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Perfect home if you want to spy on the neighbours: Espionage author John Le Carré s Grade II-listed six bedroom cottage goes on the market for nearly £2m
Spy author John le Carré moved into the stunning Grade II listed building near Wells, Somerset, in 1965
He created many of his most famous works from the studio cottage on the grounds which he used as study
The writer, whose real name was David Cornwell, died last year at the age of 89 from pneumonia
Current residents carried out a painstaking refurbishment and are now marketing the property for £1.95m
Your eyeballs grow cold: What my first attempt at cold water swimming in London taught me
Before trying out cold water swimming, I learned everything about its promised benefits. I wish I had also read up about the momentary agony it brings. http://parliamenthilllido.org/
Some months ago, as the first Covid winter hit London, a friend asked if I wanted to go open-air swimming with her. She was a regular at the Parliament Hill Lido and wanted company for her early morning swim. It was the novelty of the thing that made me say yes. We arranged to meet at 7.30 am, a few days on, for a swim before work.
Stephen Fry Would Like to Remind You That You Have No Free Will
Talk By David Marchese We all have them: cultural figures whom, beyond any single thing they’ve done, we’re just kind of glad to have around, and whose sensibility seems to jibe in some fundamental way with our own. I remember when Stephen Fry started to become such a figure for me. I was a teenage Anglophile, sitting at home on a slow afternoon this would have been the late ’90s and watching a rerun of the British sketch-comedy show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (Judge me not.) Fry appeared on the screen, a tall, urbane man with a zigzag nose. He was improvising a story in the style of John le Carré novels. “George,” he began, referring, I would understand later, to le Carré’s spymaster George Smiley and doing so in what I dimly inferred was a tone of upper-class officiousness. “Control’s gone potty, George. Operation Ascot went downhill, George, since the lamplighters and t