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Saturday, March 14, 2009

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Being an adult and moderately shameless, I haven't felt embarrassed in a shop for years. I could quite merrily barge into a particularly...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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I knew Kecske Bak was a man of taste and distinction, and his response to yesterday's Nick Lowe posting merely underlines the fact. I r...
Monday, March 09, 2009

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Nearly 15 years of bafflement and anxiety have just come to an end. That's the length of time I've been familiar with 'Love Gets...
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Sunday, March 08, 2009

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My Saturday mornings usually consist of dozing lightly with Brian Matthew on in the background, but yesterday, I was out of the house at 8.3...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

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My word, has it really been three weeks since I last wrote anything here? Seems that way. Maybe I'm a right old grumpydrawers, but I tak...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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When I hear stories of students living at home and still graduating up to their foreheads in debt, I get angry. For me, university was 3 yea...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

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Has the pace of technological development slowed down or have I just become easier to please? Normally, every 4-5 years or so, I get an itch...
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

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Where's my credit card? I have a sudden urge to buy a golliwog. Anyone who takes offence clearly has too much time on their hands.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Doing the authorial self-absorption thing on Amazon, I noticed that one bookseller had a 'collectible' copy of my first book for sal...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

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The BBC is by no means perfect, but it's the best we've got in terms of broadcasting. Radios 2-4 and BBC4 justify the licence fee, I...
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In the course of researching my two books, I've recorded a large number of interviews. Each recording is an irreplaceable document of a ...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

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Reasons to mourn Sir John Mortimer, number 984: "For Rumpole, I thought of Alastair Sim, but he was dead and couldn't take it on ....
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

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Right, let's be proactive and halt the trend of excellent people popping their clogs. Between us, I'm guessing that myself and the r...
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Tony Hart's gone. God's turban and tutu, how many more? In tribute, here's Lucas and Walliams' finest moment, with sterling ...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

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At last, a birth to document. A dear friend, who's interviewed more authors than I've had hot dinners as well as writing a couple of...
Friday, January 16, 2009

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All things considered, it's been a bastard of a week: we've lost Stewart Morris, Angela Morley, Patrick McGoohan, Ricardo Montalban ...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

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I've just heard that Angela Morley has died. Another great gone.
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More joyous Stewart Morris, this time from the 1979 BBC VT Christmas tape, Good King Memorex:

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I'm no environmental activist. I do my bit with tin cans, yogurt pots and composting, I cycle everywhere and I have a beard, but that...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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The sad news reaches me from Bernie Newnham, ex-BBC TV producer and now proprietor of the must-read Tech Ops broadcasting history site, of ...
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Debonair young hack-about-town (the town being Lowestoft - gateway to the Waveney). Writer of serious books about frivolous topics and procrastination coach.
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