Book 46 - Tony Harrison "Fram"

Tony Harrison "Fram" (Faber & Faber)








This play has a lot in it -- Nansen's bid for the north pole, his humanitarian work, questions of translation of Greek drama, migration and climate change. The central theme holding much if this together is the effectiveness of language versus image in conveying extremes of human endeavour and suffering.

I feel that the play and this book deserves a wider readership.

Plays

Listened to the Willy Russell play "Educating Rita" on BBC Radio 4 Extra today. It reminded me how good the play and the subsequent film was and how pertinent it is with education in general. It is also very funny.

The weather has been really precipitatious and cold , so apart from a visit to Canterbury and getting some pipe shag in Faversham it has been a day of reading and listening to the radio.