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Brush up your Handel
'Tis the season to be jolly - in spite of the gloom outside and the torrents of rain. But how do you banish the winter ghouls, put on a mask of...
Spectator, The, 12/01/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Word perfect
If you haven't spoken to anyone at all for 24 hours, not even the newsagent or supermarket assistant, it can be odd trying to find the right words,...
Spectator, The, 12/01/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Listen with mother
'Television makes your eyes go square, ' reports Will, one of my three nephews, avid listeners all. They've already got the radio habit (having...
Spectator, The, 12/01/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Filling in the blanks
'Show, not tell' is probably the best tip you can give anyone who wants to write; and the most difficult thing to achieve. It's so tempting to...
Spectator, The, 11/28/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Great escapes
It's been difficult enough in this age of instant Googlification to wait even 24 hours until the next instalment of Radio Four's latest Dickens...
Spectator, The, 11/21/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Quiet courage
'Listeners may find some of the content disturbing, ' said the announcer before the programme began (a warning that was also given in the Radio...
Spectator, The, 11/14/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Sharp as an arrow
Four couples but only three available bedrooms is the brilliant stratagem devised by Alan Ayckbourn for his 1975 relationship comedy Bedroom Farce....
Spectator, The, 11/07/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Quiet heroism
When did you last hear something on the TV that was so true, so direct, so resonant that it keeps popping back into your mind? If you're anything...
Spectator, The, 11/07/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
quick and the dead, The
His two sons, his grandsons and a family friend all gathered at the mortuary to wash him thoroughly, before his body, simply covered in a shroud,...
Spectator, The, 10/24/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Moment of truth
I wonder how many people still listen to plays on radio now that there is so much competition for our attention from Twitter, YouTube and...
Spectator, The, 10/10/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication
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