The Squeee

Found this on Norrköpings Tidningar : När P1:s "Bokcirkeln" är tillbaka i Sveriges Radio i höst går tre författare loss på en av världens mest lästa klassiker: Charlotte Brontës "Jane Eyre". Björn Ranelid, Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril och Johan Kling kommer att turas om att läsa upp romanen (i Gun-Britt Sundströms översättning). Ingen av dem har läst boken tidigare. Programmet leds av Marie Lundström, och sänds 1/11, 8/11, 15/11 och 22/11. Reader, presenter, reader and another reader To those who do not understand Swedish, it says that the radio programme Book Circle is back on Swedish Radio channel "P1" this autumn ... and that they're starting by reading Jane Eyre ! None of the people doing the reading have read the book before. It's being broadcast on Mondays in November. A look at SR's own website about the show reveals the time: 14:25 (2:25pm), re-run the next day at 18:35 (6:35pm), GMT+1 that is. I hope I can listen to it online...

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000) Sam is: Thomas Jefferson There is a rumour that US president Thomas Jefferson was romantically involved with one of his slaves - the fair-skinned Sally Hemings... and even had kids. This movie is about that relationship. This was on TV in Sweden when I was struck by Sam fandom overnight and probably had something to do with it. For a good reason. Maybe the sort of story of more interest to the female audience. The Simpsons - Homer the Vigilante (1994) Sam is: Malloy Malloy, the old cat burglar. Sam was very flattered to be a part of the Simpsons, as it's one of his favourite shows. He doesn't get to say a lot, though. Sirens (1994) Sam is: Norman Lindsay Hugh Grant as a vicar, with prudish wife Tara Fitzgerald. Features one of the blondes from Ally McBeal in the nude, as well as a likewise undressed Elle MacPherson. Sam's a controversial Australian painter (he paints naked ladies - which is why the aforementioned women ...

Perfect Strangers (2003) Sam is: The Man I've heard from a non-fan who said this was a good movie. See, ask any Sam fan and they go all dreamy at the mere thought of this thriller/black comedy/romance story, written and directed by Gaylene Preston. Story is: woman (Rachael Blake) goes out and goes home with the best-looking guy in the bar (Sam). They go to his boat. When she wakes up in the morning, they're in the middle of the ocean, and he takes her to his place - on a deserted island. She is not amused at having been kidnapped. Now, any Sam fan will have a problem with her character, because if they were abducted by Sam and taken to a deserted island to be his forever... well, what's the problem? It's a dream come true! And yet, she's not happy. So fans have a bit of a hard time seeing things from her perspective. So it's difficult to be neutral, as I'm a fan (obviously) of the guy, and think the movie is great (the shooting practice scene is very fu...

Jessica (2004) Sam is: Richard Runche This is an excellent miniseries, set in the late 1800s Australia. Jessica is a tomboy, not a Lady, and she likes aboriginees, so she's not the most popular lady around, especially not as she has a child with her beau who is conned into marrying her sister and it's a lot better than it sounds. She ends up in a lunatic asylum as well. Sam plays a drunken barrister so well he was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Television Drama or Comedy. The Jungle Book (1994) Sam is: Colonel Geofferey Brydon Sam drew from the character of his own father for this role, which is interesting, but the movie in itself isn't all that interesting as such. Good family film, but personally, I prefer the Disney version. Jurassic Park (1993) Sam is: Dr. Alan Grant Paeleontologist in a hat, who doesn't like kids. Cloned dinosaurs in a themepark on a remote island. Spielberg. T-Rex. Jeff Goldblum as a chaotician. Lau...

Enigma (1983) Sam is: Dimitri Vasilikov Sam in a fur hat. Enigma was a coding system used by the military, and people want to get their hands on it. It's about spying and cold war and Martin Sheen is in it. It's a good old movie. Event Horizon (1997) Sam is: Dr. William Weir Infinite space... infinite terror. Sci-fi horror. Ship vanishes - ship returns - people sent to investigate, finds ship evil. Ship makes it's creator (Sam) goes insane, as his mind is corrupted by ship. Well-made, quite gory, and indeed scary. W00t!

Aside from celebrating Sam Neill's birthday, I'm also trying to get rid of my old wiki site in favour of a different style of website, which means I'm trying to migrate things, but this, I believe, is better off here than on the new site. :) Very short reviews of various films that have Sam Neill as a common denominator! Can't for the life of me remember when they were written, but it wasn't exactly yesterday, I know that much. :) A Cry in the Dark (1988) Sam is: Michael Chamberlain "The dingo stole my baby!" Based on a true story, it's Meryl Streep as a woman whose youngest child, a baby, is taken by a dingo when the family's on vacation at Uluru. Sam's the dad. Big trial, a country torn in two - "guilty" and "not guilty". Very good movie, and good from the point of how vulture-like journalists are. Has two or three people from The Flying Doctors in it, which is always a nice bonus for, umm, me. Bicentennial Man (19...

