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Literature | History | Music | Art | Theatre | Film

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@s_birrell
Scott Birrell
4 months
It wouldn’t be hyperbole to say that this is one of the greatest rugby moments of all time. #ENGvIRE
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2 years
@RoyalFamily “Grief is the price we pay for love.”
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7 months
And the Ally of the Year Award goes to…Carl Cashman! If you’re gay, and you meet a man like Carl (always championing gay rights) you’re lucky. Thank you. @CarlCashman
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5 years
They really need to extend this programme (even just by fifteen minutes.) #andrewneilshow @afneil
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3 months
Challengers really is an extraordinary film, with three incredible performances from Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor. Go to see it. #Challengers
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5 years
RIP Karl Lagerfeld (1933 - 2019) "One day it will be over, and I don't care." - Karl Lagerfeld
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3 years
It’s still the best scene in the film. - “I have sinned.” #TheSoundofMusic
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5 years
To anyone not watching the interview with Lysette Anthony on Channel 4 news: find it; watch it. @Channel4News
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6 years
I don’t know how the BBC are going to top this year. I can’t remember a year of such incredible drama, one after the other, like 2018. #TheLongSong @BBCOne
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9 months
I was looking for some light relief so I started watching ‘Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story’ and, honestly, I love her. So much heartache, but a really positive lady.
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@s_birrell
Scott Birrell
6 years
Aidan Turner - setting unrealistic beauty standards for men since 2015... #Poldark
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Scott Birrell
4 years
The best scene in the film. - “I have sinned.” #TheSoundofMusic
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@s_birrell
Scott Birrell
2 years
Hunter Doohan for 1883 Magazine - Emily Sandifer (2021)
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3 years
@Michael_Dunn4 @JimMFelton It’s pathetic. In that regard it’s completely in keeping with this country at the moment.
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Scott Birrell
4 years
These new Conservative MPs aren’t quite top drawer, are they? #Newsnight
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2 years
I don’t know why Giovanni dancing with Richie moves me so much. Maybe it’s because he’s gay, and Giovanni is straight and he’s absolutely loving it. It’s just…normal. #Strictly
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Scott Birrell
1 year
Manspreading in Tighty Whities on The Open Pier - Stanley Stellar (1987)
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2 years
@jbuzaabo @RishiSunak You need to get off Twitter and shut up. This is his “work” - he’s the Prime Minister of this country ffs.
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Scott Birrell
5 months
Finn Bennett is an extraordinary actor. #TrueDetectiveNightCountry
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Scott Birrell
4 years
@PenguinUKBooks “They said I was a negro writer and I would reach a very special audience...And I would be dead if I alienated that audience. That, in effect, nobody would accept that book coming from me...My agent told me to burn it.” - James Baldwin
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Scott Birrell
4 years
@JamesMills1984 With all due respect, that’s one of the finest biographies of Hitler ever written. It’s an incredible achievement.
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Scott Birrell
7 months
Here we go… #FellowTravelers
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Scott Birrell
2 years
‘Good Afternoon’ ranks with ‘Who will buy’ and “Thank you very much’ as one of the greatest ever songs written for a musical based on the works of Charles Dickens. #Spirited
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Scott Birrell
3 years
Man Proposes, God Disposes - Edwin Landseer (1864) #TheTerror
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Scott Birrell
3 months
The Rt. Hon @CarlCashman is on his way to Buckingham Palace for his audience with the King. If wishing made it so…
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2 years
I watched this earlier; it’s absolutely heartbreaking. What a man. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Yalda Hakim
2 years
Sava's story is like so many we've been hearing. Forced to leave his home in Kyiv, with his mum. He drove her to the Polish border, said his goodbyes and will now be joining the fight for Ukraine. He said his mother didn't want to go and he doesn't know when they'll be reunited
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5 years
@KensingtonRoyal “I think Mummy’s done well.” - 😭 #RHSChelsea
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Scott Birrell
5 years
There’s breadth as an actor and then there is Lesley Manville playing Cathy in Mum and Robina in #WorldOnFire
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Scott Birrell
5 years
I’ve never been so moved by an hour of television in all my life. #CallTheMidwife @Leonie_Elliott #AnnetteCrosbie @CallTheMidwife1
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Scott Birrell
3 years
Persisting with this purely for the plot. #AngelaBlack
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Scott Birrell
3 years
The twist at the end of this better be worth watching six episodes of it. #AngelaBlack
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Scott Birrell
5 years
@BBCParliament Give whoever chose the picture a raise.
