Tag: religion

The Long Call, Series 1

The Long Call, Series 1

(ITV, 2021)

TV poster: “The Long Call, Series 1” (ITV, 2021)

Another murder mystery (mini)series that is bigger on setting and personal issues than investigation. A step back from the in-your-face (over-scored) probing of religious insularism and anti-gay prejudice, Pearl Mackie provides nuanced support as DS Rafferty, a single mother of two teenagers.

Pyramids

Pyramids

by Terry Pratchett (Corgi, 1989); audiobook read by Nigel Planer (Isis, 2002)

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Pratchett’s Discworld series truly hit its stride in this, the BSFA-winning seventh book. Pyramids is a self-contained and ingeniously conceived, desert-dry satire on the type of human thinking that underpins religious folly. Nigel Planer is suitably droll in voicing the befuddled participants.

 

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