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    • Photo of the week
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    • Happenings
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    • Arts
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    • ‘George’ project
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  • Gordon’s CV
    • Gordon’s CV
    • Gordon’s main film credits
    • Film school Beethoven biopic
      • ‘Out of the Labyrinth’ – introduction
      • Production credits etc.
      • Making ‘Out of the Labyrinth’
      • Complete movie, clips, & stills
    • Interviews
    • Awards
  • Books etc
    • ‘GEORGE’ project
    • FIVA: An Adventure That Went Wrong
      • Banff Mountain & Wilderness Literature Award 2012
      • Fiva: rave reviews and online accolades
      • Fiva 1969 and 40 + 44 years on photo albums
      • Return to Store Trolltind 2013
      • ‘Fiva’ website
    • THE PEAK: Past and Present
    • THE CUILLIN: Great Mountain Ridge of Skye
    • LAKELAND: Landscape of Imagination
    • EYES TO THE HILLS: The Mountain Landscape of Britain
    • Interviews
    • Articles
    • Downloadable texts
      • Lectures
      • Reviews
      • Books
      • University dissertation
      • Sample undergrad essay
  • Shining music
    • The Shining music – Introductory note
    • Accolades
    • The Shining 35th anniversary, May 25, 2015
  • Climbing
    • Climbing pix
    • Climbing logbook 1966-98
    • 1967-68 climbing logbook
    • “An Ascent of Bispen”
    • Summiting Store Trolltind 44 years after Fiva epic
    • Complete ‘Fiva’ galleries 1969, 2009 & 2013
  • Stainforths
    • Family history
    • Family tree from C19th onwards
    • Peter Stainforth: paintings & drawings
  • Contact

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The Private Life of a Reclusive Genius

The Private Life of a Reclusive Genius

December 28, 2016
gstain
Arts

One of the Christmas presents I received this year was Stanley Kubrick and Me by Emilio D’Alessandro (Arcade Publishing, 2016). I’ve been wanting to read…

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Beethoven's double resurrected from the dead

Beethoven’s double resurrected from the dead

July 23, 2015
gstain
Arts

Exactly forty years ago, in my last year at the RCA Film School in London, I made a half-hour movie about Beethoven starring Tony Britton,…

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The Wright stuff on a damp day in Derby

The Wright stuff on a damp day in Derby

June 14, 2015
gstain
Arts

It was a bit damp in Derbyshire today so we decided to visit the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. I lived in Derby up until 14…

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Arts

Here I talk about arts and music, classical and modern, both in particular and in general. “Aristotle

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