“She was very intolerant of foolishness, vanity, empty talk, obsequiousness, time-wasting, cruelty.” That’s Lucy Worsley brilliantly capturing her heroine Jane Austen. The TV historian, educator and chief curator at Historic...
Read MoreThe words ‘chamber music’ can turn off many perfectly open-minded people. Perhaps they imagine exclusive, intimate Parisian and Viennese salons of the 18th and 19th centuries? A world not designed for them, not open to them....
Read MoreThere’s a YouTube video featuring folk singer Julie Fowlis on the BBC’s Transatlantic Sessions 3 in 2008 which has the Scotswoman sitting surrounded and attended – like some young folk goddess – by middle-aged men...
Read MoreYou may well blanch at the thought of yet another Hollywood ‘based on a true story’ film whose needle is stuck in the vinyl of JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate, Nixon etc etc – that endless broken record the Americans play while...
Read MoreIt’s stating the obvious, when reading something written over a century ago, to say that it sounds a bit outdated for the modern day. Of course, it does…except that some great works of literature transcend the date and time in...
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