Last Choir Standing
Pretty much any choir will choke me up: school, church, gospel, especially coal miners, even the ‘Handbag of Harmonies’ ladies’ choir on The Last Choir Standing. Don’t tell me you’re any different. There’s something awesome about these massed voices: old men and teenagers, black and white, men and women. Something about lots of human voices, [...]
Criminal Justice
Warning: another annoying post about an item that’s just about to expire. I’m four episodes into this five parter that was on Monday to Friday last week on BBC1 and it’s pretty good, starts slow and then picks up. As it was all on in the last seven days all five parts are currently available [...]
Imagine… Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason
Truly excellent documentary about the German director Werner Herzog (who looks and sounds like an older Richard E. Grant playing a quietly crazy German director) that covers his career from the epic films like Fitzcarraldo, working with the insane Klaus Kinski (think intense to the power of 100 and then triple it) through to the [...]
The Lion, the Keeper and the Dealer
I’m torn. Am I pleased that finally the people of Northern Ireland can’t just go out and buy tigers and wolves and cobras and keep them in their sheds? Or am I a bit sad that uniformity now reigns and, 30 years after the rest of Britain introduced wild animals legislation, Northern Ireland has been [...]
Love Soup: Whose God is it Anyway?
I should start by saying that the best comedy on British telly at the moment is toe-curlingly rude secondary school sitcom The Inbetweeners. It’s on Channel 4, though, which means I can’t embed it here. So here’s episode 10 of Love Soup series two instead: also brilliant (and pretty rude too). Love Soup’s quite difficult [...]
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