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Recent TV Bits
So a few interesting things are going on in television at the moment. I’m going to come back to Kangaroo because I think it deserves a bit more detail. But I’m not exactly impressed by Five’s recent hiring of Richard Woolfe from Sky One. But then Dawn Airey herself fills me with dread a bit.…
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Televised Sport Update
Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided that it wouldn’t award the EBU the rights to the 2014 winter Olympics and the 2016 summer games. In the past the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has collectively bought the rights to the Olympics for the past fifty years. All the public service broadcasters chip in and…
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Southbank
Two a couple of great concerts in the Southbank Centre over the weekend. On Saturday it was John McCusker’s Under One Sky. McCusker has put together a fascinating group of performers of Scottish and English origin who together make some wonderful music. So on stage, alongside McCusker we had Julie Fowlis (who I saw a…
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James Whale on Talksport Verdict
Earlier this year, Talksport fired James Whale, their long-serving (and high rating) evening phone-in DJ after he made some comments which were seen to be in favour of Boris Johnson in the run-up to the London mayoral election. At the time, it was all a little unclear. Whale himself was vague in his accounts. Even…
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Photographic Exhibitions
Over on the BBC News website, they have an audio slideshow with Eamonn McCabe detailing what he’s found out in his Writer’s Room project. Over the last couple of years McCabe has been busily photographing the rooms in which novels are written. They’ve been published in the Guardian Review, and are now the subject of…
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A Point of View
You do listen to Clive James’ A Point of View don’t you? Go away and subscribe to the podcast immediately if you don’t!
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DAB/WiFi/SD Card Followup
A little while ago, I mentioned that I was seeking a DAB digital radio with recording facilities (ideally to SD card), and WiFi. You can buy a DAB/WiFi radio. And you can buy a DAB/SD radio. But you can’t buy one with all three. What a shame. But because new sets are always being designed,…
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More or Less Returns
More or Less has returned for a new run. Well worth subscribing to the podcast if you want to understand a little more how numbers really relate and their general misuse in the broader world. That probably doesn’t do a great deal to explain what the show’s about, but it’s well worth a listen –…
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Little Dorrit Scheduling
BBC One took an appalling decision this week. They cancelled an episode of Little Dorrit to show a “fast-turnaround” episode of Panorama. Thousands of viewers have rightly complained. Now I have no problem with current affairs programming taking precedence over drama, soaps or comedy, but there were two major problems this time around. 1. They’re…
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Amazon’s MP3 Store
So the long awaited Amazon MP3 store is finally here – with just days to go until the end of the year deadline. They’ve got quite a lot of music on it with a claimed 3.5m tracks on there at the moment (so they’ve been busy). Tracks are recorded as 256 kbps MP3 files –…
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TV Remakes
We seem to be going through a significant period of remakes at the moment. Actually, that’s a little unfair as television has always remade successful programmes. How many Agatha Christies or Robin Hoods have we had over the years? And when isn’t there another Austen, Dickens or Hardy production on the cards? But recently we’ve…
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24: Redemption
For whatever reason, I’ve recently ended up on a few PR companies’ lists for “Bloggers’” events. I’ve been invited to a few film screenings here and there – although I’ve not been able to make disappointing number of them. That’s more the shame because screenings tend to take place in and around the West End,…
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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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