Philip Gwynne Jones

Passports, Podcasts and Prog

Well, it’s been an interesting few weeks. I finished teaching a couple of weeks ago, giving me some proper time

Well, we’re still three months away from publication of “The Angels of Venice”. But I’ve been keeping busy with teaching,

Ten years on, and I still have the occasional nightmare. Now, I’m not averse to a bad dream…indeed, in this

I’ve got to be honest here – 2021 was not a bad year for us. Okay, it wasn’t ideal that

I’ve just realised that – although I tweeted this a couple of weeks ago – there might be a few

It’s late November, and I’m a bit poorly. No, not man-flu poorly, just aware of things not being quite right

I haven’t been to the Rialto Market for months, and it’s a delight to be back. The sun is shining

“Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me…” Has any director ever had a better decade

The great Dino Risi was a director more associated with commedia all’italiana than with the horror film And yet, in

Well this one is super-easy… Apricots are up there with the Best of Fruit. Or, at least, they should be.