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Ed Reardon’s Week
I’ve been catching up with a radio comedy I’ve read nothing about anywhere called Ed Reardon’s Week. Episode 4 is on the BBC’s Listen Again player at the moment, but I knew I was going to enjoy this when “Ed” began his diary bemoaning book reviews and how “Fattie” would be laying into his book…
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Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is nearly upon us – although I’ve only seen the trailers on the web rather than on air, so little C4 am I watching these days (Well there wasn’t a trailer for it during Time Team at the weekend, so that’s me screwed – and I’ve got a fortnight’s worth of Shameless to…
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Huygens/Cassini Cameras
I learn from listening to Material World on Radio 4 that the digital camera on the Cassini and Huygens probes have lower mega-pixel ratings than the average mobile phone (Cassini is 1 mega-pixel and Huygens, much smaller) – and of course they’re black and white. Obviously this is a combination of things like data rates…
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Plug-in Air Fresheners
Over the years, on more than one occassion, I’ve bought one of those plug-in air fresheners. The only thing is that it forms such an unimportant purchase that when I next visit the supermarket and decide it’d be a good idea to buy a refill, I can’t remember the brand I bought before, and so…
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Nightmare
Please feel free not to read a word of this entry. OK – so you’re actually free not to read a word of any entries on this site. But this one is particularly unworthy since it’s really to get something off my chest – a hideous journey home last night. I’m out with friends in…
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Chain Reaction – Alan Moore
Chain Reaction has been a fascinating Radio 4 series in which a celebrity pick’s someone to interview, and the following week, interviewee turns interviewer and chooses a new guest. People this series have included Jenny Eclair, Mat Lucas, Johnny Vegas and Stewart Lee. Lee was interviewing comic book writer Alan Moore this week. Alan Moore…
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The Desk
It’s the TV show that Soho’s glued to. It’s the show that Mediaguardian will be disecting to within an inch of its life tomorrow. It’s The Desk – new on BBC4 tonight! (Why do they get their own website away from bbc.co.uk?) It’d be unfair to comment on the first show – mainly because I’ve…
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New Phone
I can’t claim ownership of this but it makes me chuckle. Next time a friend or colleague is wowing you with their new state of the art mobile phone fresh from the box, pick it up, weigh it in your hand and comment on how light it is. But then add sagely, that of course…
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Johnny Carson
Obviously one of the big entertainment news stories of recent days has been the death of Johnny Carson – the king of the late night talk show. Here in Britain of course, we’re not quite as knowledgable about Carson as Americans since the show basically didn’t get shown here. How many Briton’s realise that Jack…
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2046
I’m a massive Wong Kar Wai fan, so it was inevitable that I’d be dashing out to see 2046 (well maybe not quite dashing, since it opened a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve only just seen it). The genesis of this film has been well reported with its gestation taking a good five years…
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Jerry Springer – The Legal Action
This is all getting completely out of hand now. An organisation named The Christian Insitute is claiming that it’ll be taking the BBC to the High Court as it has “violated” its Royal Charter. I’m actually scared by the sway that some of these organistations are having on our liberty and freedom of expression. I…
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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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