January 2012
6 posts
“BBC Sport and the England and Wales Cricket Board have agreed a new six-year...”
– New six-year cricket deal for BBC radio : Radio Today
Watch(via BBC - BBC Radio 1 Programmes - David Hooper’s Disgusting Electronica, Out and about at Felchford 2010, Professor Brian Cox explains N-Dubz)
Watch BBC Sound of 2012
This is the Red Button film Rho and Tom stayed up most of the night making.
Watch(via Gary Oldman yells Call of Duty commands at Conan O’Brien | The Verge)
December 2011
5 posts
“Unlike many of the others, though, Faulkner liked to drink while he was writing....”
– Drinking with William Faulkner | Open Culture
“EARLY in Dee Rees’s film “Pariah” it journeys into a Brooklyn strip club where...”
– ‘Pariah’ Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. - NYTimes.com
“In 2002 John Osborne won a competition on John Peel’s Radio 1 show. His...”
– John Peel’s Shed | Future Radio 107.8FM
BBC - Editorial Guidelines - Guidance: Social... →
The very useful BBC guidlines on social media. Do any other organisations bother writing them or do they just use these?
“The myth of Internet televisions by Ian Betteridge on December 10, 2011 El...”
– Technovia — Ian Betteridge on Macs, mobiles, and technology
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
Watch(via Steve Bell on Boris Johnson at the Conservative conference 2011: ‘a big, bumptious Tory git’ - video | World news | guardian.co.uk)
“Radio 4 protected in BBC cuts The BBC is to protect high-quality output such as...”
– Radio 4 protected in BBC cuts - Telegraph
September 2011
2 posts
J. S. BACH: Goldberg Variations : Wanda Landowska,... →
The great Wanda Landowska playing what for many is the most significant recording of BWV 988. Like I know what I’m talking about…
August 2011
12 posts
“@scarthomas: ‘Samantha was very disappointed to find he only had a...”
– Twitter / @sambrightstar: @scarthomas: ‘Samantha wa …
“The musical explores the theme of racial prejudice in several ways. Nellie...”
– South Pacific (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“It wasn’t just Tebbit who used strategic Ridley Scott sentimentality to summon,...”
– Iain Sinclair · The Raging Peloton: Boris Bikes · LRB 20 January 2011
“There was a scramble among the West Indies team for stumps as spectators rushed...”
– Those two little pals of mine … | Regulars | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
“One Whitehall toiler tells Mandrake, however, that David Cameron made no secret...”
– Phone hacking: David Cameron’s ‘love letters’ to Rebekah Brooks - Telegraph
“Just heard a conversation on #TheArchers about the benefits of designing for...”
– Twitter / @josiesaw: Just heard a conversation …
Creating A Vignette in Potatoshop: Tutorial →
Easy to follow, good control over shape and darkness of the vignette. Perfect for a doofus like me.
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
4 posts
Police invent a word for the false arrest of a... →
“…and the photographer was de-arrested and subsequently released.”
The Men with the Ear of the President: Radio...
You’ve got three days left to download this cracking radio documentary ——» R4Doc: The Men with the Ear of the President “Who advises the most powerful man in the world and what do they tell him? Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s former Chief of Staff, speaks to key advisors to the American President including Karl Rove, the man described as George W. Bush’s...
May 2011
12 posts
“My name is Barack Obama of the Moneygall Obamas,” the U.S. president told a...”
– Obama, wife drink Guinness ‘Stout’ in Ireland
UbuWeb Sound: History of Electronic /... →
Bombtastic.
R4 listen again: Falling for Francoise →
In ‘Falling for Francoise’, he [John Andrew] revisits Paris and the streets in which he first lost his heart and he talks to others who’ve suffered the same fate…
“Did anyone else think WATO rather than Watteau on Start the Week this morning??...”
– Twitter / @Heather D: Did anyone else think WATO …
“Sir Lattimore Brown Sir Lattimore Brown, who has died aged 79, was perhaps the...”
– Sir Lattimore Brown - Telegraph
Falling for Francoise: Falling Tree Productions →
On R4 in two weeks: sounds perfect for middle-aged men like me.
“But Chris Bryant, a Labour MP who has led a campaign for primary school pupils...”
– Nadine Dorries: Teenage girls should be taught how to say no to sex | Politics | guardian.co.uk
“RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has...”
– Twitter / @Sohaib Athar: RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bi …
Melanzane parmigiana recipe: BBC Good Food →
Sort of making this. Sort of? I’ve added some aspagarus in the layers which I did before and it was lovely. Also some balsamic in the salsa and a small onion. Also no cinammon stick and I don’t cook the basil, just chop it into the layers with black pepper. OK, so not that similar to the recipe.
“You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal. Every year,...”
– The secret life of libraries | Books | The Observer
April 2011
4 posts
Me And My Big Mouth: Dear Seb Coe, →
Dear Seb Coe, I have just applied for London 2012 tickets. It was one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life, and this is coming from a man who has had a colonoscopy.
Twitter: Fucking Olympic ticket fuc ... →
Fucking Olympic ticket fucks. Seb Coe can fuck off. Fucking have to have visa, might get charged, might not get tickets FUCK OFF.
Reclaimed water helps Monterey Road community... →
This is my friend from college. A film-maker turned landscape architect.
BBC - Desert Island Discs - Home →
Find every castaway from 1942 to the present. Listen to more than 500 programmes.
March 2011
9 posts
“Night, by Francesca Panetta, explores the storied promise of nighttime in one of...”
– The Unobserved