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The Children's Film Foundation: History and Legacy

Robert Shail

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From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema...

Black Metal by Venom

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Black Metal is the second album by English heavy metal band Venom. It was released in November 1982,...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver

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This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink,...

The Thirty Years War: My Life Reporting on Education

Richard Garner

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Richard Garner has spent 36 years reporting on education, working for the Times Educational...

The Craggus (360 KP) rated The Muppet Movie (1979) in Movies

Jun 5, 2019

The Muppet Movie (1979)

1979 | Family, Musical

8.4

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It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to raise the curtain on The Muppet Movie's 40th Anniversary tonight!

If you were born between the 1970s and 1990s, it’s almost impossible to imagine a world without “The Muppets”. From “Sesame Street” to “The Muppet Show”, they formed one of the cornerstones of childhood pop culture and while they have endured, they’ve yet to recapture the dizzying heights of their late 1970s/ 1980s dominance. That’s thanks in large part to the irresistible amiability and boundless charm of this, their first full-length movie, released in the UK 40 years ago today...

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ClareR (5561 KP) rated The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography in Books

May 26, 2018

Lyricist. Writer. Activist.

What a life this man has had! He had a hard start, living in one of the least affluent areas of Birmingham (UK), and running away with his mother to escape a violent father. The 1980s saw race riots, miners strikes and demonstrations against police brutality. Zephaniah and his dub poetry were at the forefront. By the 1990s he was a household name, and not just at home in the UK - he travelled and performed around the world.
I really admire this man. He hasn't had an easy life: he was in borstal as a teen, lived a life of crime for a while and decided for himself that he didn't want to live his life as a criminal where he would most certainly end up dead. HE turned his life around. He stands by his beliefs as well. A brilliant, self taught man, who sets a sterling example for all.