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When I Arrived In The UK
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London.
No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life;
for there is in London all that life can afford."~ Samuel Johnson in 1777 ( Read more... ) -
BBC Four - Storyville: India's Daughter [60m]
The documentary banned in India. If this video is removed then I will try and replace it with one that works.
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No fireworks for Pakistan this time either
A cheeky advert by India's World Cup broadcaster.
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State-sponsored gambling for a good cause: Education
"Lottery commercials are incredibly seductive and they're also everywhere. States spend half a billion on them every year and the reason they do that, is [that] the lottery is a massive moneymaker for them. Last year alone, lottery sales totalled about $68 billion. That's more than Americans spent last year on movie tickets, music, porn, the NFL, ( Read more... ) -
In praise of... the wireless (medium)
I've just discovered the WRN Broadcast radio station. It should act as a good counterweight to the BBC World Service, which I've been listening to a lot more often than Radio 4 the past few months. I grew up on the World Service in Oman, and I listened to it while I was at uni in Canada, but I substituted it with Radio 4 and 5 live when I moved ( Read more... ) -
Sir David Frost RIP (7 April 1939 - 1 September 2013)
I watched this video for the first time a few days ago and it inspired me to make an entry about the interviewee, Enoch Powell. Little did I know that I'd be posting it here tonight because of the interviewer, Sir David Frost. At the moment I read the news on Sunday morning via a tweet, I felt numb and disoriented. Only a few hours earlier I had ( Read more... )
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