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Stealing A Nation – Diego Garcia
I’ve just watched the latest of John Pilger’s Special Reports about an island people who were first wronged forty years ago, and continue to be wronged until the present day. Stealing A Nation was his report on how the British Government deported an entire island race, so that they could hand the people’s land over…
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Maurice Wilkins Has Died
Very soon after the death of Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, who shared the Nobel prize with Crick and Watson, has also died at the age of 87. Read the BBC obituary here and Nature’s first piece here. UPDATE: A fine Guardian obituary is here.
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Podcasting
So just to make sure that everyone knows that I’m really up with the new technology, I thought that I’d better acknowledge Podcasting. A few weeks back I was bemoaning the fact that it was really hard to find radio in a downloadable rather than streaming format. Well it’s out there and it’s called Podcasting.…
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Bride and Prejudice
If there’s one classic novel that’s well known in the UK, it’s Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It’s been dramatised many times, with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson in 1940 and televised on the BBC in 1967. But the most famous version to date has been the 1995 Andrew Davies adaptation with Colin Firth and…
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Superset
So on Sunday, courtesy of a sponsorship deal at work, I got to go along to Superset Tennis at Wembley Arena. I must admit that I hate travelling to and from Wembley, but on Sunday, aside from my local train service being a bus for the day (and thus making it quicker to catch a…
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Has Flashmob The Opera Been Cancelled?
One of BBC Three’s autumn highlights was to be Flashmob the Opera, which was to take place next Wednesday. Last week I got an email from Londonmobs telling me to prepare for a mob event near Paddington on Wednesday 6 October. But a few minutes ago saying that is was being cancelled for security reasons……
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BBC News – Other Sources
I see that the BBC News website has introduced a “From Other News Sites” box on some of their stories. According to the explanation, this facility is supplied to them by Moreover, and I’ve got to say it is a useful tool for discovering more about a story you’re interested in. I guess the big…
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Club Class
I’m just beginning to catch up on the recent Radio 4 series – Club Class. The first of the latest series featured the Skulls and Bones – a secret society which invites just 15 new members a year, yet has both George W Bush and John Kerry as members. The really interesting thing about this…
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Tanner on Tanner on BBC Four
I know I keep going on about this – but I’m so happy to see that BBC Four’s bought the UK rights to Robert Altman’s Tanner on Tanner. And they’re showing it in the run-up to the US election which means we won’t have to wait very long at all to see it! Maybe they…
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Cricket TV Rights
Well the England cricket rights are up for grabs at the moment (free reg reqd). Over the last three years, Channel 4 have had all the home Tests, save one, and Sky have had the one dayers as well as a single Test. Ofcom have recently put out a draft of the latest Listed Events…
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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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