Chris Hallam

2 weeks ago | chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com | Chris Hallam

Throughout the course of human history, the British have played a vital role in exploring the lesser known and furthest flung areas of the globe. With Devon geographically placed on England’s south-western coast, it is little surprise that with so many Devonians born into a world overlooking the vast expanse of the ocean to the south and west that so many have wondered what lay on the other side.

2 weeks ago | comedy.co.uk | Robert Sellers |Chris Hallam

Nuns have a rather mixed record in films. Sometimes, they have been good (The Sound Of Music). Sometimes they have been bad (The Magdalene Sisters). Often they have been a mixture of the two (Black Narcissus), while just occasionally they have been portrayed as hysterical, rampaging sex maniacs (as in Ken Russell's The Devils).

1 month ago | comedy.co.uk | Chris Hallam

Have you ever wondered what happens to our favourite sitcom characters after the final curtain falls? Did Basil and Sybil survive the final climactic discovery of a live rat on the premises of Fawlty Towers? Did Tom and Barbara manage to keep on living the good life into the Eighties? In most cases, we never get to find out. Happily, in the case of Slade Prison's most famous inmate, Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker), we soon got a definite answer.

1 month ago | chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com | Chris Hallam

Back in 1963, the BBC launched a new TV series about a mysterious old man who could travel through space and time in a vessel disguised as a police telephone box (apparently a common enough sight in Britain at the time). Viewers liked the fact the machine was somehow magically much larger on the inside and loved the character’s enemies, the Daleks. The show became a hit.

Feb 13, 2025 | chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com | Chris Hallam

Joel Morris is a very funny man. With his writing partner, Jason Hazeley, he has written for Diane Morgan’s great comedy creation, Philomena Cunk. He also helped write both of the first two Paddington films, has written a book called, ‘Far From The Sodding Crowd,’ has contributed to adult comic Viz and co-wrote the hilarious series of Ladybird book parodies (e.g. The Ladybird Book of the Midlife Crisis) which were bestsellers a few years ago.