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Tony Knox
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Worked Belfast, Afghanistan, Nicaragua. Ex BBC producer, ex producer/director South Bank Show & stuff on Ch4. https://tinyurl.com/mr5bb2p8
Do you mean the book or the adaptation? It's definitely there in the book - no doubt about it. (I'm the proud ex-owner of two DSs and a Deux chevaux -- the best cars ever! So cool - especially the cigarette.)
September 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It was never like this when I was young.
We’d drive in our Morris Traveller to Dublin, then get on a prop plane that carried 3 cars & us over to Normandie, & then stay in “campings” there.
There were exotic foods like Danone yoghurt, & la vache q r cheese, & celeri remoulade.
Always sunny.
July 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
July 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It’s mph in Northern Ireland but kph in the Republic, so you change at the border. You can see the back of a “kph” sign just beyond the bridge, which is the frontier.
July 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
July 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The Greek government allowed the landscape of Mykonos to be ruined.
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
My late mother had something similar if much more modest. She, working with Helen Frick in Manhattan to set up the library, fell in love with an Ulsterman on a visit to Ireland. This led to a transatlantic love affair and, eventually, me.
June 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is quite a good one.
June 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I suspect that the MPs promoting this don’t know what a burka is. I brought one back for each of my grand-daughters the last time i was in Afghanistan
June 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
May 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Indeed. I was lucky enough to be first at the library to borrow this - magnificently entertaining & enlightening. Will return it v soon since others have asked for it since.
February 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On this point, I suspect that your recent sleeping difficulties were the result of "Night Starvation". c7.alamy.com/comp/EXR1TY/...
January 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
January 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Literature” means anything you can read. Here’s the oed’s 1st meaning of it as “good”.
Many great artists have had nasty views (Shakespeare?).
Both Blyton & Rowling were exceptionally skilful writers who have entertained millions, & good luck to them.
I never want to read anything by them again.
December 28, 2024 at 6:10 PM
December 22, 2024 at 11:26 AM
I reached Piccadilly Circus over 2 hours after the march set off.
I’m an old man, with severe arthritis.
I don’t do this for fun.
November 30, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Post a photo of you from a different era.
Taken at a street booth in Ankara aged 17 to get a visa for Iran.
I'd just hitched back from Syria (it's a very long way) having been refused admission because UK helped Israel in the '67 war.
I've travelled on an Irish passport ever since.
November 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
My lucky daughter works there. I sent her and my grand-daughter back to York from London last night wheeling an enormous inherited gong.
November 17, 2024 at 9:25 AM