Culture Show
Who remembers the Late Show?
I was going to preface this by saying “At the risk of being boring…” but let’s not worry about that and see how it goes. From 1989-1995 on BBC2 weeknights after Newsnight there was a programme called The Late Show and it was magnificent. You want a 40 minute programme about French philosopher Michel Foucault, [...]
Culture Show: Steve McQueen (no, the other one)
At 12′32 you’ll find Turner prize winning artist Steve McQueen talking with Mark “Max Headroom” Kermode about his new work Queen and Country, postage stamps commemorating those who have died in the Iraq conflict. They’re not real stamps but he’s working on getting the Royal Mail to take them on. He also talks about his [...]
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
What I wanted to post here was the quite amazing edition of Classic Albums I saw last night about Jay-Z’s first album Reasonable Doubt, what with it being all topical and everything. But I can’t do that because somebody—most likely the record label’s Senior Vice President for Stupid—has forbidden the BBC from putting the show [...]
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