TelevisionInterview‘Good luck with your horse opera!’: Hugo Blick on his rule-breaking western The EnglishStuart JeffriesAt the heart of this subversive frontier tale is a sumptuous but doomed love story. That’s what makes it the renowned TV writer’s most radical and pleasurable work yet
Though born in Henley-on-Thames, Hugo Blick could have been a cowboy. Aged 18, his concerned parents decided he needed to have his waywardness ironed out of him. He was packed off to Montana and put under the tutelage of a family friend who happened to be an avid outdoorsman and former US air force captain. Read More...
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Other livesPeak oilObituaryColin Campbell obituaryMy friend and colleague Colin Campbell, who has died aged 91, was an exploration geologist concerned with the energy constraints posed by “peak oil”.
I first met Colin in 1995 at a lecture on peak oil at Reading University, where he showed that the world would soon face maximum production of its conventional oil. An academic in the audience dismissed this, so colleagues and I talked to oil experts and to Petroconsultants SA (who held the world’s best oil data): they said they thought that Colin was right. Read More...
