by Media Lens / February 15th, 2021
The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV.
Ridley played Private Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement Arcade’.
Godfrey would typically interrupt preparations to repel Nazi stormtroopers with observations such as, ‘My sister Dolly makes very nice cucumber sandwiches.’ It was lovely, gentle humour, contrasting the fanatical seriousness of total war with the innocence of everyday life.
The true story of how my mobile phone turned my novel into a love story in prose poetry
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My mobile phone, resolutely rectangular and sized to my palm, decided the form of my seventh book. The first line came on the fringes of vague intention. It was evening, I was weary of my laptop, slumped in my reading chair, trying to brush aside a phrase, an image that hounded me to distraction, and I did what all writers do to release the gnat of creative unease – write it down – and there was my phone at easy reach.
Ross-shire rooted publisher in First Minister book row By Gregor White
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Updated: 12:28, 12 February 2021
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Sandstone managing director Robert Davidson.
Authors from across Scotland have spoken out in support of Highland-based publisher Sandstone Press after a Conservative MSP implied a decision to publish a book of speeches by the First Minister was linked to a cash award from a Scottish Government body.
Sandstone Press, which was founded in Ross-shire and based in Dingwall until a more recent move to Inverness, is to publish Women Hold Up Half the Sky, a selection of speeches by Nicola Sturgeon in May.
Authors pen their support for Highland publisher in First Minister book controversy By Gregor White
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Updated: 12:27, 12 February 2021
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Sandstone managing director Robert Davidson.
Authors from across Scotland have spoken out in support of Highland-based publisher Sandstone Press after a Conservative MSP implied a decision to publish a book of speeches by the First Minister was linked to a cash award from a Scottish Government body.
Sandstone Press, which was founded in Ross-shire and based in Dingwall until a more recent move to Inverness, is to publish Women Hold Up Half the Sky, a selection of speeches by Nicola Sturgeon in May.
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The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers
of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV
comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still
shown on prime time BBC TV.
Ridley played Private
Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World
War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked
with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the
Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement
Arcade’.
Godfrey would typically interrupt
preparations to repel Nazi stormtroopers with observations
such as, ‘My sister Dolly makes very nice cucumber
sandwiches.’ It was lovely, gentle humour, contrasting the