Russell Davies

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11Dec

Between the Lines – Railways in Fiction and Film

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Only two days left. Watch it. Quick! (Thanks Matt)

12Oct

The Language Of The Universe

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It’s about maths. It’s on the telly. It must be on Watchification.

29Jun

Quincy Jones – The Many Lives of Q

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If there’s a better record than Ai No Corrida I don’t know what it is. And if there’s a more interesting, more varied, more tuneful and groovier musical career than that of Quincy Jones then it’s not been made into a BBC4 documentary. From jazz at the Apollo to producing the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, [...]

06Jun

Alexei Sayle’s Liverpool

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Clever comedians. That’s who you need presenting your television programmes. That whole generation of clever alternative comedians from the 80s turn out to be the perfect people to do telly. They can talk well to camera, they can do a laugh and some pathos and they can compress a lot of meaning into the spaces [...]

29Mar

Sacred Music

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Palestrina sounds like planets. To me anyway. When I think of moving in space it’s never to 2001-type Strauss or Ligeti. Nor to the sucking, clanging sound effects of most scientifically illiterate movies. The grace, the slowness of space sounds, to me, like Palestrina. (It’s probably to do with some BBC2 astronomy programme from the [...]