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Scott Birrell
2 years
“We as a country are not pulling our weight when it comes to the refugee crisis. It’s embarrassing.” - James Norton
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Scott Birrell
1 year
To all those moaning about this: if adaptations of the classics don’t move with the times they become irrelevant. It’s brilliant. Dark, unsettling…Dickens would have loved it. #GreatExpectations
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Scott Birrell
2 years
Call Me by Your Name (2017) Cinematography by Sayombhu Mukdeeprom Directed by Luca Guadagnino
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Scott Birrell
2 years
HM Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne - Marcus Adams (1954)
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Scott Birrell
3 months
I’ve never been so sorry to finish a television series in my life — a masterpiece. #Ripley
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4 years
“A chance. A lease of life. A soulmate. A friend.” #CallTheMidwife
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Scott Birrell
1 year
Magdalen College, Oxford (1939)
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Scott Birrell
4 years
The one thing I think of when watching #CallTheMidwife is: Humanity: the quality of being humane; benevolence. @CallTheMidwife1
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Scott Birrell
4 years
Colin Morgan really is an incredible actor, isn’t he?
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Scott Birrell
6 years
Anyone who is not on the side of Tony Martin is out of their mind. #TonyMartin
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Scott Birrell
6 years
This is ridiculous! How can he be her son? He looks a decade older than her! #HoldTheSunset
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Scott Birrell
7 months
The Crown without them? A masterpiece. #TheCrown
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Scott Birrell
6 months
It will soon be time for the traditional New Year’s Day Meistersinger; but which one?
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Scott Birrell
5 years
There’s not a weak link in this cast - truly extraordinary. #WorldOnFire
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Scott Birrell
8 months
@DalrympleWill Here we are again, William. Please remind me what happened on the 7th October…
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Scott Birrell
2 years
Well..something happened tonight. Thank you to my father for his response - “I’m proud of you.” And thank you to @Jake_Daniels11 for giving me the courage to finally do it. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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4 years
I’ve had a couple of g&ts so I’ll just say it: we’re lucky to have @PetrocTrelawny and @MannGeorgia - drinks for you both the next time you’re in Edinburgh. #PromsListenParty
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Scott Birrell
2 years
The absolutely delicious idea of going to Venice for my 40th entered my head this afternoon, and I don’t think I’ve had a better idea in my life.
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Scott Birrell
4 years
“Marley was dead, to begin with.”
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Scott Birrell
2 years
Just…🔥🔥🔥 #Strictly
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Scott Birrell
1 year
“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something…My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.” - Jimmy Carter
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“The years have not dimmed the cogency of Solti’s advocacy of the later [Paris] recension; indeed, CD only serves to confirm that this remains one of his most successful Wagner interpretations, particularly so where the additions to the Venusberg scene are concerned.”
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Scott Birrell
3 months
This is one of the most astounding, and moving, things I’ve ever watched BBC One - Gareth Malone's Easter Passion, Series 1, The Concert
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@s_birrell
Scott Birrell
3 years
Astrid Varnay as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre
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Scott Birrell
5 years
Wonderful picture!
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Karita Mattila
5 years
One more memory pic from last night @MetOpera ; Placido Domingo’s 50 years! Such a huge pleasure to be there to celebrate you! And: THANK YOU, my adored Gabriele, for the most MEMORABLE KISS here on stage from your Amelia in ”Simon Boccanegra” in 1999!💋
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Scott Birrell
3 years
Wolfgang Windgassen as Siegfried (1958)
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2 years
A Russian soldier stands in Adolf Hitler’s bunker, Berlin, 1945.
