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Recent Books
It feels like ages since I wrote about some of the recent books I’ve been reading. Let’s try to put that right with this handful of recently finished books. Taipei Story by Rebecca F. Kuang I first discovered Rebecca F Kuang when I read her fantasy epic Babel a couple of years ago. Her lastest…
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Proms 2007
This Friday sees the start of the new Proms season, and I really must try to make time to get along to a few again. I actually quite fancy Saturday’s Music from Great British Films concert that ties in with BBC Two’s Summer of British Film, although being a Saturday will mean getting there early,…
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Aurelio Zen
This is written as a review of the most recent, and sadly last, Zen novel. But really, it’s a reflection of Michael Dibdin’s work. And a fine body it is too.
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Shed
I see from today’s Media Guardian, that Shed Productions’ Waterloo Road is one of the series that the BBC is considering using to fill the Neighbours slot once Five get the rights to the series next March. I’m not enormously surprised to learn this, since I imagine it’s Shed who told Media Guardian that it…
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Is He Past It?
I didn’t see Ricky Gervais on either Live Earth or, god forbid, the Diana thing. But I can’t help thinking that this Jim Shelley piece has a ring of truth about it.
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British Film Season
BBC Two is going to be showing The Summer Of British Film with a major seven part series entitled British Film Forever. Of course, there was previously the not-at-all-bad The Best of British Cinema which seemed to be a bought-in series at a time (1987) when indie productions were pretty rare on the BBC. I…
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Tour de France – The Grand Depart
Finally this weekend, the Tour de France arrived in London. I love cycling, and I love the Tour, which has become an important part of my summer of sport for many years now starting when Channel 4 used to cover it. Channel 4 long gave up on showing much over the summer except reality trash.…
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Prologue Start List
Before I head off into town, I thought I’d share this, which I made to watch riders as they go past. It’s a list of start times, rider numbers and names. I could find names and start times, and names and numbers, but not all three together. So a quick bit of Excel has left…
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Alan Johnston Released
Such wonderful news.
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The Thick Of It
I love The Thick Of It, and I’ve just been watching tonight’s new hour long episode in which we discover which “nutter” is going to stand forward for leadership of the party. Cracking swearing as ever. But can someone tell me why we had to have twenty minutes of it – the opposition’s point of…
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Snow Patrol at the O2
I visted the O2 last night (previously the Dome) for a “secret” Snow Patrol gig that was an invitation only affair for many of the people who worked on the site, or had something to do with it. My involvement is minimal to non-existent – I supplied the odd piece of data to a friend…
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Five Fined
Five has been fined £300,000 by Ofcom – the largest ever fine for a public service broadcaster – for faking winners and misleading its audience with Brainteaser on five separate occasions. Good.
Hadrian’s Wall
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