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Tanguera
Having read the Londonist review of Tanguera last week, and been vaguely intrigued by the tube posters, on a whim I went to see this tango inspired piece at Sadler’s Wells this evening. It’s wonderful. It’s a 90 minute simple story told via dance, with several songs, about a young French girl arriving in Argentina…
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Tate Britain
Three exhibitions. One Tate. That was what I visited today at Tate Britain – a museum that I must admit I’ve not been to as much as I once did. Certainly not since Tate Modern opened. Today I was specifically going to visit the Rude Britannia exhibition and also catch Fiona Banner’s “Harrier and Jaguar”…
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Event Cinema: Price, Comfort and “Security”
On last Friday’s Five Live film review programme, with Colin Patterson sitting in for Mayo and Kermode, there was a long discussion about event or location screenings of films. The discussion involved Fabien Riggall of Secret Cinema, and David Cox from Film4. They were talking about their respective outdoor screenings. Secret Cinema has been running…
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RAJAR Q2 2010
It’s that time of year again when up and down the land, radio stations learn how many listeners they have, and therefore how well they’re doing. I always like to think of them as the equivalent of getting your exam results. There’ll be lots of coverage of RAJAR in the usual places: Media Guardian and…
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Sky Doing More Import Deals
The other day I tried to assuage fears that every decent US TV series was going to disappear from free to air screens following Sky’s deal with HBO for the next five years. Today, I’m not so sure. Seemingly Sky is attempting to do similar deals with Showtime and AMC. That would be a disappointing…
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Observed #1
A couple are kissing passionately alongside a train that’s about to depart from platform 8 at KIngs Cross sometime around midnight. Another couple, hurrying towards platform 11 observe the scene and discuss it: Her: “Aah. They’re in love.” Him: “No. They’ve only just met this evening.” Her: “No – they’re definitely in love.” Him: “You’re…
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Boris Bikes Are Go!
To celebrate the new bike hire scheme in London I made this Audioboo: Listen! [Update] Here’s what else happened after I recorded that Audioboo. I cycled across Westminster Bridge and headed up Whitehall until I found a docking area near the police station opposite Charing Cross station. When I first docked the bike, I didn’t…
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Crystal Ball Gazing at the Radio Academy
The latest Radio Academy podcast – the last of the series indeed – is about to be published by producer Heather Davies. It features, Trevor Dann talking to Global’s Nick Piggott, the BBC’s Chris Kimber and myself about radio five years hence. I’m sure that, as Nick wisely said at the podcast’s start, a large…
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Sky’s HBO Deal
Sky has completed a £150m deal for exclusive rights to all HBO’s back catalogue and future programming for the next five years. There’s a certain irony that over the years various Sky One channel controllers have claimed that they’re going to make Sky One the UK’s version of HBO. I’ve pooh-poohed that in the past,…
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TouchPoints 3
In 2006, the IPA launched a new research survey called TouchPoints. It was a radical new look at measuring media usage across different types of media rather than each industry looking at their own world. The idea was to make it easy for advertisers to plan across different types of media. They also measured the…
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Daily Star TV Ad Redux
A few months ago I noted that the Daily Star was claiming to be “Britain’s most successful newspaper” in a TV ad. It was basing those findings on the then most recent ABC figures from January 2010, which then showed a small percentage increase in year on year sales results. Those TV ads are running…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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