An entire programme about Snow Monkeys is on at 8pm on BBC2 tonight. I know it's Friday, but you young people who'll be out enjoying yourselves no doubt know how to stream it live on iPlayer to your iPhones, so you won't have to miss out on a second of the hot tub frolics.

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I'm a bit late with this, but 6.01.09 is the same number upside down as the right way up, give or take.

Women, what is your problem? Why do you hate jazz? Or do you just hate men who like jazz? Or do you just hate me?

Talking of Robert Mitchum, BBC4 is showing the superb film noir Out of the Past tonight at 00.35, although the BBC is still, 60+ years on, calling it by its 'British title', Build My Gallows High. I'm not quite sure it ever needed a 'British title', but you'd think we could just ditch it now. There may well be legal reasons I'm unaware of, though, ( Read more... )

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Somebody give me a job with the TLS, or the RLB, and I promise I will complete the following sentence:
'Jim Crace, whose name rhymes with "pace" and not "patchy", pace "pace"...'
I might have been a book reviewer, but I only got 40% in my English 'A' level: more "lite" than "literature".
However, my major work of cultural criticism, Smugged by ( Read more... )

Jonathan Ross to be banned from swearing and being smutty with his guests. Isn't that constructive dismissal ( Read more... )

Dude saw, dig? Saw!

Let it be said that they are surprisingly light and tasty. Let it be said that they cost me only 3p each. Howbeit, the donut with mint choc filling is still a wrong thing.