Updated for 2020! On 19th June 1993, William Golding died at his home in Cornwall, looking out of the window, perhaps watching the rise of the […]
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Eden: Paradise Lost
Channel 4’s Eden is a social experiment/reality series which placed 23 strangers in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands, and asked them to start a community […]
Read more…Stephen King’s Castle Rock TV series
Castle Rock is the setting of many of Stephen King’s best-known novels, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, and The Dark Half, and also features in a variety […]
Read more…Zombies and Flies: The Walking Dead
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on unless you are up to date with The Walking Dead Season 7… The long summer of waiting is now over, […]
Read more…‘Live Together, Die Alone’: Lord of the Flies, Pincher Martin and Lost
Lord of the Flies is one of those novels ‘you must have read’; it is a staple text on almost every high school curriculum, and […]
Read more…The Island with Bear Grylls
Lord of the Flies has long provided inspiration for makers of reality TV – Survivor, Big Brother, Kid Nation and Boys and Girls Alone. The […]
Read more…South Bank Show Originals: William Golding
On Sky Arts, Melvyn Bragg has revisited classic episodes of his South Bank Show from the last thirty years, with new contemporary interviews, and Bragg’s […]
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