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Monday, 16 September 2013
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Countryfile: Great Dorset Steam Fair and Dorset Romany Culture
Fascinating Countryfile this evening, BBC 1
"Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker are in Dorset for the Great Dorset Steam Fair. It is the biggest steam gathering in the UK, and Matt goes behind the scenes meeting the enthusiasts keeping the boilers stoked and wheels oiled.
In an echo of Dorset's agricultural past Ellie spends time with a Romany gypsy family. They were once the main seasonal workforce, but now there are few left living the old life. She then meets the lady bringing a bit of tropical heat to Dorset's rural byways, before throwing down the gauntlet to Matt back at the Steam Fair".
Albert Camus Centenary: Summer in Algiers
I was pleased to find this inexpensive little paper-covered edition published by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of Camus' birth:
It contains just two essays: The Sea Close By and Summer in Algiers - a great favourite of mine for the last fifty years, a lyrical essay to which I return again and again, in both French and English.
I already have them in several other editions.
I wasn't so happy to find this remark in an online essay by
"Camus' philosophy of absurdity is passé now. This is not the period of the Second World War. France has changed, and so has the world".
Maybe it's just me that hasn't moved on.
Long Live The Invincible Lucid Absurd!
See 2012 posting
BBC World Service:
The Outsider
To celebrate the centenary of novelist and philosopher Albert Camus’ birth this November we will be discussing his classic novel of alienation and murder in sun-soaked 1940s Algeria, The Outsider.
Camus’ biographer Oliver Todd will be talking about the novel in Paris. Please send in your questions for him to worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk
Watch out for November 3 2013
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