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BBC Sport and the England and Wales Cricket Board have agreed a new six-year deal for radio coverage, meaning ball-by-ball commentaries will run until at least 2019. The agreement means live and exclusive coverage for the BBC of two home Ashes series in 2015 and 2019 as well as all England’s home Test, One-Day International and T20 series fixtures. The current deal with the BBC is due to expire at the end of the 2013 season. Matches are broadcast on Radio 4′s long wave frequencies as well as BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra under the ‘Test Match Special’ branding.
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“Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it,” the poem reads, with Jay-Z going on to promise that “the degradation has passed” for all women, as it is a gender that now includes his daughter. Because it is a poem, Jay-Z does not address how he plans to phase out the word “bitch” from his repertoire—for example, what he will use to rhyme with “rich,” or whether the refrains of songs such as “99 Problems” will have to be retroactively changed to something such as “I’ve got 99 problems, but a troublesome girl who is nevertheless still some father’s daughter ain’t one,” and other humorously incongruous juxtapositions. (via Jay-Z will no longer use the word “bitch” now that he has a daughter | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club)
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As a youngster, I spent years wondering why in A View To A Kill James Bond was boning a man. Grace Jones played the androgynous villainess ‘May Day’, whom according to the writers was ‘the product of a Nazi genetic breeding experiment which gave children great strength and intelligence at the expense of making them psychopathic’. Assuming that engineering a race of angry, superhuman black people was top of the Nazi agenda, it was as plausible a backstory for unearthly diva Jones as any other. (via Grace Jones - Hurricane Dub / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound)
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This is the Red Button film Rho and Tom stayed up most of the night making.
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Unlike many of the others, though, Faulkner liked to drink while he was writing. In 1937 his French translator, Maurice Edgar Coindreau, was trying to decipher one of Faulkner’s idiosyncratically baroque sentences. He showed the passage to the writer, who puzzled over it for a moment and then broke out laughing. “I have absolutely no idea of what I meant,” Faulkner told Coindreau. “You see, I usually write at night. I always keep my whiskey within reach; so many ideas that I can’t remember in the morning pop into my head.
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EARLY in Dee Rees’s film “Pariah” it journeys into a Brooklyn strip club where scantily clad young black women gyrate to a sexy, foul-mouthed rap song. Lascivious customers leer, toss money and revel in their own unbridled lust. It is a scene that could have been in any of “the hood movies” that once proliferated or even a Tyler Perry melodrama in which Christian values would be affirmed after this bit of titillation.
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Jenny Baptiste/Focus Features Dee Rees, the director of “Pariah.” But in “Pariah” the gaze of desire doesn’t emanate from predatory males but A.G.’s, that is aggressive lesbians, who, in a safe space where they enjoy the fellowship of peers, can be true to themselves. Other films have depicted this particular black alternative life (as did a couple of memorable characters in HBO’s masterly series “The Wire”), but no film made by a black lesbian about being a black lesbian has ever received the kind of attention showered on Ms. Rees’s film.Source:
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In 2002 John Osborne won a competition on John Peel’s Radio 1 show. His prize was a box of 150 records from John Peel’s own collection. John Peel’s Shed is a show featuring the best tracks from those records. The series starts on Sunday 2nd May at 9 pm on Future Radio and podcasts of the show will be available here after each show has aired.
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BBC - Editorial Guidelines - Guidance: Social Networking, Microblogs and other Third Party Websites: BBC Use - Guidance in Full
The very useful BBC guidlines on social media. Do any other organisations bother writing them or do they just use these?
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The myth of Internet televisions by Ian Betteridge on December 10, 2011 El Drunko Angryo: This here is precisely why I say that the punditards pontificating about how Apple needs to “fix” television have no fucking clue how the other 99% actually use the fucking thing. The last thing most people want when sitting down to watch the boob tube is a bunch of googaws shitting up the sides of the screen and distracting from the content. Most people are unhappy with the crap the networks already litter the screen with. Fuck, imagine trying to watch a game on ESPN on one of these monstrosities. It would be like a Russian Nesting Doll of pointless shit surrounding the action. Fuck, if you want a secondary screen to pull info up on while you’re watching shit, Apple’s got you covered hombre. The whole notion of “internet on a TV” proceeds from the utterly failed idea that what people want is more stuff on the big screen. Only people who live on their own could think this. Suppose I’m watching TV with someone and they want to chat to their friends on Facebook about it, while I (who know that Facebook is Satan) want to Tweet. Who gets to put what on screen? People pick up and use second screens because it allows them to do something private and personal while still watching TV socially in a room. Putting the internet stuff on the big screen breaks that.
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A door creaks, footsteps echo, someone’s breathing - and we are terrified. But why? Sean Street investigates the psychology of fear, so potently sensitive to sound. He hears from musician and writer David Toop and film-maker Chu-Li Shrewring how sounds trigger fear and the way this inspires them. The neuro-scientist Sophie Scott explains how our brains process terror. (via BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The Sound of Fear)
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