Tag: Anton Lesser

Posted in Ripper Street TV

TV Review: Ripper Street Series 2

“You believe in laws but there are only lechers” For some reason or other, I stopped watching…

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 3. Richard III

“The king’s name is a tower of strength” The Hollow Crown reaches its climax with a solid…

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TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 1. Henry VI Part 2

“I was a woeful looker-on” On a night when the real drama was unfolding in Stockholm’s Globen…

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 1. Henry VI Part 1

“I would his troubles were expired” The Hollow Crown rises again. Four years on from the first…

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2016 British Academy Television Awards nominations

Best Actor Idris Elba – Luther as DCI John Luther (BBC One) Stephen Graham – This Is…

Posted in Charlene James Mike Bartlett Radio Plays Timberlake Wertenbaker

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016 finalists

Best Audio Drama (Original Single) Cuttin’ It, by Charlene James, producer Jessica Brown Dream of White Horses,…

Posted in Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: Wolf Hall

“By the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus” Peter Straughan’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV

TV Review: Life in Squares

  “We’re living in extraordinary times Virginia” I think Rachel Freck and I would be very good…

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TV Review: The Politician’s Wife

“Why do you think it is always Conservative politicians who end up in these kind of sexual…