The shape of ideas: Samuel Beckett (speaking to Harold Hobson during the production of Waiting for Godot, 1956) #GoodFriday

Happy birthday, Marvin – born OTD in 1939

I would prefer not to

Park light

Laughter in the dark: Flann O’Brien, died on the 1st of April 1966. (Letter to William Saroyan about The Third Policeman)

War is not the answer #NowPlaying

Filey.

Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Go to America. They’ll put up with anything there...” Watched this hoot of a road movie.

Coming through

Class act: Dirk Bogarde, born OTD in 1921

Getting ready for her close-up: Gloria Swanson, born OTD in 1899

Tough week, and it's only Wednesday

Paris, je t’aime

Enjoyed this classic film noir featuring Reds, G-men and grifters fighting the cold war in the mean streets of 1950s New York

Enjoyed this dark Highsmithian caper

Ready for his close-up

Reading Colm Tóibín on the banality of evil in present-day America www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Another unmissable movie heads-up for iPlayer watchers: the otherworldly La Chimera is screening from tonight

Joanna Hogg, maker of this marvel, born #OTD in 1960

I am not a number: Patrick McGoohan, born OTD in 1926

David Lynch lives

Enjoying this satire of French literary publishing in Sam Taylor’s excellent translation (The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos)

Pub dogs #StPatricksDay

Brothers

Turning the corner #biking #spring

One of the great train journeys

Tough call: James Stewart in Call Northside 777 directed by Henry Hathaway, born OTD in 1898

Oxford Circus.

Pimlico.

Sleeping dogs

One book after another #editing

Can recommend this if you need a laugh

“Satie and Picabia . . . leap up and down in what might be some kind of ritual exorcism to dispel the spirit of gravity.” Enjoying Ian Penman’s playful Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Hold me closer tiny dachshund

“Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top?” The much-missed Rob Reiner, born OTD in 1947

On the radio in the corner shop just now: Edwin Starr singing “War (What Is It Good For?)” #GoodGod

Thanks to those on here who recommended this. I was expecting philosophy, but not laugh-out-loud human comedy. A brilliant opening episode.

Garden ornament

Love a U-Bahn station.

Pub dog

“‘Til things are brighter, I’m the man in black.” Johnny Cash, born OTD in 1932

Bedfellows

Brothers

Street corner, Chester, viewed from the city walls

Chelsea Hotel, if I’m not mistaken…

Looking at humanity: Mike Leigh, born OTD in 1943

“It puts me in mind of Bezos’s other marquee product, another service that dealt a disastrous blow to books.”

Found this utterly absorbing: an intense exploration of family relationships and artistic creativity