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David Hewson
British
Author
Born:
Jan 9
,
1953
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Old
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You
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There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.
David Hewson
Better
Long
Maritime
Waters
Visiting
Rarely
Beach
Finger
Feature
Crowded
Clean
Pointing
Countryside
Known
Rock
North
Handsome
Any
Grey
Chilly
Sea
Reasons
Bold
Deserves
Thin
Number
Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.
David Hewson
History
Reputation
Benefit
Macbeth
Dreadful
Kings
Shakespeare
Throne
Write
Had
He
Simply
Name
Him
Because
Greatest
Years
Historically
Scotland
James
Manipulated
Paying
Who
Ever
Play
Old Filey lies around the Ravine, a glacial gash running down to Coble Landing. This is the fishing Filey of centuries past, with neat little terraced cottages and a cluster of attractive 18th century houses.
David Hewson
Old
Past
Down
Running
Lies
Attractive
Houses
Around
Fishing
Little
Cluster
Centuries
Century
Landing
Neat
TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
David Hewson
Three
Ambition
TV
Structure
Takes
Storyline
The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
David Hewson
You
Channel
Invader
Crossing
Since
Narrow
Wondering
Cannot
Little
Succeeded
Help
English
Why
Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
David Hewson
People
Few
Confuse
Valley
District
About
Uncommon
Outsiders
Know
Surprisingly
Peak
Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
David Hewson
Work
You
Nothing
Living
Take
Authors
Them
Depriving
If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.
David Hewson
You
Think
About
Script
Theatrical
Production
Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
David Hewson
Building
Books
Very
Different
Scripts
If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
David Hewson
You
Wonderful
Hero
Saving
Macbeth
Scene
Never
He
Know
Look
Very
Scotland
Report
Closely
Behind
Really
Next
Planning
Why
Play
The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.
David Hewson
You
Old
First
Doors
Out
Bronze
City
Give
Outside
Hotels
Over
Snoring
The Doors
Behind
Jail
Dwarf
Ordinary
Place
Clue
Bars
Pubs
Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.
David Hewson
Noise
Distinguish
Unable
All-Around
Only
Although
Deaf
Around
Sounds
Hear
Left
Anything
Ear
The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.
David Hewson
You
Problem
Too Much
Whatever
Too
More
Costs
Price
Always
Still
Than
Afford
Much
Need
In Filey, you eat early to prepare for the highlight of the evening: social intercourse of a kind one thought relegated to Stanley Holloway monologues.
David Hewson
You
Thought
Kind
Eat
Highlight
Intercourse
Social
Stanley
Prepare
Evening
Early
Monologues
Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.
David Hewson
Great
Rich
Birds
Local
Churches
Solitary
Borders
Folklore
Marsh
Daunting
Remains
Occasionally
Odd
Times
Just
Flat
Romney
Coastal
England
Desert
Kent
Last
Medieval
Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle.
David Hewson
Doors
Summer
Visitors
More
Only
Castle
Opens
Privately
Than
Owned
Interesting
Medieval
Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward.
David Hewson
You
Reward
Own
Military
Back
Strikes
Ancient
See
More
Perched
Nobody
Mermaid
Likely
Campaign
Pint
Canal
Any
Front
Biggest
Bar
Medal
Ever
Oldest
Inn
Royal
Scarborough never really began to live until the summer of 1964 when the Beatles played the Futurist Theatre, and no one in the audience, least of all me, heard anything but the screaming.
David Hewson
Me
Beatles
Theatre
Live
Summer
Never
No-One
Until
Audience
Least
Heard
Began
Screaming
Anything
Really
Played
Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.
David Hewson
Old
Pretty
Town
Sing
Praises
Celebrities
Little
Resident
Jesus
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