Tuesday 17 November 2020

Saturday 7 November 2020

Adam Morse, Seeing Differently, BBC Radio 4

"Adam Morse, who is registered blind, explains how he directed an award winning film by seeing differently. When he was diagnosed at the age of nineteen with a rare eye condition, he feared at first that his ambitions to act and direct might be thwarted. A decade later, his dreams are being fulfilled and he hopes to blaze a trail for other artists with disabilities", BBC programme information.

Listen to this inspiring programme from Four Thought:

Monday 2 November 2020

Reading Preferences: On Novels and Non-Fiction

 

These days I rarely turn to a novel, out of choice. For many years (with very exceptional cases) I have found the essays, letters, non-fiction and autobiographical writings of novelists more interesting and absorbing than their fictional works.

Just for starters, here are some of my most-read works by noted novelists:


Alan Sillitoe:

Mountains and Caverns, selected essays by Alan Sillitoe

Life Without Armour, An Autobiography


Kingsley Amis:

The Amis Collection, Selected Non-Fiction 1954-1990


John Fowles:

Wormholes, Essays and Occasional Writings

The Journals, Volume 1 and 2


Lawrence Durrell:

Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller, A Private Correspondence

Prospero's Cell


William Golding:

The Hot Gates

A Moving Target


Anthony Burgess:


Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess

You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess







 



Sunday 1 November 2020

Songs of the Seal

 

Thinking of Sammy the Seal, where is he now?


Two haunting songs:


Òran an Ròin / The Song of the Seal, Julie Fowlis:


'An Ròn' and 'Ann an Caolas Od Odrum' lyric video //Julie Fowlis