Tag Archives: Dr. Lucy Worsley

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley On The Case Of Conan Doyle. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Most novelists will find that their creations are their greatest nemesis, they are the mirror of themselves magnified to such an extent that the reader will actively prefer to be in the company of the image built up in their mind than the author who built up a sweat framing the narrative description of the hero to whom the reader adores.

It doesn’t seem fair in many ways, that when pushed the reader will often have no clue about the writer’s own exploits, only saving their hero worship for the drawn and perfect; in a way it is almost as if the creation held a gun to the author’s head and willingly pulled on the trigger.

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley On The Case Of Conan Doyle. Television Review. full post

(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

The Final Programme For Spring 2018 Is Announced By Storyhouse Chester.

 

Storyhouse Chester has revealed the final programme for its very first Spring Season – with a line-up packed with show-stopping entertainment promising audiences a fantastic start to 2018.

The £37million new Chester arts venue is bringing a whole host of big names in comedy and dance and must-see shows to the city’s cultural hub during Spring 2018.

The New Year of entertainment at Storyhouse Chester starts on Monday 29th January when the hilarious The Play That Goes Wrong pays its first visit to the city. The multi award-winning West End and Broadway smash hit is a slapstick delight which promises to leave its audiences in stitches. The show runs until Saturday 3rd February.

The Final Programme For Spring 2018 Is Announced By Storyhouse Chester. full post

(1216 words, estimated 4:52 mins reading time)

A Very British Murder, Part Three: The Golden Age. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“Murder is no parlour game likely to be solved on the last page but in act of terrible and terrifying significance.”, so relished with glee Dr. Lucy Worsley as she read from the book that set a new style of British crime fiction, Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock.

The final part of Dr. Lucy Worsley’s fascinating look at the British pre-occupation with murder centred on the Edwardian age and beyond. From the terrible murder involving the seemingly innocuous Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen through to the way that murder became almost sanitised, cleaned and cleansed as parlour games and the rise of cinema and its own Golden Age of Film Noir in which the murderer became the celebrity in classics such as Brighton Rock and the outstanding Alfred Hitchcock film Sabotage.

A Very British Murder, Part Three: The Golden Age. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

A Very British Murder: Part Two. Television Review. B.B.C.

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As Dr. Lucy Worsley makes her way through the Victorian age of the most nefarious crime of all, the taking of another’s life, the second part of her new series, A Very British Murder, lifts the lid on the rise of the detective, whether in fiction or on the streets and houses of Britain and the detective’s arch nemesis, that of the arm chair detective.

A Very British Murder: Part Two. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

A Very British Murder, Television Review. B.B.C.

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No matter where you look on television or in the book stalls and shops of Britain, there is always the chance you will come across a programme, factual case or long line of fiction dedicated to the murder. The British seem obsessed with it, so much so that no Sunday night would be the same without one of Agatha Christie’s plots giving the viewer a challenge to find the killer before the spinster or the Belgian and no trip to a book shop would feel the same without picking up the latest crime thriller. Dr. Lucy Worsley’s latest historical series delves into the mind set of our island race’s preoccupation with the despicable act and looks at some cases of the deed in A Very British Murder.

A Very British Murder, Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)