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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The people who fail try just as hard

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Henry Worsley's last message is a rare episode in the narrative of human accomplishment. It's not often we get to hear the sound of...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

The Eagles and the only truth about pop music

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The first album by The Eagles in 1972 took a long time to finish because David Geffen, who managed them and was their record company boss, w...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

In praise of Radio 4 Extra and the joy of repeats

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If you're the kind of person who complains about too many repeats on TV, you're watching too much TV. Anything worth repeating was...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016

The difference between "War and Peace" on the telly and "The Archers" on the radio

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  War and Peace debuted on BBC TV the other night in a standard Andrew Davies adaptation. All the characters had to be introduced right at t...
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Saturday, January 02, 2016

Is the movie business just the R&D arm of the toys business?

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In 1989 I interviewed Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the time he was a senior executive at Disney where he was spearheading their move back into an...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

It's been a back to mono Christmas

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I got a Bose ® SoundLink Bluetooth Speaker III  for Christmas, with which I am well pleased. Since my phone is the player most of the time ...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Five things I've enjoyed this year

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

I finally understand Nancy Sinatra's kinky masterpiece

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Reading a novel set in the American Civil War the other day I belatedly realised the significance of the lyric of Nancy Sinatra's ...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Thirty five years ago today pop music stopped being "alternative"

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Thirty-five years ago today I was woken by the news John Lennon had been murdered. It's difficult to think back to that time when he w...
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Sunday, December 06, 2015

How to make the British love you - a guide for show folk

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The Media Show interviews the TV producer Natalka Znak about how come "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" continues to appea...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Boxing: are the BBC part of the hype or part of the coverage?

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I don't follow boxing but couldn't escape knowing there was a big fight last night between Klitschko and Fury. The hype was all over...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Terrorism: what I think

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ISIS will eventually be subdued by some combination of carrot and stick. They won't be the last of the new super bogeymen.   All the ...
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Sunday, November 15, 2015

The music is another good reason to watch Aziz Ansari's "Master Of None"

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Enjoying Aziz Ansari's new Netflix series "Master of None" , which couldn't be more contemporary. The choice of music – ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

"Sir, you need to get back".

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There is an item on the New York Times about a demonstration taking place at the University of Missouri. In the clip a student journalist...
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Sunday, November 08, 2015

Steely Dan: the band you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite

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Now that music's out there in the cloud, rather than over there on your shelf, it's harder than ever to decide what you feel like ...
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Thursday, November 05, 2015

How did anyone survive bonfire night in the 1950s?

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Our house was on an unmade road that finished in a farmer's field. Every year we built a bonfire in that field. For a few Saturday...
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Sunday, November 01, 2015

Past, present and future on the Piccadilly Line

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There were two girls on the tube this afternoon. 17 or 18 years old, I would guess. Sisters, I would hazard. They were both fully occupied...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Want to know what the BBC's real problem is? My son.

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Went to the recording of the Media Show's debate on the future of the BBC, chaired in exemplary fashion by Steve Hewlett. It's here...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The Americans will never understand our sport because they're not pessimists like we are

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American publisher wants to know what I mean by "digging out an away point". Fair cop. It's a book about music after all. Am...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

After almost fifty years of trying I found a Grateful Dead album I really like

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Always preferred the concept of the Grateful Dead to the sound of them. I tried their albums over the years and could never get past the b...
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