The 1992 BBC dramatisation of Tales from the Perilous Realm here. Michael Hordern, Brian Blessed....

Clinton is going to write a book on why she lost? Lord save us all.

Oh Sam [Pepys]!

"My father’s old servant told me he had been serviceable to my brother Tom, in the business of his getting his servant, Margaret, with child."

I'm all agog.

Samuel Pepys would have had so much fun with the internet. Here's a selection of recent tweets.

( Tweeting Pepys )

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When you've recovered from Hilliard's voice, there's a jaunty bonus track behind the cut.

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John Donne in Lent."Donne would be a lot more popular today if he had been a 'name it and claim it' kind of Christian. But however ecstatic his experience of God might have been, the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral continued to struggle with such disagreeable realities as sin, suffering, repentance, sickness, decay, and death. We prefer a Lent with ( Read more... )

From time to time I come across someone as inquisitive as I am. I've never been able to resist the temptation to uncover secret identities.

A fine example of internet research.

Not long ago I mentioned to a friend that rather than scrambling for copies of 1984 people ought to be reading Huxley because it's turned out that Huxley was right. Then today I came across this extract from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death while I was recovering from my latte and donut. I haven't read Postman for ages but perhaps I ( Read more... )

Perhaps this very strong white chocolate mocha latte and the delicious old-fashioned donut have gone to my head - quite possible after 4 hours sleep - but did I just read this ( Read more... )