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Breaking The Code and Alan Turing
Today, had he lived, would have been Alan Turing’s 98th birthday. Last night at the BFI Southbank, there was a great double bill featuring the excellent TV version of Hugh Whitmore’s play about Turing – Breaking the Code. Regular readers will perhaps recall that I saw a theatrical production of this play back in November.…
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BBC Tennis
You’re a news and sport radio station. It’s reached the stage in the World Cup where final group games take place simultaneously and you’ve promised listeners that you’ll cover all the matches. It’s Wimbledon fortnight and Andy Murray has his opening match. There’s an emergency Budget taking place in the Commons. [UPDATE] And an England…
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Radio Drama
I really like radio drama, although I’ll freely admit that I don’t get to hear enough of it. So the piece in today’s Guardian made for interesting reading. It highlights the fact that Radio 4 is losing the Friday Play, and the strain in general that radio drama finds itself under. What can radio drama…
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To Watch and Listen To Between the Football
A few things that caught my eye this week: By far the best World Cup package surrounding the games must have been the package that aired after the Italy v Paraguay game. It was all about the footballers of Robben Island. While they were locked up by the apartheid regime, football was one of the…
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Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra
I’m beginning to lose count of the number of times I’ve seen Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra playing their big band jazz, but it doesn’t really matter, as it’s a joy to see them every single time they’re in the country. This time around it’s an especially good treat as…
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Sky’s Freeview Strategy
Media Guardian is today reporting that Sky Sports News is coming off the Freeview platform. Up until now, Sky had effectively been using the channel as something to promote their premium sports services. That’s really why they never showed any action in full-screen. But now they’re pulling the service. I think they’ll get some very…
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Robin Hood
I saw this while I was away recently, and somehow neglected to note it here (mind you – I’ve been going to the cinema so infrequently recently, this isn’t entirely surprising). I suspect that the real reason that I’d not got around to mentioning Robin Hood thus far is that I’d completely forgotten that I’d…
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Not Completely My Own Composition
Over the weekend I read a really good piece in the new issue of Word magazine written by Eamonn Forde that detailed some of the more famed musical “squabbles” when it’s discovered that an artist has “ripped off” another artist, usually by sampling them without permission. The most recent example mentioned in the piece was…
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Landscape Photography
I spent today at Capel Manor on a Landscape Photography course, organised by Going Digital. Despite the fact that the course mostly took place in the middle of the day – just about the worst time to take landscape photos – I’m pretty pleased with my day’s pictures. Next I need to get myself some…
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Dropping The Ball
I know that a million and one other people have already talked about ITV’s nightmare last night (yes – I’m conveniently overlooking Robert Green’s one), but it really is worth saying a little more. ITV1’s HD channel managed to miss Gerard’s 4th minute goal by playing a sponsorship credit for Hyundai (not an advert), followed…
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Tour Series – Canary Wharf
I was out at Canary Wharf watching the cycling last night. It was round one of the Halfords Tour Series. Lots more pictures on Flickr.
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Broadstairs, Forty Hall and Cross-Processed Diana Shots
Podcasts, Radio, TV, Books, Cycling, Photography and More
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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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