FUTURE CONTENT

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ROAD TRIPS AND MOVIES - an introduction
i. Levi Strauss and the book that never was.
ii. Wim Wenders and Michelangelo Antonioni
iii. The New York Review of Books and myopia Americana
iv. The Five Roads
v. The D2
vi. Back in the USSR
vii Kirkenes to Bergen
viii. Deus ex Machina

THE FIVE ROADS - Japan 1651 ~ 1993 ( a road trip)
i. Origin Story - the Sankin-kōtai and the Gokaidō
ii. Hiroshige Ando ~ The 53 stations of the Tokaido
iii. Great Kantō Earthquake & Fire 1923
iv. Akira Kurosawa ~ Walking through Fire 1923
v. Tokaido ~ Kyoto - Tokyo 1993
vi. Kisokaido ~ Tokyo - Kyoto 1993
vi. The Alps in Summer

BY SECRET PATHS AND HIDDEN ROADS ~ A Poacher Abroad ~ 1928-1975
i. Hudson Scott
ii. All on the Square
iii. Moby Dick
iv. A Good War
v. Columbo Station ~ Ceylon 1946
vi. Suez & Cape Town 1956
vii. Breach Candy Bombay 1955-1958
viii. South India/Madras 1958 - 1967
ix. The King and The Colonels. Athens 1967 - 1974
x. The King of Jordan’s Pencil. 1975 -
xi. The Habit of a Lifetime II - Carlisle 1975

THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
i. The Escape of the Dalai Lama - Nepal 1958
ii. Ayub Khan and the Pact with China - Pakistan 1961-1963
iii. Trout fishing in the High Pamirs
iv. Gohar Khan pays in cash
v. The War in Kashmir. August 1965

BACK IN THE USSR ~ 1975 ( a road trip)
i. Newcastle Upon Tyne
ii. London
iii. Aachen
iv. The Border
v. Moscow
vi. The Taiga
vii. Khabarovsk
viii. Nakhodka
ix. The Sea of Japan
x. Yokohama
xi. Kyoto

SURREALPOILTIK IN SOUTH INDIA
i. Breach Candy and the CIA
ii. Moore Market and MG Ramachandran
iii. Jayalalitha ~ Daughter of the South
iv. Sasikalia, a marriage big enough to be seen from space, my Benami’s Benami.
iv. Kodanad - Peter Craig Jones - The Toda
v. Coal, TVs, and the Nilgiris Hotel
vi. TN Seshan - The Taj Coromandel Incident
vii. Subramaniam Swamy - Chandralekha - Osama bin Laden
viii. The Severed Leg

THE BEAR AND THE WHALE Kirkenes to Bergen 1989 ( a road trip)
i. Hurtigruten Bergen to Kirkenes by Hurtigruten
ii Killing a Bear. Kola Peninsula
iii. Eating a Whale ~Lofoten Islands, Arctic Norway
iv. Swimming with Lemmings
v. The Voyage of the Teddy

THE THREE TATAMI ROOM - sexual behaviour 1975 ~ 2025
i. Pinchbeck Agonistes ~ Kyoto 1976
ii. The Opposable Thumb ~ London 1980s
iii. Samantha Bright ~ Talking Dirty & The Poisonous Prawns, England
iv. A Dog’s Life ~ Sons and Lovers ~ West Yorkshire 1970
v. Mozzarella di Bufala ~ Italy 1990
vi. Lord Mandelson of Rio, Sao Paulo ~ 1989
vii. Cock Fighting in Manila ~ 2001
viii. With a toe, in the dust ~ India 2015
ix. Ellan Vannin ~ Eric or Little by Little ~ Summer of 1967

DEUS EX MACHINA ~ slicing through Europe 2025 ( a road trip)
i. Bergen-Belsen
ii. Dresden
iii. Prague
iv. Belgrade
v. Pristina
vi. Skopje
vii Thessaloniki
viii Corinth
iv. Epidaurus

POSITIVE VETTING 1975 - 2010
i. Steven Spender - Encounter with the CIA 1968
ii. Bombay, Breach Candy, the Russians and the CIA 1956-1962
iii. Trans-Siberian ~ USSR 1975 including Hotel Berlin and The Girls of Uzurprator,
iv. George Keharis ~ Soft Power ~ Bang Bang Marcos - Cock Fighting in Manilla - 2001
v, The Royal Cup of Tea ~ Rotterdam

THE FASTNET ~ 1979
i. The Race
ii. The start.
iii. The storm.
iv. Life and death in the Western Approaches

COVID 2019
i. Overture, Dan Walker & The Chateau de Crepan
ii. Love and Infection on the Route des Anglaise
iii. Filming in a Time of Plague (2020)
iv. Global Preparedness Monitoring Board - Gro Harlem Bruntland & A World At Risk
v. Boris Johnson, his government, the Labour party and the British media
vi. European response to A World At Risk
vii. COVID-19 “ a global disaster powered by inequality, inaction and geopolitical division”
viii. Six solutions for a safer world ~ Film Festivals, awards, finessing the system 2021

MALFEASANCE ~ bad behaviour in public office
i. The IDF and the ship of fools
ii. ICOGRADA the confederacy of dunces
iii. David Bryant and the SOCITM board. Lies, lawlessness and fucking stupidity.
iv. Peter Crook v NatWest Bank
v. Peter Crook v Van Ordinaire and Prince Limpopo
vi. The Crafts Council, Chelsea Crafts Fair, The Direct Design Show, Creative Eye. Margaret Thatcher and The Office of Arts and Libraries. David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry.

PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY
i. Hey Little Girl Is your Daddy Home? Honey Bunch Kaminski & The School Kid’s Oz. ii. Lisa Bonet, Bill Cosby, Angel Heart,
iii. Hit me Baby One More Time, Christine Aguilera. Dirty & Pink,
iv. Sara, the Vault Girls & The Last of Us
v. Jocasta Innes – Richard McCormack - Macdonald Orbis - Richard Stewart Liberty.

TALES FROM THE SHTETLE
i. Alec Natas & The Wild Geese
ii. The contract on John Paul I
iii. Buying a Degas and a trip to the Zoo

THE UNKNOWN POLITICAL PRISONER
i. The Theatre Writers Union - Red Ken - Václav Havel,
ii. The Institute of Contemporary Art - Reg Butler & The CIA
iii. Italy in Abyssinia - Haile Selassie ~ The Water Castle of Blatna - The Carp Farmers of southern Bohemia
iv. Coming home from Moscow
v. Walking to Jerusalem

ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A MEME 1925~ 2025
Les Cineastes de Langres

THE LAST OF ENGLAND
i. Nemone Lethebridge, Jimmy O’Connor, The Krays and Stratford East
ii. BSA - Birmingham, Armory Road 1969The Met - a terminal infection
iii. Old Flo
iv. Harvey Thomas - Billy Graham & Margaret Thatcher
v. Alajah Bolaji Odowole Babalakudja
vi. Les bateaux pneumatiques de Calais and the boy on the beach

BREAKFAST IN SAMARRA ~ On January 1st 2001, four people, William Hanna, Douglas Adams, RK Narayan and Anne Morrow Lindberg meet for breakfast in Samarra on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq

THE EXIT RAMP
i. Little Gidding
ii. Laetoli
iii. Hale-Bopp
iv. Noah’s Flood
v. The Pale Blue Dot
vi. Sleeping with U Thant