Tag Archives: History
What we like right now…Small Island, Secrecy, Sissinghurst
Small Island – superb dramatisation at The National Theatre of Andrea Levy’s novel
Secrecy – compulsive, searing Chernobyl on Sky. Superbly done.
Sissinghurst – plants and history in the Weald of Kent
What we like right now…Larmer Tree, Laura Linney, local legacy
Larmer Tree gardens, Wiltshire, at their most beautiful in June. Definitely worth a visit.
Laura Linney luminous in My Name is Lucy Barton at The Bridge in Rona Munro’s superb adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s novel.
Local history tour revealed the extent of Richard Cloudesley’s legacy some 500 years after his death. Shows what can be done – both good and bad – with “two stony fields”. Cloudesley Annual Review
What we like right now…Scandals, South Africa and Scott Miller
Loving: Russell T Davies’ adaptation of John Preston’s A Very English Scandal. Bunnies can and must go to the BAFTAs. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/may/27/sundays-best-tv-a-very-english-scandal-jonathan-meades-on-jargon
Melissa Scott Miller’s award-winning pictures of North London. http://www.scottmillerart.com/
The South African garden at RHS Chelsea. Robbed of a gold but silver guilt nonetheless.
What We Like Right Now…Flaming June, Forensics and Feste’s Friends
@PalimpsestTweet production The Muse starring the incomparable Andy Wincott. He plays Frederick Leighton who painted “Flaming June”, currently on loan from Puerto Rico. 
Edge-of-the-seat first episode of latest series of “Line of Duty” with working mother Thandie Newton. 
Delightful, laugh-a-minute androgynous Twelfth Night at The National with Tamsin Greig starring as Mrs.Danvers-like Malvolia and Doon McKichan’s tuneful Feste.
What we like right now…Sopwith Camels, Shannon Matthews, Saint Luke’s
War in the Sunshine Exhibition at Estorick Collection.
Sheridan Smith and Siobhan Finneran in The Moorside.
Elisabeth Leonskaja playing Shostakovich at LSO St Luke’s
What we like right now…Hampstead, Holbein and Hospitality
Intriguing, memorable two-hander at Hampstead Theatre downstairs by the multi-talented Richard Bean.
Hans Holbein portraits of two Thomases – More and Cromwell partnered at The Frick Collection.
Thanksgiving Hospitality in Boston.
