by David Ryan | Jan 30, 2023 | Books, Entertainment, Personal, Uncategorized
I’ve become an evangelist for Audible, the audiobooks subscription service. In fact, if Amazon had conveyed the benefits of membership more effectively, I’d have joined years ago. In a matter of months, I’ve come to love it on a number of levels. Here, then, are...
by David Ryan | Apr 7, 2022 | Journalism, Personal, Uncategorized
How time flies. Is it really 30 years since I looked across a room and saw a future prime minister utter an obscenity? Disconcertingly, it is. And as my mind drifts back to April 1992, memories of the UK political scene loom large. A year and a half earlier, the...
by David Ryan | Aug 2, 2020 | Entertainment, Personal
I think about Horace Rumpole a lot these days, because he taught me the principles of justice. Not social justice in the modern sense. I’m talking specifically about the philosophy that underlies English common law and the court systems that sprang from it across the...
by David Ryan | Jul 19, 2020 | Entertainment, Personal, Theatre
The Hexham heads. It’s a phrase I’d never heard until this year, when I attended a show called Scarred for Life. Actually, I may have heard it before, in February 1976 when I was seven. But if I had, I’d repressed it, such was the trauma of hearing werewolves...
by David Ryan | Jul 16, 2020 | Film, George Orwell, Personal
You know those actors who say: “I can’t bear to watch myself. I notice all my mistakes”? Since the summer of 2019, I’ve had an inkling of what they mean. The previous September, American academic publisher McFarland brought out my book George Orwell on Screen, which...
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