Tag Archives: BBC
links for 2007-12-07: string vests, punch bags, robot violinist, henge tunneling, lyrical terrorist
eBay Seller: crystal passion dezigns ltd: Men’s Clothing, Men’s Accessories items on eBay.co.uk String vests not becoming historical garb, despite the Guardian’s daft story. I do not own a string vest, alas. (tags: string-vest ebay BBC daft) Store withdraws man-shaped … more…
links for 2007-11-22: Adam Curtis interview
Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register Andrew Orlowski interviews Adam Curtis. (via LinkMachineGo) (tags: BBC blogs documentary politics sociology tv)
links for 2007-11-05: Anomalist, BBC1 Controller
THE ANOMALIST A journal of anomalous phenomena. No RSS feed, which is pretty anomalous all by itself. (via Post Human Blues, I think…) (tags: paranormal weird news unexplained forteana) What price Putin or Murdoch as the next controller of BBC1? … more…
The Singing Ringing Tree
Rather to my surprise — seeing this for the first time since 1964, when I was five years old — The Singing Ringing Tree (1957) managed to be almost as weird as I remembered it. The highlights reel you see … more…
Haute Lapsang: Organic Bohea Lapsang Supreme (Wuyi Bohea)
BBC Radio 4′s The Food Programme today about the vertiginous world of Chinese tea, in which my own childish fondness for Lapsang Souchong is held up as though it were ketchup, as a cartooonish mockery of the Real Stuff – … more…
Life in the Googleplex Photo Essay
It looks as though life at the Mountain View campus is pretty groovy altogether, judging from this TIME: Life in the Googleplex Photo Essay. Amused to see that staffers’ dogs (but not cats) may be brought to work. When I … more…
Delia Derbyshire
If I had picked up the TV guide about 90 minutes earlier, I would have been in time to stick a tape into the machine and record today’s Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4, which is called “Blue Veils and … more…
“They could take the pieces indoors and fit them together”
Sarah came home today with a copy of The Complete Clangers Series 1, among other fine things. Two hours of bliss, with a charming synchronicity thrown in. The case gave an address for an official Clangers site, which is kind … more…
Doctor Who resurrected
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Lost Doctor Who show revived The Doctor Who episode originally written in 1979 by Douglas Adams and whose production was halted by industrial action, has been remade for webcast by BBCi … more…