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Old Wykehamist News
Academic
BWZ Maciejewski (K, 09-14) and
JHA Roe (G, 10-13), both 2 nd year
Theology undergraduates at Durham,
are supervised by no fewer than four
Collegemen professors - Rev RWL
Moberly (65-70), RJ Song (75-80), SDE
Weeks (78-82) and CJ Insole (87-92).
Appointments / Elections
Lt Gen RV Brims CB CBE DSO DL (K,
65-69) to be High Sheriff of Tyne and
Wear for 2017/18.
The names of the first trustees who will
lead the new Royal Parks Charity have
been announced, among whom is WA
Kerr OBE (K, 71-75).
OLeH Stevens (H, 92-97) has recently
been appointed a Non-Executive
Director of Jockey Club Racecourses,
Britain’s largest racecourse operator and
the most significant stakeholder in the
sport.
Arts
ACJ Creswell (G, 70-75) has created a
spectacular cow. As Patron of CowParade
Surrey, which was sponsored by the Duke
of Northumberland and Albury Estate,
he painted the bovine model, which was
auctioned along with others at a gala
dinner at Hampton Court Palace on
November 17 th 2016. The proceeds of
£130,000 were split between Shooting
Star CHASE Children’s Hospice and
The Surrey Hill Trust Fund to help
protect the Surrey Hills AONB.
My Fair Lady is playing in Melbourne
from 12th May and later in Sydney is
a sell-out. CPK Edwards (B, 83-87) is
Professor Higgins, with Julie Andrews
directing. Most recently Charles
appeared in the widely- acclaimed
television series Downton Abbey and the
feature film Diana. He has played leading
roles on Broadway and the West End and
his theatre credits include The 39 Steps,
Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the
lead role in the original stage play of The
King’s Speech.
JP Moore (Coll, 83-88), who has been
living in Spain for seven years and China
for three years, has recently opened
a Chinese art and crafts site www.
inkston.com, inspired by some personal
experience travelling around China. Any
OW lovers of Oriental art are invited
to get in touch: he would be glad to
interview them and publish their work
or perspective on Oriental influence in
British art and culture.
DG Way (F, 99-04) is currently a film
producer in Paris and his latest film Dina
won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize
at the Sundance Film Festival. www.
lieuracproductions.com
Books
Part history, part memoir, part travelogue,
Footprints in Spain is a fascinating tour
of Spain by SP Courtauld (A, 54-59)
who knows its history and culture inside
out. Britons have been drawn there for
many centuries; and it has played host
to bloody wars and legendary love affairs
that have shaped the culture, history
and psyche of both nations. Over time,
Spain has made its mark on many of
our best-loved artists, thinkers, writers
and royals. Intelligent, humane and
idiosyncratic, this book tells the story of
great British lives in Spain. In doing so,
it vividly charts the
tumultuous history of
Spain, its people and
its British visitors,
from Catherine of
Lancaster to Laurie
Lee. Writing with
warmth, colour and
an eye for a great
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anecdote, Courtauld gets to the heart of
Spanish life and sheds new light on this
eternally fascinating country. Quartet
Books; ISBN: 978-0704374195.
JAT Lees (E, 80-85)
has written the taut
and suspenseful The
Bone Ritual, the first
in a crime series set
in contemporary
Jakarta and featuring
Inspektur Ruud
Pujasumarta. The
slum murder of a
middle-aged woman to which he is called
is both horrifying and baffling; Ruud’s
personal life is a disaster and, as he and
his department investigate the crime
and the others that follow, he begins to
realise that the current murderous spree
may be linked to events which occurred
15 years previously. This is Julian’s third
novel and has been entered for the CWA
Gold Dagger Award 2017. Little, Brown
Book Group; ISBN: 978-1472123084.
Prof HJ Macdonald (Coll, 52-58) has
now produced Shakespeare in Modern
English, which breaks the taboo about
Shakespeare’s texts, long regarded as
sacred and untouchable, while being
widely and freely translated into foreign
languages. Shakespeare’s As You Like It,
Coriolanus and The Tempest are presented
in modern English and show that these
great plays lose nothing by being acted
or read in the language we all use
today. Shakespeare’s language is poetic,
elaborately rich and memorable, but
much of it is very difficult to comprehend
in the theatre when we have no
notes to explain allusions, obsolete
vocabulary and whimsical humour.
Foreign translations of Shakespeare are
normally into their modern language. So
why not ours too? The translations are
not designed for children or dummies,
but for those who want to understand