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  • New Year, Resolutions and an Arthurian Sword

    It’s New Year’s Day… And here is the Wart, on New Year’s Day, pulling the Sword from the Stone in the Disney cartoon of the same name. The film was based on TH White’s The Once and Future King, Happy New Year Everyone!… Continue reading

  • Grimm Thoughts on Fairy Tales

    Further to my mention of fairy stories in yesterday’s post, did anyone else out there listen to Grimm Tales on Radio 4? Writer and mythologist Marina Warner, whose work I always admire, marked the bicentenary of the first publication of… Continue reading