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Alan Bennett on TV: nostalgia laced with insight and subversion …
12 May 2009 – 4:00 pm
Nice historical round-up of Bennet's TV appearances. – Alan Bennett on TV: nostalgia laced with insight and subversion ….
Straight 8, super 8, gr8
3 March 2009 – 2:11 pm
"Entries are now open for this year’s Straight 8 competition. For those of you not in the know, Straight 8 invites filmmakers to make a film on a single cartridge of super 8 film and enter it undeveloped and unedited to the competition (with an original soundtrack). Then you just sit back and wait to [...]
Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's posterous
26 February 2009 – 12:02 am
"love the fact that "good meeting" is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying "er"." I did have a good meeting with Mr Hickman the other day, too. – Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon [...]
The miner and the copper
24 February 2009 – 1:02 pm
Great piece of writing, about t one of the abiding images of the 1984 miners strike – "Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer. But what happened to the two protagonists?". There's also a bit about it on Inside Out, BBC1, 7.30pm 24/2 in Yorkshire, if it [...]
Bad Science needs help, or at least link love
6 February 2009 – 1:07 pm
Ben Goldacre has had a nastygram from LBC 97.3 and “Global Radio” over posting audio of what he describes as "Jeni Barnett’s MMR scaremongering". If you're in a position to help, it would be appreciated. – Bad Science needs help, or at least link love.
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