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Fig. 1: Photograph of Samuel Beckett by Roger Pic (1977)   Fig. 2: Arthur Atkinson as Hogg in Beckett's one-act play And Then What    (B...

An untitled photo by Rachel Fleminger Hudson  rachelflemingerhudson.com     I.   As someone who grew up in the 1970s and remains amorously f...

 Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby in Rising Damp (1974-78) and as Inspector Truscott in Loot (1984)   I.    As a Rising Damp aficianado, I was ...

Photo of Soo Catwoman by Ray Stevenson (1976) The slogan is a paraphrase of a sentence written by Walter Benjamin [1]     "Why do we fe...

  The central cast of Life on Mars (BBC One, 2006-07)     I.    Whether by accident or subconscious design, I have long avoided watching th...

Left: The Mask of Agamemnon (c. 1906) Right: Émile Gilliéron (1850-1924)     I.    If you are ever fortunate enough to visit The Metropoli...

Poster design featuring:    1: Mask of Agamemnon   (c. 1550-1500 BC) [1]   2 The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) [2]  3: L'homme au masque d...

  Young America at its very best ...   Karen Carpenter (1950-1983)   "Wants to look like a star / but she takes it too far ..." [...

Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie   (dir. Ronald Neame, 1969)     I've never seen any of the Harry Potter films (and don...

The Sarco Pod : every home should have one ...     I.    Some readers might recall a news story from late 2021 which reported that someone ...