I owe posts on a couple of things, but I break my long silence to commend the new Saint Etienne album, Home Counties, to you ( Read more... )

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When more of you have read it I will be asking a couple of questions.

Mainly FAOjinty and cleanskies I suspect, an exhibition of zines at the Barbican apparently, https://www.barbican.org.uk/library/event-detail.asp?ID=19990

You may recall me mentioning this film ( Read more... )

As you know, professor, Channel 4 have bought the rights to various TV series from round the world and subtitled them and shoved them up on E4. Some they have shown on TV e g Deutschland 83 which I have mentioned before ( Read more... )

1. Adverts for USA Today ( Read more... )

I have discovered, through the medium of YouTube, that the Channel 4 News theme is a bit of library music called Best Endeavours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFeSUmrdCHk by Alan Hawkshaw. If there were a theme that I thought was lovingly written for the particular ( Read more... )

"In the kingdom of the blind ( Read more... )

Now that one can download programmes on the iPlayer I commend to you Huw Stephens's BBC Introducing programme on BBC Radio Cymru. It can be sometimes slightly hard to track down, or maybe I am doing something wrong, but at the moment they seem to be calling it C2 - if you search for Huw Stephens it doesn't appear. The evening music shows appear to ( Read more... )