Tag: literature

Heaven in Trieste

October 17, 2025 2 Comments
Heaven in Trieste

It’s unlikely, for a number of good reasons, that after my death I shall end up in heaven.  But if it happens, and if – an even more remote possibility – St Peter offers me a choice of where exactly in that fine place I’d like to be, I’d ask whether he could arrange for […]

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Television, books and lists

November 8, 2019 0 Comments
Television, books and lists

Television is scared stiff of books.  It’s different on the radio, and it used to be different on television in the distant past – remember Melvyn Bragg’s excellent Read all about it In the 1970s? – but those who decide what we watch on the box today seem to think that to make a programme […]

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