Last night, as I flopped onto the sofa after a day of essay marking and admin, I found myself glancing briefly between two shining display screens. One was the TV, where I’d inadvertently switched on BBC4 just at the point that we were being introduced to the semi-finalists of this
One of the things I enjoy most about my freelancing lifestyle is the sheer variety of repertoire that I’m able to engage with on a week-to-week basis. I might be teaching Schubert Lieder in one place; late nineteenth-century chamber music somewhere else; write programme notes on the music of James
As anyone who has the vaguest interest in cinema, DVD collecting, watching the TV or even bus posters will know, superheroes are in. They have been for a while: men of steel, fortuitous victims of nuclear/chemical accidents, test subjects of government projects – heck, even sparkly vampires. They battle the
