[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBJjvbGukE[/youtube] “I think what is interesting to me is being able to communicate history in an extremely rigorous and scholarly way – never making stuff up, never leaving any stone unturned, never refusing to question what needs to be questioned – endlessly, in fact – but there is nothing wrong, in fact there is everything right in my mind, in being able to communicate that in the most compulsive and seductive way possible. To make history alive.” – Kate Colquhoun
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Les Misérables: Or, When Will Someone Set The Industrial Revolution To Song?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvHzCLP6ug[/youtube] With today’s nationwide release of Les Misérables I booked my ticket and hurried off to my local cinema, excited to catch ‘The Best Film Of The Year’ – which is high praise indeed as it is only January. The film adaptation of the world’s longest running musical has a lot to live up to: a dedicated fan base more judgmental than any twihard, and reputation for having attracted some of the biggest names of stage and screen to its
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