Bibliogryphon

I only recently found out that Lynde provided the voice for The Hooded Claw in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop.

This can include other people associated with the Theatre such as my DDP pick Shakespeare academic Stanley Wells, Producers, designers anyone of prominence connected with the theatre. musical theatre - I know there is a Broadway thread but would the West End fit here (I am not an expert on musical theatre (understatement))

Plane has a hydraulic leak. Switching to new plane. One advantage of flying with BA.

DIRECTORS 1979 Trevor Nunn 1982 Richard Eyre 1985 Bill Bryden 1986 Nuna Esperit 1988 Deborah Warner 1989 Nicholas Hytner 1990 Richard Jones 1992 Stephen Daldry 1993 Terry Hands 1994 Sean Mathias

and of course the corresponding list for Actresses 1961 Vanessa Redgrave 1962 Maggie Smith 1963 Joan Plowright 1965 Eileen Atkins 1969 Rosemary Harris 1973 Janet Suzmann 1974 Claire Bloom 1977 Alison Steadman 1978 Kate Nelligan 1980 Judy Dench It is worth noting that this list ends 19 years before the Actors list. Maybe the cliche of the old drunken actor is not as cliched as perhaps thought

Here are the ten earliest surviving winners of the Evening Standard Theatre Award for the best actor. No real surprises in here but all worth keeping an eye on. The gaps probably say more than the names towards the bottom of this list ACTORS 1961 Christopher Plummer 1965 Ian Holm 1966 Albert Finney 1980 Tom Courtenay 1983 Derek Jacobi 1984 Ian McKellern 1985 Anthony Sher 1987 Michael Gambon 1998 Kevin Spacey 1999 Stephen Dillane

I was in Krakow for a meeting. It was the first time I had been there and only the second time I had been to Poland

In the car on the way to Heathrow for a flight to Copenhagen.

Mrs Biblo might agree with you this month Poland, Brussels, Hangzhou and Copenhagen next week but I haven't had to travel since April so it has all just come at once.

I have got a quarter of our works staff involved in a pool.

I didn't expect him to outlive Jacqueline Pearce.

In taxi on way back to home.

I am back on European soil but my flight back from CDG to Heathrow is delayed.

I had never heard of him until a player in my work game picked him as her wildcard. There are some things you do not need to know about and he is one of them.

The big difference will be that BHS is missed on the High Street.

But not a massive shock.

They certainly seem to be on someone's list.

Some of the big gaps were the result of multiple wins for Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) and Colin Dexter oddly enough P. D. James never won.

I understand why people do but it is not for me.

I always struggled with Quantum Leap as I felt that it was Science Fiction for people who didn't like Science Fiction and also die hard QL fans are very strange people.

The Golden Dagger award is presented by the UK Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year. There are thirty two surviving winners from its 58 year history. Here are the longest surviving since their win 1961 Mary Kelly (b.1927) 1963 John Le Carre (b. 1931) 1967 Emma Lathen (Martha Henissart co-author (b.1929) 1973 Robert Littell (b.1935) 1974 Anthony Price (b.1928) 1975 Nicholas Meyer (b.1945) 1981 Martin Cruz Smith (b.1942) 1982 Peter Lovesey (b.1936) 1983 John Hutton (b.1928) 1985 Paula Gosling (b.1939) After this there is a gap of eight years where there is no surviving winners. All should obit.

But it is new Pussycat

I was sat in Charles de Gaulle airport reading all comments on twitter about how this was the best episode of the three so far. I won't get to see it until Sunday.

Safely landed in Shanghai.

Alf Dubs was on Radio 4 earlier this week arguing that the Britain that took all the refugees from the Nazis is a very different Britain from the one turning its back on all these child migrants now.