Ben Oliver

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book
22 March 2026

Duende

A young British academic regales us of when he left his life behind and went to Spain in search of Duende - the intense emotional state that enraptures a crowd in a performance, and is most commonly associated with flamenco.

book
15 March 2026

South from Granada

A British writer travels to Yegen, a remote village in southern Spain, in the 1920s. He rents a house there and integrates himself into the community, leading to a life long relationship with Spain.

photography
12 March 2026

A few test shots on a new Camera

I’ve had this roll of Ilford 3200 in my Pentax MX for ages now and it’s been a bit of a dud waiting to happen. Lots of just testing lenses and stuff really. Shots from the window. Stuff I can’t remember shooting.

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book
05 March 2026

Wuthering Heights

We’re here as a bit of a follow-on from the recent film that came out, and while the makers of the film have suggested they were not trying to make anything that should be compared to the book, we’re going to do that anyway.

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