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Jack The Ripper: Written In Blood. Television Documentary/Serial Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Moe Dunford, Tyger Drew-Honey, Mark Strepan, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Chelsea Halfpenny.

The Fourth Estate, the watchdogs and servers of accountability of government, law, and order, the press, whatever name you describe the journalists at the heart of many a tabloid exposure, one need not go too far to understand they have a complicity in the events of those quite rightly we deem unacceptable, reasoned with bad taste, and whilst they may be covering their backs as sales of newspapers fall worldwide, serve them with a juicy story and they could resort back to the days in which their ethics went out of the window and their imaginations run riot to the cost of human decency.

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(659 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Feud. Television Television Series Review. (2025).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jill Halfpenny, Rupert Penry-Jones, Amy Nutall, Ray Fearon, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Tessa Peake-Jones, James Fleet, Alex Macqueen, Larry Lamb, Megan Trower, Chris Gascoyne, Judith Alexander, Joel Beckett, Luke Hammond, Joel Kai Ali.

You cannot buy good neighbours, the kind where you live in harmony with each other 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nothing ever getting you down with those that live next door, across the street, or around the close to which your presence counts…and yet neighbourhoods are pots of unspoken jealousy, they are the breeding ground of infidelities and trysts, and they are closest spots in which spying on you is readily available…and relished.

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(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Casino Royale. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Toby Stephens, Hugh Bonneville, Josh Stamberg, Matthew Wolf, John Standing, Lloyd Owen, Darren Richardson, Anne Mathias, Andre Sogliuzzo, Moira Quirk, Henrie Lubatti, Alan Shearman, Martin Jarvis.

The cinematic release in 2006 of Casino Royale is arguably one of the most dramatic of adaptions from any of Ian Fleming’s considerable list of tales that focus on the life of the British spy, James Bond. To capture that intensity in a radio drama could be considered a tough ask for the writer, for the director, and the consummate cast at his disposal.

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(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The Fever. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Cate Blanchett.

To perform a monologue of over a certain length takes a huge amount of skill on behalf of the actor, whose voice must convey every emotion, and reveal every secret, and that of the writer, is an act of artistry that few can convey with a complete and utter resounding of detail in which the audience can feel the trust of the performance as being exposed as a confession, a sense of the sacred divine in human form.

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(410 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Debbie Bond: Live At The Song Theater. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The feel of the raw emotion of the Blues in the 21st Century is now a given, the lean years of the genre firmly displaced in time, smoothed over as a gentle reminder to all that if you take a moment or a movement for granted then eventually it will grind to a halt and turn to dust; and yet the listener cannot but be helped drawn to a time when the Blues was at its zenith, the golden age of the sultry and the smoky bars, where imagination and the flow of music went hand in hand and leads you to front table by the stage, directly in the eye line of the steady and composed talent acting as the Muse and love for the night.

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(450 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Well. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Christopher Chung, Annabel Brook, Luke Rhodri, Bethany Antonia, Gaz Choudhry, Gary Pillai, Franki Lipman, Paul Kasey, Jermaine Dominique, Anita Dobson, Amy Tyger, Meg Abernethy-Hope, Beyagy Demba, Umit Gozuacik.

There are episodes of Doctor Who that rank so highly that they will not be forgotten, and they all have one major thread in common, that of the near unseen ubiquitous horror that waits just out of sight or that possesses the power to control from within; all other villains of the tales from the blue box are to be feared, but they, these unseen beings that wonderfully spread dread in their wake, they are the truth of terror given the confidence of anxiety.

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(512 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols: Live In The U.S.A. 1978

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The phrase, so well-known, repeated, and misused by some who find ways to sneer at the moment in time that the Sex Pistols managed to install themselves briefly at the very centre of the storm that rightfully gave Britain the kick it needed to finally start pulling away from the Victorian straitjacket that had bound tightly to the sensibilities and rigid indoctrination of the public, somehow frames the three cd release of the band’s tumultuous time in the United States with a kind of consummate ease.

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(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Helloween: March Of Time: The Best Of 40 Years. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time was…and time remains in the hands of those willing to be than a bystander, a voyeur, an observer of events, and whilst it is noble to be a credible witness to Time’s passing, to actively get involved in its storm, to pursue an agenda in which your name or your art adds the eddy and the wake, to the whirlwind above and the whirlpool below…that is the gift, and the curse of Time, we are addicted to its allure and if we are not participating fully, then it will leave as nothing more than an onlooker drowning in the very air supplied by the drum that marks its passing.

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(450 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa: Gig Review. M & S Bank Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The air is filled with the sound of expectation, the faithful 3000 inside the M & S Bank Arena that adds an extra sense of gravitas to the historic view of the skyline of Liverpool’s waterfront can feel the intensity of solemnity radiating from the back of the stage as the momentum and the drama of music that emanates from the guitar of Joe Bonamassa is ready to deal all the aces in a night of high value and atmospheric pulses that went on to rock the space inside the venue with passion and the sound of freedom.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Samantha Fish: Paper Doll. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Samantha Fish’s track record has been nigh on exemplary, every album, every collaboration, has been immersed in detail and insight; it is proof that alongside others who have given the Blues, not only a rebirth, but a reinvention in the 21st Century, that given the right person and their determination the genre can exist and flourish in a world now dominated by soundbites and ten second videos designed for the mass population.

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(428 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)