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Archiving Podcasts
This week, it was announced that WTF with Marc Maron would be ending its run after 16 years. The show will end sometime in the autumn (aka ‘fall’) having produced more than 1,600 episodes over that time. Maron’s podcast was one of the big early titles, and it’s fair to say that although Maron was…
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Thirteen
I got hold of Sebastian Beaumont’s novel Thirteen on the basis of Scott Pack’s recommendation on his very good blog. The book revolves around the life of a Brighton taxi driver who pulls the night shift, and the strange things he begins to see and experience. What’s going on? He picks up passengers from a…
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Every Little Helps
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TV Under Fire
A great piece by Janine Gibson from today’s Media Guardian about how producers have forgotten how to tell the truth any more.
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Tintin Storms the Charts
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that Tintin in the Congo is currently sitting at number five in the Amazon best sellers list? This follows everyone suddenly noticing that a book first published between 1930 and 1931 is actually a bit racist. I don’t believe that this is particularly new news, and…
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No Bikes Here
New sign on Golden Square, originally uploaded by Adrian Fitch. In the week after The Tour de France hits London and literally millions of people come out on the streets, this sign appears on the railings of Golden Square where I work. One of Mayor Ken Livingstone’s main reasons for getting the Tour to start…
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Sunshine Widget Test
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Dr Who at Christmas
I find this exciting!
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Paying For Autographs
This is something I still can’t quite get my head around. If you’re an actor, sportsperson, artist or musician, you’re probably regularly asked for an autograph. It’s something personal, and I understand why people like that personal touch. When I’m buying a book, if there are copies that are signed, then I’m likelier to pick…
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Proms 2007
This Friday sees the start of the new Proms season, and I really must try to make time to get along to a few again. I actually quite fancy Saturday’s Music from Great British Films concert that ties in with BBC Two’s Summer of British Film, although being a Saturday will mean getting there early,…
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Aurelio Zen
This is written as a review of the most recent, and sadly last, Zen novel. But really, it’s a reflection of Michael Dibdin’s work. And a fine body it is too.
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Shed
I see from today’s Media Guardian, that Shed Productions’ Waterloo Road is one of the series that the BBC is considering using to fill the Neighbours slot once Five get the rights to the series next March. I’m not enormously surprised to learn this, since I imagine it’s Shed who told Media Guardian that it…
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Is He Past It?
I didn’t see Ricky Gervais on either Live Earth or, god forbid, the Diana thing. But I can’t help thinking that this Jim Shelley piece has a ring of truth about it.
Hadrian’s Wall
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