SIMON MATTHEWS on a movie about the doomed Gallipoli campaign. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
A Lost World (pt 2)
BEN FINLAY selects the ten best shows from the golden age of factual TV. Continue reading
A Lost World (pt 1)
BEN FINLAY remembers the golden age of factual TV. Continue reading
Fun? and other 1990s album titles
Praise the Lard – it’s ALWYN TURNER’s ninety British album titles of the 1990s. Continue reading
Top 10: Trad Jazz
BEN FINLAY puts on his corduroy trousers and sandals to take you through the best of British trad jazz. Continue reading
God, and other 1980s album titles
Friends of Hell and the Mona Lisa’s Sister – ALWYN TURNER’s favourite album titles of the 1980s. 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
Ass, and other 1970s album titles
What a Bunch of Sweeties… ALWYN TURNER’s favourite album titles of the 1970s. Continue reading
History cops: Ashes to Ashes
ALWYN TURNER takes history lessons from Gene Hunt, Alex Drake et al. Continue reading
Let us now praise: Weird kids’ TV
From Bagpuss to The Owl Service, BEN FINLAY celebrates the odder corners of old-school kids’ TV. Continue reading
Shellshocked: outtakes
Some odds and ends left over from ALWYN TURNER’s book A Shellshocked Nation, featuring child movie stars, strippers, Nazis and boxing. Continue reading
