by Fiona Kane | Mar 24, 2025 | Childhood and Adolescence, Recommended watching and reading
I highly recommend Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s new crime drama Adolescence (on Netflix) is very powerful and moving. It has initiated and important discussion about what adolescence looks like now, especially for young men. The four-part series (which is filmed...
by Fiona Kane | Aug 12, 2024 | Recommended watching and reading
May 2024 The New Look (Apple TV) The story of how fashion icon and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel navigate the horrors of World War II and launch modern fashion. This was a beautiful series, very moving and so beautifully shot. Ben Mendelsohn, Maisie...
by Fiona Kane | Apr 4, 2024 | Recommended watching and reading
Concert: Pink, live in Townsville I had a great time on a short getaway with my sister and cousin, Pink was fabulous as usual. The whole town was celebrating Pink so it was a really fun concert and really good vibe. AudioBook: Bad Therapy: While kids aren’t...
by Fiona Kane | Apr 4, 2024 | Recommended watching and reading
An update on what I have been listening to/watching/attending Konstantin Kisin and Tony Abbot speak at Sydney University I attended this talk in the Great Hall of Sydney University. I particularly wanted to see Konstantin as I have been following him and his podcast...
by Fiona Kane | Mar 7, 2024 | Recommended watching and reading
The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix) I was a teenager when Bob Geldof first alerted the word to the people starving on Africa. As a huge fan of music I was well aware of the UK based Band Aid song (Do they know it’s Christmas?) and then the US project, We are the...