BEN FINLAY puts on his corduroy trousers and sandals to take you through the best of British trad jazz. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
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
Shellshocked: quotes from novels
ALWYN TURNER chooses some of his favourite quotes from the fiction of Britain between the wars. 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
Shellshocked: movie quotes
ALWYN TURNER selects his favourite quotes from British movies of the 1920s and 30s. Continue reading
Nuts in May at 50
Fifty years on and Mike Leigh’s play still resonates, says BEN FINLAY. Continue reading
