Jack Kost

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Born on this day – Anne Ridler:

Anne Ridler

Writer

July 30, 1912 – October 15, 2001

Recommended reading:

Anne Ridler: Collected Poems

By Anne Ridler.

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published 1994.
ISBN-10: 1857541162
ISBN-13: 978-1857541168

Description:

Anne Ridler's first book, Poems, was published in 1939. Her poetry developed in the light and shadow of the poets of the day - MacNeice and Auden, but also Durrell and Watkins. As important is a deep affinity with the secular and devotional writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ambitious for her poems, she was never ambitious for reputation. Like that of her friend E.J. Scovell, her work has not received proper recognition until now.

She has published ten collections of poems, original and translated opera libretti, including Monteverdi's Orfeo. She is the author of verse plays which have been performed in Oxford and London. This collection contains all that she wishes to preserve from her volumes of lyric poetry, together with the choruses from the play, The Trial of Thomas Cranmer, and a masque for music by Elizabeth Maconchy, The Jesse Tree.

Born on this day – Milton Holmes:

Milton Holmes

Writer

Actor

Producer

July 30, 1907 – September 19, 1987

Credits:

A Matter of WHO (1961); A Ship Comes In (1928); Boots Malone (1952); Grand Hotel (1932); Johnny O'Clock (1947); Mr. Lucky (1943); Mr. Lucky (1959–1960); Mr. Soft Touch (1949); Salty O'Rourke (1945); The Barber's Daughter (1929); The Constabule (1929); The Godless Girl (1928); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Lunkhead (1929); The Naked Earth (1958); The Spy (1931); The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927).

Born on this day – Emily Brontë:

Emily Brontë

Writer

July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848

Credits:

Books:

Collected Poems (2019); Emily Bronte: Poems (1996); Gondal's Queen (1973); No Coward Soul Is Mine (1993); The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte (1941); The Darker Sex (2009); The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981); Women Who Wrote (2020); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Wuthering Heights (1847).

Movies and television:

Bad Music Video Theatre (2021); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); Cime tempestose (1956); Cumbres borrascosas (1963 / 1964 / 1976 / 1978 / 1979); De woeste hoogte (1966); El gharib (1956); Encounter (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952–1963); Guiding Light (1982); Heathcliff (1997); Hun gui li hen tian (1957); Hun Gui Lihentian (1940); I riassuntini (2018); I Will Wait for You in Heaven (1991); Kraft Theatre (1948); La Hora Fate (1960–1962); Las grandes novellas (1971); Les hauts de Hurlevent (1968); Mastura (1998); Matinee Theatre (1955–1957); Monodrama Theater (1953); Novela (1974); O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes (1967); Ocho estrellas en busca del amor (1964); Ölmeyen ask (1966); One Man's Story (1953); Sparkhouse (2002); Spellbound (2021); Spotlight (1954); Studio One (1950); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958); The Promise (2007); The Wrong Boyfriend (2015); Vendaval (1973); Wichrowe Wzgórza / audioplay (2022); Wuthering Heights (1920 / 1939 / 1948 / 1954 / 1959 / 1962 / 1967 / 1970 / 1978 / 1985 / 1988 / 1992 / 1998 / 2003 / 2004 / 2009 / 2011 / 2018 / 2020 / 2022); Zoe and the Astronaut (2018).

The Bee Book

The Wonder of Bees. How to Protect Them. Beekeeping know-how.

Authors: Fergus Chadwick, Steve Alton, Emma Sarah Tennant, Bill Fitzmaurice, Judy Earl.

Published by DK.
Published 2016.

Hardcover.

First Edition.

ISBN-13: 9781465443830

Back cover description:

Bees are vital to the future of the planet, yet they are under threat and in decline.
The Bee Book offers remarkable insights into their world and shows how we can support and enjoy them in our daily lives.
What makes bees such perfect pollinators?
How can we adapt our outdoor spaces to feed and attract the widest variety of bees?
How is honey harvested?
Find answers to these questions and so much more in this beautiful celebration of bees.

Ann Patchett, on reading fiction:

Reading fiction is important.

It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own,

which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking,

and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone,

two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

- Ann Patchett.

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

On this day in movie history - Two Hands (1999):

Two Hands

directed and written by Gregor Jordan,

was released in Australia on July 29, 1999.
Music by Cezary Skubiszewski.

Cast:

Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field, Tom Long, Tony Forrow, Steven Vidler, Dale Kalnins, Kiri Paramore, Bill Drury, David Moeaki, Mathew Wilkinson, Rose Byrne, Mary Acres, Evan Sheaves, Jarrah Darling, Andrew Hunter, Mariel McClorey, Stuart Fenton, Grant Bennett, Jacquy Phillips, Peter Mclean, Poppy Savakkis, Tim Wright, Lynden Jones, Susie Porter, Brian Staunton, Rob Duckworth, Moya O'Sullivan, Salvatore Coco, Jonno Zissler, Jim Webb, Mick Innes, Steve Le Marquand, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Daniel Amodeo, Kevin Smith, Imelda Corcoran, Waddah Sari, Damian Monk, Lisa Natalie, Adam Muncu, Jerome Ehlers, Richard Carter, Jai Kemp, Warwick Young, Avril Wynne, Chris Mitchell, Brett Praed, Stuart Spence, Katya Tarnawski, Damian Bradford, Glenn Suter, Mitchell Butel, Perin Davey, Kristine Stanley.