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HBO – The Comeback
In some ways, HBO has never been away, but I think it’s fair to say that it’s on a bit of a roll at the moment. At the weekend, HBO started its massive new mini-series, The Pacific, coming from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, which acts as a sequel of sorts to Band of Brothers.…
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Party & Geoengineering
A couple of quick recommendations. You’ve only got a day left to listen to part 1 of Party, adapted by Tom Basden from his own play which has only just finished a run in the West End following its debut in last year’s Edinburgh Festival. A group of middle class – and not especially bright…
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Green Zone
Green Zone is the latest film from Paul Greengrass and his team. And by team, I don’t just mean Matt Damon. He’s clearly assembled together a very tight group of people who work with him. There’s cinematographer Barry Ackroyd who worked on United 93, composer John Powell who worked on that and all the Bourne…
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Arsenal 5 – 0 FC Porto
I don’t often talk about football on the blog, but Arsenal’s 5-0 demolition of Porto last night is worthy of recording. The photo above shows Nicklas Bendtner finishing his hattrick from the penalty spot in the 90th minute. But goal of the night must go to Samir Nasri’s superb individual goal as he beat three…
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The Eerie Silence
Given where I work, there really is no excuse for me not to go to more of the Royal Society’s public lectures. So back in January I attended an interesting sounding lecture entitled “The eerie silence: are we alone in the universe?” The room where they hold the lectures was absolutely packed, and I was…
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
One of my favourite series of novels of recent years has been Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. I’ve read all three of the novels in hardback no less, having read interesting things about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ahead of its English language publication in January 2008. By October last year, the final volume of…
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Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast
Here’s a turn up for the books – me talking about something on the radio that you have more than one day to listen to! Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast is an excellent play based around the making of Witchfinder General in 1967. If you’ve never seen Witchfinder General, then…
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Radio Times 5 March 2010
The weekend’s nearly here, and I’ve put this up early so you can plan your Friday’s viewing. This time around, I’ve used the medium of multi-coloured Post-It notes! As ever, best viewed large. PS These images on Flickr seem to get far more views than anything else I put up. So please do comment here…
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Daily Star: Britain’s Most “Successful” Newspaper?
I was unfortunate enough to catch a TV advert for the Daily Star last night. I think it must have been after the football which I saw a few minutes of. I can’t imagine another programme I might have been watching which the Daily Star might want to target me in. At least it wasn’t…
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Alice
As everyone looks forward to the new Tim Burton take on Alice in Wonderland, and I wonder whether I can be bothered to see it in 3D, the BFI has put its newly restored version of the first ever version of Alice on YouTube. Running at just under ten minutes, it’s a remarkable document dating…
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Cashing Gold
How badly do minor celebrities need the cash? Quite badly if the Dale Winton Cash My Gold ad is to be believed. It’s mercilessly ripped apart in Saturday’s Guardian Guide. Ironically, when I viewed this piece online, the Google ads below served three gold-cashing services up including Cash My Gold itself. £150 for a laptop…
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Jonny Greenwood – Doghouse
(This photo has nothing to do with the concert, but I took it down the road from the BBC’s Maida Vale studios). I’d never been to the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. But this evening I was off to them to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing the world premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s new piece as…
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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…
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