(Reith Lectures, inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first director-general. Since 2002, presented by Sue Lawley) Kwame Anthony Appiah - mother from Cotswold village, father from Guana, (Guess who’s coming to Dinner), born UK lives New… Continue reading Reith Lectures 2016 KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH – Mistaken Identities
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
Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2016
Last year I walked into the Aldeburgh cinema office on Friday morning and got tickets for all. This year they had even abandoned a waiting list.‘Too many big names’ was one explanation given. Rupert and I (another difference between this year and last) arrived with tickets for 3 out of 12 events, an inevitable… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2016
Five Broken Cameras – Film at Cut
An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son,… Continue reading Five Broken Cameras – Film at Cut
Maidens October 2016
Cooking up Aga roasted butternut squash, upside down apple cake (thanks Imogen), bullises and other gifts from the hedgerow like late blackberries, walking by and enjoying the fall of abundant wild pears, apples, crabs, golden, yellow, and red. Clive admiring the turn of his maples. And Tinks. As I found myself saying to Barry's other half,… Continue reading Maidens October 2016
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool – Cut Cinema May
The wallpaper! And the cars, and the background stuff that so provokes the memory of 70's and 80's. Along with the film story of course. True. Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening) in 1978 Liverpool.
Cut Loose (Dean and Michael) Sept 2016
Workshop with Michael Laskey and Dean Parkin. In their typical invitation to play, we were asked to write down a list of salaried occupations. (‘No one said drug dealer, I notice', said one. 'But that’s not salaried!') Bouncer, was one of mine, and John gave us a most amusing rendition of being offered a job as Bouncer… Continue reading Cut Loose (Dean and Michael) Sept 2016
Mustang (Cut cinema)
After two of us had exchanged gratitude for cinema at the Cut (like a Plat de Jour, we are given an eclectic and good range of films we'd not know of or opt to see, and the delicious tapas food) we saw one such film. Mustang, set in the countryside of Turkey, relays the story… Continue reading Mustang (Cut cinema)
Socratic Dialogue at Magnolia House
Halesworth, September 6, 2016. At Magnolia House, courtisy of Tamsin and Micahel. Thank you Suzie for this. I am once agin all the more in awe of Tamzin and Michael, precious people who I do not dance with enough. Such concentrated listening, held so carefully and compassionately, by the facilitator, by this group of 12, in a… Continue reading Socratic Dialogue at Magnolia House
Bob Dylan
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech.html Oh Bob, Bob Edwards, where are you now? Your absence marked, missed, regretted. you pointed to all this, we sang Dylan all one weekend, Clarendon Road. I want to hug you for it, and at the same time, want more of you. I listen to Patty Smith singing And so i heard I saw ten… Continue reading Bob Dylan
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