The North East Magazine
The Girl starring Sienna Miller and Toby Jones is now available on DVD courtesy of Acorn Media Alfred Hitchcock as well as being a cinematic genius was a strange bird. His strangeness first became public knowledge many years after his death in 1980 with the celebrated biography written by Donald Spoto in his “The Dark [...]
‘The Stones in the Park’ title of this DVD refers to the Rolling Stones’s free concert in Hyde Park in July 1969. After various controversies surrounding their recent 50 year reunion show last November at the O2 Arena this DVD is a welcome watch as to how they used to be. Filmed just two days [...]
For many years The Statler Brothers recorded on the MCA record label so it’s no surprise that the Definitive Collection offers all their recordings in one complete package. However, when it comes to names or how artists got them, country music reigns supreme with The Statlers being contributors. Harold Jenkins became Conway Twitty named after [...]
There’s more than a touch of nostalgia on todays American Connection. Over the last couple of month listeners have been sending requests in to the show reating to their favourite artists as this Saturday the show comprises of ‘Oldies”. Songs featuring artists from 1950 through to the year 2000 take prominence from all the e-mails [...]
We have recently featured a documentary on the attack on Pearl Harbour. This History Channel DVD release tells the story of that famous event but from a very different angle. How did the President of America react to what was up until 9/11 the greatest intelligence failure in American history? In an era of limited [...]
Here’s a great quiz question for you…which famous British actor comedian starred in the 1956 Circus styled move ‘Trapeze’?. In the late fifties and sixties one of the great family entertainments was a trip to the circus to see jugglers, clowns, animals, high wire walkers and trapeze acts. It was no wonder then that British [...]
Adrian Mole first appeared as a character in a radio play in 1982. Written by Sue Townsend we were introduced to young master Mole as an aware teenager who pen in hand committed his thoughts, desires, fears and pretentions to his diary. At turns hilarious and touching in his observations on the world about him. [...]
Humans have always told stories. It is how we have recorded our development as a species. It is how we know who and what we are, and where we might be going? Word of mouth stories eventually got written down. In 1890 the miracle discovery of photography led to the development of moving those pictures [...]