by Giles Broadbent | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
Are you planning to return to the popcorn, the dark and the Dolby? On the face of it, cinemas face a big task to overcome the menace of Covid-19. They seem like the cruise ships of the land-locked – one big melting pot of disease. We may be wrong. We hope we are....
by Giles Broadbent | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
The slow-burn Netflix true-crime series Unbelievable contains truths about rape and the failings of the justice system that are too hard to take Here’s something I did with the Netflix crime drama Unbelievable that I’ve never done before. I censored a...
by Giles Broadbent | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog
The golden age of TV has a new star – real life. So why have documentaries become big news? And what does it mean for good old-fashioned fiction? Truth is stranger than fiction – but truth isn’t much of a stranger any more. It’s everywhere – at least in the...
by Giles Broadbent | May 14, 2020 | Books
Dylan Thomas Day celebrates the poet and his achievements. But how should you tackle the sozzled Welsh wordsmith – and what is Under Milk Wood? Here’s the single thing you need to know about the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. He wrote Under Milk Wood. That should be enough....
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 30, 2020 | Techniques
The habits of our great writers are often fixed. And hugely important as routines lead to results. But how would they handle the Great Lockdown? So, here’s our game. What if Ravengate Publishing had just signed contracts with some of the greatest writers in history....
