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Theatre plug: Tea and Tentacles at Zeta Reticuli
This April, not to miss, is the world premiere of my play Tea and Tentacles at Zeta Reticuli, an original sexy science fiction comedy thriller. Because, if we’re honest, there is not nearly enough of...
View ArticleSuffragette – a moment for shame
View image | gettyimages.com The film “Suffragette” is now on general release. It is very much worth watching. I saw it last night. I approached it without knowing what parts of the Suffragette...
View ArticleThe Last Post
View image | gettyimages.com As we approach the end of Armistice Day, it is, perhaps, appropriate to remember the tune most associated with military memorials, The Last Post. The BBC produce some...
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Tim shines in a great format for him
One of the joys of being a parent is that you get introduced to all sorts of TV programmes which your children love to watch. If you miss anything, you also get the chance to watch the same programmes...
View ArticleDavid Bowie – some memories
Embed from Getty Images It’s a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair So the beginning words of “Life on Mars” emerged from a slightly tinny, small record player in the fourth form...
View ArticleIs there a chance that the new Top Gear will be very entertaining but not...
Embed from Getty Images The list of past Top Gear controversies is long. There have been allegations of homophobia and criticism of the mockery of Argentines, Mexicans, Germans and Romanians. I have...
View ArticleLib Dem peer takes part in World War Three
Embed from Getty Images Kishwer Falkner has taken part in a gripping and chillingly realistic BBC Two TV programme. It’s in the “This World” series and entitled “World War Three: Inside the War Room”....
View ArticleA good quote from Margaret Thatcher
Embed from Getty Images BBC 2 are repeating some of Terry Wogan’s programmes at lunch time. They’ve been showing “Terry and Mason’s great food trip”, where our Tel went round Britain with a cabbie. I...
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Test your knowledge and ingenuity – quick quiz about a national institution
As we’re getting relaxed for the holiday season, here’s a quick quiz about a national institution. It’s not politically related but I suspect it’s on a subject dear to many readers’ hearts. Look at the...
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We have a winner of our quiz!
Many congratulations to Catherine Crosland, who correctly guessed that the box pictured on the right is used by the BBC to create the sound of money/glasses of drinks being placed on the bar of “The...
View ArticleThe national treasure that is the British Library – all done in the best...
Embed from Getty Images A few years after broadcasting genius Kenny Everett died, I remember reading that he left his tape collection to the National Sound Archive. This sounded wonderful, but I...
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Meet the Lords – or at least two Lords and one Baroness….
BBC2 started a new series last night called “Meet the Lords”. In the style of last year’s documentary series about the House of Commons, the film crew wondered around the corridors of the House of...
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Public funding for the arts should be cut during a recession, right?
Well, er, no. “America after the fall – Painting in the 1930s” is an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts which breathtakingly displays how public funding for the arts during a depression (let...
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Two sides of Irish history reflected in celebrity family tree
This is about some holiday season viewing which may be of interest to readers – rather than an article trying to make a political point. “Who do you think you are” covers television presenter Emma...
View ArticleA belter of a TV programme on the family history of Noel Clarke
Embed from Getty Images Back in August, I waxed lyrically about the history which is reflected regularly in the BBC programme “Who do you think you are?”. I feel compelled to return to the subject,...
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