The Politics Show Midlands
One of the lovely things about the iPlayer is the access you get to all of the BBC’s regional programmes. It may mean nothing to you, but I grew quite misty-eyed watching the good people of the Midlands opinionating almost as though they were as good as Southerners or something. (I’M JOKING! I’M MAKING A [...]
Last Orders
I was struggling to know what to say about this. Then I saw that David Hepworth had said it all for me. Have a look at Mr Hepworth’s words, and have a look at the programme. Only telly could do this.
The Sky At Night
I can imagine Watchification turning into a bit of a BBC4 niche, so it’s with great pleasure that we present a programme from that home of the mainstream – BBC 1. Though admittedly it’s The Sky At Night, a monthly programme that struggles to get on before midnight. What a lovely piece of telly though, [...]
Scottish Curling Championships: 2008
It’s easy to forget what an abstract activity sport is. Why, exactly, are people doing this or that thing? Why are they kicking that? Jumping that? Walking that particular way? But we don’t notice the oddness because we see it all the time. And then something like curling comes along and we’re confronted with the [...]
Time Shift: Whatever Happened To Radio 2?
For me, it’s listening to Waggoner’s Walk in the back of Adrian’s Mum’s Mini Clubman on the way to swimming. That’s Radio 2. All this Paul Morley and Jonathon Ross is all very well, but Humph, Desmond Carrington, Mike Harding, “The Organist Entertains” and “Listen To The Band” are what Radio 2 is for.
