Doctor Who - Series 6 (New Season 6)
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The sixth series of British science fiction television programme Doctor Who was shown in two parts....
All About Evie
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1972. Ten years on from the events of The Miseducation of Evie Epworth and Evie is settled in London...
Feminism 1970’s
Railroad of Death
John Coast, Laura Noszlopy and Justin Nash
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A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma...
Top of the Pops: 50th Anniversary
Patrick Humphries and Steve Blacknell
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'It's Number One - it's Top of the Pops'. It's not just the story of a long-running television...
Ways of Seeing
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Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Doomwatch (1972) in Movies
Feb 26, 2018
Competently done; resembles the TV show in its tone and concerns much of the time. However, the general tone and subject matter (investigator on remote island discovers conspiracy of silence amongst locals, including disappearing corpses) would almost make you suspect a Wicker Man rip-off, except this was made first (by a matter of months). Not that it matters much these days, but the actual stars of the TV show barely appear in the movie; they may have been busy actually making it at the time the movie was in production. Worth seeing if you're familiar with the TV show, probably a bit too low-octane if you're not.
David McK (3496 KP) rated Outlaw (The Outlaw Chronicles, #1) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, and his bunch of blood-thirsty murderous outlaws ..."
Doesn't have quite the same ring, does it?
"Outlaw" is the story of Robin Hood, told from the perspective of Alan Dale. Like Bernard Cornwell's series of books about King Arthur (indeed, my copy of the book even had a "As good as Bernard Cornwell or your money back" sticker on it), Outlaw is a more earthy, more 'real', telling of the famous tale. All the famous characters are here: Robin Hood, Maid Marie-Anne (Marion), Little John, Friar Tuck, Guy of Gisbourne, and (obviously) Alan Dale himself.
Forget the recent BBC adaptation, or even the '91 film starring a not-very-English Kevin Costner; this is more what Robin Hood would have been like (if he ever existed) than the over-romanticised legendary figure.
Worth a read? If you like Cornwell (or Simon Scarrow's) style of historical fiction, then my answer is a definite yes.
The People V. O.J. Simpson
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Now a major BBC TV series. The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The People V. O.J....
Three Houses
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As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. 'There is always in our minds the hope that we may find...
Serious
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John McEnroe enjoyed tremendous success at all levels of tennis, and he owns 77 career singles...