The BBC have announced that Keeley Hawes (from Spooks and Tipping the Velvet) is to play opposite Philip Glenister’s Gene Hunt in the next series of Life on Mars. I’m a little apprehensive as I loved the first two series which worked really well. It airs in the New Year.
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I’m not getting into the ins and outs of the title, Arabian Nights, as it has a variety of meanings depending on translation and period but reading Sinbad and Aladdin has made me think of the nature of Orientalism and the first French translations.
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In the Guardian today, Laura Barton discusses the role of the heroine in fiction and the somewhat dearth of them. Which to me seems odd. This comes off the back of Nancy Drew coming to the screen, but it ignores possibly the best known heroine - Hermione Grainger. No her name is not on the […]