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- Dunkirk, the movie
- New Poldark 3:4-5: a deeper emotionalism; a loss of verbal subtleties; late stage capitalism replaces exciting adventure
- Winston Graham’s non-Poldark fiction: from film noir to opera
- Poldark 3:3-4: the difficulty of returning to material 20 years dormant ….
- Poldark 3:1 & 2: again changing emphases, bringing out sense of community
- Andrzej Wajda’s Afterimage — how to take away someone’s existence
- Trollope’s Dr Wortle’s School: a late novella
- I, Daniel Blake — 13th — and Timon of Athens
- Trollope’s Golden Lion of Granpere: an unusual sunlight
- Aging: Kaleidoscope, Lear, Cranford Chronicles …. return to Gaskell
- Waterland — Graham Swift’s novel, the film by Stephen Gyllenhaal, Peter Prince
- Hedda Gabler from the National Theater in London — an HD film
- Michael Ondaatje and Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient: Post-colonial? a Booker Prize winner
- Speaking about Torture, edd. Julie A Carlson & Elisabeth Weber — crucially important book
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