John Sharman

The number of children reading for pleasure is in decline. How do we fix it? Best-selling author Katherine Rundell has an idea. Listen to Radical with @AmolRajan on @BBCSounds

Bruno Cremer's Maigret is very much a father confessor type of detective, coming closely between couples until one confesses to the desire to murder the other.

@ClassicMovieHub 10

On a scale of 1 to 10, how scary is this movie? #TheNightOfTheHunter #RobertMitchum

Although the Egyptian people were the only ones to survive, they were never great again.

There had been a shortage of the metals needed to make Bronze.

The Sea Peoples sailed round the Med despoiling , pillaging, burning ancient civilizations in Greece, Turkey, Syria, Israel and Egypt in 1200 BC: nobody knows who they were, they too had Bronze weapons, they came in carts, they wanted to settle: there had been drought, climate

@BretVDB Will In The World.

@BretVDB The Genius of Shakespeare.

What book (whether or not it’s pictured below) gives the best one-volume tour of a wide range of Shakespeare’s plays?

Spectrum Disorder: girls with autism apparently hide it unlike boys, they consciously try to conceal the fact they have autistic problems, and are harder to diagnose. This explains all the dismissal she received from the media, as to not believing her story. She felt the need.

Chloe Ayling, the girl who was kidnapped at age 17 in Milan, figures in a 3 part documentary BBC3, which was interesting: you realize that she gave off strange vibes, for a girl who had been kidnapped: calm, controlled, lacking emotion: she has been diagnosed with Autism

Cold black night, and the rain was falling down.

@manuthebest58 So iconoclastic to start the film in a hotel bedroom with the lovers in a state of undress.

@hazelflag " You're good, you're really good!" Humphrey Bogart.

Shake your moneymaker.

Sorry, correction, Turks, Philistines, Assyrians, Libyans, as well as islanders from Sicily and Sardinia. Also Greeks.

There's am idea they may have been primarily Phoenicians, mixed with Greeks and Italians.

@Noirchick1 Sophia.

Who is your choice in this 1954 photo...Sophia Loren, Yvonne De Carlo, or Gina Lollobrigida ?

We’re “allies” of the israelis, who’ve murdered over 60,000 people in the last 24 months: how we can say we’re allies of such vile monsters

out of the stream against whose current it is swimming, to symbolize the spirit of the people fighting back vs their fate.

It is really beautifully done in black and white, with the fear, dread, uncertainty that people anywhere near the bomb blast and flash sight will be blighted forever; if not that, then the black rain will leave an indelible scar; great symbol towards end of a great carp leaping

Tonight on BBC4 there is a good documentary " Atomic People" about the people of Hiroshima/Nagazaki who experienced/witnessed the 2 atomic bombs: it will be worth watching since the nuclear rhetoric has started up again. If you can get hold of an accompanying film, "Hibakusha"