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New official release from Dylan's upcoming big Rolling Thunder '76 box set - a jaunty take on I Pity the Poor Immigrant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRqM...
I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Live at Tarrant County Convention Center Arena, Fort Worth, TX ...
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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Need a job? Come and build my doomsday bunker A grieving writer gets a gig on an apocalypse-prepping billionaire’s island in Ben Eastham’s witty, wandering novel, The Floating World www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Need a job? Come and build my doomsday bunker
A grieving writer gets a gig on an apocalypse-prepping billionaire’s island in Ben Eastham’s witty, wandering novel, The Floating World
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Drama on 4: Gilgamesh A dramatisation of UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's new verse translation capturing the timeless and immersive power of the world's oldest poem The Epic of Gilgamesh. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Gilgamesh
A dramatisation of Simon Armitage's exhilarating translation of this ancient epic poem.
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Eva Marie Saint set the blueprint for the Bond girl The actress, who has died aged 102, evolved from an ingénue into a sophisticated femme fatale who made her characters her own www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/eva-...
"And M.E. I eat dust We're all so run down I'd call it my death but I'll only fade away And I'd hate to fade alone Now there's only M.E." youtube.com/watch?v=Jeuc...
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YouTube video by Gary Numan - Topic
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When the CIA took western culture to war William Boyd revisits Who Paid the Piper? by the late Frances Stonor Saunders that tells the extraordinary story of how US intelligence services funded art, films and literature in an attempt to win the ideological Cold War. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
When the CIA took western culture to war | The Observer
Who Paid the Piper? by the late Frances Stonor Saunders tells the extraordinary story of how US intelligence services funded art, films and literature in an attempt to win the ideological Cold War
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Remembering Monk at his birthday Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Norway, 1966) youtu.be/yHKl0euhZI0?...
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Norway, 1966)
YouTube video by The Jazz Estate
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Human beings process information through narrative, through story. We think in stories, remember in stories, plan for the future in stories, worry in stories, dream in stories and connect with one another through stories. When we read to children we embody our deeply human birthright as storytellers
The 52-year-old Oscar winner is in a class of her own in this medieval fable about a woman who falls in love with a wicker man, played by Alexander Skarsgård
Wicker review — Olivia Colman weaves an astonishing performance
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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland review – Murakami’s marvel brilliantly brought to life www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/o...
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland review – Murakami’s marvel brilliantly brought to life
With a dual narrative set in Tokyo and a world of dreams, Philippe Decouflé’s epic production is as bewitching as its balletic unicorns
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Looking forward to finding out for myself how Murakami translates to the stage.
Andrzej Łukowski@mrlukowski.bsky.social · 2d agoI am for my sins a big Murakami guy and I was happy to see one of my fave of his books adapted but imho this version (touring 2 Barbican) does kind of underscore the fact that the books are kind of untranslatable into drama www.timeout.com/london/theat...
I wrote the cover story for the new issue of MOJO about Rolling Thunder 1976! I listened to the full box set (yes, all 39 discs) and interviewed a bunch of participants. Alongside ace 1966/2026 pieces by @johnharris1969.bsky.social and Flagging Down’s recent Dead correspondent @bourgwick.bsky.social
MOJO Magazine@mojomagazine.bsky.social · 3d agoBob Dylan and more in the new MOJO! As Bob Dylan nears UK shores once more, MOJO digs into some of Dylan’s ground-breaking tours: Judas!, Rolling Thunder, Rough And Rowdy Ways and beyond. Plus there’s an exclusive ’76 live track on this month’s covermount CD. More info and to order a copy here 👇
Anita Brookner — a beguiling portrait of a maddeningly inscrutable writer Hermione Lee’s exhilarating biography pieces together the elusive life of a novelist who turned privacy into an art form and herself into a character www.ft.com/content/21d3...
