Month: September 2012

  • Orford Ness

    Orford Ness is not the easiest place to get to – particularly without a car. For me it was three trains, a ten mile cycle ride and a ferry crossing. But it’s well worth it for the fantastic nature reserve and some essential military history surrounding the development of RADAR and the atomic bomb. A…

  • Thames Festival Parade

    It was the annual Mayor’s Thames Festival parade last night in Central London. I got snap happy…

  • Sound on TV

    In this week’s Media Talk Media Guardian podcast, there was a brief discussion a tthe end about the sound issues with some of our recent big TV dramas. In particular Parade’s End and Birdsong were mentioned with viewers complaining that they couldn’t hear the sound properly. Now I must admit that I’ve not suffered this…