Nick Hilton

1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Nick Hilton

Steve Carell and Colman Domingo also star in this terrifically entertaining, loose adaptation of Alan Alda’s 1981 movieNick HiltonWhen Vivaldi composed his famous Four Seasons concerti, he accompanied them with sonnets to guide his audience through the year. Led from “spring’s beautiful canopy” to the “hard season, fired up by the sun”, through the “songs and dances” of autumn, to, finally, “tremble from cold in the icy snow”.

2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Nick Hilton

This documentary on grooming and child exploitation comes a matter of months after Elon Musk reignited public interest in one of the most incendiary issues of our timesNick Hilton“Starmer was complicit in the RAPE OF BRITAIN,” Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, tweeted on 3 January this year. He was accusing the prime minister of failing, as director of public prosecutions, to tackle issues with grooming and child exploitation that go back several decades.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Nick Hilton

What makes for the perfect audiobook? The format has been around ever since Thomas Edison recited that first poem – “Mary Had a Little Lamb” – into the phonograph back in 1877. Spoken word was, after all, an easier thing to record on primitive equipment than music, but it wasn’t until the first half of the 20th century that so-called “talking books” started to take off.

2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Nick Hilton

This new series from the makers of ‘Gilmore Girls’ and ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Luke Kirby, rewards patience – but will patience be forthcoming? Nick HiltonTV has not tended to be an auteur’s medium. Perhaps it’s the vast scope of some of these projects (Law & Order, for example, would take almost two weeks, without sleep, to watch in its entirety) or possibly it’s the collaborative nature of the form.

3 weeks ago | nickfthilton.medium.com | Nick Hilton

Please support my writing my subscribing to my newsletter, Future Proof, where this post appeared a week ago. “Apparently we need to re-record now,” announced a WhatsApp message I received a couple of days ago, just a few hours after the weekly recording session for one of my podcasts. We had diligently reported on the ongoing trade war between the United States and, well, the rest of the world.