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3 years
@Michael_Dunn4 @JimMFelton You had nothing more important to ask @BBCJonSopel ?
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2 years
@mrjamesob Is there any possible scenario under which you’d even give him a chance?
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3 years
There’s no way this can be allowed to go. #Strictly
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4 years
When Maria has to take over the singing because the Captain is overcome...😭 #TheSoundofMusic
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Scott Birrell
6 years
Why should he have shouted a warning? They were in his f****** house! #TonyMartin
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Scott Birrell
8 months
Good-looking, talented, and Scottish: the boy really did get it all. #SlowHorses
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Scott Birrell
6 months
The ceiling of the Großer Saal of the @Musikverein in Vienna #NeuJahrsKonzert #NewYearsDayConcert
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Scott Birrell
5 years
@BBCBreaking String him up.
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Scott Birrell
2 years
“For those seeking to understand better this long-distant world, Orme is an authoritative and accessible guide, and this exhaustive and lavishly illustrated study is a must-read.”
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Scott Birrell
9 months
The new rooms at the National Gallery of Scotland are an absolute triumph — masterpiece after masterpiece. Just wonderful.
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1 year
Prince Charles and Princess Anne meet David Attenborough and a cockatoo at Lime Grove Studios (1958)
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Scott Birrell
4 years
Hats off to The @kingssingers -well done boys. #CarolsfromKings
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1 year
@yuanyi_z No one’s allowed to have fun anymore. When did we (not me) become so boring and serious?
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Scott Birrell
6 years
“Beautifully written and meticulously researched”, this is just as brilliant as I thought it would be... #CharlesI
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Scott Birrell
2 years
‘Portrait of Istvan Reiner, taken shortly before he was killed in Auschwitz. He was four years old.’ #HolocaustMemorialDay
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6 years
I’m sorry to be blunt but this pair are disgusting. #EatWellForLess
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2 years
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (11 December 1930 - 17 June 2022) - French actor and filmmaker
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1 year
James Joyce - C. P. Curran (1904)
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2 years
This young man is 17 and his bravery gave me the courage to come out to my family at 39. What more will he achieve in his life? Let’s all just promise to look after him…right? Promise…? #Pride 🏳️‍🌈
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2 years
Levi Conely - Frank Louis (2020)
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Scott Birrell
5 years
North rose window of Notre-Dame de Paris. #NotreDame
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1 year
The Earl of Dalhousie - John Singer Sargent (1900)
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2 years
@Emsbarr @BBCNews @MartineBBC I’m a Tory and I was excited, so what’s your, rather lame, point?
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3 months
Right. A British politician you believe in completely; what you see is what you get. I’ll start: @CarlCashman
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Scott Birrell
1 year
“In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation.”
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Scott Birrell
5 years
Keeley Hawes is magnificent. Just magnificent. #SummerOfRockets
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4 months
@amwilson_opera The portrait of the Duchess of York is beautiful.
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2 years
“This is one of the greatest sets of all time. Every time one returns to it, its inspiration and distinction seem to have been enhanced.“
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Scott Birrell
7 months
O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen is, genuinely, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. #CarolsfromKings
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Scott Birrell
6 years
Anyone not crying right now must have a heart of stone. #Hospital
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Scott Birrell
6 years
"Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings! Love Clarence." #ItsAWonderfulLife
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Scott Birrell
4 years
You’re welcome. #Bridgerton
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1 year
That was so endearing: @BBCBenThompson and his fear of snakes. Well done…
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Scott Birrell
6 years
It’s said a lot but it’s so true: we don’t know we’re born nowadays. #CallTheMidwife @CallTheMidwife1
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Scott Birrell
6 years
No matter what they do or say (within reason) about Tony Martin I completely agree with what he did. #TonyMartin
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Scott Birrell
1 year
Watching the Sea - Henry Scott Tuke (1923)
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Scott Birrell
2 years
The greatest genius to ever walk the earth.
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