Historic John returns

Historic John (HJ) slept right through the first week of May, so Colin aroused him from his slumbers to again emerge from the dungeon beneath Southern FM’s bayside studios. Listen to the podcast for another episode of This Week in History as heard on A Newsman and his Music (Monday 11 May 2020).

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Film review ‘CATS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

When the trailer for Tom Hooper’s cinematic version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats hit the internet a few months ago it’s images of venerable actors like Judy Dench prancing around in furry-faced cat costumes were met with a torrent of ridicule. Sometimes trailers can be deceiving and in the broader context of the film itself, bizarre and ludicrous

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