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I found the first episode somewhat lacking in content...I was just coming on to say about this as they emailed me. I haven’t tried it yet though.
I found the first episode somewhat lacking in content...I was just coming on to say about this as they emailed me. I haven’t tried it yet though.
Maggi is both a comic extrovert and an intensely private artist, seen parading in a feather boa and fish nets or on television sporting a moustache. But now she mostly prefers the rural Suffolk of her childhood. It is here, for the first time, she has allowed cameras access to her studio
Famously scary and a free spirit, Hambling is celebrated for her intensely moving portraits - the blind boxer Charlie Abrew, the lonely clown Max Wall - her Wave painting and Scallop, her signature sculpture on Aldeburgh beach, commemorating Benjamin Britten.
As her trust in the documentary project grows, Maggi reveals her recent Laugh paintings, exploring her fascination with an expression that seems on the edge of tears. So much of her work finds beauty that is both poignant and unsettling.
(c) BBC. '21Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Amol Rajan explores different ways of thinking, and how far humans can be seen as unique for their ability to invent.
In The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen shows how humans have evolved remarkable ingenuity in every area of their lives – from the arts to the sciences – by using complex systemizing mechanisms. He says this ability to formulate if-and-then processes has driven progress for more than 70,000 years. He goes on to argue that the areas of the brain important for systemizing overlap with those for autism. As the Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, Baron-Cohen wants to challenge people to think differently about an often misunderstood condition.
The archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Skyes is also seeking to challenge people’s perceptions. In Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, she builds a picture of an ancient ancestor who was far from being a brutish thug. She depicts the Neanderthals as curious and clever connoisseurs of their world: technologically inventive and artistically inclined. Humans may have been the survivors but Wragg Sykes argues that we are not necessarily uniquely special - we share many traits and DNA with our Neanderthal relatives.
I've read Williams' diaries. He was an all-round miserable twat, and possibly a murderer.I was reading Kenneth Williams' diaries, and he often mentions he hates birds, so when there's a big freeze he moans about the cold, but rejoices that lots of birds are dying.
Assuming you’re not talking about this Kenneth WilliamsI've read Williams' diaries. He was an all-round miserable twat, and possibly a murderer.
Williams and his father Charlie hated each other. Charlie died in agony after a family row over money, having drunk cleaning fluid from a cough mixture bottle. Williams was suspected of switching the bottle's contents. He probably did!Assuming you’re not talking about this Kenneth Williams
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/l...th-williams-4th-lethal-injection-week-n752086
Then please tell us more!
I've read Williams' diaries. He was an all-round miserable twat, and possibly a murderer.
I enjoyed Alec Guinness’s diaries, an entertaining read. I also thought Eddie Hall (former World’s Strongest Man) Had a very effective ghost writer making it all worth reading.We're leaning into the concept of liking the art but despising the artist?
"Miserable twat" covers being a misogynist, a grumpy git, a manic depressive and all points between.
I admit to being cynical over 'revelations' in personal journals: what is the function of a personal journal? An outlet for really deep emotions? Or are they a form of "desk diary", to be used as notes for future autobiographies? I know, loads of 'ordinary' teenagers keep diaries.* But an 'actor' or a 'wealthy philanthropist' claims that "Oh, yes - I've always kept a diary!", seems to me to say "Oh yes, I always knew I was brilliant!"
It's like a public figure, knowing he was at the bottom of the popularity rung, making do and (honestly) working hard, having the confidence (?) or assurance (?) that they are destined for greater things, and promptly start saying how bad they had it, how noble they are, how absolutely terrible things were that delayed (not stopped them) from being great!
I love reading autobiographies, especially those published while the originator is still alive. The author can be challenged, the 'facts' confronted. The insights gained. My two favourites are "Tall and Gruesome" by Christopher Lee, and "Who's Who?" by Tom Baker.
When it comes to (ah) discovered journals, uncovered (um) letters and only-now-allowed-to-be-published transcripts (er), then I do question the source and it's motive.
* I did myself, for five years - a complete waste of time, they were so boring. That's the trouble with being 'ordinary'. They will not be published.
We're leaning into the concept of liking the art but despising the artist?
"Miserable twat" covers being a misogynist, a grumpy git, a manic depressive and all points between.
I admit to being cynical over 'revelations' in personal journals: what is the function of a personal journal? An outlet for really deep emotions? Or are they a form of "desk diary", to be used as notes for future autobiographies? I know, loads of 'ordinary' teenagers keep diaries.* But an 'actor' or a 'wealthy philanthropist' claims that "Oh, yes - I've always kept a diary!", seems to me to say "Oh yes, I always knew I was brilliant!"
It's like a public figure, knowing he was at the bottom of the popularity rung, making do and (honestly) working hard, having the confidence (?) or assurance (?) that they are destined for greater things, and promptly start saying how bad they had it, how noble they are, how absolutely terrible things were that delayed (not stopped them) from being great!
I love reading autobiographies, especially those published while the originator is still alive. The author can be challenged, the 'facts' confronted. The insights gained. My two favourites are "Tall and Gruesome" by Christopher Lee, and "Who's Who?" by Tom Baker.
When it comes to (ah) discovered journals, uncovered (um) letters and only-now-allowed-to-be-published transcripts (er), then I do question the source and it's motive.
* I did myself, for five years - a complete waste of time, they were so boring. That's the trouble with being 'ordinary'. They will not be published.
Yup, sounds like Williams. His problem, or one of his problems, was that he felt the way he was most successful as an entertainer with the silly voices, camp persona, innuendo etc was below him.Miserable twat" covers being a misogynist, a grumpy git, a manic depressive and all points between.
The Nativity
The Goes Wrong Show: Season 2, Episode 1
The team present their take on the nativity story, generously funded by a corporate sponsor after the BBC refused to pay for any more of the Cornley Dramatic Society's work. As ever, all soon descends into chaos: an ingenious pop-up book set soon proves a physical danger to both cast and crew, the angel Gabriel develops a firework obsession, the actors inside a donkey have a terrible falling out, and there is much more fire than anyone anticipated.
Show: The Goes Wrong Show
Air date: 22 December 2020
Did anyone watch Taskmaster today?
“Taskmaster’s Daisy May Cooper convinced ‘ghosts have spoken to her’ as she reveals creepy recordings”
https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/17/dais...recordings-of-ghosts-talking-to-her-13770298/
It’ll probably be out there on catch up if not.
Sci-Fi comedy Moonbase 8 debuts on Sky today:
Sci-Fi comedy Moonbase 8 debuts on Sky today:
Hmmm... it's treading a fine line between hilarious and moronic, but I think I'll stick with it.
The scene in ep 2, where they use a haka to speed up donning a spacesuit was so off the wall that it appealed to my sense of humour.
John C Reilley (Holmes and Watson and Stan and Ollie) is a great comedy actor and helps raise the show above the mundane.
Have to admit I'm getting fed up with it. Didn't finish ep 3, not sure if I'll return to it.