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Random Thoughts for 20th February 2013: Richard Briers, Caedmon and Ella Fitzgerald
No comments on Random Thoughts for 20th February 2013: Richard Briers, Caedmon and Ella FitzgeraldThis is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 12th February 2013 and 19th February 2013: The Liberal Democrats are the only fair tax party – Danny Alexander “In government, Labour increased tax on low income households; in government the Lib Dems have led the largest programme of tax cuts for working people for a generation. If…
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Space: 1999 and The Rules of Luton
Here’s a little home town related science fiction oddity. Like many I have fond memories of scifi TV from my childhood. Those series from the 70’s and 80’s that I grew up watching have helped form a cultural backdrop and set of reference points that I have carried with me into adult life. Not least because so many of my friends are involved in Who or other fandom at one level or another. I loved…
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Random Thoughts 9: The Killing and The Hour
There is a bit of a TV theme to this collection of ‘Random Thoughts’. I was pleased to see that BBC4 are repeating ‘The Killing’ (available on iPlayer here) which means that Dectective Sarah Lund and her extraordinary jumpers are back on our screens. This is not the US remake that Channel 4 have been showing, but the original Danish series where the hunt for the killer of a young girl gets mixed up with…
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Review: Michael Cockerell’s ‘The Great Offices of State’
I’ve just finished catching up on, courtesy of iPlayer downloads, the BBC 4 documentary series ‘The Great Offices of State‘ filmed by journalist Michael Cockerell. Unfortunately the series is no longer on iPlayer so you will need to look out for the repeats if you want to watch it. The series consisted of three programmes each looking, as the name suggests, at the three great offices of the British state; the Home Office, the Foreign…
