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A Window on the World: June 2013
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Friday, 7 June 2013. Fun for all the family? I don't know how they have the nerve! The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'. BBC-1, TX: 14/12/1988 - 04/01/1989). It's always been a part of me, for as long as I can remember, really. I enjoyed Star Trek Into Darkness. Unlike i...
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A Window on the World: July 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Sunday, 17 July 2011. Coronation Street (ITV1, 04/07/2011). Where better to start than with the longest-running British soap opera, set in the bizarre netherworld of Weatherfield. For example.' ( Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class. Verso, 2011, p.132).
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A Window on the World: April 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Thursday, 21 April 2011. Play for Today #003: The Lie. TX: 29/10/1970 (dir. Alan Bridges, w. Ingmar Bergman, trans. Paul Britten Austin). We have to be able to lie to live together.". And - for me, more affectingly - The Entertainer. 23/10/1970, p.15). 23/10/1970)...
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A Window on the World: January 2014
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Wednesday, 22 January 2014. Pissing in Duchamp's Urinal: Arts Television in the Early Nineties. TX: Channel 4, 13/05/1992. The South Bank Show. TX: ITV, 05/01/1992. Paul Morley to Brian Eno: "You're good at lying aren't you? Lynne Truss attacked the 'stream of gabble...
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A Window on the World: March 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. 10 O'Clock Live (Channel 4, 24/03/2011). The problem for me is not that it is left-wing - which it is, in a lukewarm Guardianista. Manner - but that it is all so predictable. Brooker's bits are very much News Wipe. Lauren Laverne is okay, ac...
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Tim Worthington's Newsround: July 2015
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Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. Somewhere between Jennifer Eccles and King Midas In Reverse. Top Of The Box. Nothing's Gonna Change My World: The Ten Least Effective Protest Songs. You can be so arch and elliptical that nobody actually realises you were trying to make a point in the first place. And then you can just miss your target altogether. Here are ten songs that, with the best will in the world, are hardly likely to find themselves feted as a lost call to arms. Back To The Planet 'Teenage Turtles'.
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You Can't Do That On TV Anymore: June 2011
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Friday, 17 June 2011. We Stand at the Cross-a-roads/Which Way Do We Turn? I've never been all that bothered about the pre-watershed suburban Greek tragedy stylings of the programme proper, but I do have an abiding fascination with Tony Hatch's theme tune from Crossroads. Harmlessly banal and unsettlingly wrong at the same time, it is, I'm convinced, and Picture Box. Half Man Half Biscuit's Drugs Flies by When I'm a Driver of a Drugs, and all manner of acid house novelties featuring Richard Easter in an a...
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You Can't Do That On TV Anymore: November 2011
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Monday, 21 November 2011. There's something simultaneously delightful and maddening about investigating old TV programmes you've never seen. Finding copious evidence that there's so much more to TV's. The death of Shelagh Delaney got me thinking again about just such a buried nugget. In early 1976 the Beeb. As was their wonderfully instinctive wont back then, commissioned Delaney to write. well, something. Whatever she fancied. She came back with The House That Jack Built. Long-suffering wife in Big Deal.
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Queen Margot: Suze Rotolo
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Wednesday, 8 June 2011. On my other blog, Heroine Addict, I remember Suze Rotolo. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Suzy has been a freelance journalist for twelve years. She's also a novelist and editor. View my complete profile. Everett True's Collapse Board. My other blog on famous women. There was an error in this gadget. Friends of Queen Margot. Left and to the Back. Roaring 60s - We Love The Pirates/ I'm Leaving Town. I don't need a reason why. Call that a beard? Keep Left, No Right. BY DAVID ROL...
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Queen Margot: July 2010
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010. How often do you stay in a hotel and there's only one option on the menu? I have to say, in my adult life, I don't think I've come across this. But then, I haven't eaten out in rural Ireland before. I know that's hypocritical, because I'll happily eat it. It was a spectacular house - a mansion with dark oak panels and tiger skins adorning the walls of the main staircase. There was a tremendously handsome and friendly 'laird' (for want of a better term! Sunday, 18 July 2010. It's be...
