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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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Photography Page
I’ve been redesigning my Photography page to be a bit more contemporary, but still based around Flickr, because that’s the most convenient place to store my photographs. I’ve used a WordPress plugin called Justified Image Grid which seems to do the trick quite well and has lots of flexibility for pulling in photos from other…
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What Goes Around and Cyclogeography
I’ve spent the better part of my working life in the West End of London. That means lots of tourists, black cabs (you can’t really identify an Uber), buses and a general melange of people going about their very different businesses. As a cyclist, you can’t help also noting the cycle couriers. When I was…
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Ada Lovelace and the Cosmonauts
Come on. Admit it! This sounds like some kind of awesome steampunk mashup – perhaps a graphic novel. Actually it refers to two different exhibitions currently on display at the Science Museum, and that I’m finally posting about. Ada Lovelace – the “Enchantress of Number” – was a friend of Charles Babbage and can be…
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Paris-Roubaix 2015 – In Slow Motion
Paris Roubaix 2015 – Slowmo from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. I came across this footage which I shot at last year’s Paris-Roubaix race. The race is just over 250km and includes 27 cobbled sectors, one of which I was standing by to shoot this. I uploaded my stills of the race last year. I used…
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Lumiere London
The world and their mum seemed to be in London over the weekend for Lumiere London. I had planned to try to get around the whole thing in one evening, but large crowds and a need to be in King’s Cross by 8pm meant I only saw a subset of it on Thursday night. By…
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Blocked on Twitter by a Celebrity
Remarkably, I’ve been on Twitter since 2006 – so getting on for ten years. And in that time I’ve always tried to be cordial. I don’t get involved in slanging matches, or go looking for idiots to retweet exclaiming my “shock and anger” that there are in fact, fools with internet access. That’s not to…
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The Hateful Eight
Like many others, I have something of a love/hate relationship with Quentin Tarantino. Actually it’s more a love/whatever relationship. I admire him enormously as a film-maker, but he does have missteps and I don’t worship the feet he walks on. I’ve not actually yet seen his previous film, Django Unchained! I say this to put…
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Christmas TV… and Beyond
You may or may not have seen my Christmas Radio Times scans with my helpful annotations, but what did I actually watch over the period? Oddly, one of the most captivating programmes was All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride!. This was the BBC’s latest example of “Slow TV” and remarkably our family sat down and watched…
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The X-Files on UK TV
I must admit that I’m getting more and more excited about the upcoming new episodes of The X-Files. Even though there’s probably too much “revisiting” of old TV series going on, I’m more than happy to catch up with Mulder and Scully again. The six part series airs in the US, starting Sunday 24th January…
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A Comment-Free 2016
There’s no two ways about it. Comments are broken. By that I mean, commenting systems on nearly any site that drives a large amount of traffic. There are too many trolls and people with little or nothing to add. There is way too much noise, and little to no signal. I used to enjoy comments.…
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Boxing Day Sunrise
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Boxing Day 2015 – Radio Times
You’ve made it this far through. Hopefully Santa has been kind. But it looks like rain in good part of the country, so you may be thinking twice about that walk you were planning. Here are your viewing and listening choices through my ever-so-slightly myopic lens, courtesy of the Radio Times and some Post-Its. Here…
Hadrian’s Wall
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