There we go then, I've managed to go Monday to Friday with a lowculture article every day of the week - I think rad's planning some for the weekend and next week so hopefully it won't all suddenly go quiet again. I put Midsummer at #2 in my top ten shows of last year, and tonight an abridged version appears on Radio 4 so if you read my theatre ( Read more... )

Last year I saw, and enjoyed, the play Party. This year, Tom Basden's expanded it into a Radio 4 sitcom which, if it's anything like the original, will be worth a listen. So here's a quick lowculture preview from me; and yes, I've used the same promo photo I did last year when I previewed the stage version. Well I googled and they seem to be ( Read more... )

Well I was planning to space out my blog posts a bit more today instead of three in a row but there you go... Twice this week I've done lowculture previews and both times LiveJournal has crashed at the time I would have linked to them, so they're actually now both out of date. But they're for BBC shows so there's still iPlayer if you fancy any of ( Read more... )

Another lowculture post and this time I'm previewing a radio show for a change: My Teenage Diary, which this week features as its guest Only Connect host Victoria Coren: A page in your diary, babe.

A bit of a Friday post/dream post combo this week, and a bit of Twitter thrown in because the big exciting thing at the moment is the latest celeb to start tweeting. And he took his time, I did think he'd have been on there much earlier. But at last @russelltovey is on Twitter. And this is how he chose to prove it was the real him:


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