A very good, balanced doco on Syria and the rise of ISIS since 2011, first shown about 18 months ago.

Graphic photos of corpses, extreme injuries and the torture of kids so be warned. Made by...

Savitsky museum Uzbekistan

It’s a story about dictatorships – how they hate change, deal harshly with people with novel ideas, see art as propaganda but how some brave people can preserve what is...

Well this has a good cast, lets hope it's better than the last one The Hatton Garden Robbery.

And this lot are crime journalists with 'Basil Uncle Fred, after us spending a huge amount
of Rupert...

I’d forgotten the screamingly obvious – there is already a modern opera on an Egyptian Pharaoh – Akhnaten – Tut’s father.

The Akhnaten Opera is by Philip Glass (b1937) a US Jew – which explains why...

Now I have a huge collection of people that get to go on D.I.D.
Today from the archive was Paulo Coelho.

When I was wandering around on my Clementine with a few Army people plus 3 Bedu,
and a...

Trump and Russia.

A 3 x 50 minutes documentary over 3 weeks going back several years on Trump and ignoring the usual James Bond angles the media likes.

It identifies the complex and legally...

It’s a superbly made, brilliantly edited and deeply interesting TV doco on a strange isolated, talented US photographer of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Made by John Maloof -which I guess is the variation...

Coming soon thousands of 'kiss me quick scouser's..... 8)

Politics Dead In America.

It’s a TV doco. about what has died in America and in its politics in the last 30 years and the grievance and resentment (and anger) combined with small brains and big...

What a fantastic performance on Britain's Got Talent (for once)

Makes you proud to be British.

This is to me the best version! Soul and Blues at it's very best...

Here is another, people you may never know but sing with real soul....

I enjoyed the music of this great ney player from Cairo, when he was here to create a musical scene for a Ramadan TV series. He also found time to make this Ramadan video with Local singer Yasser...

Yomeddine review – Egyptian leper colony drama is slight and sugary.

A man who has recovered from leprosy goes in search of the father who abandoned him in a sentimental drama that infantilises...

Google inform me Omar would be 86 today.
Here's Nick & Omar (p*ssed) at Peter O'Tooles wake, for a joke they tried to call me here,
but as usual I had mislaid my phone again, shame.... 8)

RIP Omar...

Saw an article in today's London Standard on theatre pubs, two of which are 10 minutes from my home.
Not discounting Sadlers Wells & The Lilian Baylis Studio, the former since c1683.
And not that I...

The Travel Show on BBC World is featuring Egypt this weekend. Not the usual tourism tour but worth a look for anyone interested in antiquities.

The programme includes a visit to the Grand Egyptian...

Taking body painting to a new level!

This unbelievable body painting is created by Mirjana Kika Milosevic. She specializes in skin illusion and special FX makeup

Probably the best film I watched in 2017.... 8)

Saw the Churchill movie at the weekend starring Gary Oldham.

Its received near universal acclaim.

It presents a franker view of Churchill - the drinking, the mental instability - than is commonly...

Fascinating BBC Hardtalk interview today featuring Zineb El Rhazoui.

I recommend it to anyone interested in the struggle between Islam - which she regards as a form of fascism - and secularism....