Celebrity Archive
15 Mar 2016
Just like Joan Bakewell, my Aunt Fanny has some strange ideas about anorexia: thank goodness no one listens to her
It could have been so different if my Aunt Fanny – a comely woman in her youth – had been an arts correspondent and broadcaster for the BBC in a period when there were so few women
30 Dec 2015
Strident Women Commentators: Not Necessarily Advancing Genuine Equality
It’s not certain whether the American theatre critic, Walter Kerr, had actually seen the Broadway play by John Van Druten “I Am a Camera”, before the title inspired him to think of what turned out to be
8 Aug 2015
Reality, or perhaps more accurately, Judgemental TV
Rollerball, the 1975 movie starring James Caan, was a view of a dystopian future world that had been pacified and was under corporate control. Despite, or rather because of, the absence of war, the rulers recognised that