England has always reveled in its drawing-room dramas, from Jane Austen’s social minefields to E.M. Forster’s Howards End to Upstairs, Downstairs — and yes, the blockbuster Downton Abbey. John Lanchester’s brilliant Capital, set on a once-ordinary London block whose housing prices have skyrocketed, has the distinction of being the first brick-and-mortar novel set squarely in our current times.
Thank you for listening
Posted by Lizzie on 05/17/07
“There was a lot of wonderment about whether the transmissions will be the 21st-century equivalent to the radio broadcasts that began in the 1930s,” Mr. Scorca said. Opera managers also talked about whether theater transmissions will galvanize enthusiasm for opera and complement the performances of resident companies, he said.
Yay! In honor of the series’ continuance, a clip of the opening credits–now there are opening credits, bizarre!–for Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, which we slept through on the first round. (Although this was, apparently, the way to go.)
