Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 2 February 2011. No comments.
Here, courtesy of the best but most irritating TV news in the UK, is Henry Kissinger on the current Egyptian revolution (if that is what it is). It was a masterclass. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 24 January 2011. No comments.
Yeah, so OK, BBC1′s delicious, mostly youthful Countryfile didn’t actually say that the alleged world food crisis would be solved by British allotmenteers. But… More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / TV and Radio on 8 November 2010. No comments.
Stephen Fry has visited the coastline and the waters of the US’s Gulf of Mexico and declared them to be, well, what? The victims of a spill, obviously. Maybe even the victim of the clean-up, for all we know. But not, he feels, the victim of any obvious post-accident wickedness or folly on BP’s part. That was, I think, the take-away message of Stephen Fry and the Great American Oil Spill (BBC2, 7 November 2010). But the interest of the programme is not limited to Fry’s being fairly sensible. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 4 November 2010. No comments.
This week’s Culture Show on BBC2 was as entertaining as ever, but Tom Dyckhoff shouldn’t have been allowed his Tory-bashing moments in the piece on planning. (And a word on the Tea Party.) More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 27 October 2010. No comments.
This is a wonderful vignette. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 15 September 2010. One comment.
Evan Davis lightly mentioned in Programme 1 of his Evan Loves Tax (BBC Radio 4) that on current plans the Coalition might (intends to?) end its first term with a 36 percent tax-take (as against total GDP). I always thought the Con-Libs were conducting an extraordinary coup, but this confirms it, if true. Here are two cheers. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 14 September 2010. No comments.
Andrew Marr seems so obviously nice and clever that it seems odd to find some of what he says very irritating. Last Sunday, for instance, he announced on his BBC1 Sunday show that he thought that there ought to be a crackdown on dodgy facial hair…. Where would would this end? More »
Posted by RDN under Handling protest / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets / TV and Radio on 12 September 2010. One comment.
I had a v brief outing on Radio 4′s Sunday religious current affairs programme, and it’s a privilege to be asked. Here’s the crib I prepared for the event, in which I was asked about the protest dimension of the Pope’s forthcoming visit. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 7 September 2010. No comments.
RH, the BBC’s environment analyst, promised us a soul-searching assessment of his track record in reporting climate change over 20 years. Here’s a rather unenthusiastic assessment of his assessment. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 30 August 2010. No comments.
This show sounded like a major apologia and a minor mea culpa from the BBC’s chief climate change analyst . It was, though, mostly depressingly familiar. More »
