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The Guardian view on the two cultures: bridge the divide, starting with A-levels | Editorial
By EditorialSeventy years after CP Snow warned of estrangement between the sciences and arts, breadth in education should be encouraged
#Education #Alevels #Exams #Schools #Sixthform #Science #Mathematics #Art #Humanities #TomStoppard #TheGuardian #Editorial
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#ScribesAndMakers ~ Are you more comfortable communicating verbally (or signing/ other non-written) or in writing?
Verbally.
But it also depends on what is communicated;
~ Chitchat? Verbally, absolutely.
~ Instructions? In writing, one wouldn't want to misunderstand them.Since Tom Stoppard noted...
"We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style."
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"When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process."
~ Tom Stoppard, born today, 1937.
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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TomStoppard #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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BBC Radio have recently released a bunch of plays by #TomStoppard, so I've been listening to them.
He's clearly a big #PinkFloyd fan -- one of them (Darkside) is basically set to Dark Side of the Moon as a soundtrack. The whole thing. In order.
The one I'm listening to right now has Syd Barrett as an important (but off-stage) character.
This realisation makes it now less surprising that the intro to the film of Rosencrantz and Guildensterm is set to "Seamus" from Meddle...
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Celebrating Stoppard: Albert's Bridge
SpotlightTom Stoppard's Albert's Bridge is part of Radio 4's Celebrating Stoppard collection.
This is a 1988 production of the play first broadcast in 1967, the year Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened at the National Theatre.
Albert is a philosophy graduate who turns the painting of a vast railway bridge into a comic, quixotic search for meaning. Up on the ironwork, suspended above a world that looks reassuringly like a model railway set, he has found something rare: perspective. The only question is how long it can last.
Funny, strange and with serious foundations worn lightly, Albert's Bridge won the Prix Italia and an award at the International Radio Play Festival in Prague.
Albert ..... Paul Copley
Kate ..... Diane Bull
Fraser ..... Geoffrey Matthews
Chairman ..... George A Cooper
Fitch ..... Peter Baldwin
Dave ..... Richard Tate
George ..... John Sampson
Mother ..... Eva Stuart
Father ..... Alan Dudley
Painters ..... Norman Bird & Stephen RashbrookDirector: David Hitchinson
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‘He played with language better than anybody’: Terry Gilliam and John Boorman on Tom Stoppard https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/terry-gilliam-film-maker-tribute-tom-stoppard #TerryGilliam #TomStoppard #JohnBoorman #Culture #Stage #Film
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Joe Wright on Tom Stoppard: ‘He loved sweets, smoking, words and women – in the reverse order’ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/04/tom-stoppard-anna-karenina-joe-wright #TomStoppard #JoeWright #Culture #Stage #Film
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I’m a little freaked out.Calling it a day, I want to read until sleep arrived. My current book depresses me. “No, something else.” With Stoppard’s recent passing, I thought, “Arcadia!” I don’t have a copy. The only downloadable version is L.A. Theater Works’ audio recording. Wonderful, but I want the words to sing them myself. I’ll buy the Grove Press edition tomorrow.
Disappointed, a Fediverse chuckle would have to do.
First thing I see is this post. Wow
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David Mamet, about Tom Stoppard, in The Free Press:
"Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?"
"No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."
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With Oscar-winning playwright Sir #TomStoppard sadly passing away 2 days ago aged 88, here's 2 UK news reports highlighting his career.
Who knew although uncredited that Spielberg tasked him to rewrite big chunks of #IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade in particular the "Junior" and "Senior" conversations. -
Bari Weiss (@bariweiss): "Amazing anecdote from David Mamet about Tom Stoppard in @TheFP: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?" "No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."
https://www.thefp.com/p/david-mamet-tom-stoppard-and-me" | nitterhttps://nitter.net/bariweiss/status/1995275693375082526#m
Sir #TomStoppard
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That's from an essay about Sir #TomStoppard : https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/tom-stoppards-ordinary-magic
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Sir Tom Stoppard worked on Star Wars https://www.generationstarwars.com/2025/12/sir-tom-stoppard-worked-on-star-wars.html #TomStoppard #IndianaJones #StarWars #Blog
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I wanted to write #WordlePoetry in homage to the great existential playwright we lost this w/e. This #wordle didn't make it easy to unify my guesses into #ReverseWordle #poetry
#Wordle1625 4/6 An #ode to Tom Stoppard
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛He punched holes through absurdity
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛with illuminating language
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩while cunningly occluding meanings
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩in our stifling existential realityNow back to my marathon w/e of #TomStoppard plays & movies💙
I wish I could have told him #CancelCulture is a #Richtwing myth
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Se oggi #GwynethPaltrow non ha più l'esigenza di recitare e può dedicarsi ad attività (immagino più) fruttifere quali vendere candele all'odor di (sua) vagina, il merito va anche a questo #film grazie al quale vinse l'#Oscar. Stesso riconoscimento che ottenne chi lo scrisse, #TomStoppard, che se n'è andato ieri. #Shakespeare in Love - Streaming ITA - Streaming-Community https://streaming-community.golf/titles/2145-shakespeare-in-love-aa-online-bb/watching.html
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
And now, so is Tom Stoppard. RIP.ROSENCRANTZ: We could play at questions.
GUILDENSTERN: What good would that do?
ROS: Practice!
GUIL: Statement! One-love!
ROS: Cheating!
GUIL: How?
ROS: I hadn't started yet!
GUIL: Statement. Two-love.
ROS: Are you counting that?
GUIL: What?
ROS: Are you counting that?
GUIL: Foul! No repetitions. Three-love. First game to--
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Addio a #TomStoppard, tra #teatro, #cinema e impegno
https://ilmanifesto.it/addio-a-tom-stoppard-tra-teatro-cinema-e-impegno
Il commediografo e sceneggiatore, premio Oscar per Shakespeare in Love, è morto a 88 anni nella sua casa del Dorset. Nato nell’ex Cecoslovacchia ma naturalizzato britannico -
#RIP #TomStoppard, an absolute genius playwright. I had the pleasure of appearing recently in a community production of his first big success, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." It's a brilliant play, simultaneously funny and unnerving, and also the trickiest script I've ever dealt with. Hail and farewell. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74xe49q7vlo
