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Blog · August 19, 2026

Same song, different tempo

Same song, different tempo

You wait for ages for a good television music quiz, and then two turn up at once. No sooner has the BBC’s The Hit List returned to our screens, than PopMaster TV also popped back up on More4, kicking off this week with a celebrity special. The two shows are both brilliant, a lot of fun, and test your music knowledge past and present, and I love what very different …

Blog · January 15, 2004

No TV!

No TV!

We've been inspired by educational TV again, this time it was Days That Shook The World on the BBC. So far I have learnt about the plane that came down in Scotland, and also about the Chernobyl disaster. This was before my TV decided to stop working though. Sound is no problem, but there's no picture. I was trying to "watch" Coronation Street yesterday, but it was like trying to …

Blog · January 8, 2004

The weekend

The weekend

Friday was an okay day at work. Saturday, I read a lot of The Economist. Sunday, I discovered all the groovy games at the BBC, which I have much fun playing and more importantly, they work on the Mac. But I don't want to go on about the BBC too much because they lost all my Celebdaq shares just because I forgot my password and needed a new one. Not …

Blog · September 30, 2003

BBC

BBC

Who watched Eastenders? I have to put my two cents in and say that the whole nation would have been watching the episode and not even bothered concentrating on what was happening with Sharon and Little Dennis, when they knew who was going to appear at the end. And could it have been more predictable? "Hello princess" and roll the drums... I've been listening to Radio One a lot recently, …

Blog · February 17, 2003

Getting ahead of myself

Getting ahead of myself

Today, I was driving through Dartmoor and winding around those intriguing roads. Into my head popped an amazing story, and I was visualising it being adapted from the book to television, on the BBC. Of course, the big obstacle is writing it, but at least the dream is there.