Month: December 2003
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Harry’s Baptism
Congratulations to young Harry Bowie, my nephew, on his baptism today. (What a coincidence that he was born the day Saddam’s statue toppled, and was baptised the day Saddam was captured – I wouldn’t want to read too much into all that).
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Saddam Captured
It came as something as a suprise, since I thought that he would be holed up in some far flung corner of the globe, but Saddam Hussein’s been captured with a shot being fired.
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
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Michael Kamen
I’ve only just learnt that composer Michael Kamen has died at the age of 55. Only a couple of weeks ago, I was transferring my cassette of his soundtrack (with Eric Clapton) for Edge of Darkness from cassette to my PC for burning to CD. He had loads of film credits and recently he did…
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BBC Charter Review
The DCMS have an initiative aimed at gaining responses to how the BBC’s Charter Review should procede. There’s a website as part of this, and they say that they’ll publish all the responses they get online. I shall certainly be participating and answering their eight questions. There’s an accompanying document available too (PDF).
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John Le Carré
An awesome piece by John Le Carré in The Observer this weekend, about his father Ronnie.
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Touching The Void
In 1985 Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, a pair of young climbers, went to Peru to climb an unscaled face of a 21,000 ft Andean mountain, Siula Grande. The journey went horribly wrong on the descent, with the pair getting separated and Joe Simpson being left, quite probably dead. Now obviously he wasn’t because he…
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BBC4
Nice piece in today’s Guardian about BBC4 by Toby Young. Sadly the one problem is that Freeview isn’t available universally, otherwise it’d be my parents’ default Christmas present.
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Weather’s Broken
My weather page is bust because the BBC have changed their format. Some reprogramming’s in order…
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Road to McCarthy
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Morality for Beautiful Girls
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Master and Commander
The novels of Patrick O’Brian are the preferred reading of a significant part of the population – and previously I’ve thought them to be a type of Telegraph reader. Anyway, this film comes along, and despite what I thought was a quite dreadful trailer, I went along anyway. I have to say that I thoroughly…