Author:Noël Coward,Peggy Ashcroft,Tony Britton,Full Cast
Judith Bliss is a famous actress who, after a string of successful roles, has retired to her country retreat. Missing the adulation of her public, she has has invited a fan over for a weekend of uninterrupted adoration - unaware that the rest of her family has company arriving too. Hoping for a delightful weekend, the four unwitting visitors are subjected to the full force of the Bliss’s theatrical lifestyle... Noël Coward’s sparkling comedy features a stellar cast including Millicent Martin, Maurice Denham and Julia Foster. This recording was first issued on cassette in 1988.
Sweet... incredibly touching
—— ObserverA heartwarming story and a reminder that in the crazy world of showbiz, anything is possible ... one of the most incredible showbiz tales of our time
—— HeatA refreshing revelatory and spirit-moving memoir which reads as beautifully as she sings...
—— Irish IndependentHard to put down
—— The Sunday TimesA revealing portrait of an often misunderstood woman
—— OK!Movingly told
—— The TimesWarm, witty and wise
—— The ScotsmanBoth an exposé and a defence of Orson Welles by the daughter who spent a lifetime trying to impress him . . . offers a new perspective on a familiar career
—— Times Literary SupplementA portrait of longing never quite fulfilled
—— The OldieBefore now, much of hip-hop's history has been a cross between personal narrative and music commentary. Can't Stop Won't Stop goes to the next level, documenting hip-hop's cross cultural, political, economic and global intricacies. For too long it's been nearly impossible for hip-hop kids to find themselves on the pages of history. With Can't Stop, Won't Stop, Jeff Chang takes them there.
—— Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American CultureAn exuberant and revelatory history of the inner-city cultural revolution that still rocks the world. Jeff Chang is hip-hop's John Reed.
—— Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities, City of Quartz and Planet of SlumsHis scope is operatic, sprawling, and concerns itself with the people, places, and politics that drove hip-hop from its infancy. . . . It is essentially a people's history . . . perhaps Jeff Chang is hip-hop America's Howard Zinn.
—— Salon.comThe birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Jeff Chang brings to it. . . . This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written.
—— The New YorkerWhen Hip-Hop 101 becomes a requirement, Jeff Chang's history of the turmoil that begat this beloved culture will be the go-to textbook.
—— Vibe magazineThe most important new genre of the last quarter century finally has a sweeping historical overview as powerful as the music with "Can't Stop Won't Stop" . . . the best-argued, most thoroughly researched case for hip-hop as a complete and truly American culture.
—— Chicago Sun-TimesYou need to read this - period
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