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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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Arsenal
I’ve managed to avoid talking too much about Arsenal recently. It’s half-time just now, with Arsenal still drawing Middlesbrough 0-0 at the Riverside, while Man Utd are 2-1 up against Blackburn. The match on Wednesday night between the two was a tempestuous affair, and it was disappointing that we were unable to win it. Still…
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
This was a wonderful book, that I’ve been looking forward to since it came out in hardback last year. I was a bit uncertain when I realised that the author, Brenda Maddox, publishes a new book every couple of years (her biog of Maggie Thatcher has just been published), but I needn’t have worried. Next…
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The Aftermath of Iraq
I simply don’t understand why it’s happening. I can understand a good deal of the looting of public buildings, palaces and the like. By why was the National Museum destroyed. Every so often I think about the works that were lost for all time in Library of Alexandria. Somehow the destruction of libraries and museums…
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Harry Bowie
And another small piece of news is the fact that I have a new nephew! Bobby and particularly Becky have just had a new baby. He was born last Wednesday at 3 something in the afternoon. He’s 7lb 13.5oz and 58cm long at birth. I went down to see him on Saturday, when poor Becky…
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Jael and Andrew
The majority of the 150+ photos I took are now available online at www.jaelandandrew.co.uk
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More DNA
Lots of DNA news happening at the moment. As I said, I’ve just started the Rosalind Franklin biography, someone I’ve been interested in ever since I saw Life Story back in 1987. There’s also the small fact that it’s the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the makeup of DNA. The full model has just…
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Spies
I don’t think that before reading Michael Frayn’s previous novel, Headlong, I’d read any of his work. I’ve certainly seen some of his plays – most notably Copenhagen about the meeting of Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen during the Second World War. I taped it not too long ago, when it was shown on BBC4.…
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After The Quake
Another Murakami book, and very entertaining like the others I’ve read. (I have a couple more awaiting my delectation, and it’s interesting to note that Vintage are reissuing the whole series currently in a new style of jackets following parent company Random House’s takeover of Harvill last year). After The Quake is a series of…
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Bagdhad “Falls”
So Baghdad has “fallen”. We got the no doubt iconic image of Saddam’s statue being torn down (in fact it made fascinating viewing as the TV news channels covered it all afternoon). There is still the question of where Saddam is. I can see him being on the run for quite some time. I can…
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Henning Mankell
He has a new book out… [Update #1] Well I popped into Enfield earlier, bad back notwithstanding, and Ottakers were the only shop to have it. Sadly the RRP is 14.99 and that’s a bit steep for me just now. WH Smiths and El Cheapo bookshop both have the recently published popular paperback version of…
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A Season With Verona
I’ve been wanting to read this since it came out last year, so the release of it in paperback meant I could get around to it. Now while I do idly follow Serie A (well done to Eurosport for showing it once more), I must admit that I didn’t know what would be the outcome…
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Rolling News with Nothing to Report
This article in today’s G2 in The Guardian provides a pretty accurate overview of the live TV news coverage of the war to date. Sadly the online version is missing the fabulous printed cover of G2.
Hadrian’s Wall
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