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Television and Film

West Side Story

On May 26, 2019 by Moonlit Knight

I was busy working on my other website, but as soon as I heard the opening bars to the overture I knew I had a post I wanted to write for here. I hadn’t actually meant to watch this musical. I didn’t even know it was on. The television was just on in the background Read More

Television and Film

Venus Uncovered Documentary

On February 15, 2019 by Moonlit Knight

A quick post on a very interesting programme I watched last night on BBC4 called “Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess Of Love” . Presented by Bettany Hughes it investigated the goddess Venus from her roots in Mesopotamia via Greece and Rome to her relevance today. Here is a link to an interview she made with History Read More

Television and Film

Hurrah More Doctor Who

On March 30, 2013 by Moonlit Knight

I am really looking forward to the new series of Doctor Who starting tonight.It will almost make up for this rubbish Spring. I cannot believe the program has it’s 50th Anniversary later this year – it was first broadcast on the 23rd of November 1963. That makes it almost as old as I am and Read More

Quotes . Television and Film

Doctor Who Quote No1

On July 20, 2012 by Moonlit Knight

I have really been enjoying the re-runs of the recent Doctor Who series on BBC3 and saddened that they have finished. What I did notice was that every now and then a very quotable line would come up. Unfortunately, I have a very bad memory and this is the only one I managed to jot Read More

Television and Film

The Hollow Crown: Richard II – Well Worth Watching

On July 1, 2012 by Moonlit Knight

Finally. Last night, after all the waiting and the trailers, the first part of The Hollow Crown, Richard II, was shown on BBC 2. I absolutely loved it. Gorgeously shot and superbly acted, especially by Ben Whishaw in the titular role. One nice little touch was the death of Richard mirroring the martyrdom of St Edmund, also Read More

Art . Television and Film

The Pre-Raphaelite Collection Of Andrew Lloyd-Webber

On June 27, 2012 by Moonlit Knight

Well, I know what I shall be watching on television later tonight. I read last year that, as a schoolboy in the Sixties, Andrew Lloyd-Webber spent his pocket money buying up paintings by the then highly unfashionable Pre-Raphaelites. Ever since then, as well as a feeling of jealousy, I had wondered what was in his Read More

Television and Film

Shakespeare Unlocked

On June 20, 2012 by Moonlit Knight

Well the BBC’s Shakespeare Unlocked season has started , well  for me anyway. I seem to have missed a couple of programmes in April. Yesterday evening I watched: Joely Richardson on Shakespeare’s Women, BBC Four By focusing on the female roles of his earlier plays Twelfth Night and As You Like It, this documentary set out to show Read More

Music . Television and Film

Davy Jones Of The Monkees Dies

On March 1, 2012 by Moonlit Knight

I have just heard that yesterday Davy Jones died of a heart attack in Florida at the age of 66. Although he had been in Coronation Street and played the Artful Dodger in the musical Oliver in both the West End and Broadway, I remember him best as the British member of the Monkees. The original manufactured Read More

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