Put on Ice – The Ice House in Context

Posted on by Jon Dear

What did John Bowen have against John Stride? Little over a year after having him die by strychnine poisoning in the Play for Today episode A Photograph (BBC, John Glenister, 1977), Stride once again is the doomed protagonist in this, the last of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas films in the original run … Continue reading Put on Ice – The Ice House in Context

Foreign Countries #28: The Roses of Eyam (1973)

Posted on by Jon Dear

While I’ve seen plenty of people talking about Daniel Defoe’s Journal of a Plague Year (1722) and various works concerning the 1918 influenza epidemic, most notably Pandemic 1918 by Catherine Arnold (2018), perhaps the most human story of life in lockdown is rarely discussed. In many ways this isn’t too surprising. As a play first … Continue reading Foreign Countries #28: The Roses of Eyam (1973)