A film about George Orwell, Lloyd George, Maxim Litivinov and the Ukraine famine? SIMON MATTHEWS has a look. Continue reading
Author Archives: Lion & Unicorn
Last Night on iPlayer: Doctor Who
FINLAY McLAREN has a ticket to Tombstone and an appointment with the Gunfighters. Continue reading
Final cut: Tell England (1931)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a movie about the doomed Gallipoli campaign. Continue reading
Final cut: The Body (1970)
SIMON MATTHEWS on the oddity that was The Body. Continue reading
Final cut: Innocent Sinners (1958)
Children and bombsites? It can only mean danger and trouble, finds JONATHAN CALDER. Continue reading
Final cut: Max Headroom — 20 Minutes into the Future (1985)
SIMON MATTHEWS on the origin story of Channel 4’s VJ Max Headroom. Continue reading
10 years in the life of the LibDems
JONATHAN CALDER on the fall and rise of the Liberal Democrats over the last decade. Continue reading
Last night on YouTube: Coronation Street
FINLAY McLAREN meets the neighbours… Continue reading
Final cut: The Strange Affair (1968)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches the evaporation of optimism in the Swinging Sixties. Continue reading
Orwell belongs to us!
ALAN TYLER on The Lion & The Unicorn, Big Brother and Auntie. Continue reading
Last night on YouTube: BBC Archive
FINLAY McLAREN gets nostalgic over highland crofters, pub pianists and the morning commute. Continue reading
Isokon: The brave new flats of Hampstead
ALAN TYLER visits the Hampstead home of modernists, artists and spies. Continue reading
