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The Debating House of the Mind: Book Review - A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, by Jenny Uglow
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The Debating House of the Mind. A blog for writing and thinking about theatre, TV, film, culture, politics, media.that sort of thing.dip in. Sunday, 12 February 2012. Book Review - A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, by Jenny Uglow. After the execution of his father, King Charles I. This balancing act is explored by Jenny Uglow. In her book covering the first decade of Charles II's reign (1660-1670), A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration. And England, but also as an example of what t...
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The Debating House of the Mind: September 2011
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The Debating House of the Mind. A blog for writing and thinking about theatre, TV, film, culture, politics, media.that sort of thing.dip in. Friday, 2 September 2011. Protesting the Proms: Israel's Philharmonic Orchestra and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. London's Royal Albert Hall, home of the BBC Proms, scene of the protest. Last night, for the first time in its 117-year history, BBC Radio 3 stopped its Royal Albert Hall broadcast of a Proms concert. The BBC Proms are hardly the place you'd expect ...
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The Debating House of the Mind: January 2015
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The Debating House of the Mind. A blog for writing and thinking about theatre, TV, film, culture, politics, media.that sort of thing.dip in. Wednesday, 14 January 2015. Metro's World Today (14th Jan 2015). Here, in no particular order, are a few of my highlights from today's news. Not, as we might suspect, their belief that woman have no space in public life, but reasons of 'modesty'. My favourite part is that the father, having realised the mistake (imagine how disappointed his drug ring must have been ...
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The Debating House of the Mind: January 2012
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The Debating House of the Mind. A blog for writing and thinking about theatre, TV, film, culture, politics, media.that sort of thing.dip in. Sunday, 29 January 2012. The Chimes - my Charles Dickens 12in12. The Chimes (1844), Charles Dickens. You've probably heard of A Christmas Carol. This isn't a chance for me to write about A Christmas Carol. 8211; instead I'm going to write about Dickens' second Christmas story: the lesser-known The Chimes. Being only the first. The Chimes. Does involve some supernatu...
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The Debating House of the Mind: May 2012
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The Debating House of the Mind. A blog for writing and thinking about theatre, TV, film, culture, politics, media.that sort of thing.dip in. Sunday, 6 May 2012. The Coronation of Poppea at Hull University. The Coronation of Poppea - Middleton Hall, University of Hull. Now infamous for allegedly playing his fiddle while the city burned), portrayed in Claudio Monteverdi's. Opera of 1642, The Coronation of Poppea. Seneca (James Robinson) on the virtues of solitude - oblivious to the orchestra behind him.
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The Debating House of the Mind: Metro's World Today (14th Jan 2015)
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The Debating House of the Mind. A blog for writing and thinking about theatre, TV, film, culture, politics, media.that sort of thing.dip in. Wednesday, 14 January 2015. Metro's World Today (14th Jan 2015). Here, in no particular order, are a few of my highlights from today's news. Not, as we might suspect, their belief that woman have no space in public life, but reasons of 'modesty'. My favourite part is that the father, having realised the mistake (imagine how disappointed his drug ring must have been ...
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The Debating House of the Mind: The Coronation of Poppea at Hull University
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The Debating House of the Mind. A blog for writing and thinking about theatre, TV, film, culture, politics, media.that sort of thing.dip in. Sunday, 6 May 2012. The Coronation of Poppea at Hull University. The Coronation of Poppea - Middleton Hall, University of Hull. Now infamous for allegedly playing his fiddle while the city burned), portrayed in Claudio Monteverdi's. Opera of 1642, The Coronation of Poppea. Seneca (James Robinson) on the virtues of solitude - oblivious to the orchestra behind him.