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Category Archive: Culture

Stallings takes on the men for Oxford poetry chair

The literary world is aflush, it seems, with ruddy-cheeked excitement at the election for the next Oxford Professor […]

June 4, 2015 Books, Culture, Greece, USA

Tsagarakis has Designs on the Parthenon Marbles

Spyridon Tsagarakis is perhaps best known as a fashion designer; his clothes can be found in the wardrobes […]

February 25, 2015 Culture, Greece, History

Long Day’s Journey into Night (and back into day again)

It was around 11 o’clock on Saturday morning when Dean Karnazes (right) slipped past the ruins of the temple […]

October 6, 2014 Culture, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

The Rough and Rocky Road to Sparta

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This is going to be interesting. Very interesting.  A test of mind and body. Sleep deprivation, hunger, inevitable […]

September 23, 2014 Culture, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Obituary: Ray Wolf 1914-2014

Ray Wolf, the last of the grandchildren of Edward Spender, founder of the Western Morning News, has died […]

July 8, 2014 Culture, History, Spender

Book Review: Life by Keith Richards

Once upon a time, before he became an international rock ‘n roll star and embraced everything that went […]

February 14, 2014 Book reviews, Books, Culture, Music

The Winter Games through a Victorian lens

Thousands of journalists are descending on the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics, […]

February 3, 2014 Books, Culture, History, Olympics, Sport

“Hi, it’s Harvey Keitel here… “

You don’t get long-service medals when you are a journalist which is a shame really because after 25 […]

January 8, 2014 Culture, Film, USA

Invictus – Nelson Mandela and the 1995 RWC

The former South African president Nelson Mandela died just a few hours ago on December 5, 2013. His […]

December 6, 2013 Culture, Film, Rugby union, Sport

Would the real Bob Dylan please stand up

It was my fault. I had been warned enough times by people who had been through the experience […]

November 21, 2013 Culture, Music

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