If you've ever wanted a very short summary of everything Sam Neill has ever been in, this is it! Not every single thing, I admit, but I'm working on that! :) And by this, I would like to wish the man a very happy birthday! Happy birthday, Mr. Neill, hope you have a great one, with plenty of that fabulous wine of yours, and may your orchards prosper! (And no more of them earthquakes we read about hitting the South Island!) Ah, sweet fangirly wallpaper! An A-Z summary of everything Sam Neill has ever been in* * according to IMDb A Cry in the Dark (1988) Sam in shorts. With a camera. Angel (2007) Sam as a literary agent. Attack Force Z (1982) Sam in a canoe. Bicentennial Man (1999) Sam with robot. Blood of Others, the (1984) Sam as a nazi. Brush-Off, the (2004) Sam directed. Children of the Revolution (1996) Sam is a communist. Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995) Sam in New Zealand. Country Life (1994) Sam in a barn. Crusoe (2008-20...

A work colleague was speaking to someone called Lucas, and when he had hung up, I said "I would've been SOOO impressed if that Lucas was Lucas North from MI5!" He looked at me and replied, "Why? Who's that?" - he obviously doesn't watch Spooks , but as he said he used to once upon a time, I let him know that it starts again on Monday, 20 September 2010, at 21:00 / 9pm. Series nine! Already! Woohoo! R.I.P. Ros Myers :( And here's the BBC blurb about episode 9.1: Reeling after the explosion at the hotel, Section D are left considering the sacrifices they make as spies. But they are soon back in action, tracking Somalian AQ terrorist Abib on a boat from Tangier. When it becomes clear that the boat is carrying a lethal load, the team fear it is headed to Plymouth for the launch of the newest addition to the royal navy's fleet. But is the real target elsewhere, and is it too late to find the UK source of the plan? Lucas's own faith is ...

Part 4: South Wingfield The final stop on the journey before heading home was to be Wingfield Manor in South Wingfield. It's a bit further south than all the other places we'd been to during the day, so would make a good stop on the way back home to Nottingham. Getting to South Wingfield wasn't a problem. There were roadsigns. We could even see the ruins from the road. How to get to Wingfield Manor, however, was another matter. There were no roadsigns at all. We couldn't find a place to stop to take pictures either, so had to go in a big circle back and see if we could find a place the second time around. The first time, when we had reached the post code for the hall according to the website, all we saw was a road saying that wasn't a public road to the manor so sod off. It was a lot clearer than the Hathersage "satnav users, this is a private road, y'all, just so you know" to say the least. I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I...

Chatsworth As we were leaving North Lees Hall, a man in the car next to us suggested popping to the church for another interesting historical building to view, and there's the grave of Robin Hood's buddy Little John to view as well. By the time we actually reached Hathersage, we couldn't be bothered trying to navigate those narrow streets in order to find the church, and as we both felt like a pit stop would be a good idea, we decided to skip it and press on. The satnav got instructions to take us to South Wingfield via Matlock Bath, and on the way, we spotted a sign for the Chatsworth Farm Shop. As a sister-in-law had mentioned some kind of speciality tea she had only been able to find there, and we said we'd be going to Chatsworth for a visit at some point and would we mind awfully having a look for it and buy some for her. We didn't mind at all, and as we saw the sign, stopped by for said pit stop. Hills as far as the eye can see.

Hathersage Driving through some narrow roads, made worse because of parked cars on the side of it, meaning that there really was only space for one car to pass at a time, we followed the satnav to the post code for North Lees Hall, i.e. S32 1BR. The Heritage site had said to "turn into Coggers Lane" in Hathersage, which was a road sign we never saw, so eventually, up on one of the hills, we came to a turn-off where the friendly female voice said we should "go left". It had a sign informing satnav users that it was a private road. Private and unpaved. We thought that as the Hall is rented out as holiday accomodation, that might be it (not that any other signs said "North Lees Hall this way", but we hadn't seen any down in Hathersage either). They might just not want people using it as a through road or something. There have been stories in the news about very small towns that have had a lot of lorry traffic going through all of a sudden, because of ...

Our little outing to go and see North Lees Hall turned into a big sightseeing tour of Derbyshire, from which we managed to return unscathed. Not that rural Derbyshire is full of crooks (like, for instance, the fictional county of Midsomer - where you're either a murder victim, witness, suspect or an actual murderer), but rather because it's full of very steep hills and very narrow roads. You might say north Derbyshire is breathtaking ... for all the wrong reasons! Bakewell We began the tour in Bakewell (passing Haddon Hall on the way). Bakewell is a town famous for their eponymous tarts and puddings, which are more or less full of almonds. I have made Bakewell tarts before and last week, I also tried making a Bakewell pudding, following the Hairy Bikers' recipe . Now we were back, to check out the original stuff. We did just that before we went to Haddon Hall last summer, and now we were trying to find the same place. Having just got ourselves a nice pasty each, the r...

One of the country houses that litter the countryside on this little island that I'd love to visit is Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. And last Friday, had the day off and went to see it! Or, rather, we went to the Chatsworth Country Fair. It was a big show, located in the grounds of the house (the park?) but entry to the house and gardens wasn't included - and as the show was big, we were too busy walking around there to go to the house itself. The Squeeze has promised we'll go back and see the house properly at some point. Chatsworth House - Pemberley '05 I got a proper belt so my trousers won't keep falling down and a proper whittling knife (by Mora of Sweden - oh the irony!) and had a look at plenty of dog things (not that we have a dog), lots of tweed and Australian leather hats. Another thing was the animals - ferret racing, for instance. Got to pet a very relaxed little ferret (they're super-cute). There was also a falconry display, but we didn't...