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18 SeptemberMEDIA, WOMAN’S HOUR, DIVERSITY
NEXT WEEK In a shocking series of articles Prof Ted Peasley reveals that in spite of weeks of developments in the Black Lives Matter movement some editions of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour are still running items which completely fail to address BAME and other diversity issues and concerns. ‘It defies belief that 
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COMMENT 9 September 2020WORLD TRADE CENTRE, TERRORISM, IRA
- The Upside of 9/11
TOMORROW: The destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001 had one beneficial result. The experience of the US itself being a target of terrorism had a marked effect in reducing the American people’s generous funding of the IRA’s campaign of killing, maiming and mutilating UK citizens. Professor Adrian Craven of the Harland Institute examines a little-discussed truth.
THE VIEW FROM MRAK30 September 2020
‘I’m just popping out to the hospitality sector’
Fighting is what happens when people carry on playing after you have taken away the ball
MEDIA
20 September 2020bbc, media bias, TIM DAVIEIs the BBC changing? Is it going through a bit of a pivot not in a showy way. Is it one’s imagination or are Maitlis, Robinson, Carney & Company becoming a bit more respectful in their treatment of Tory politicians? And tougher on Labour? Cynics suggest that this might have something to do with the arrival of a new man at the top. But what do YOU think?
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COMMENT
2 September 2020
WARFARE, SOCIETY
‘Unless we can defeat the Corona Virus we may have to fight the next war behind closed doors.’
TOMORROW Dr Oskar Heim examines ‘an existential threat to the very future of armed conflict’.
FOREIGN
8 September 2020riot police, sexual issues
Those Belarus bobbies – don’t you just love them?
‘This is even more fun than beating the wife!’
TV & RADIO
4 September 2020
ENTERTAINMENT, DANCE, TELEVISION
‘A joyful Christmas feast of comic dance . . . physical comedy at its finest’
Travolta and Thurman in Pulp Fiction
Sonny DeVille is to present Dancing for Laughs, a 90 minute TV special to be aired this Christmas. Featuring classic recordings of the great comic dances from stage and screen. It includes Fred Astaire’s Texan in Daddy Longlegs, Mr Pastry’s (Richard Hearn) rendering of The Lancers, and such stars as Laurel and Hardy, Wilson, Betty and Kepple, Danny Kay, Morecambe and Wise, and the Two Ronnie’s. Footage
Rich man’s Frug from Sweet Charity
will include Bob Fosse’s Rich Man’s Frug and Who gets the pain when they do the mambo, Ballet Rambert’s Hush and Frederick Ashton’s Tweedledum and Tweedledee, extraordinary film of some East Berliners’ savage portrayal of Western rock and roll; and Uma Thurman and
Mr Pastry dances The Lancers
John Travolta in their legendary dance sequence from Pulp Fiction. Dance companies represented range from Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, to Les Ballet Trockaderos de Monte Carlo and Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertertal.
High Harm? That’s what happens to nice people when they mistakenly antagonise a powerful crime boss
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FOOD & WINE 12 September 2020
COOKERY, MAIN COURSELAMB LOLLIPOPS
Although Jerry grumbles abut missing his golf, we always try and spend at least a week of the summer with our dear friends Julian and Stamos at their heavenly home on the picture-postcard island of Sciatica in the Cyclades. Tradition has it that Constantia, their darling treasure of a cook, always serves this dish on our first night. jerry, bless him, says it looks like lollipops.
Fry small pieces of lamb in garlic, lemon juice, seasoning and thyme. Thread on to wooden kebab sticks. Serve on flat white plates accompanied by Syrtaki played by the Theodorakis Ensemble. Heaven! Jerry says it almost makes up for missing out on his golf! (Taken from Jacaranda Finch’s High Cooking, the No-nonsense Book of Haute Cuisine Ravelin Books £7.99)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
12 September 2020ATTENBOROUGH, ACTIVISM, NATIONAL TREASURE, RABBLE-ROUSER, ‘Sir David Attenborough appears to have become a sort of Reverend Al Sharpton of the world’s flora and fauna.’
Percy Urquart in thehandcart.com
COMMENT
15 August 2020
RADIO 4, TODAY
When will the Today Programme catch up with catch up?
Now that the pack has been shuffled at Radio 4’s Today programme (writes media reporter Brenda Styles) perhaps its managers will get acquainted with the changing pattern of audience listening habits. The flagship programme, which occupies seventeen hours of the station’s schedule every week, is a key media platform and attracts some of the most significant interviewees.
Even the good material is wasted
But given that most people are getting ready or travelling to work in the morning it is impossible to hear all of the three hour programme. Yet it is also almost impossible to know what you have missed or to find an item unless you have the precise time of its transmission. Without that you have to listen to the whole programme or click at intervals along the timeline which is like finding a passage of music on a vinyl LP when the .
HEALTH
August 2020
STATISTICS, CASUALTIES
by MALOWSKI
Prof Glyn Owen
True freedom is working for somebody else
Reggie Peplow
Kornie Lovland
Prof Glyn Owen
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quote of the day
20 August 2020
TRUMP, US ELECTION
‘The knuckle-dragging foot soldier in Trump’s rag-tag army possesses something much more dangerous than a gun. He has a vote.’
Paul Brinker, New Hampshire Councillor
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12 August 2020WEB design, windows 10
‘I need something that was designed for an idiot like me; not something that was designed by an idiot like me.’
Ray Grosz on Windows 10
‘True freedom is working for somebody else’
Reggie Peplow
NEWS
12 August 2020MEDIA, UNIVERSITIES, PHILOSOPHY
Cracknell: ‘A controversial choice?’
TAMSIN DULUTH interviews philosopher Paul Cracknell who has been named as Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Prejudice in a surprise announcement on
TWEETS FROM HISTORY
8 August 2020ENERGY, CARBON CAPTURE, WONDERWEKOne million, two hundred and forty nine thousand, three hundred and forty six years ago today!
‘They’ve decided to call it ‘fire’.
Tweet dated 3.37pm,Wednesday, 8 August, 1,247,326 BC, found by archaeologists excavating Wonderwerk site in South Africa
The Samurai code in which judo is rooted coincided with the chivalric values espoused by the English gentleman
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