THE DELUSIONALS

Life as it might be known

  • Curlew (1979, Sculpture)

    Henry Moore’s ‘comic’ sculpture in bronze, a gift to his friend David Niven, only remained in situ at Watford Gap services on the M1 for three days before it was stolen and, presumably, melted down. Niven said at the time: ‘I thought Henry was bonkers leaving two tons of bronze in a car park. But Read more

  • Harry Palmer (1966, Opera)

    Benjamin Britten’s very personal response to Len Deighton’s novel, The Ipcress File (1962), later made into the well-known film of the same name(1965) starring Michael Caine. Performed only once in Croydon’s Fairfield Halls the event was immortalised in an early song, All Over Bromley, by the 19-year-old David Bowie, present in the audience that night.  Bowie sings: ‘He Read more

  • Dr Who (2012, TV Special)

    Cast The Doctor: Phillip Schofield Jill: Judy Finnigan Sharpe: Sean Bean Synopsis The doctor and his assistant (Jill) travel across time and space in pursuit of rogue Dalek warlord ‘Sharpe’ (Sean Bean), an other-dimensional-incarnation of Sharpe, the Napoleonic era hero of the eponymous TV show. Read more