Neil Armstrong
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Journalist. Has never set foot on the moon. Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade.
@oliverwearing.bsky.social Hi Olly - just emailed you.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@oliverwearing.bsky.social Hi Olly - just emailed you.
Always a pleasure to contribute to the FT's Life of a Song column, especially when it's about an Etta James classic covered by everyone from Rod Stewart and Christine McVie to Beyoncé, Dua Lipa and Perrie Edwards. www.ft.com/content/6e22...
I’d Rather Go Blind — Etta James poured her heart into this soul classic
Co-written with an imprisoned friend, the 1967 track quickly became a standard and was memorably covered by Beyoncé
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June 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Always a pleasure to contribute to the FT's Life of a Song column, especially when it's about an Etta James classic covered by everyone from Rod Stewart and Christine McVie to Beyoncé, Dua Lipa and Perrie Edwards. www.ft.com/content/6e22...
Wrote about The Studio, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's satire of Hollywood. It's a clever, lovingly made, mostly affectionate portrayal with some really hilarious cameos. And you can congratulate yourself on getting the industry in-jokes! bbc.com/culture/arti... via
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The Studio: Why you need to watch this 'spot-on', star-studded takedown of modern Hollywood
Launching on Apple TV+, a new film industry satire co-created by and starring Seth Rogen nails the business – and features Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and others as themselves.
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March 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Wrote about The Studio, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's satire of Hollywood. It's a clever, lovingly made, mostly affectionate portrayal with some really hilarious cameos. And you can congratulate yourself on getting the industry in-jokes! bbc.com/culture/arti... via
@BBC_Culture
@BBC_Culture
Wrote about the Roxy Music hit Avalon for the FT’s Life of a Song column. www.ft.com/content/a8a8...
Avalon — Roxy Music’s 1982 hit signalled the end of an era
The track’s wistful, elegiac quality captured a moment in the band’s story
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February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Wrote about the Roxy Music hit Avalon for the FT’s Life of a Song column. www.ft.com/content/a8a8...
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"Miss Austen" appears in the UK on 2 February and then will make it to PBS "Masterpiece" on 4 May. www.bbc.com/culture/arti... #booksky
'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister
Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part because of an act that infuriates many to this day.
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January 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"Miss Austen" appears in the UK on 2 February and then will make it to PBS "Masterpiece" on 4 May. www.bbc.com/culture/arti... #booksky
Praise Kier! #Severance inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Severance season two is better than everything else on TV
Mark and his fellow refiners are back at Lumon after an excruciating three-year wait. I can't get it out of my head
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January 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Praise Kier! #Severance inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Wrote about Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem I Will Survive for the FT's brilliant Life of a Song column. www.ft.com/content/0071... via @ft
I Will Survive — Gloria Gaynor gave voice to an anthem of resilience
The 1979 disco hit went on to be covered by artists such as Diana Ross and Miss Piggy
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January 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Wrote about Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem I Will Survive for the FT's brilliant Life of a Song column. www.ft.com/content/0071... via @ft
Enjoyed talking to author Andrew Michael Hurley for BBC Culture. His appearance and demeanour suggest he is an affable, mild-mannered, cultured fellow but his writing reveals him to be an unhinged satanist who has killed repeatedly for occult purposes. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
'Weird things can happen in the countryside': Britain's creepiest new horror stories
Beginning with his acclaimed 2018 debut novel The Loney, Andrew Michael Hurley has spooked readers with his tales of strange rural communities – and now they're moving to film and TV.
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November 12, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Enjoyed talking to author Andrew Michael Hurley for BBC Culture. His appearance and demeanour suggest he is an affable, mild-mannered, cultured fellow but his writing reveals him to be an unhinged satanist who has killed repeatedly for occult purposes. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Wrote about Slow Horses for BBC Culture. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Slow Horses: The anti-James Bond that gets to the heart of Britishness
With a new series launching today, Apple TV+'s spy show about MI5 rejects is more popular than ever. As with the Mick Herron books it's based on, it has lots to say about the UK today.
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September 7, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Wrote about Slow Horses for BBC Culture. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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Blyton really phoning it in with this title.
September 5, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Blyton really phoning it in with this title.
Reviewed Apple TV+’s The New Look for BBC Culture. Enjoyed it more than some of the other critics. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
The New Look review: Four stars for Coco Chanel and Christian Dior Nazi drama
Covering the lives of fashion designers Coco Chanel and Christian Dior during WW2, The New Look explores what it was like to be under Nazi occupation in Paris.
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February 14, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Reviewed Apple TV+’s The New Look for BBC Culture. Enjoyed it more than some of the other critics. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Reviewed Netflix's adaptation of One Day for BBC Culture. Loved it.
One Day review: This 'beautiful, note-perfect' love story is a hit
A perfectly judged adaptation of David Nicholls's bestselling 2009 novel One Day arrives on Netflix this week – prepare to laugh, prepare to cry, but don't miss it.
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February 6, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Reviewed Netflix's adaptation of One Day for BBC Culture. Loved it.