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Category Archives: TV & Radio
More podcasts from the man and the desk
Now I am back in the saddle with regular contributions to CNIRadio you can catch up with my ramblings at One Man & His Desk – The Podcast In the latest recording you can find out about the Gyroscopic Self … Continue reading
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Masterful thinking – so full of surprises
Seldom do I ask people to watch/listen to things on the internet (knowing that I don’t want too many reciprocal demands) but I can’t help myself here. This is my favourite TED presentation to date: http://vurl.it/captcha (thanks to Keith Edmunds … Continue reading
Mad rush and madness at MacFest 09
The Ravenstonedale Music Festival, officially titled MacFest 09 (MAC = Mostly Acoustic Cumbria) was blessed with beautiful weather, great music and a brilliant atmosphere, but for yours truly it got a bit chaotic what with the craft stall, photography and … Continue reading
John Cage; non-intention in the afterlife
As an ex-scholar of John Cage’s work I was pleased to discover a piece which I’d previously not heard of or read about called “As slow as possible” and dubbed ‘The slowest and longest piece of music in the world’. … Continue reading
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Synchronised Kettle Boiling (topical – see Olympics)
Another astounding (and very worrying) focus of “Britain from above” was the chap sitting at a console waiting for “Eastenders” to finish so that he could manage the electricity surge (and high demand) placed on the national grid by us … Continue reading
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Blistering BT
Just one of the amazing facts from Episode one of the excellent “Britain From Above” presented by Jeremy Vine (another credit to the outstanding output of the BBC): British Telecom shifts 2 million megabytes of data per hour, equivalent to … Continue reading
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A day of mourning(ton crescent)
So farewell Humph. I never thought you’d leave this world and now of course I might never know the truth about Mornington Crescent. I had planned to see a recording of the show but had to do instead with ‘Just … Continue reading
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Satellite – the bit Arthur C. Clarke didn’t predict
My Sky system packed up last night and I spend a fair amount of time and a good deal of money on the 08702 number in the queue before finally speaking to a person and going throught the diagnostics, all … Continue reading
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Your having a laugh
You should be if you go to BBC Radio 4 – listen again and select “Count Arthur Strong”. Very funny to me at least.
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Something for the weekend
Johann Johannsson’s “Ibm 1401, A User’s Manual” is one example of the sort of non-mainstream music juxtaposed with classical greats in the excellent “chill with chill” radio programme on Classic FM. The show runs from midnight until four am on … Continue reading
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