A superb South Bank show documentary on Marianne Faithfull; film from a recent concert, and a couple of interviews, the main one being conducted by Bragg (not a favourite of mine but I must admit this was a good, fairly self-effacing int

I have decided from time to time to create what might be termed a Diary Blog. This is necessarily a somewhat self-indulgent exercise but since this blog is a form of therapy for me (indeed this may be its chief value!) this objection has little force

 The final session of the Tuesday morning was again in panels. I attended the one called Gender and Narrative Construction (1). The first paper was Ellen's - this can be found in full at....http://www.jimandellen.org/trollope/comfortromance.

 On the final session of the Monday I again attended a different pane to Ellen; the title of the panel was 'Its a Boy Thing: Emerging Manhood'. The first paper was given by Stephen Amarnick which was based on his detailed textual re

Way back in the heatwave of last July I attended a Conference about Trollope at the University of Exeter.