Filled with Compassion
Date:
20-01-2012
Author:
Jason Gardner
The Steven Spielberg film version of Michael Morpurgo’s renowned children’s book, War Horse – about the relationship between...
Connecting with Culture: Entertainment
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Never Knowingly Over-commercialised?
Date:
18-11-2011
Author:
Antony Billington
Even if you’ve not yet seen the John Lewis Christmas TV advert, the chances are you’ve heard about it – through colleagues at work, Facebook friends, or just about any national newspaper. Within a few hours...
Bored
Date:
16-09-2011
Author:
Ben Care
…people are consumed by boredom…It is like some sort of dust. One comes and goes without seeing it, one breathes it in, one eats it, one drinks it, and it is so fine that it doesn’t even scrunch between one’s teeth. But if one stops for a moment, it settles like a blanket over the face and hands. One has to constantly shake this ash-rain of...
Last Night a Video Game Saved My Life
Date:
03-06-2011
Author:
Jason Gardner
Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury - a man who spent a good deal of time thinking about the woes and wonders that technological progress has conjured up - had this to say about Space Invaders, Pac Man, World of Warcraft and their ilk: 'Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do'...
A Very Special Fairytale
Date:
29-04-2011
Author:
Jason Gardner
They've got this royal wedding all wrong. I know because I've seen plenty of documentaries on prince and princess nuptials. First of all, the prince has either to scale an impossibly tall tower, brave a cursed forest or combat some leathery flying lizard. Then, and only then, does he get to wake the princess up...
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