From standup to stanzas: Frank Skinner’s terrific guide to poetry 🔗
Now embarking on its second series, the podcast is a terrific listen: bursting with enthusiasm for its chosen poems and constantly amusing about Skinner’s relationship with them.
Aston Villa - Liverpool finishes 7-2. Outstanding night for Villa! ⚽️
Aston Villa v Liverpool. Villa leading 4-1 at half-time! Hat-trick for Ollie Watkins 😃 ⚽️
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Juliette Gréco (80), Michael Kiwanuka (34), Glenn Gould (28), Pet Shimmers (22) & Doves (10) via tweekly.fm
Watched: Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 - ★★½ 🎥
Bread today turned out surprisingly cat-like. Tasted good but not sure what made the loaf collapse. 🍞
How the Indian Premier League clean bowled English T20 cricket 🔗🏏
Two hundred million people watched the IPL season opener in Abu Dhabi … more than the Super Bowl audience and not too far off the Champions League final.
Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times 🔗
Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world
Baking won’t get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might 🔗
In Our Time, I often think, is like going to an amazing free university at the top of Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree
For my second night of cooking Meera Sodha recipes I’ve gone for vegan chilli cornbread with broccoli. And baked black-eyed beans.
Watched: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, 1993 - ★★★★ 🎥
Cooking Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Shaoxing and soy braised tofu with pak choi. And sticky jasmine rice.
Watched: The Social Dilemma, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥
France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in Panthéon 🔗
The Guardian
Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ 🔗 — Excerpt: What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late critic’s final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. 📚
