Four writers share the stories of their most memorable New Zealand summer holidays. The gazebo at Papamoa Beach By Kevin Norquay Memorable summer holidays? Ours at Papamoa Beach over a decade were so memorable daughter No 1 was moved to write a poem about them – entitled The Fight, it was about the only time she had witnessed her parents at war. Nearly as gripping as a Siegfried Sassoon or Rupert Brook in its portrayal of wartime horror, it is undoubtedly now in the Karori Normal School Hall of Poetry Fame. At the core of the marital strife was a malevolent gazebo. Green and white striped, with four legs and a peaked roof, it cast shade over the opening day of every holiday at Papamoa Beach Resort.
They include additional Covid-related production awards for BFI-backed projects interrupted at the start of pandemic such as
Benediction (£341,182),
Pirates (£360,000).
Nearly all 10 titles, with the exception of
Earwig, also received £20,000 as part of pilot initiative BFI Step-up, which enabled productions to provide opportunities for production crew from under-represented groups to work on BFI-funded features
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‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’
Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy and Ken Watanabe are among the English-language voice cast of this animated feature, based on Michael Morpurgo’s bestselling children’s novel of the same name and adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce (
The Railway Man). It marks the feature directorial debut of both Neil Boyle, whose credits as an animator include
The fashion world is fickle but Stella Tennant was a rare survivor, striding down catwalks and smouldering from magazine covers for almost 30 years.
By the flighty and superficial standards of her industry, she seemed a beacon of substance: avoiding the party circuit, eschewing celebrity culture and refusing to have anything much to do with such social media fripperies as Instagram.
Married for more than two decades, she and her French photographer-turned-osteopath husband, David Lasnet, raised their four children not in London, Paris or New York, but in an 18th-century manor house in rural Scotland where they would swim in rivers, grow vegetables and walk in the hills.
A multi perspective approach to understanding the development of occupational therapy in the UK
December 22, 2020
Scholarly articles are meant to stimulate discussion, but sometimes they do for unintended reasons. A recent article in the Christmas issue of
The BMJ by one of us (Neil McLennan) did just this, provoking strong reactions and new discussions on social media and a number of rapid responses on bmj.com. The article profiled Wilfred Owen’s physician Arthur John Brock and his approach to the treatment of Owen’s shell shock. The piece suggested links between that era and the current covid-19 pandemic and its impact on people’s mental health.
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Not about Heroes
Not about Heroes by Stephen MacDonald, will play at the Alexandra Theatre in February and will be one of the first productions to open at the Regis Centre since the pandemic forced it to close, along with theatres up and down the country, in March last year.
Despite the title of the play, the production team are on the look-out for photographs of World War One heroes, preferably a head and shoulders image taken in portrait, that can be scanned into digital images and used in the production, as well as part of the set.
Michael Gattrell, part of the production team behind the project, said: “Not about Heroes is a beautiful, bold drama about the poetic and personal lives of two of the finest poets from the First World War, Wilfrid Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.