Naked
Imagine being told you can have that job you’ve always wanted, but on one condition: you have to go naked. Unlikely to happen if you’re, say, a dentist, or even one of Sir Alan’s hopefuls in “The Apprentice” (unless the viewing figures drop drastically), but as an actor, that’s more or less what I’ve just been told. (more…)
WHSmith tease
This is a teaser for a sitcom I’ve written about a man who loses his memory in a car crash outside WHSmith. Not sure what’s happening with it yet but if it does get picked up you can be sure I’ll bang on about it endlessly on this site…
My Yiddishe Mother Tongue
Sholem-aleykhem! Which is Yiddish for hello…
Not really a video this, but a couple of extracts from a documentary I did for Radio 4 about my mother’s parents – a Yiddish playwright and actress – and my general obsession with the language and culture of Yiddish.
First extract is where I take my mother back to the site of the Grand Palais Yiddish theatre in the East End of London where my grandmother was an actress and my grandfather a playwright.
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The second is part of an interview about Yiddish with former head of ITV Michael Grade, sharing a couple of his favourite insults.
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Want a bit more Yiddish? Well, here’s a link to an article I wrote for the Jewish Chronicle…
And, whilst we’re at it, here’s a nice review from the Guardian that I’m posting here so my family can kvell, which means glow with pride. In a Jewish way…
