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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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British Film Season
BBC Two is going to be showing The Summer Of British Film with a major seven part series entitled British Film Forever. Of course, there was previously the not-at-all-bad The Best of British Cinema which seemed to be a bought-in series at a time (1987) when indie productions were pretty rare on the BBC. I…
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Tour de France – The Grand Depart
Finally this weekend, the Tour de France arrived in London. I love cycling, and I love the Tour, which has become an important part of my summer of sport for many years now starting when Channel 4 used to cover it. Channel 4 long gave up on showing much over the summer except reality trash.…
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Prologue Start List
Before I head off into town, I thought I’d share this, which I made to watch riders as they go past. It’s a list of start times, rider numbers and names. I could find names and start times, and names and numbers, but not all three together. So a quick bit of Excel has left…
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Alan Johnston Released
Such wonderful news.
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The Thick Of It
I love The Thick Of It, and I’ve just been watching tonight’s new hour long episode in which we discover which “nutter” is going to stand forward for leadership of the party. Cracking swearing as ever. But can someone tell me why we had to have twenty minutes of it – the opposition’s point of…
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Snow Patrol at the O2
I visted the O2 last night (previously the Dome) for a “secret” Snow Patrol gig that was an invitation only affair for many of the people who worked on the site, or had something to do with it. My involvement is minimal to non-existent – I supplied the odd piece of data to a friend…
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Five Fined
Five has been fined £300,000 by Ofcom – the largest ever fine for a public service broadcaster – for faking winners and misleading its audience with Brainteaser on five separate occasions. Good.
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Sky on Freeview – Ofcom Announces a Consultation
Today Ofcom has announced that it will conduct a public consultation into Sky’s proposal to replace it’s Freeview channels with three pay channels on DTT. As regular readers will recall, this proposal came as a counter measure to Setanta who will have Freeview, and also acted as a nice distraction for the launch of Virgin…
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Hyde Park Calling and the Buena Vista Social Club
And so to Hyde Park Calling – a festival that happens at the same time as Glastonbury, and so has an “old rocker” feel to it. Due to a bit of a cock-up on my part, one of the newer singers I wanted to see, Terra Naomi, who’d I heard on the cover CD of…
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Taking Liberties
Taking Liberties is that rarest of things – a low budget British documentary released in the cinema. It covers a subject that’s very close to my heart, the reduction of civil liberties we’ve seen under the premiership of Tony Blair over the last ten years. It tells its tale using a combination of archive clips,…
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