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Category Archive: Culture

The Sale of the Century

The guide at the National Gallery in London wasn’t entirely sure where I might find Rubens. She furrowed […]

February 22, 2018 Culture, History, Spender

First Night Nerves

It was inevitable there would be a few nerves. After two and a half years of hard work, […]

November 8, 2016 Culture, Dublin, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport, Trinity College

Brief Encounter … with Bowie

Like many people this morning, my thoughts are with David Bowie who has died in New York from […]

January 11, 2016 Culture, Music, Spender

Farewell to the King of the Sporting Lens

It is almost two weeks now since the photographer Mike King collapsed at his mother’s house and died at the […]

September 19, 2015 Culture, Rugby union, Sport

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

O O Read More

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

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