http://filtnib.com/2008/06/02/andrew-marr/ a brainstorm in a blog (arts, culture and current affairs) Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://filtnib.com/2008/06/02/andrew-marr/#comment-89 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:28:55 +0000 http://filtnib.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-89 I listened to the entire cd version on a gargantuan drive from Calcutta to Delhi, was excellent (although the section on Thatcher provoked a two hour argument in the car), and as you said made some rather hazy corners of British modern history seem altogether clearer.

]]> http://filtnib.com/2008/06/02/andrew-marr/#comment-80 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:50:20 +0000 http://filtnib.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-80 I’ve only seen the first two of these so far but have been impressed. Despite doing a three year history degree I realised I knew very little that has happened in Britain post c.1951. This is definitely how history should be told. Viva Schama, Beevor et al.

]]> http://filtnib.com/2008/06/02/andrew-marr/#comment-73 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:54:26 +0000 http://filtnib.wordpress.com/?p=165#comment-73 I haven’t seen the TV series, but his book on the same topic is pretty good. He has a delightfully old-fasioned BBC prose style – patrician, but in a very readable way. The only problem is when he moves away from politics, and tries to summarise cultural history. Then it becomes very obvious that he’s spent his whole live with politics, and so has nothing at all to say about music, art, etc.

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