TV, radio, film and theatre

Brokenwood

I wrote yesterday about my preferred genre of fiction – mystery, crime,police procedural, so it’s no surprise that it’s also my preferred TV viewing too. I don’t actually watch a lot of TV, most evenings I’m here, writing, although recently, in an effort to improve fitness and lose a few of the pounds gained over […]

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Thin and blue and linear

Two series of The Thin Blue Line each of seven episodes ran between 13 November 1995 and 23 December 1996; it was written by  Ben Elton, and starred Rowan Atkinsonn James Dreyfus, Mina Anwar, Rudolph Walker, David Haig and Mark Addy among others, as well as guests such as Ben Elton himself, Stephen Fry, Melvyn Hayes, Trevor Peacock and Alexander Armstrong. We loved it, and tonight, […]

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