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The Bourne Legacy
There’s no Matt Damon, and importantly, there’s no Paul Greengrass is this follow up to the Bourne series of films. That doesn’t mean that they’ve recast Jason Bourne with a new actor, but it seems that Treadstone was just one part of the evil plotting going on deep within American security services. So we’re introduced…
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RAJAR Q2 2012
A break in Olympics coverage for a brief whizz through the latest RAJAR results. I think it’s fair this time around, to say that one of the main stories this RAJAR is actually the Absolute Radio’s network of stations’ performance. So let’s start there. Absolute Radio Network is up 6.7% in reach on the quarter…
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Olympics Day 5 – Wiggo
OK. I didn’t get to watch anything live today. It was a busy work day – but more of that later tonight. However I did manage to catch Bradley Wiggins’ awesome time trial ride. Coming 10 days after his victory in the Tour de France, he’s clearly an outstanding athlete. Wonderful Bradley leading the charge…
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Olympics Day 4 – Archery
[Again, I’ve not had a chance to update my photos yet, so I’ll drop them in later] Archery is another wildcard event in that I was able to get a couple of £20 tickets, and thought it’d be fun to watch at Lord’s. All the Olympic venues have secure cycle parks, and since I had…
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Olympics Day 3 – Swimming, The Orbit and Fencing
[Note: This is a first draft. I’ll drop in some photos when I get a chance to process them] Today was a swimming day, and I had a 10am session. Having decided that security was very swift I didn’t get in too early today, but I still ended up with an hour to kill before…
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Olympics Day 2 – Basketball
Another early start for me, and my first visit to the Olympic Park for a couple of matches in the preliminary men’s basketball rounds. Since the session started at 9am, I took seriously the “get there two hours early” suggestion, and found myself in St Pancras International at about 7am. By 7.20am I was in…
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Olympics Day 1 – Men’s Road Race
Up early today for the first Olympic action with the Men’s Road Race departing from Central London at 10am. I got to Richmond Park an hour ahead of that and roughly twenty minutes’ later, the peleton arrived. They weren’t really racing at that point, and looked like a big colourful cycling club out for a…
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Olympics – The Torch Relay
Warning: There’s probably going to be a bit of Olympics coverage in this blog over the next couple of weeks! Well it was only around the corner, and I was coming back from a meeting anyway, so I had to join the massed ranks of office workers, shop workers, and tourists who came out to…
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Le Maillot Jeune
What an extraordinarily wonderful day. Bradley Wiggins wins the Tour de France in Paris. The first Briton ever to do so in 109 years of the race and 99 editions of it. Chris Froome, another Brit comes second. Mark Cavendish makes it three out of three on the Champs Elysees. I just had to be…
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BBC Olympic Deal
The BBC has just announced that it’s signed a new deal with the IOC for the next four summer and winter games through to the 2020 games in a city that has yet to be announced. It’s not immediately clear how much the BBC has paid, but This was an interesting deal because of a…
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Girls – The Next Big Thing, Or Not?
It’s a blindingly obvious thing to say, but the choice of which channel airs a television series can really determine how successful it might become, irrespective of the programme’s actual overall quality and appeal. Case in point. Sometime in the not too distant future – September or October I believe – Sky Atlantic will start…
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Licencing Music
Of late, I’ve been shooting a few Super 8 films, and have really enjoyed the somewhat back to basics pleasures. I’ve still got plenty to learn about the medium however. But I am left with a problem. Because of the silent nature, the films work much better if I put a soundtrack on them. And…
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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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