Tag Archives: Germany
The making of Do Pass Go: boardgames in the internet age
Do Pass Go my BBC Radio 4 documentary, airing on Friday April 14th 2017, has its origins in a piece I wrote about the Libyan dictator General Gadaffi playing chess on TV in the run up to his toppling, and … Continue reading
Posted in Business/Economics, Children, Culture, Design, Games, Germany, Radio
Tagged boardgames, british museum, climate oasis, culture, dagnis skurbe, essen, friedemanm friese, FTW, Germany, grant dalgliesh, irving finkel, James wallis, jessy bradish, magic the gathering, mombasa, pandemic, royal game of ur, the dice tower, the last spike, tom vasel
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Shylock: A Traveller in Time
The film producer Davina Belling once said of Jonathan Pryce that she always uses him as a lesson for actors “not to count their lines when they’re offered a role. He had 20 lines in the whole film [Breaking Glass] … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Culture, Film, History, Media, Theatre, Uncategorized
Tagged anti semitism, breaking glass, bullingdon club, carry on matron, Germany, jonathan pryce, judaism, kenneth cope, Nazism, shakespeare, Shakespeare's Globe, shylock
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Half Blood Blues: Jazz, race and Nazis.
When I worked in Berlin in 1998 the trendy record store in the city’s gay-friendly Schoneberg district had a category called “schwarz”(black) music. It took up a lot of the shop and seemed a bizarrely useless generalisation, given the huge … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, Germany, Music, Uncategorized, War
Tagged 40s, Berlin, books, Esi Edugyan, Germany, jazz, Louis Armstrong, Nazis, Paris
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