Margaret Thatcher
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“If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless”
Roger Scruton
“Oh, my boys, my boys, we’re at the end of an age. We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in. Shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour. And here we are, we three, perhaps the last island of beauty in the world.”
Richard Griffiths, Withnail & I [1987]
RIP Peter Bowles, 16th October 1936 – 17th March 2022
Penelope Keith & Peter Bowles, To the Manor Born
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Julius Caesar assassinated, 15th March 44 BC. Beware the Ides of March.
Jacob Rees-Mogg shares his summer reading list
Miles Davis improvising the soundtrack to Louis Malle’s Lift to the Scaffold, December 1957
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Sidney Bechet, Si tu vois ma mère
Midnight in Paris [2011] by Woody Allen
Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.
Philip Larkin, A Study Of Reading Habits
Sir John Gielgud reads Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
https://youtu.be/zl8FaJg2o5A
Miles knows
John Horsley and Sue Nicholls, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin [1976]
“Let us say you are in Queer Street and leave it at that."
Sir John Gielgud and Jeremy Irons, Brideshead Revisited [1981]
Julius Caesar assassinated, 15th March 44 BC. Beware the Ides of March.
Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling accompanied by Louis Armstrong, Stardust Memories [1980]
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The Stan Getz Quartet and Astrud Gilberto perform ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ in ‘Get Yourself a College Girl’ [1964] directed by Sidney Millers
Happy Birthday Astrud Gilberto, 80 today! [born 29th March 1940]