Hints and tips:
...The title, Glorious People, is taken from Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, the great playwright’s examination of thwarted dreams and unfulfilled promise....
...Lynch writes with a sort of lyricism, sentences splicing into one another and characters rising and falling as if in a dream, and it makes for a powerful listening experience: claustrophobic, frightening...
...Edson Chagasb. 1977, Luanda, Angola I have dreams about these photographs....
...She remembers one story of being young and waiting for her mother to finish a shift....
...Young handles the slips from speech to song beautifully, as if patches of ice were melting....
...Jo McInnes’s nurse and Paul Higgins’s friar try, as ersatz parents, to forestall disaster....
...He was born in Valletta, Malta, the second child of five, to a Maltese pharmacist and English nurse. The whole family moved to England when he was still a toddler....
...Wolfgang Koch is all sonorous patience as the Dyer, Michaela Schuster’s Nurse is both impressive and overwrought....
...Everything about it was generally seen as a little bit expensive and sort of out of touch from what people could even dream of buying. And that was the focus of Starmer’s PMQs attacks....
...(Poor people famously attend Navy Seals camp when young.) Watch her become queen of the island. Watch a male model give her some loving for extra rations....
...fresh production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, director Adele Thomas’s festival debut in Handel’s Semele, and welcome returns for Peter Hall’s lavish production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
...I just go into my own little dream world or get on with my work. Even I have noticed that the Lionesses (laughter) is setting quite well....
...There is quiet disbelief in Tilly Tremayne’s decent Rebecca Nurse and in Colin Haigh as her shell-shocked husband....
...I wanted to highlight the many nurses and healthcare workers at the hospital who, as the NHS was being established, were recruited from across the Commonwealth to build a dream for the “mother” country,...
...There was, as will have been the case at the Assembly Rooms before, a scarcity of young men....
...Several doctors and nurses came to my room and asked, “Are you not depressed?” I replied, “Why do you ask?” “Because you’ve left your country and your family.”...
...The toll was visible on the faces of the sleepless doctors and nurses. A Ukrainian military medic with innocent eyes and a scruffy goatee lit up a Marlboro Red and took a long drag....
...“They believe in the dream,” he said....
...Locals describe it to me as “a dream place” and “heaven”....
...I was considered young when I was appointed 11 years ago; now I want to become Geneva’s youngest retired judge....
...Nurses informed McGill that Knight was in Room 12, but that she’d have to be quick. He had been trying to leave the hospital via private ambulance....
...A society that keeps repeating the statement “girls’ place is the kitchen” limits their ambitions and dreams....
...Suicide is the leading cause of death among men under the age of 50 and young people in the UK....
...I like the journey and I like dreams. I think it’s an illusion to think that there isn’t that struggle in life generally.”...
...Blancquaert’s mother was a nurse and her father a driver for wine producer Nederburg. Wine labels intrigued the young Blancquaert....
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