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Telewest Result
It seems that I might have had a result. Telewest Digital have recently had an annoying habit of shutting down BBC4 at 2.15 every night, regardless of whether programming had finished. This is particularly frustrating if you’re recording one of their regular late night repeats. Anyway, today I got a positive response from the BBC…
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The Lost Prince Conclusion
BBC1 showed the second and final part of The Lost Prince last night and I’ve got to admit that I haven’t enjoyed a piece of historical drama so much for a long time. Superb.
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Barcelona
Wow. Barcelona are unbeaten in the Champions League this season, with a record 10 matches unbeaten, yet their poor league form means that they’ve sacked their manager Louis van Gaal. Some jobs are simply impossible.
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The Castle
We watched this 1997 Aussie film to celebrate Australia Day. I’ve seen a bit of it before, but it’s a good example of what the Australians can do so well. They have character actors par excellence, and aren’t afraid to take the piss out of one another. OK, so the ending is a tad melodramatic,…
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Robert Fisk
Thank goodness that at political times like these we have journalists such as Robert Fisk to provide a counter-argument. Today in The Independent he has an article pouring scorn on the feeble parallels that are being made between Saddam Hussein and Hitler. As if this war is nothing to do with oil? Yeah, right. Yesterday,…
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MP Reply
I got a bog-standard reply from my MP this morning regarding the Stand campaign against ID cards. Still at least it got registered, so power to the people. There also seems to be some indication that there might be a little backing down on the part of the Home Office, with Lord Falconer not quite…
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Monkey
Channel 4 have just started re-showing this – probably the first time it’s been on terrestrial television since it first aired in the early 80’s. Monkey magic, Monkey magic…
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London Olympic Bid
The Culture, Media and Sports Committee has just reported back on a proposed London Olympic bid. The amount of deliberation that’s being made over what is likely to be a relatively small outlay at least initially, seems to be immense. Anyhow their response seems to be that we shouldn’t go ahead “at any cost”. Well…
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The Leopard
Some years back, back when foreign language films were shown on terrestrial television, there were a couple of series I used to watch religiously. One was Moving Pictures presented by Howard Schuman, and the other was Moviedrome, presented originally by Alex Cox. Now I can’t remember which of these two fine shows it was I…
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Stronger Than The Sun
Shown as part of BBC4’s Poliakoff season, this was a drama that I hadn’t previously seen. It was originally a Play For Today in October 1977, starring Francesca Annis as Kate, a disaffected scientist working in a northern nuclear facility producing plutonium. She meets Tom Bell’s Alan who is the person who first starts to…
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Terrorist Attack in the UK “Inevitable”
Tony Blair has been facing the Commons Liaison Committee this morning, and is quoted as saying that it was “inevitable” that Al-Qaeda would attack Britain at some point. I don’t doubt that to be honest. But we can help ourselves by not blithely following Bush into a pointless war that’s certain to create more problems…
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War on Iraq
Resistance to the impending war on Iraq seems to be growing at about the same rate as the British Army is arriving in the Middle East. Yesterday more troop movements were announced, with one quarter of the British Army now in the process of being sent into the area. This makes it the biggest buildup…
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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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