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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
You may well have heard of Anish Kapoor's giant, chrome-finished installation in Chicago, Cloud Gate. Do you know how much it cost? $23m (£14m)! And they have to buff it every day to keep it shiny!
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
John Preston reviews Helena BonhamCarter in BBC Four's biopic of children's author Enid Blyton.
freeranger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today's Guardian has a "Spanish Spirit" supplement, which says the best known Churriguera retablo mayor is in the church of San Esteban in Salamanca. The article's accompanying photograph isn't as detailed as the one I took in San Esteban - and even that doesn't really do it justice. Our visit to this (and sundry other equally magnificent Catholic churches and cathedrals in Spain) last Autumn...
thecustard.tv (Free subscription) | yesterday
Monday 9.00pm School of Saatchi BBC2 - Series exploring the strange and controversial world of contemporary art through a nationwide search by Charles Saatchi. He will select one artist to join his next major exhibition and offer them their own studio for three years. 9.0opm I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here ITV1 - Continues all week 9.00pm Mouth to Mouth BBC3 - Comedy drama series which deals with...
Feeling Listless (Free subscription) | yesterday
Video YouTube has launched an area for television and films . It would be remiss of me not to point to some classics and whatnot: The Quatermass Experiment : As live production created for BBC Four featuring Jason Flemyng in the titular role. Also Mark Gattis and one David Tennant, who found out he was going to be playing Doctor Who during the rehearsals for this. This is Dom Joly : It is indeed. Joly's...
Click opera (Free subscription) | yesterday
Krautrock - the Rebirth of Germany is a BBC4 documentary on the mystical electronic music British rock critics dubbed "Krautrock" (which is a bit like calling Alberto Camerini a "Woprocker"). Directed by Ben Whalley, the film is a companion to the one I linked the other day about UK synthpop, Synth Britannia . Does anyone else see the influence of Adam Curtis here? The voice-over...
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Across Cumbria emergency services are continuing evacuations where flood defences have been overwhelmed by record rainfall. Police searching for a colleague missing after a bridge collapsed amid the devastating floods have found the body of a man. Just two days ago the Queen announced a Flood and Water Management Bill promising new legislation to protect communities from flooding and to improve the...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
For the second year running, Total Politics has conducted it's Top 100 Journalists poll , asking its readers, MPs and journalists themselves to vote. 1. (+3) Nick Robinson 2. (-1) Evan Davis 3. (-1) Jeremy Paxman 4. (+9) Adam Boulton 5. (+18) Eddie Mair 6. (+1) Andrew Marr 7. (+22) Jon Snow 8. (+3) Quentin Letts 9. (+22) James Naughtie 10. (-4) Martha Kearney 11. (-1) Peter Riddell 12. (-9) Matthew...
WELCOME TO JENRAY'S TIME OF LIFE (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hi to everybody...there wasn't much at all on the TV last night, so thought I'd give 'Twilight' a go...it's being raved about...the story of a teenager who falls for a vampire, who goes to her school alongside his siblings'?? And his father is the doctor in the local hospital'?? At some point, the vampire reveals what happens to him in sunlight...his skin goes all sparkly like diamonds...What!! No,...
Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Royal Opera House's Don Carlo will be shown on BBC4 tomorrow 20 November at 8pm. The performance is taken from the first run in 2008 and features Rolando Villazon in the title role, together with Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside,...
The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
For no particular reason, this week's questions are themed around the British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, who died 29 years ago last July. 1. Tynan wrote of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger , "I could not love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger." Is there anything that you feel this way about? (Not music, obviously, you know you're not allowed to discuss music... unless...
Click opera (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yesterday I watched Synth Brittania, a fascinating BBC4 documentary about the development of synthpop in the UK from the mid-seventies on. This was a time -- I remember it well -- when music show Top of the Pops and future tech show Tomorrow's World went out back-to-back on a Thursday night, and it didn't take a huge amount of imagination to start wondering what would happen if you put them together....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
“We’ve seen more artists creating work than ever before and we’ve seen prices skyrocket,” said Guy Casely-Hayford, sketching in the “Golden Period”, which contemporary art has just passed through.
INSPIRATION FM RADIO/ Jerry's blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Prepare for an evening of side-splitting laughter with Christmas Comedy at Royal & Derngate.. With a line up of three top notch comedians performing from Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 December, this will be an ideal Christmas party outing, as they deliver a winter wonderland of festive funnies. Topping the bill is internationally acclaimed Canadian comic Mike Wilmot, Time Out Comedy Award-winner and...
Sea Songs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The first of BBC Four's "Women We Loved" season was excellent - all the unspoken tensions and gaping emotional holes of so many middle- and upper-class homes of the 1930s and 1940s, only in this case occupied by the woman whose legacy still shores up a romantic vision of those times in which that sort of thing simply didn't happen, all the right expressions, every silence in just the right...
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