefferies?

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Accounts of the writing of William Golding's Lord of the Flies tend to emphasise the influence of R.M Ballantyne's The Coral Island...
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