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Edison Research Top 25 UK Podcasts – Q4 2025
Edison Research has just published their Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025. As ever, this chart is based on recall from 2,000 online interviews with weekly podcast listeners in the UK. As ever, I’m going to take the long view on this and show how the chart has changed over time. This…
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You Thought You Were Having A Bad Day
I think it was watching Caught on a Train which made me realise that I should relate the following which happened earlier this week. I’d been working reasonably late, and admit that I popped into the pub for a couple of drinks after work. This is the new look Midas Touch which has been refashioned…
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Caught on a Train
I’ve just spent a good part of this evening watching the great Stephen Poliakoff play Caught on a Train starring Peggy Ashcroft and Michael Kitchen, which was released last year on DVD. I’ve watched it at least once, and maybe twice before, and it really leaves an impression. We follow the story from Peter’s (Michael…
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Outfoxed
I got around to seeing this little masterpiece that dissects Fox News piece by piece. Of course, it’s not news that Fox News massively distorts the real news, and takes a consistently right wing approach to its coverage. But the really interesting parts of this film were those that covered the techniques that Fox engages…
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The One Game
I remember watching this way back in 1988 when it seemed to be coming off the boom in Dungeons and Dragons (celebrating its 30th anniversary) and the plethora of supposed teenage millionaires who’d made their fortunes in games for the Spectrum and Amiga. As it says in the packaging, The One Game was never repeated…
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Gmail
Any regular readers want a Gmail invite? I have more than one available – just drop a comment below and I’ll see what I can do!
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The Chronicles of Riddick
A dreadful film. I only recently came to Pitch Black, and it’s not a bad low budget sci-fi thriller. But this is an atrocious sequel. OK, it’s technically competent, but the plot is dull, and there are some dreadful sequences that simply make no sense. For example, when escaping across Creamtoria, being chased by the…
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V Festival 2004
It seems to have taken me the better part of a week to get over it, but it does take a lot out of me! Spent much of the weekend in the suprisingly dry, and indeed sunny, Hylands Park near Chelmsford, video and photographing my colleagues. Live performances in the tent saw highlight performances by…
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Why ID Cards Are Bad…
Check out this animation from the States! (Link from Infinite Ideas Machine)
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Shop Windows in Carnaby Street
If you’ve not been to London in a long while (or at all), you might not know that Carnaby Street has changed beyond all recongnition in recent years. Gone are all the sleazy shops selling cheap and cheerful stuff, and in their place are brace of shops that wouldn’t look out of place on Neal…
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V Festival Tickets
I just need to let of some steam…. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH Thanks. Sorry about that. For reasons that I can’t really go into, but mainly down to the fact that I volunteered to write a database, I seem to have been lumbered with overall responsibility for our company’s guest tickets to the V Festival in Chelmsford this…
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The Block Annexed
As predicted, The Block has suffered the same fate as Making Waves and been axed from primetime by ITV. Not unsurprising given that it’s a daytime format dressed up in primetime gladrags. In brief, from what I can tell, several pairs of contestants are given identical flats to do up on fixed budgets. Those that…
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The Bourne Supremacy (& The Bourne Identity)
A couple of years ago Matt Damon starred in a reasonably good thriller called The Bourne Identity, and last night it was on Sky Movies so I watched it again. I liked this thriller based on the Robert Ludlem novel (and previously filmed some years ago with Dr Kildare himself) because it had a believable…
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