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Radio Times 26 September
Strictly and X-Factor have finished. What else is on this evening? As ever, I’ll try to help. Best viewed large.
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Stephen Fry on DAB in Just A Minute
The BBC has launched a series of neat animations promoting Just A Minute. It’s curious, though, that they chose this particular excerpt from Stephen Fry on DAB… Nicely done, nonetheless. (Actually, we do need to face up to reception issues, and improve coverage strength so that these issues go away). As ever, these are my…
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Pure Sensia
Today I went along to the launch of a very interesting new radio, the Pure Sensia. It’s a DAB radio, FM radio, internet radio and media player rolled into one. But it also, interestingly allows you to use apps. And as we all know, there’s nothing more exciting than apps in 2009. I’ve got to…
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Two Unmissable Things
Here are two separate programmes that you simply must watch and listen to… for entirely different reasons. First off, there’s my current favourite radio feature on any programme anywhere at the moment. Yes, it’s an Absolute Radio show and I work there, and yes, I know all the people who make it. But honestly irrespective…
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Derren Brown and the Lottery “Prediction”
Look – I really shouldn’t spend much time on this as there’s been far too much time wasted on the internet with people trying to guess how he did it and what he did. Brown told us after Wednesday’s live prediction that all would be revealed on Friday and we too would be able to…
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iPod Nano
This week saw the annual refreshing of Apple’s iPod range. As always there was lots of speculation prior to the announcement about exactly what features would be included. There was lots of talk about cameras being fitted to various models, and about the long term future of the iPod Classic – the “original” iPod (this…
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Lost Land of the Volcano
Last night saw the first in a new three part natural history series on BBC1 called Lost Land of the Volcano. The series follows a team of scientists as they search a remote part of New Guinea in a search for new species. I know this, because the programme mentioned it. Quite a lot. In…
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The Beatles Reissued
Today marks the day that The Beatles complete catalogue is re-issed on CD (and quite possibly digitally – but we’ll find out later). The original CDs were – seemingly – fairly rushed affairs and during the intervening years, technology has marched on, and many less famous classic albums have had the remastering process applied. For…
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All Change At Radio 2
So the news that we all sort-of knew was going to happen anyway, has come to pass. Following a “BBC insider” having a chat with the Mail on Sunday over the weekend, El Tel has announced to his listeners that – yes – it is true. He’ll soon be departing his weekday breakfast show, and…
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Some Recent TV
A Bank Holiday weekend ahead of the start of the Autumn TV season, saw a few new series start or return, and a couple of one-offs. Framed was by Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of such films as Millions. What I suspected, but which I didn’t gain from the credits, was that this was based on…
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BBC, Ofcom and James Murdoch
The Edinburgh TV Festival is all very depressing isn’t it. The stories coming out, during a recession that’s probably hit TV today to a greater extent than ever before, all seem to be about shutting things down, and leaving well alone. James Murdoch has come out swinging with his McTaggart lecture and it’s depressing stuff.…
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Radio Times 30 August 2009
It’s the August Bank Holiday weekend – so what delights does television have in store for us? Let me guide you through tonight’s choices! As ever, best viewed large.
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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