Weekend: air is fresh and sunlight ready for me when I finally draw my curtains. Possible! possible. The trundle to the shops and back for small supplies (milk) before being able to formulate a bigger list for actual meals.
I’m about to spend most of the day on a zoom for London Renters’ Union but before that, here are some things I’ve been chewing or wanting to recommend that may or may not come up soon:
Just started listening to the BBC Sounds Bible John: Creation of a Serial Killer podcast. Might sound odd but the sound design on it is lovely and I’ve missed those voices a lot. In the fresh winter we’ve been having down in London, I realise it’s been too long since I last went back to Glasgow. The documentary is by a Glaswegian journalist, Audrey Gillan, who tried to break a story about the killer being found a couple of decades ago, so it’s not prurient at all. More a reflection on journalistic and policing norms.
Turns out Gillan’s friend is Andrew O’Hagan, whose LRB article on child abuse and the BBC from 2012 I read late on the Queen’s funeral bank holiday Monday.
It reminded me of a New Yorker article I read, that they often push out on their twitter account, on a post-war German social care experiment/policy that placed foster children with known paedophiles. Instructive on the vivid course correction that took place in the immediate aftermath of the atrocities of the Second World War.
The White Pube’s piece from the summer on Level One Identity Art
And finally, the essay I waited to post until I passed my probation in March, on having left theatre. Most people do not opine loudly about leaving, but I separately saw two different people yesterday who have also decided to get out of the industry.