Review of Bath Abbey: vandalism, criminals, monks and a five star rating for the bell tower (from two Birmingham girls)
October 10, 2024 By Harry Mottram: It’s been a while since I last wandered into Bath Abbey but one afternoon with…
Harry Mottram Book Review: Sun, sea, sex and manipulative narrators in Francois Sagan’s novels Bonjour Tritesse and Un certain sourire
Book Review: Francois Sagan’s Bonjour Tritesse (Hello Sadness) and Un certain sourire (A Certain Smile), Penguin edition. By Harry Mottram: She…
Naked Romans, free hot water and a fabulous model – a review of a visit to the Roman Baths (or the remains of the baths, Victorian restorations and 21st century interpretations)
October 7, 2024 Review: The Roman Baths in Bath By Harry Mottram: Like so many in the city I just assume…
Harry Mottram Theatre Review: Toby Thompson’s adaption of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s fable The Little Prince at Bath’s Egg Theatre is a triumph (with its echoes of the horrors of Nazi occupied France)
October 6, 2024 Theatre Review: The Little Prince. The Egg, Bath. Written in 1942 while in exile in Canada and…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: Evelyn Waugh’s wartime drama Put Out More Flags is given a rich vocal texture in BBC Radio 4 Extra production
Radio Review: Evelyn Waugh – Put Out More Flags There’s something very louche in Anthony Valentine’s voice as Basil Seal…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: the coming of age story of Gothic fantasy obsessed Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen Part Gothic send-up, part coming of age bildungsroman novel and part…
Rapscallion Magazine: National Treasure? Dame Maggie Smith was my step Godmother! (Well not quite but there is a rather tenuous link to this family myth)
By Harry Mottram: She may have been Dame Maggie Smith to the world of theatre, the movies and TV dramas…
Axbridge News: Cheddar Reservoir owners hit by £16 million costs after pollution causes illness in Devon as plans for a second reservoir appear to stall
Cheddar Reservoir News: In 2021 the Pennon Group based in Devon and whose main firm is South West Water acquired…
Axbridge News: everything you wanted to know about the Annual Axbridge Charity Progressive Supper but were afraid to ask – including the things you should never do on the night
By Harry Mottram: Trying to explain how a progressive supper works is like trying to explain the off-side rule in…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: the grim reality of Franco’s Fascist Spain in the aftermath of the civil war in a story of survival, love and loss in CJ Sansom’s novel Winter In Madrid
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Winter In Madrid, by C.J. Sansom. It was one of those ‘what it’ moments in World…