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June 1, 2021• Books

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

If there is one non-fiction title I’ve been looking forward to reading for a while,...

June 1, 2021• Books

The Premonition by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis’ books are always very readable as he has a knack of navigating you...

June 1, 2021• Books

Nightshade by Annalena McAfee

Eve Laing is an artist who works in her London studio on works based around very accurate...

June 1, 2021• Books

The Chateau by Catherine Cooper

The Chateau is the new thriller from Catherine Cooper, who previously wrote the very...

May 18, 2021• Travel

TfL’s E-Scooter Hire Trial

Earlier today, Transport for London announced the long awaited E-Scooter trial will be...

April 29, 2021• Audio, Podcasts

Ofcom UK Podcast Survey 2021

Thanks to someone on the UK Audionetwork email group for alerting me to this data that...

April 19, 2021• Sport, TV

Who Pays For the Super League?

Unless you’ve been asleep, you will know that, at time of writing, 12 named...

Promising Young Woman

April 18, 2021• Audio, Music

YouTube Music and Missing Songs

This weekend Promising Young Woman finally arrived in the UK, courtesy of Sky Movies....

March 31, 2021• Audio

Social Audio – It’s Only So “Social” Right Now

For the last couple of months anyone in the audio space has heard an awful lot about...

March 18, 2021• Technology

Pimoroni Keybow Zoom Controller

Pimoroni makes a wonderful little package called the Keybow which comes in 3 key and 12...

The Absolute Book Cover

March 18, 2021• Books

The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox

The Absolute Book is a complex and sprawling fantasy novel of a very unusual sort. And...

February 24, 2021• Films, TV

Star on Disney+ is a Shallow Offering

This week Disney began its global rollout of ‘Star’ as part of its Disney+...

February 17, 2021• Books

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

A year or so ago I read The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells, which laid out in...

February 16, 2021• Books

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Having previously read and enjoyed Convenience Store Woman, it wasn’t a hard decision...

February 16, 2021• Books

Where Ravens Roost by Karin Nordin

I love a good Scandi-noir, and this doesn’t disappoint with an entertaining tale about...

February 8, 2021• Sport, TV

Super Bowl Technical Shortcomings

While it’s a few hours too early to know how many millions of Americans watched...

January 11, 2021• TV

TV Logos Viewers Don’t Understand

Far be it for me to suggest that some elements of TV production deliberately obfuscate...

January 8, 2021• Olympics, Sport

When Should Athletes Get The Vaccine?

Note: This piece expands a little on a Twitter thread that I published earlier today....

January 1, 2021• Radio Times

New Year’s Day TV 2021 – Radio Times

As we depart 2020, and reach the final pages of our double issue of the Radio Times, I...

Running Shoes

December 31, 2020• Cycling

Making the Most of 2020

This post is a bit unusual, since it’s very much about me, and I don’t...

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