Mark Lawson Talks To: GF Newman
I’ve loved these programmes, and this one is a great example of how wonderful it is to have undiluted access to an interviewee. GF Newman is a strange fish. A believer of reincarnation with no argument to support it, famous for imposing a vegan regime on film sets, and personally crediting himself as the inspiration [...]
Maestro: Baton Camp
Peter Bazalgette, who runs one of the biggest producers of reality TV in Britain, said not long ago that whinging about reality TV is pointless: “it’s just one of the ways we do things now”. Here’s a good example: a really excellent slice of Reithian factual telly delivered as a gameshow using a reality format. [...]
Britain from Above
Britain from Above ticks all the normal watchification boxes – documentary / cities / helicopters / visualisation / shipping containers / Andrew Marr – and it was an interesting documentary (especially in HD), but what’s really exciting are all the spinoffs, on both TV and the web. In fact, the blistering speed of the main [...]
Horizon: Fermat’s Last Theorem
What a marvelous documentary and what a marvelous crowd of brainy mathematicians. They’re generous and funny and seem to take uncomplicated pleasure in the triumphs of their peers. And they’re just utterly… you know… brainy. I thought I was about half way to understanding what Fermat’s last theorem was until one of the brainy blokes [...]
Mark Lawson talks to Liz Smith
Lawson always seems passionless and dismissive to me but something about his style and the obvious care he puts into these interviews is persuasive. Liz Smith, who is 87 and died in all five of her most recent roles, is charming and funny and really lovable. A fascinating and genuinely revealing interview: at the end [...]
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