Category Archives: Culture

Daniel Buren at The Baltic

Posted on October 29, 2014 by nicdempsey

More holiday photos. Everytime I go to Newcastle, I end up at the Baltic. There’s always something interesting on and it’s just the right size, big enough to have something I want to see and small enough that I don’t … Continue reading →

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Timewaster

Posted on October 22, 2014 by nicdempsey

The BBC comes in for a huge amount of flak, according to critics it is both too liberal and to conservative. It pays people too much, the license fee is too expensive and so on. It’s the British way to complain … Continue reading →

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Remembrance

Posted on August 4, 2014 by nicdempsey

Today I could talk about what a lovely weekend I had and I did, it was lovely but today also marks 100 years since the declaration of war that marks the start of World War I. Tonight, to echo the … Continue reading →

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Swift’s Poems to Stella

Posted on July 21, 2013 by nicdempsey

I’ve been thinking about Swift’s birthday poem to Stella, this one is my favourite, Stella this day is thirty-four. (We shan’t dispute a year or more: However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first … Continue reading →

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Click-Clack the Rattlebag

Posted on October 31, 2012 by nicdempsey

You have the rest of the day* to go and download this Neil Gaiman story. It’s available free on Audible and for every download they will donate some cash to the two charities of Neil Gaiman’s choice. On his blog, … Continue reading →

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RSC’s Julius Caesar

Posted on September 11, 2012 by nicdempsey

Theatre this summer seems to have mostly been Shakespeare. We didn’t plan it like that, but we saw Henry V at the Globe, Timon of Athens at the National and last Friday, the RSC production of Julius Caesar. All of … Continue reading →

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Stuff I like – When We Two Parted

Posted on February 25, 2012 by nicdempsey

Right now it’s Sunday night, I’m sorting myself for the week and listening to Feedback and there was a request to have Zeb Soanes read anything but poetry in particular. (I should confess, I love R4 but hadn’t ever thought … Continue reading →

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One Man, Two Guvnors..

Posted on August 15, 2011 by nicdempsey

I love the theatre and I’m not a great reviewer. I can tell you if I enjoyed something, I can tell you if the actor was good. I don’t read plays and I can’t talk at length about this stuff. … Continue reading →

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The Bibliomancer’s Dream

Posted on March 7, 2009 by nicdempsey

So I didn’t get to see David Hare talk about the Berlin Wall (thanks, First Great Western!) and it was decided that as I we had both had a tough week, we’d go to Skylon and have dinner.  Walking through … Continue reading →

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Harold Pinter

Posted on August 8, 2008 by nicdempsey

Last year, I saw Betrayal at the Donmar, and I loved it.  It was the second Pinter play I had seen (the first one being ‘The Caretaker’, which I wasn’t that keen on.)  Since then I have seen ‘The Lover/Collection’ … Continue reading →

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