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  https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/short-cuts/acts-of-love-YHscwjqeVlO/ This link is a small gift  I’m sorry that many of you may not be able to access it, given where you are in the world. But for the ones that can....it is a little gem of a broadcast. Start your listen at 18.43 minutes in. You want to listen to the story of a single mom in 1980s mid America It is the height of the aids pandemic and Ruth Corker Burks finds Jimmy a patient dying of AIDS in a local hospital.  He is fast approaching death and is shunned by his family and the nursing staff.  Only she in a wonderfully moving act of compassion enters his room and his last moments of life. I listened to this podcast on the way to work last night and had to stop the car for a few moments to process the power of it.. Please give it a go and tell me what you think from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3qDGLNQ

  This is Finlay My very first Welsh Terrier. In one way he was the son I never had and as my first dog he broke my heart more than any animal had a right to. I was sent the photograph this morning. And I felt emotional at the kitchen table when I saw it, right in the middle of an entertaining and stimulating three hour zoom lecture titled “ Wind in Film”  I was so glad that during one discussion group no one seemed heard me fart very loudly as I forced out a cough..having said my box went green.......so they might have done.... A Freudian slip, perhaps given the lecture subject. I very much enjoyed the analysis of the clips we watched together I do so miss talking about film with people who see more than just basic entertainment  It sounds snobby  But I do. Anyhow I’m doing an extra night shift tonight to cover sickness and as we are quiet I may get the opportunity to catch up with film studies homework.  Hattie has booked Mary in for a cuddle th...

Elisabeth Moss in "The Handmaid's Tale" Imagine a film that lasted for thirty four hours. Effectively, that is what I have just sat through. My viewing was completed last night. Some of you may recall that last year I read Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", quickly followed by its sequel, "The Testaments". I was aware that a TV version of "The Handmaid's Tale" had been made  and I was keen to watch it . As it happened, in mid-January our daughter gave us a free connection to her Amazon Prime account and upon investigation I  found the show listed there. I put the sidelight on, turned off the main light and settled down on our Lay-Z-Boy sofa with a glass of red wine. There were just ten episodes to watch and they stuck fairly closely to the novel itself. Little did I realise that when I first set out watching "The Handmaid's Tale" there would be more than one series of it. In fact there were two more series...