Anita Brookner — a beguiling portrait of a maddeningly inscrutable writer
Hermione Lee’s exhilarating biography pieces together the elusive life of a novelist who turned privacy into an art form and herself into a character
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The superb radio comedy, Wooden Overcoats, is back for a 4 part mini-series. Definitely check it out if you have never done so, extremely well written and wonderful acted. Should've been picked up by the Beeb yonks ago... pca.st/BjUr
Wooden Overcoats
Award Winning Sitcom || Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family’s failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they...
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David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · 2w agoMy sitcom Wooden Overcoats has 4 x new episodes! RUDYARD RUINS EVERYTHING a very miniseries It begins today! You can listen to it for free on your podcast apps! Please do. I think it's the best thing I've written - and maybe the best run of episodes we've made together!
I guess this is what happens when you put an inexperienced techbro in charge who has no original thoughts, just vacuous notions of copying US tech and chasing trends.
Nicholas Pegg@nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 3d agoThinking Allowed, Open Country, You and Yours, Free Thinking, and The Artificial Human are all being axed. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the £500m cuts sought by the BBC will be saved by cherished and valuable little radio shows being cancelled by executives on huge salaries.
From provocative precursors like Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much to sanguinary standards such as Dario Argento’s Deep Red, Patrick Sproull recommends twenty stylishly violent giallo films. Read the full story on Journal. https://boxd.it/3pm
Thom Yorke: "...it's the walking past people. The simple thing of people watching, playing that game of imagining as someone walks by where they're going, what they're doing, all that stuff - brings you out of yourself, brings you out of your troubles." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N3P...
Harry Styles & Thom Yorke | Musicians on Musicians
YouTube video by Rolling Stone
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Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪
From NASA 📍Gale Crater, Aug. 11, 2026, 8:30 a.m. local Mars time. The Curiosity rover captures the Sun rising on crags known as yardangs, a scene that scientists have long been waiting to see up close.
Rarely does a movie scene get as scintillatingly sexy as the train scene in North by Northwest. RIP, Eva Marie Saint. youtu.be/h5nhyFFSweU?...
North by Northwest (1959) - Love on a Train Scene (2/10) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Kemi Badenoch: "I have children who are half black, half white. They’re mixed race. I don’t want to hear rhetoric that makes them feel that they’re not a part of this country.” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...
Kemi Badenoch Hits Back At Suella Braverman's Claim She Can't Be English
“She’s Nigel Farage’s problem now.”
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A few minutes before JFK arrived. Abraham Zapruder stands on a white plinth. The camera in his hands had no charge, no batteries. Its power came from him winding it up and it only had 26 seconds worth of film. Behind him - his receptionist, Marilyn Sitzman. She steadied him due to his vertigo
An Interview with Steve Erickson "The chaos of the world, the chaos of place and time. The chaos of sex and the self, of nature and the quadrants. Of memory, and what it means to remember." www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Steve Erickson - Believer Magazine
Steve Erickson completed the first draft of his latest novel, Shadowbahn, the same month Donald Trump officially announced his presidential candidacy. Immediately after its publication, in 2017, criti...
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Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles
From a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The real-life best friends talk first impressions, Casablanca moments – and having hot husban...
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Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.
‘The in-house reader at Faber & Faber who first read 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 dismissed it as an “absurd & uninteresting fantasy ... Rubbish and dull. Pointless.”’ Edmund Gordon on how 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 came to be published. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Edmund Gordon · Bloody Cavemen: Golding’s Island
William Golding didn’t push back on any of the suggested revisions: you get the impression that he would have done...
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‘There is no way to “bone up” on Anthony Burgess. Where do you establish a first hesitant foothold? His 33 works of fiction? His wide-ranging literary journalism? His screenplays for film and television? His works for piano, his chamber music and concertos?’ Ian Penman www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
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“...I didn’t grasp the meaning of the [story] — it just popped up in my mind,” he says of Hard-Boiled Wonderland. “I like writing, but I don’t want to read my own stuff. In the same way, I feel somehow uncomfortable to see the play from my own story.” www.thetimes.com/culture/thea...
When Haruki Murakami met Harry Styles: ‘We talked about running’
In a rare interview, the Japanese author talks about losing the urge to write and run, bringing his work to the London stage — and his unlikely friendship with the singer
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