Tag: British people
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Here come the tape rewinds…
Just a note to all that love comedy, or liked the bits I used in Radio Clash Radio Musicola, or want to get a handle on where the Tim and Kirk humour comes from outside of Douglas Adams. They should listen to the 1990 Radio 1 shows of Victor Lewis-Smith, repeated for the first time…
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Conscientious Objectors: Hitch and Rushdie discuss religion and censorship
A timely and prophetic discussion from 5 years ago between Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie. Again as now it was just before the UK election, discussions about cartoons in newspapers – then Jyllands Posten, now Charlie Hebdo, the whole #NotAllMuslims No True Scotsman fallacy, rise of China, Hitch predicts the mess in an Orthodox-powered Russia,…
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Penda’s Fen and Owl Service
On 21 March 1974 Penda’s Fen was Play for Today on the BBC, this strange tale of teenage homosexuality, Elgar and the Dream of Gerontius, the Midlands, ecology, the old and new gods, Britain and the last pagan king, Penda (oddly the image above does NOT appear in the film, only in shadow, although the…
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So maybe hip hop doesn’t hate me (or the rest of the LGBTQ)
I hadn’t heard of this or the sad case of Ce Ce Mcdonald but both are worthy…I know B Dolan via Sage’s Strange Famous, and I pretty much guess he knows about bears cos they did a Tour skit video in bed together 😉 but he’s straight, so always great to have the support. (via…
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John Peel’s Shed
This is one for those of you in the UK, but over Xmas (until the 28th) you have to listen to John Peel’s Shed – wonderfully touching story about the transformative effect of radio and specifically a box of records won from John Peel’s Shed in 2002. I think a lot of people have been…
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David Cameron Changes His Tune
Well not really…just highlights the stupid song-referencing pop-culture empty catchprases he uses…from b3ta, love the description: ‘i dont think i can stand 5 more years of his shiny face’ from there…I think we need more character assassination in short phrases like the wondrous description of Clegg by Charlie Brooker that Nick Clegg is a disappointment…