Personal Blog
In December 2021 I was involved in a radio project with Ocean City Radio, through which audio plays were produced by a volunteer team of actors and broadcast in the run up to Christmas. My play Champagne Chrysanthemum was one of the selected plays and it was great to hear it brought to life for … Continue reading Recording of “Champagne chrysanthemum” radio play emerges
Champagne Chrysanthemum produced for community radio in Plymouth
Photo credit: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 733 (cropped) CC-BY-NC 4.0. See full manuscript via this link. I’ve recently been researching the legend of Brutus of Troy for a radio play I’ve written and produced for Soundart Radio, and thought I would share some of my findings in this … Continue reading Brutus of Troy: A short literary survey
Camilla and I made this short film as part of the 48 hour film challenge organised by Exeter Phoenix. It was screened at the premiere during the festival in February 2021. Missing A solitary private investigator called Dekker receives a mysterious letter through the door detailing a missing person. He heads out to investigate, and … Continue reading Missing – our short film in Exeter Phoenix’s Two Short Nights film festival
De walvisch, Gordinne, anonymous print from the Rijksmuseum collection Earlier this year I decided I wanted to read Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville. I hoped to enjoy identifying with the subject of being stuck in close quarters for a long stretch of time, reading life on board ship as an analogy for … Continue reading “I fear not thy epidemic, man” attitudes towards infectious disease in Moby Dick
“that which is repeated has been, otherwise it could not be repeated; but precisely this, that it has been, makes repetition something new.” Søren Kierkegaard When I go for a run in the park I nearly always take the same route. It’s not that I’m a creature of habit in general, but with running I … Continue reading Running in the park with Kierkegaard
One of the permanent public art commissions of the Box Museum opening in Plymouth, is a new stained-glass window for St Lukes Church, made by major Portuguese artist, Leonor Antunes. It sits in the east wall of the building, which has been converted into a contemporary gallery space, and the grand unveiling of the window … Continue reading On Leonor Antunes’ new stained glass window at St Lukes, The Box Plymouth
For a while my morning routine involved walking down to the Hoe here in Plymouth, passing along the balustrades, and taking in the quiet atmosphere of a seafront at dawn. There is a beauty to the natural light, the sun just rising, which would often surprise me, as the light cast on the rocks of … Continue reading A Devil for the South West? On Antony Gormley’s LOOK II
I went for a run recently with a friend who took me to a common-like area on the edge of Dartmoor I had not been to before. We parked up and, not having brought a map, decided to just head off in a random direction for a few kilometres and then make our way back. … Continue reading Slow pheasants in road
Looking for mushrooms and looking at paintings...
William Kemp 