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A Window on the World: June 2013
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Friday, 7 June 2013. Fun for all the family? I don't know how they have the nerve! The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'. BBC-1, TX: 14/12/1988 - 04/01/1989). It's always been a part of me, for as long as I can remember, really. I enjoyed Star Trek Into Darkness. Unlike i...
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A Window on the World: July 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Sunday, 17 July 2011. Coronation Street (ITV1, 04/07/2011). Where better to start than with the longest-running British soap opera, set in the bizarre netherworld of Weatherfield. For example.' ( Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class. Verso, 2011, p.132).
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A Window on the World: April 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Thursday, 21 April 2011. Play for Today #003: The Lie. TX: 29/10/1970 (dir. Alan Bridges, w. Ingmar Bergman, trans. Paul Britten Austin). We have to be able to lie to live together.". And - for me, more affectingly - The Entertainer. 23/10/1970, p.15). 23/10/1970)...
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A Window on the World: January 2014
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Wednesday, 22 January 2014. Pissing in Duchamp's Urinal: Arts Television in the Early Nineties. TX: Channel 4, 13/05/1992. The South Bank Show. TX: ITV, 05/01/1992. Paul Morley to Brian Eno: "You're good at lying aren't you? Lynne Truss attacked the 'stream of gabble...
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A Window on the World: March 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. 10 O'Clock Live (Channel 4, 24/03/2011). The problem for me is not that it is left-wing - which it is, in a lukewarm Guardianista. Manner - but that it is all so predictable. Brooker's bits are very much News Wipe. Lauren Laverne is okay, ac...
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A Window on the World: Kangaroo Court of Love: "Peep Show" 8.6
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Monday, 31 December 2012. Kangaroo Court of Love: "Peep Show" 8.6. TX: Channel 4, 24/12/2012. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'. Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man. This ongoing saga re...
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A Window on the World: May 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Monday, 16 May 2011. The Old Crowd (Lindsay Anderson, 1978/9, LWT). 8211; this is why Dickie has been in Valparaiso. What Anderson opposes always is the will not. That of all the plays included, The Old Crowd. 8211; Rufus and Oscar take up quotation of Tennyson and K...
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A Window on the World: September 2011
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Thursday, 22 September 2011. BBC Three, Cultural Snobbery and "Young, Dumb And Living Off Mum". Episode Six. BBC Three. 18/9/2011. Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum. Who deserve to be catered for and aren't necessarily exclusive from your Radio 3 listener or Newsnight.
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A Window on the World: December 2012
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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Monday, 31 December 2012. Kangaroo Court of Love: "Peep Show" 8.6. TX: Channel 4, 24/12/2012. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'. Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man. This ongoing saga re...
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