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More from the scurrilous back passages of Wikipedia, this time from Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac's page: "Annie's brother Davey MacManu...

It seems to be a long-standing BBC rule that great occasions can only be entrusted to a Dimbleby. However, between the untimely demise of Pa...

As a stickler for accuracy, I should deplore anyone who puts false information on Wikipedia deliberately. Sometimes, however, it's jus...

Going through some assorted DVD-Rs the other day, I found the collection of clips that I prepared to illustrate a talk that I gave at Glasgo...

One of the great delights of watching old light entertainment programmes for me is when the camera pans across the orchestra. I'm enough...

Yesterday morning, I had the very strange experience of being 130 miles from home, watching the town where I live on the television. I was w...

In Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam , one of the characters is a high-flying businessman, always leaving his secretary a string of telep...

Depending on your generation, the term 'old-school comedian' can be either a terrible insult or a great compliment to a gagsmith. Wh...

Sticking with the subject of the British music scene's unsung heroes, I was inspired by this posting on Let's Look Sideways to dig...

Eating and reading are two of the great pleasures of my life. Should I, therefore, have been quite so surprised to open an infrequently-cons...

Once upon a long ago, it was acceptable for Anthony Powell to assert that "books do furnish a room". Nowadays, though, he'd pr...

When I was young, a wise man told me to look up whenever I walked anywhere. That way, I'd see and appreciate more of architecture than a...

To begin with, let me just say that I like Al Murray. I think that the Pub Landlord is a superb character, and a wonderful comic grotesque. ...

For years now, I've looked at Chaz Jankel's composing credit on Quincy Jones' 'Ai No Corrida', and assumed that the Bloc...

Radio 2 seems hell-bent on sending my blood pressure through the ceiling at the moment. The last item on the 9 o'clock news concerned th...

At the risk of turning this into the 'Save BBC Television Centre' blog, here's another slice of archive greatness. Called 'B...

On the subject of BBC Television Centre, I was moved to dig this wee delight out of the ganderbag and share it with a wider audience. From t...

Yesterday, on the train back home after a weekend on the other side of the country, I caught the end of Jeremy Vine on Radio 2, discussing a...

Despite fairly fundamental issues with blogging, and the extreme smugness of some bloggers, I've observed rather splendid little communi...