Welcome everybody! Thanks for coming. Back in the late '70s when the National Front seemed to be gaining ground and the excellent Rock Against Racism was very active in effective opposition, I jokingly suggested that we ought to start something called 'Ragtime Against Ageism'....
'You know it's the 200th anniversary of William Morris's News From Nowhere? Have you ever read it?''Course,' responded Raj defensively. 'Didn't think that much of it, to tell you the truth. If you look at it as late 19th century novel it's got less drama and characterisation in it than Three Men in...
a modern morality tale in eight brief scenes DRAMATIS PERSONAEThe heroine Clarinda Bond-PastorVillains (of differing depths of hue)Adam Wilson – partner of ClarindaJohn Bond-Pastor – amicably separated husband of ClarindaHarry Bond-Pastor – son of Clarinda and JohnGareth Higgins – gay...
2003 sees the centenary of the Tour de France – though not the 100th edition on account of the two great twentieth century wars. The Tour is the greatest of cyclingÕs stage races – one of the three together with the equivalent races in Italy and Spain that last for three weeks. It is...
'The rich are always traitors!'The effort of spitting this out made Tom dissolve into a fit of uncontrollable coughing. My fault really. I was in London for a couple of days and by chance heard that he was ill in a hospital not far from where I was staying. Dangerously ill', as the BBC would have...