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Local Politics
My local MP is Labour member of Parliament, Joan Ryan. Not only does she have a second home close to Westminster despite living in a London Borough with tens of thousands of commuters who have journeys of equal of greater distance into work every day, but she also “flipped” her home. The Telegraph piece on…
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HTC Desire – Initial Thoughts
I’ve got a new phone, and it runs Google’s Android OS which is a first for me. It’s an HTC Desire, and I’ve had it less than 24 hours. So these are just some intital thoughts. I previously used the company’s Nexus One phone, and essentially this is the same phone as Google’s own phone.…
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Sony Radio Academy Awards
Wow! Look – allow me a little leeway as I get quite excited about something that is completely related to where I work. But Absolute Radio has just received an outstanding 12 Sony Radio Academy Award nominations this evening – 11 of which are for our main service, while the other is for Absolute Radio…
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Published Photography
At the weekend in The Observer, John Naughton wrote a column about photography in this day and age. He noted that in this day and age when many of us have access to exceptional photographic equipment (cameras just keep getting better – even the cheapest ones), and with billions of photos being placed online on…
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Radio Times – 4 April 2010
Just in case you needed advice on what to watch this Easter. As ever, best viewed large.
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Dawn on Easter Saturday
I got up early this morning and took a few photos of the cliffs at Beeston Hill, Sheringham, Norfolk. Locals erect a cross on the top of the hill on Good Friday. See the full set is here.
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What I’ve Been Listening To (And Watching)
There’s only one episode of Party to go, but listen in to part three before Wednesday. I’ll always listen or watch any programme based on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and this week that meant listening to Archive on 4: Sculptress of Sound – The Lost World of Delia Derbyshire. In some respects it’s always Derbyshire…
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Discarded Toys and Books
Yesterday I was out in a local country park, and came across this sorry sight. Aside from wondering why someone felt the need to dump all their unwanted books and toys in a ditch rather than, say, a recycling bin or even a regular dustbin, I thought this was a bit of a sorry sight.…
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BBC Mobile Apps On Hold
Today comes news that the BBC has had to delay its mobile phone applications until the BBC Trust has taken a close look at what it’s doing. That obviously includes iPhone apps, but other operating systems are available, and the BBC was developing for them too. The announcement that the BBC was developing applications came…
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Paywalls Come Tumbling Up
I know – that’s awful. Sorry. What to make of The Times’ much vaunted and soon to be realised paywall? At the moment, not a lot. There’ll be a £1 charge for a day’s access and £2 for a week. In terms of the paper itself, the value isn’t bad. The daily paper costs £1…
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Advertising The Book Show on Sky Arts
Sky Arts has recently been running a pretty large-scale advertising campaign for The Book Show presented by – as all literary shows seemingly have to be by law – Mariella Frostrup. That’s fine. Sky Arts is a decent enough channel, even if you know it really exists so that Murdoch can argue for the closure…
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Moviedrome
We really are lacking in decent regular TV programmes about cinema. I noticed that Film 2010 has just ended its latest run, and I’m not sure whether it’ll be returning for a final run before Jonathan Ross ends his tenure at the BBC. While I’m sure that someone – Mark Kermode? – will take on…
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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