Short Story Review: “Gentlemen, The Queen” and “Provide for Your Poor Sisters” by Fred Urquhart.
[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …
Tag Archives: BBC
YouTube Review: BBC Earth.
[The following is an extract from a long essay about wildlife documentaries on YouTube that I had written in 2020. …
TV Review: The Mezzotint.
This Christmas Eve the BBC showed an adaptation of a 1904 short story by M.R. James, about a group of …
YouTube Review: GB News.
A lot of yodelling has issued from every mountaintop recently on the subject of GB News, this right-leaning, television-news channel …
YouTube Review: BBC Earth, zefrank1 and TierZoo.
It’s a jungle out there and one in which different species must develop highly innovative strategies to compete for the …
Podcast Review: The World At One.
Ever since the UK’s decision to leave the EU, it has become routine across the media to speak of there …
Podcast Review: The Whisperer in Darkness.
[The following contains spoilers.] The BBC Radio 4 horror podcast “The Whisperer in Darkness” has given itself a huge jumble …
TV Review: Martin’s Close.
“A Ghost Story for Christmas” is not merely a minor subgenre of the BBC’s drama output. It is in fact …
Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.
“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …
Series Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy is staunchly pessimistic about BBC television drama and particularly its adaptations of literary classics. It …
Series Review: Wolf Hall.
It’s a lesson which Hilary Mantel should have surely learned along the way. One minute you are at a point …
TV Review: The Thirteenth Tale.
[The following contains spoilers.] Days after pronouncing that the BBC have “lost the knack” of making ghost stories, Tychy is …
TV Review: The Tractate Middoth.
Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …
“Now over to you at Holyrood”: The White Paper on BBC News 24.
BBC News 24 presenter: And now over to Jane Hill at Holyrood for the latest on the launch of today’s …
Scottish Independence: The Disaster Continues.
Tychy has taken a holiday from Scottish Independence over the last month, sojourning in the genuinely “better nation” of the …
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