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FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
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FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
7: Living With A Murderer
Odd one this. Can be looked at in a number of ways. If you live with a murderer you are statistically more likely to be murdered. That is idiot point number one. But this fear is goes fa[…]

Notcied at the National (ITV – ahem) Television Awards last night
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Notcied at the National (ITV – ahem) Television Awards last night was how one particular channel seemed to do better than all the others. Indeed I would be hard pushed to think of anyone who worked on a BBC show who won an award. That is fine h[…]

MOBY
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MOBY he make KISSYFACE
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Top of my Christmas list this year:
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Top of my Christmas list this year: Cat Poo Coffee. It’s a snip at ’31 for 250g from www.hasbean.co.uk. Santa, are you reading this?[…]

Its Just like Watching…Garforth Town
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Its Just like Watching…Garforth Town
A lovely little story about Socrates, of that their Brazil (in the 80’s admittedly) playing for a non-league side. However just because it is on a “Funny Old Game” part of the BBC website, […]

THE FEAR
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THE FEAR
I was reminded of this story the other night when talk came to helicopters. Working with students you often hear exaggerated drug stories. And with drug stories comes mention of THE FEAR. The definite article often suggests that the item in […]

Can you make a successful film with a couple of good actors
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Can you make a successful film with a couple of good actors in the back garden of a stately home? Only if your source material is really top notch, and unfortunately The Triumph Of Love’s source materially is a ropey old 18th Century French farce. […]

Rock, Paper, Scissors
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Rock, Paper, Scissors
There’s a great article on this game (which had its world championships recently) here, explaining how it isn’t as artificial a situation as you might think – it describes a set of dice where over a number of &[…]

The Essential Essentials
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I did a ‘pick of the Trojan box sets’ over at ILM, which went down pretty well, then someone on I Love Comics asked for a similar view on the Marvel Comics Essential volumes (5-600 pages of vintage comics in B&W on cheap paper for ab[…]

More John Peel
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More John Peel
I think it was 1975 when I started listening to Peel. I’ve been on and off ever since, sometimes hardly missing a show for months on end, sometimes going equally long without hearing one. Even when I wasn’t listening, it me[…]

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