BBC
May 2012
Strangely, it is easier to write a state-of-the-nation drama if you set it in the past
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
May 2012
Daniel Johnson
In his October Wine column, Saintsbury quotes Dr Johnson on novelties to great effect: "...novelty is always grateful where it gives no pain." Well, the BBC gave me pain twice this week with its no
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
September 2011
The odd script may show promise but TV executives are stifling British dramatists
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
September 2011
This year’s Proms are better than ever. Now the BBC needs to repeat the trick during the rest of the year
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
BBC
More content
- Patriot, Poet and Prophet
- Propped Up by the State
- As English as Warm Beer
- The Dying of the Light
- Mossad's Mission: Impossible
- It's Better in Latin
- The Lost Art Of Old England
- Sky's Beyond the Limit
- Unfamiliar Troubles
- Pristina: Kosovo's Liberal Islam
- The Public Doctrine of Maurice Cowling
- Why Matter Really Matters
- Welfare Despair
- A Tale of Sadness and Forgetting
- ONLINE ONLY: We've Created A Monster
- Drama Behind the Scenes
- Where the End of History Began
- University Challenged
- Can Kasparov Checkmate Putin?
- Richard Goldstone
Popular Standpoint topics
