The Glue Factory

Kevin Coyne is the most intense and troubling performer I've ever seen. Here he is performing House on the Hill on The Old Grey Whistle ...

Not sure who sings this beautifully mournful version of  Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road  - Harry Champion, perhaps. The subtitles may ...

From 1936 here's  Rainbow Dance , a very short advertising film by Len Lye, made for the General Post Office. The dancer is Rupert...

Now here's a thing. For the past month (and for the first time in this blog's short history) I have had more readers in the United ...

Almost 42,000,000 people have already seen this short film, and marvelled at it, and then watched it again and perhaps again. But it's ...

Here's another favourite snatch - an extract from Experience, the biographical memoir by Martin Amis, in which he recalls his father Ki...

The artist Grayson Perry is delivering the 2013 Reith Lectures, a series of radio talks that commemorates the stern and high-minded Director...