Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: The glittering prizes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Venetia King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=130107#post130107 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=130107#post130107 Good for you. I own a copy of Postcards from Elsewhere and re-read it recently, so I'm looking forward to the new one.

I enjoyed listening to your conversation with Kim Hill on the weekend, although I didn't hear the whole thing. Felt rather pleased with myself for having worked…

]]> Mon, 07 Sept 2009 22:52:56 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=130021#post130021 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=130021#post130021 Mon, 07 Sept 2009 13:20:56 +1200 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=130018#post130018 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=130018#post130018

But if the title of this post is a reference to the mid-70s series of BBC television plays, I'm not really getting the allusion =)

Well I suppose it is either that or the Simple Minds song.

Or the British Lord Chancellor 1918-22 , who I believe coined the…

]]> Mon, 07 Sept 2009 13:14:59 +1200 Graeme Edgeler https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129971#post129971 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129971#post129971

Good luck with the new book.

Yeah.

But if the title of this post is a reference to the mid-70s series of BBC television plays, I'm not really getting the allusion =)

]]> Mon, 07 Sept 2009 11:41:38 +1200 Rik https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129960#post129960 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129960#post129960 I thought I would buy both books together however one is available through some sort of Amplifier shopfront and the other is available directly through Publicaddress Books...can this be simplified?

Good luck with the new book.

]]> Mon, 07 Sept 2009 11:22:48 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129789#post129789 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129789#post129789 book software was of some use to you, Graham. And very happy for the opportunity to have an early look at 'The Idiot Boy...". It's a great read, folks — particularly the title piece, which is a real cracker! ]]> Fri, 04 Sept 2009 15:24:06 +1200 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129769#post129769 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129769#post129769

At the front of his very funny memoir Adolf Hitler, My Part in His Downfall, Spike Milligan wrote, if my memory is correct, “After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it.”

I have written another book

Ah, but does your new one have the Last Turkey…

]]> Fri, 04 Sept 2009 14:28:34 +1200 Michael Savidge https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129715#post129715 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129715#post129715 not? ]]> Fri, 04 Sept 2009 11:17:05 +1200 Paul Rowe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129713#post129713 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129713#post129713 Good on you Graham, and good luck with it!

There are those who are tireless self-promoters and those who promote themselves (which is what they put into their work), and you are clearly the latter. (Does that say what I want it to say?) Promote away!

Let's see, music, travel,…

]]> Fri, 04 Sept 2009 11:11:36 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129712#post129712 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129712#post129712 List of levitating saints

Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Saint Archangela Girlani
Saint Catherine of Siena
Saint Christina the Astonishing
Blessed Christina von Stommeln
Saint Edmund Rich[4]
Saint Francis of Paola
Saint Francis Fasani
Saint Francis Xavier
Saint Gemma Galgani
Saint Gerard Majella
Saint Holos – Armenian Saint and "faith healer" (…

]]> Fri, 04 Sept 2009 11:11:29 +1200 Richard Kyle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129708#post129708 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129708#post129708 Fri, 04 Sept 2009 10:58:58 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129707#post129707 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-glittering-prizes/?p=129707#post129707 Discussion from blog post.

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