Inspector Montalbano: The Age of Doubt – review
I wish I’d read this years ago.
Book review: We Shall Inherit the Wind, by Gunnar Staalesen
A book that’s both timely and timeless
Book review: The Borgen Experience, by Camilla Hammerich
About eight years ago, Camilla Hammerich and Adam Price began work on a TV series expected to have limited appeal outside Scandinavia. Borgen, the series about Danish politics and politicians, … Continue reading
TV review: Beck – The Hospital Murders (BBC FOUR)
Contains spoilers BBC FOUR gave a fifth outing to Peter Haber’s Beck this Saturday. The Hospital Murders was an utterly atypical addition to the Beck stable and may have confused … Continue reading
Beck on BBC FOUR: what to expect
Martin Beck storms onto BBC FOUR this evening as the channel brings us the most recent instalments of the long-running detective series. The films are less well-known than the iconic … Continue reading
Event review: Nordicana 2015
I don’t know what the Green Room is like at the Troxy in east London but I reckon last weekend, at the third Nordicana, it was pretty empty. The actors, … Continue reading
Nordicana is back – and it’s needed more than ever
Nordic Noir is growing up. The phenomenon, built around crime drama from Scandinavia but loose enough (once you’ve added the qualifier ‘and beyond’) to include subtitled dramas from France and … Continue reading
Borgen and the British General Election
There have been a couple of attempts to see whether Borgen, with its portrayal of mature multi-party politics can teach anything to us in the UK, which is late to … Continue reading
