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Story Inspiring TV and Its Music

October 4, 2024 By Allison Symes Leave a Comment

Image Credits:  Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay images. Videos from YouTube. Screenshot taken by me, Allison Symes. One image directly from Pixabay.

In my recent post about Books, Movies, and Music, which was a joy to write, I focused on the link between classical music and films/stories on which the movies are based. For this post, I thought I’d take a look at those stories which have inspired wonderful TV series, with superb themes bringing them to life musically.

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Tags: Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, crime, Doctor Who, Elizabeth Beresford, Enid Blyton, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Morse, Jane Marple, John Le Carre, Michael Bond, Paddington, reading leading to TV series, Reverend W Awdry, sagas, science fiction, stories and TV, stories inspiring TV and its music, The Famous Five, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Wombles, Thomas The Tank Engine, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, TV encouraging reading

Author Voice

October 14, 2022 By Allison Symes Leave a Comment

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It took me a long time to work out what my author voice was and why it was important to have one at all. I needed to work out just what it was I wrote, why I wrote it, and develop a writing style. You should be able to read an author’s work and “hear” their voice coming through their characters. It is not just about author style though that feeds into this.

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Review: Chameleon Theatre Group – Murder with Ghosts

November 12, 2021 By Allison Symes Leave a Comment

Image Credits:  Some images created in Book Brush using screenshots and/or Pixabay photos. A huge thanks to The Chameleon Theatre Group for kind permission to use their photos.

It is always a pleasure to see the latest Chameleon Theatre Group production. This one was particularly nice as it was the first time our esteemed CFT editor, Janet Williams, and I have had what is effectively a Chandler’s Ford Today “works outing” since before the lockdowns. And I adore a spoof. So win-win here.

Murder with Ghosts is written by Simon Brett (a big tick in the box) and the plot has more than a nod to an Agatha Christie whodunnit (a HUGE tick in the box here. The first series of books I collected, which I still have, were the Odhams red leather hardbacks of almost all of the Agatha Christie series and novels).

So a spoof written by a renowned crime writer and based on the structure so often used by the Queen of Crime has got to be a winner, yes?

Yes indeed!

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