The year’s tally of dead heroes notches up the wonderful Patrick McGoohan who found fame in the 1960s television series, Danger Man, and gave us the enigmatic and loopy The Prisoner. I had such a major crush on him when I was little and now I see his partner was east Asian. So I was […]
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Anna Chen aka Madam Miaow writes and presents A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, a half-hour profile of Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star for BBC Radio 4. Broadcast 11:30am, Tuesday 13th January 2009.Pick of the Day in Guardian Guide, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.BBC Radio 4 LISTEN AGAIN ONLINE FOR SEVEN DAYS AFTER BROADCAST HERE
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Anna Chen aka Madam Miaow presents a half-hour profile of Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, tomorrow morning on BBC Radio 4. Starring with Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express, killed off in most of her movies, a huge hit in Europe, reviled in China, Anna May was the most visible Chinese woman in
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This is the mugshot of the little bastid that’s been ravaging my body for the past few days. At first I wasn’t sure if it was a nasty cold or the beginnings of the flu that’s been doing the rounds but the symptoms seem to indicate an invasion of the the latter. Armed with their
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I heart these Jews “Everybody is somebody’s Jew. And today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”Primo Levi, A Hard Case: The Life and Death of Primo Levi; The New Yorker, 2002. 47 per cent of Israelis don’t approve of the invasion of Gaza270 of the Gazan dead are children. Israel out of Gaza
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