The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 27).
[SCENE: The interior of the Bennets Bar. James, Tychy and Tori are seated four tables down with bottles and glasses of …
[SCENE: The interior of the Bennets Bar. James, Tychy and Tori are seated four tables down with bottles and glasses of …
Although the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had announced her departure from frontline politics yesterday, in reality she has been protractedly …
[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …
[The following is an extract from a long essay about wildlife documentaries on YouTube that I had written in 2020. …
This Christmas Eve the BBC showed an adaptation of a 1904 short story by M.R. James, about a group of …
A lot of yodelling has issued from every mountaintop recently on the subject of GB News, this right-leaning, television-news channel …
It’s a jungle out there and one in which different species must develop highly innovative strategies to compete for the …
Ever since the UK’s decision to leave the EU, it has become routine across the media to speak of there …
[The following contains spoilers.] The BBC Radio 4 horror podcast “The Whisperer in Darkness” has given itself a huge jumble …
“A Ghost Story for Christmas” is not merely a minor subgenre of the BBC’s drama output. It is in fact …
“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy is staunchly pessimistic about BBC television drama and particularly its adaptations of literary classics. It …
It’s a lesson which Hilary Mantel should have surely learned along the way. One minute you are at a point …
[The following contains spoilers.] Days after pronouncing that the BBC have “lost the knack” of making ghost stories, Tychy is …
Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …