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Mr Dee
The Ascent of Man Band of Brothers The Goodies
Roots
Saving Private Ryan Yes Minister
Mrs Francis
Most enjoyable for me in lockdown is a book called The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ by Charlie Mackesy. Love, friendship and kindness this book speaks a universal language. This is a wonderful work of art with exquisite illustrations and a window into the human heart. Everyone needs this in their lives right now!
Dr Gill
A really good read, although a little shocking: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson.
My film would be Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks. A really enjoyable story which covers a number of iconic events in American History.
Mr Gibbs
The West Wing – how a proper administration and POTUS should behave.
Mr Grant
I have always loved Dune by Frank Herbert. It’s a very poetically written political drama set on another planet (it has a level of science-fiction to it but it’s not particularly important to the plot) where different factions are manoeuvring around each other to secure a precious resource. Throw into that political marriages, a faction of xenophobic natives and a prophesised jihad and you get a rather exciting story.
Thriller
If I had to go for a film I thought was exceptionally good I’d probably pick The Prestige with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine and David Bowie playing Nikola Tesla. A truly wonderful film with two stage illusionists attempting to outdo each other. One can never manage an act that the other can do which leads down a long path of competition, betrayal and vengeance. The secret behind the magic trick turns out to be so incredibly simple it’s amazing. Marvellous plot twist!
Mr Hadley
Shawshank Redemption. Few films stand re-watching, but this one does!
Catch 22. No one should reach their twenties without reading this!
David Cay Johnson’s book on The Making of Donald Trump. 2016 so it precedes his presidency which makes its content all the more appalling.
Adam Curtis: Power of Nightmares (all three parts); Bitter Lake; Hypernormalisation.
Books – Isaac Asimov, Raymond Feist, Tess Gerritsen, Lee Child – Jack Reacher series, Michael Crichton, Terry Brooks, Karin Slaughter, Stephen Donaldson, James Herriot, Dan Brown, Jeffrey Deaver, Daniel Suarez. All brilliant authors!
Mrs DeVouge-Bernards
Below are a couple books I’ve really enjoyed in the last year that I think boys in Sixth Form would like.
American Spy by Lauren Wilkenson
A spy thriller set during the Cold War in the 1980s. A female, African-American FBI agent named Marie breaks through the white boys’ club to break up an emerging communist regime in West Africa. The FBI sends her to deal with the threat of Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso. What follows are questions about what being true to yourself really means.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
A brilliant science fiction story where a black woman named Dana keeps being sent back in time from the 1970s to the antebellum South to help the same white boy. It becomes a story of Dana and her partner coming to terms with the trauma of slavery in America in a terrifyingly real way as they move back and forth through time.
Mr Etheridge
Book
Film
TV Series
The Hobbit
The classic story from Tolkien. A nice tale of how the smallest person can make the biggest difference. One anyone can read at any time in their life.
Taken
I’m sorry, but I absolute adore this film, ever since it was released in 2008. It is incredibly low brow but a retired CIA agent that goes around Europe causing carnage to rescue his daughter. What’s not to love?
Chernobyl
The 2019 hit about one of the world’s biggest disasters. The story of how lies led to one of the biggest manmade catastrophes of Earth and the lifelong journey to clear up this tragic mess.
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