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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic / When the short day is brightest
I’m loving the winter this year. I was at the Buddhist Monastery at Chithurst, West Sussex, over New Year. It’s the perfect...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 11 min
Ayahuasca
AYAHUASCA Came back a week ago from Brazil where I was filming a documentary about the native Indian plant medicine Ayahuasca . It was...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
PRUDISH PENGUINS
It seeped into my consciousness that “The March of the Penguins” was a must-see movie this year. Someone had mentioned it was a good...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
É melhor ser alegre que ser triste
It was a strange evening. The Anglo-Brazilian Carnival Christmas Ball in Chelsea. Chelsea. Fulham. They make my heart sink with their...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
If Jan Moir so much as murmurs I will personally find her and slay her.
Kristian was a fine, charming, complex, rather dazzling man. TV is duller and straighter and drearier without him. I was proud to have...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
An idle moment on the Jurassic Coast
In every walk-round on Escape there’s a half hour where I get to sit down in someone else’s kitchen or front room (wherever I won’t be in...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 0 min
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Jerry! Jerry!
JERRY! JERRY! So I feel like I have to say something about “Jerry Springer- The Opera” which aired on BBC2 tonight despite more than...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
‘make sure you’re living life at it’s most spherical; in all directions at once.&#
On the train journies up and down England I’ve been reading Candace Pert’s odd book ‘Molecules of Emotion’ – part treatise on the...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
Paralympia: “there is no such thing as a run-of-the-mill human”
I thought nothing could surpass the sunny uplift of the Olympics but I was wrong. When the Olympic Games finished (with that...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus, Part 2, XII
I love Rilke and I was sent a lovely translation of this Sonnet to Orpheus by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy which seemed to capture all...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Tom Raworth
Tom Raworth The internet never ceases to amaze me. Quite by accident I stumbled across Tom Raworth’s website the other day. It was sad...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
Rimbaud’s Right
Another year, another Proms season gone. Again I’m chuffed that the British Broadcasting Corporation exists. No other broadcaster on the...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
THEATRE & MUSIC REVIEW
The Noise of Time: Shostakovich and Théatre de Complicité It probably wasn’t the best choice for a romantic date: the driest piece of...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Come on baby, baby, now feel the waltz…
For whatever reason I found myself having tea in Carnaby Street in the drizzle at 8.30 on a Saturday morning. Huddled under a cafe...
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