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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
On Radio 4’s Film Programme recently, Mark Gatiss has been re-examining TV spin-off films from the seventies including film versions of Are You Being Served, On the Buses, and the only one he really rated, Porridge. The feature-film spin-off has a long history in UK television, although as Gatiss explained it was largely used as…
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London Surrey Classic
Some photos from Sunday’s Prudential London Surrey Classic men’s road race. Some more photos over on Flickr.
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RAJAR Q2 2013
Yesterday, the DCMS finally got around to publishing something that became neither a white paper, nor a green paper, but instead Connectivity, Content and Consumers: Britain’s Digital Platform for Growth – a policy statement that bundled a lot of things together. Importantly for radio, it reinforced the Government’s commitment to make an in-principle decision on…
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Absolute Radio to be Acquired by Bauer Media
Somehow Storify seemed like the appropriate vehicle for this! And it also neatly gets me out of trying to analyse the future of the business that I’ve worked at for nearly 17 years, especially when it mightn’t be appropriate. [View the story “Bauer Media to Acquire Absolute Radio” on Storify] Yes, this will affect me.…
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Rolling Thunder
listen to ‘Distant Thunder’ on Audioboo I always have my Zoom H2 handy in case of an electric storm. Sadly, this time they didn’t pass quite as closely to me as I’d have liked. So this is a little distant and is edited down from a 45 minute recording made in the small hours of…
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Alpe d’Huez
In anticipation of today’s double ascent of Alpe D’Huez, I made this T-shirt last night. I did make a Ventoux one prior to the weekend too – no photos yet though.
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Frances Ha
Frances Ha is a wonderful little film, but it’s almost completely impossible to explain. The story focuses on Frances and her friends, as we see her life as a struggling dancer in New York while she tries to earn enough to pay the rent, and her relationships with those friends. Chief among those friends is…
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Sports on TV… Again
The weekend just gone was a big one in UK sport. Picking up a broadsheet newspaper on Saturday morning left you in no doubt of that. And the first key event was the deciding Lions test in Sydney. Page after page was dedicated to Warren Gatland’s decisions over who to include and who to leave…
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Some Summer Films
I’ve not really written a great deal here about the films I’ve seen recently, and as much as anything, I think that’s because I’ve not been to too many films lately. At least in the cinema. But there are one or two that I’ve caught up with. I should start with Star Trek Into Darkness…
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Reclaiming Radio
For months now, there’s been a document kicking around in my Google Drive entitled – as this blog is – “Reclaiming Radio”. It was effectively common knowledge that Apple was working towards some kind of streaming music offering, and earlier this week, having concluded a deal with the third and final major record label, they…
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Protesters in the West End
It’s all been a bit lively in the West End of London today, with protesters occupying a nearby building in Beak Street, before being forcibly evicted by police. More protesters have been moving about the West End, all followed by large numbers of police (and a not insubstantial number of media). We had something of…
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A Disingenous Newspaper
Yesterday the free UK newspaper, Metro, managed to publish a massive great spoiler on the current series of Game of Thrones. While discussions about current TV series are the meat and drink of newspapers – think of all the articles about who will be the next Doctor Who? However Metro ran this “news story” on…
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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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