Month: September 2006

  • Getting Towards Sunset Over Sheringham

  • BBC Banned

    So following last week’s Panorama into football bungs, Sam Alladyce, the “embattled” Bolton manager has imposed a ban on the BBC at all his press conferences. He now joins Sir Alex Ferguson in refusing to talk to the BBC (Fergie is unhappy at the way his son was treated in a previous BBC documentary). Now if…

  • ITV News Exclusive

    The second item on tonights main news bulletin at 10.30pm was about breast cancer and featured an “exclusive” interview with Nicole Kidman. The words “ITV News Exclusive” stayed in vision for much of the interview. Well – they wouldn’t want the BBC to nick it would they?

  • Boat on a Stormy Day

    My favourite picture of this trip so far. Yes – a certain amount of processing has been applied, but it’s more to do with the power of RAW and using two versions of the photo blended into one. I spent a lot of time burning the clouds then undoing what I’d started. I think the…

  • Happy 60th Radio 3

    It’s the sixtieth anniversary of Radio 3, or The Third Programme as it once was. It might be reaching pensionable age (well, maybe another five years to go), but in this time of age discrimination, I don’t want to see it pensioned off! I commend Humphrey Carpenter’s The Envy of the World as a history…

  • Tax Breaks For Record Companies!

    Seemingly, the BPI is calling for record companies to be given tax breaks! This seems to be the latest hare-brained scheme for British record companies to make more money for themselves. It seems that when they’re looking for new artists, it’s not because they might hit big and earn loads of profits, but they’re actually…

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  • Blood, Sweat and Tea

    I saw Tom Reynolds give a talk about blogging from work a year or so ago at an NTK event, but I must admit, that I hadn’t really spent much time reading his blog. Blood, Sweat and Tea is a compendium of entries he’s made over the last couple of years or so, which means…

  • ITV Must Carry on with Kids Programming

    I’m delighted to learn that Ofcom has refused ITV permission to reduce their CITV coverage any further. As I’ve argued here before – if they don’t want to offer public service broadcasting, then they’re welcome to hand back their scarce spectrum resource and add themselves to the bottom of the list on the Sky EPG…

  • My Father And Other Working Class Heroes

    You may know Gary Imlach. He’s the man who for years has presented UK coverage of the Tour de France, first on Channel 4, and then more recently on ITV (with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin providing race commentary). Before that, he was a face on the Channel 4 coverage of American Football alongside sometime…

  • Temeraire

    Temeraire is set during the Napoleaonic wars. Nelson is battling against the French and he’s got Villeneuve and his fleet on the run. The Battle of Trafalgar has not yet been fought. Against this background we meet Captain Laurence who’s ship has just captured a French “prize”. On board is a large egg which he…