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Stonehenge Suite, No.10 (1977) by Malcolm Dakin.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Part of me always wanted to write a teatime drama. That\u2019s something that I wanted to get out of my system,” says director Peter Strickland<\/a>. The results may be heard here<\/a>. In the same interview there’s news that Strickland will be adapting Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape<\/em> for radio later this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “He was, as one obituary stated in terms unusually blunt for the time, ‘not as other men’.” Strange Flowers<\/a> on the eccentric and profligate Henry Cyril Paget (1875\u20131905) aka The Dancing Marquess.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Please tell Mr Jagger I am not Maurits to him.” MC Escher<\/a> rebuking The Rolling Stones. The artist is the subject of a major exhibition<\/a> at the National Galleries of Scotland from June 27th.<\/p>\n

Often mentioned in the same breath as works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, \u00d3 Cadhain\u2019s novel is, in some ways, even more radically experimental. For starters, all the characters are dead and speaking from inside their coffins, which are interred in a graveyard in Connemara, on Ireland\u2019s west coast. The novel has no physical action or plot, but rather some 300 pages of cascading dialogue without narration, description, stage direction, or any indication of who\u2019s speaking when.<\/p>\n

Niamh N\u00ed Mhaoileoin<\/a> on the newly-translated\u00a0Cr\u00e9 na Cille (The Dirty Dust) by\u00a0M\u00e1irt\u00edn \u00d3 Cadhain <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Paul Woods<\/a> examines “10 Edgy Properties No Film Producer Dared To Touch
\n(Yet)”. No. 2 is David Britton’s Lord Horror<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mallory Ortberg<\/a> ranks paintings of Saint Sebastian “in ascending order of sexiness and descending order of actual martyring”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Sign of Satan<\/em><\/a> (1964): Christopher Lee in a story by Robert Bloch for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sympathy For The Devil<\/em><\/a> \u2013 The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Paul Gallagher<\/a> on the seedy malevolence of Get Carter<\/em> (1971).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Sonic Attack Special \u2013 Earth<\/a> by Bob’s Podcasts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sanctuary Stone<\/a><\/em> (1973) by Midwinter | The Litanies Of Satan<\/a><\/em> (1982) by Diamanda Gal\u00e1s | Sola Stone<\/a><\/em> (2006) by Boris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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