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Tomorrow's episode of The Rest Is History - continuing our account of LORD BYRON's remarkable life - is one of the maddest we have ever done: DANGEROUS LIAISONS

The Wisdom of Norman Geras (an occasional series)
Part 1. Valuing liberal democratic norms and institutions

'... the insistence, under the rubric of 'smashing' the state, on a total discontinuity between bourgeois-democratic and projected socialist polities has tended to obscure

Watching #Ripley - reflecting that it's a good thing Highsmith isn't writing now. A sociopath main character with zero empathy? Try getting that past a modern editor.

Stunning interpretation of the horror and dread Highsmith created so well.

Boat scene in episode 3 of #Ripley : even knowing it was coming, I had to be peeled off the wall afterwards. The sound effects, the boat as lethal attacker, the endless struggle. Still shaken hours later.

Delighted to be a radio ‘pick of the week’ for my @bbcsounds #historyssecretheroes episode on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville - whose story I tell in my book #TheSpyWhoLoved .
Narrated by #HelenaBonhamCarter … interview with yours truly!
Broadcast Mon, 3.30pm & online.

Wonderful poet.

Lovely to read this from Ann Turnbull. Full disclosure: Ann, Linda Newbery 📚🌳🐝✏️Ⓥ and I wrote the Historical House series of books (published by Usborne Publishing ) back in the day, and she’s an old friend. And a wonderful writer.

Susan's Bookshelves: Missing Rose by Linda Newbery susanelkin.co.uk/articles/susan… via Susan Elkin

Welcome to our new guest! Author and journalist Susan Elkin praises Never Let Me Go, by #NobelLaureate Kazuo Ishiguro - how society can be blind to evils underneath its nose. 'A masterclass in understatement, repression and denial.' reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2024/04/guest-… Faber Books

Summer Rain Isleworth: acrylic on canvas from 2023

Brilliant! Hope you and Dom go on!

The Atlantic waters have closed over TITANIC, & today on The Rest Is History we conclude our series by looking at THE SURVIVORS.

How did they cope with the trauma? What of the men charged with cowardice? And the metaphors? And the films? Why the fascination?
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Love back gardens!

On WritersReview today: guest Paul Dowswell has fun comparing rock biographies - the good, the bad, the thoughtful and the frankly delusional. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2024/03/guest-… #rockgods #biography #LedZeppelin #Lemmy #EmersonLakeandPalmer #RickWakeman

What if Carrie White had lived? What if she married? Had children? What if her supernatural powers had come to her, not with puberty, but with menopause?
I'll be at the Oxford Litfest on Saturday, March 23rd, talking all things BROKEN LIGHT. Tickets here. oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve…

Stop unnecessary cancer deaths caused by long treatment waits, and save thousands of lives - Sign the Petition! chng.it/c2CnQVpX via Change.org UK

Honoured to be included here!

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