Bob Edwards 1. BBC Television Director While working for the BBC (1967 - 1972), Bob directed documentary films, mostly arts programmes, including 3 shown here: Over 20 films in 5 years, mostly arts programmes including films about sculptor Barbara Hepworth, satirist Roland Topor and cartoonist Ronald Searle in Paris, Composer Benjamin Britten and gypsies at… Continue reading Bob Edwards at the Cut Jan 2017
Category: Bob
2016
Brexit, Trump and Allepo Brussels bomb, Paris bomb. Mosel. Bob. Then Toby, Imo, Pat Rain, Anne Wolf, all died. and in the greater world, David Bowie, Howard Marks, Peter Maxwell Davies, Victoria Wood, Andrew Sachs, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson. After a month or so of morning for Bob, a road trip with Louise, woke me… Continue reading 2016
Christmas and Bob
A short christmas break to Essex, to Tinks, to the links with our families, her benevolent, generous and hearty father, my god father, linking me to my own father who i never knew, to my mother who took us to christmas's in Hoe Mill every year, specialising in Brandy butter, being the white rabbit running down… Continue reading Christmas and Bob
Bob, Bruce Springsteen, and Bobji
Bruce's 4th choice on Desert Island Discs was, Madam George (Joy) Van Morison, Astal Weeks: 'It made me trust in beauty', he said. I thought of Bob, not because he opened up the beauty of music to me, Astral weeks to late Beethoven, but he'd quote this song as I clicked along the pavements of… Continue reading Bob, Bruce Springsteen, and Bobji
Permission from Brothers
Dear Frank and John How are you both and all? I know we said we’d touch base again in September, and here we are in October/November. What prompts me to write now is about a specific event. Bob was widely known and admired here in Suffolk. His friends, and the Cut Arts Centre, would like… Continue reading Permission from Brothers
The Community (May 2016)
‘Tell me about Bob’, Teresa asked. Gathered after dinner, beside me Magdalene, nodding Into her crocket, Gabriel, Christina, Stephen on my other side. ‘Yes I remember him’, she said. ‘It was for Stephens exhibition you both came’. She was right, I have one of Stephens paintings from that time, an abstract chosen by Bob. He… Continue reading The Community (May 2016)
Asparagus
The asparagus season is starting. Bob's favourite. Ate it until pee turned green.
Road trip North with Louise and then Barry (April 2016)
It was a spontaneous decision begun from a remnant of Bob. ‘Go on a road trip with Louise’ he’d said ‘You’re both unusual and glorious people. You’d get on’ . I hear his words, now that he is gone. We’d collided together, Louise and I, after Toby died a few days after Bob, and begun… Continue reading Road trip North with Louise and then Barry (April 2016)
Langer for Toby’s send off
After the long drive, small dog walk, we stretched our legs down Langer moat. I hadn’t seen the notice before, but noticed now: it could have been Toby’s concept. ‘Nature is dangerous, if anyone falls, or drowns, F..K off. At your own peril.’ Louise, my fellow walker in grief, dressed in a Monsoon Indian dress,… Continue reading Langer for Toby’s send off
North Norfolk unexpectedly with Steven and Pam (March 2016)
A text from Stevan, and I'm up in Blakeney. The combination of an old haunt, good company and getting out, swung it. I delegated the Book Club, thank you Sheila. Those huge skies. We walked of course, out of their Blakeney High Street front door, down the street to the low tide water front, and out… Continue reading North Norfolk unexpectedly with Steven and Pam (March 2016)
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