Category: television
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A Public Broadcaster
My in-tray is filled with diatribes and petition sites calling for the BBC to be ‘saved’. Polar arguments are fought online; the one saying we must keep the licence fee and the other saying the BBC must be licence free. In the middle (if, frankly, the middle is where Auntie sits any more) the BBC…
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Reflections on people I never met
It’s not often I’m moved to mention folk who’ve journeyed on, who I didn’t ever meet or know at all. However, this week I’ve noticed two who’ve touched me in different ways, and I’d just like to mention their names – as much for myself as for any other reason. In writing about them I’m…
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Being of a certain age…
It’s not often that television steals away my very breath. Perhaps I’ve become too cynical. But tonight, after watching the first episode of Dr Who, series (gasp!) 28, which in itself was mostly brilliant and set the new Doctor into the storyline very well, I went over to BBC Three for the background story. Spoilers…
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Celtic relief!
Oh, the slight discomfort as the opening credits ran. Allowing the media to take soundbites (video-nibbles?) of ones life is to allow them free use of those snippets in or out of context. Ridicule and parody are all available to the producer once the team of camera-, sound- and light-men have got what they came…
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A day of challenges.
On arriving at site I found the network down and the switch dead, so called in to the helldesk.
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“The Root of All Evil”
Did you see Richard Dawkins on Channel 4 last night? He set out his stall as an avowed atheist and argued that all war and hurt in the world can be laid at the door of religion. Not entirely irrational of course, but then he set out to find the most fundamental examples of three…
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