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This is the video of the talk I gave at the TEDxYouth@ISB meeting on 20th November 2011 [...]

5th November in Great Britain is Guy Fawkes Day, a commemoration of the day a group of Catholics, led by Guy Fawkes, plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on the day King James 1st was opening a new session of Parliament. Whether they were terrorists or freedom fighters depends on which side you are on, but some of the men in the group were concerned about fellow Catholics who were members of Parliament, and one of them sent a letter to [...]

Today, October 16th, marks the birthday of the unrepeatable Oscar Wilde, perhaps the wittiest man that has ever walked this earth. As a tribute to him here is a link to an appraisal of Oscar by the brilliant and lovable Stephen Fry, who plays him in the film “Wilde” and who here talks about Wilde as being the first person to use “wit as an engine of art”. Not only is October 16th Oscar Wilde’s birthday, but the year [...]

Jacqueline du Pre ( 1945 -1987) - in memoriam [...]

Katie Melua - a feast for both eyes and ears! [...]

Steve Jobs speaks here of the advantages of not having completed university and the importance of listening to one`s heart and doing what you love doing! As someone who has also succeeded in life without so much as smelling a university campus as well as following my heart and doing just what I love doing, this video is very close to my heart! [...]

I love the counter-tenor  - male alto - voice. As a teenager I sang alto in the school choir and in the Fordinbridge Church choir [...]

Excerpt from an episode in the third series of "Nedeljni Zabavnik", written and directed by Timothy Byford for Sarajevo Television, 1984 [...]

I filmed this with a Canon EOS 60D camera, handheld and using the camera`s microphone. Hence the sound and camerawork are far from perfect, but I think that those of you who have not had the pleasure of watching the fountain display live will get some idea of what a marvel it is. [...]

Loreena McKennitt`s version of Alfred, Lord Tennyson`s poem "The Lady of Shalott"The words are in the "Poem of the Week`" section of my Blog. [...]