sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2024-01-29 09:03 pm

The Devil is a patriot, a proper party man

After a weekend of worsening listlessness, brainlessness, and general malaise, I finally saw a doctor and seem not to have any of the currently circulating plagues, but was sent home with a new inhaler and instructions to medicate myself like the nineteenth century on account of my lungs sounding terrible. I would so very much like to be able to think about anything that matters to me. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of [personal profile] thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] davidgillon: the ongoing investigation of HMS Erebus on the clock of climate change. I had somehow forgotten the pre-printed Admiralty equivalent of a black box recorder.

3. I had occasion last night to share Donald Swann's recording of "Lord of the Dance," from his Sydney Carter-penned EP Songs of Faith and Doubt (1964). I am never going to get over the existence of this version and I also happen to like it.

4. I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.

5. Ainsley Hawthorn's "The Sea, Like Glass" (2024) is a marvelous haunting of sea and selves.
thisbluespirit: (martin jarvis)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2024-01-30 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Boy, that Starfall AU got dark fast.

Heh! (All the moreso because my first reaction was: "What's a Starfall AU?" lol)

(What is actually the radio/television play in question?)

J. B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner, a 1981 SNT version. It also has the amusing bonus of his character having to complain that his problem is that he's not Martin. He's going to get saved by the radio as well, which I suppose is only right and proper.