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random thoughts from media scholar Jason Mittell
A pilgrimage through Doctor Who, episode by episode
some typing
British horror films and spatial theory
Uncovering the lost history of British TV drama
Vox populi from one man on a street in the North East of England in Europe
50(+) Years of Billboard Hot 100 #1's
writings // various
Una actualizacion doctrinaria semanal
Broke the yolk, no joke
Deep cover cultural assignments and obsessional detritus
Living through history
The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" - Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.
Opening Negotiations 
Comment on the Forgotten blog – David Edgar’s introduction to the playscript (in ‘Shorts’, Nick Hern Books, 1989) suggests that Patti Love’s performance (rather than the play itself) was the chief reason for the television version of ‘Baby Love’.
A related work: Edgar went on to write a full-length play about R.D. Lang’s experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall (‘Mary Barnes’) with Patti Love in the title role as Laing’s first patient, a schizophrenic. The play was performed at the Royal Court in 1979. No television version was made (the similarity to ‘In Two Minds’ probably a factor in this), although Patti Love recreated the role for a BBC Radio 4 production in 1995.
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