Simon Farquhar
Maids-a-Courting
A barrister once commented to me that “actors used to learn how to play barristers by watching barristers. Within a few years, barristers were learning how to be barristers by watching actors.”
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Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be
This on the other hand isn’t a conducted tour but a stroll in the woods, and even if it takes the occasional wrong turn, it’s a journey I got far more out of than if it had been planned to the last detail covering every point of interest briskly and efficiently. It isn’t perfect. And that’s what’s so right about it.
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A Shadow Of Its Former Self
Children love to be scared, and television used to love scaring them. Shadows, the Thames anthology of the mid-Seventies, undoubtedly delivered a few memorable episodes, but it really does seem to be a series whose excellent reputation is based wholly on the strength of its first series.
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Nice Guy Eddie
Shoestring occupies a very special place in my heart. I have vivid memories of my family watching the stupendous Christmas 1980 episode ‘The Dangerous Game’ – about Eddie chasing after lethal “Lunar Race 2000” toys before Christmas Day exploded in some unlucky child’s face…
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Naughty But Nice
Soho has been many things throughout history, most of them disreputable. Somewhere in the Fifties it became the parlour of jazz fiends, bohos and hedonists, a literate, cultured and seedy fool’s paradise, and for a good twenty years part of it remained that way, until the clip joints and the tourist traps took over.
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