Listen again to our three acapella numbers from last Sunday’s broadcast. Enjoy the vitality and energy of the human voice unaffected by accompaniment. The three songs are: Rise up in splendour People get ready – There’s a train acomin’ Holiness is faithfulness Also listen to Vic Campbell for 3/1/2016 Christian News Bulletin. The one hour Songs of Hope part 2
Read moreThis Friday ‘Built For Speed’ kicks off 2016 with a selection of favourite tracks from across the decades. There’ll be classics from The Replacements, Bob Dylan, The Kills, Dinosaur Jr and many others. We also pay tribute to two great rockers who left us this week: Stevie Wright and Lemmy. On the movie front we look at two new films
Read moreThe last James Bond movie, Sam Mendes’ Skyfall was, for the most part, an exciting and clever re-imagining of Bond mythology that drew on both the Bourne movies and the Christopher Nolan’s Batman films for its visceral action, genuinely menacing villain and creepy noir atmosphere. It’s departure from the more frivolous and hedonistic style of the older Bond films didn’t
Read moreIn 2005 Love Actually set the benchmark for rom-coms featuring a large sprawling cast of name actors playing characters whose personal and professional lives intertwine in a quirky, amusing and sometimes bittersweet fashion. Love Actually was also a Christmas movie and successfully infused its romantic tales with the elation and pain of Christmas. Love, The Coopers attempts something similar with
Read moreHerman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick is alternately one the greatest and one of the most tedious books of all time. Melville’s epic summations of human history and culture are wonderfully evocative but his frequent and long-winded descriptions of whaling contraptions are a major chore. Ron Howard’s latest film, In The Heart of The Sea, which is based on the
Read moreSteven Spielberg has a penchant for making films about quiet, steely, morally upstanding men who defy authorities to effect vital change in society. He eloquently explored this type of character in the Schindler’s List and Lincoln and he addresses a similar theme in the impressive if not utterly compelling Cold War drama Bridge Of Spies. The film tells the surprising
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