Lion & Unicorn

Search

Menu

Skip to content

Home
Culture
History
Economics
Politics
Sport
The authors

Tag Archives: David Puttnam

Final Cut: Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)

Culture

Final Cut: Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)

Posted on 13 November 2025 by Lion & Unicorn • Leave a comment

SIMON MATTHEWS watches Tom Courtenay in a comedy set in the 1970s. Can love bridge the disco-punk divide? Continue reading →

Final Cut: The Duellists (1977)

Culture

Final Cut: The Duellists (1977)

Posted on 21 April 2025 by Lion & Unicorn • Leave a comment

SIMON MATTHEWS watches Ridley Scott’s Napoleonic debut movie. Continue reading →

Post navigation

The Trends

Last night on YouTube: Coronation Street
The Daleks' Master Plan
Last night on YouTube: BBC Archive
Final cut: The Strange Affair (1968)
The death of fiction
Top 10: 1975
Last night on YouTube: Crown Court
Top 10: Yuletide
Orwell belongs to us!
Top 10: British folk-rock

Follow Lion & Unicorn on WordPress.com

The Tags

BBC Boris Johnson Brexit calling all cliches Chris Mullin Clement Attlee Conservative Party David Bowie David Cameron Denis Healey Diane Abbott Donald Trump Ed Miliband Edward Heath Enoch Powell European Union Final cut First World War George Galloway George Osborne Gordon Brown Harold Wilson Iain Duncan Smith imperial fiction Jack Straw James Callaghan Jeremy Corbyn John Major John McDonnell John Smith Keir Starmer Ken Livingstone Kenneth Clarke Labour Party Liberal Democrats Maastricht Treaty Margaret Thatcher Michael Foot Michael Gove Michael Howard Michael Portillo music hall Neil Kinnock Nick Clegg Nigel Farage Peter Mandelson Pick of the pops politician of the year Rear-view review referendum Revive 45 Roy Jenkins Sherlock Holmes Terry Nation Theresa May Tony Benn Tony Blair UKIP William Hague Winston Churchill

The Latest

Last night on YouTube: Coronation Street
The Daleks’ Master Plan
Final cut: The Strange Affair (1968)
Orwell belongs to us!
Top 10: Yuletide
Last night on YouTube: BBC Archive
History cops: Life on Mars
Let us now praise: BBC Four
Isokon: The brave new flats of Hampstead
Last Night on iPlayer: To The Manor Born

The Archive

Blog at WordPress.com.