In the run up to this year’s ‘From Page to Screen’ Film Festival Ines Cavill has been speaking to Alexander Waugh about his grandfather Evelyn’s relationship with film. ‘His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz—anything Read more »
According to Wikipedia, human multitasking is ‘an apparent human ability to perform more than one task, or activity, at the same time.’ It cites an example: ‘taking phone calls while typing an email and reading a book.’ This seems like Read more »
As a small boy I was presented with a rocking horse, a dapple grey on a firm wooden base. I may have been the wrong age, but I soon grew bored with it, as it would only go back and Read more »
Julia Mear met Nik Ryan in Seaton ‘I was born in Stockport near Manchester. When I was seven we relocated to Henley-on-Thames with my dad’s work in IT. This was around the time I started picking up the guitar and Read more »
So, as the family are gathering for Sunday lunch, I shall put on my nice smart cardigan—the one with the natty Val Doonican style grey diamonds. Shock… Horror… Ragged moth holes all the way down the front… it’s unwearable! Of Read more »
War’s end, and WW1 pilot and POW return to Holtzminden prison camp after a celebratory party in a rustic tavern with his colleagues. Having been told by a German officer to return to camp quickly as we were about Read more »