Back before the days of "Iron Chef", "Masterchef" and "Hell’s Kitchen", television’s top food expert was a very tall, slightly ungainly, woman who sounded a little drunk. She was Julia…
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Twickenham in 1961 might well have been the most boring place on Earth. The 60s haven’t started yet (according to Philip Larkin the decade wouldn’t start until 1963 “between the…
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If you are on the look out for an intelligent, serious and impressively well-made drama that will stimulate and move you (and of course you are, or you wouldn’t be…
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When the current Writer-in-Residence at Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters suggested I take another look at my negative review of Blades of Glory, I made a promise that (while…
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