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...We passed Priestley’s “troops” of cyclists, who whizzed along the road cutting through the valley....
...One of his big breaks came when an American R&B group called The Jones Girls came to London to record an album. They were big in the ‘70s, and this was meant to be their comeback album....
...My father, Errol Michael Henry, is an audio geek. He collects headphones and speakers in the same way some people hoard classic cars or stamps....
...It’s a thrilling set-up, with echoes of both J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview....
...When J.B. Priestley visited Stoke-on-Trent in 1933, the author’s scorn was plain....
...Griffin cut his teeth playing big band R&B, Davis stood out among Count Basie’s brass and both could make their presence felt in the space of a bar....
...It bisects Highgate cemetery — Karl Marx and George Eliot to the east, Lucian Freud and Bob Hoskins to the west — and ends only steps from the former home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and J.B....
...Explaining his approach to a crew member who worked on one of Ames’s films, he references J.B....
...Stephen Daldry first staged his revelatory production in 1992, blowing the dust off J.B....
...The singer that night, Amanda McBroom, sang an old favourite of mine that she wrote herself, called “Errol Flynn”, a love song to her father who was a B-movie star; “a B-plus-plus-plus-movie star,” she said...
...One of the best chapters, entitled “English Journey: Football and Urban England” in a nod to J.B. Priestley, outlines the scale of the disparity between big and small clubs....
...The Depression was easing and a new England was emerging – a place, as JB Priestley put it in 1934, “of giant cinemas and dance-halls and cafés, bungalows with tiny garages, cocktail bars, Woolworth’s, motorcoaches...
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...(Also included was the superpatriot J.B. Priestley, author of English Journey.)...
...So is Donald Rumsfeld under Errol Morris’s hot lamps in The Unknown Known. After one medium-light toasting of a US defence secretary – Robert McNamara in The Fog of War – here is another....
...It was by the writer J.B. Priestley in 1933. Worse than snow Sydney hit a record of almost 46C last week. Snowbound Britain, count your blessings. brian.groom@ft.com...
...From Mr John B. Roberts....
...For Orwell, Wells and other great New Statesman writers such as J.B....
...At this distance in time, it feels rather like a pre-echo of J.B. Priestley, but one that is an uneasy mix of the divergent strands of that author’s stage work....
...Ryan neglects the pre-Greek origins of the vital term demokratia, which has roots in the Mycenaean language of Linear B, first decoded in the early 1950s....
...Anthony Trollope fashioned Barchester out of Salisbury, J.B. Priestley turned his native Bradford into Bruddersford and George Eliot modelled Middlemarch on Coventry....
...The playwright J.B. Priestley turned down a life peerage. Roald Dahl, Graham Greene, C.S. Lewis and Evelyn Waugh turned down OBEs or CBEs. Artists, writers and actors were the most notable refuseniks....
...As time presses on, the echoes of Chekhov are joined by Wilkie Collins and J.B. Priestley. Fascinating ingredients, then....
...Herbert elected for Oxford university, and in 1945 J.B. Priestley failed to win at Cambridge, although ahead on the first count....
...Something about J B Priestley’s 1938 play seems conducive to de luxe comedy casting....
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