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Michael Nyman
One way or another, I’ve done quite well out of the BBC today. As well as waking me up earlier today, they also supplied me with free tickets to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing film music by Michael Nyman at the Royal Festival Hall this evening. Nyman himself was conducting, with a full range…
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More Spooks
The quality of this series is very up and down. More up than down, although the episode that aired on BBC1 last night (and BBC3 the week before when I saw it) was easily the worst, with a computer child prodigy apparently single-handedly bringing down MI5. Last night’s episode dealing with a stolen $20bn was…
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Oh The Irony
I’m happily asleep this morning when the phone rings. I look at the clock and see that it’s 7.34, which means I’m late. Who’s phoning me at 7.34? Alex from the Danny Baker Show that’s who. I’m suddenly aware that my radio is set to Radio 3 since that’s what I put it on to…
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Political Thrillers
Last night BBC4 showed an excellent episode of the rather wonderful Timeshift, covering political thrillers on TV throughout the ages. There were some that I’d seen and many I hadn’t covered, although the programme asserted that there have been fewer true political thrillers than one would have though. Particular attention was given to Edge of…
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My Fellow Americans
I really don’t read Carl Hiaasen enough!
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Riddle of the Sands
I picked up this purely at random one lunchtime when I was feeling the need to read. Well it was only a pound in HMV since it’s the Penguin Popular Classics edition. This is a book that for years I feel I should have read. We always used to keep a copy in Sheringham and…
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Lorries Not Biological
Well surprise, surprise. The “mobile labs” that coalition forces found are not quite that. They’re for manufacturing hydrogen for barrage balloons. Somewhat less harmful. I look forward to Blair apologising for saying otherwise.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Good to see that the Burmese (never Myanmar) are still up to their old tricks, holding Aung San Suu Kyi in “protective custody”.
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Science Books
There are few interesting books on this Aventis Science Books Award shortlist. In particular Small World looks interesting.
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Playstation Online
I had a very geeky evening on Friday playing SOCOM online with several others from work using borrowed kit. I must admit that it was all enormous fun. So much so, that I went out to buy a network adaptor of my own yesterday. Now the thing to say about this is that Sony have…
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Halo Jones and Ian Gibson
Now that I have the blog up and running, I suddenly got in a bit of a Halo Jones mood, and decided to search for pictures. But what do you, a quick Google search throws up images from the site of Mr Ian Gibson himself. While this is to be expected, you must know that…
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Don’t You Love It
When it all goes wrong. Actually I ran out of space on this server, and that had dire consequences for the Berkley DB on which this blog is sat. Even adding extra space was no good. Fortunately, the shift over to MySQL soon put things back on an even keel, and now I even have…
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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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