Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 16 April 2010. One comment.
There is an enormous amount to be said for Africa. Stoicism and good humour would be right up there as attributes which abound. Famously, Nigerians have all that in spades. Last night’s BBC film concentrated on a Lagos rubbish dump and its scavengers. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 2 March 2010. No comments.
Searle is 90 tomorrow and Channel 4 News ran a tribute interview. Typically, the commentary had to have a little attitudinising. More »
Posted by RDN under TV and Radio on 10 January 2010. No comments.
Here, roughly in order, are my top TV shows of the noughties. Surely a vintage period? More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Mind and body / TV and Radio on 22 September 2009. No comments.
The late Dominick Dunne, novelist and chronicler of celebrity trials, was by parts Taki, Jennifer’s Diary, The Sunday Times Insight team, Edith Wharton, Thackeray, and J J Hunsecker (of The Sweet Smell of Success). More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 20 September 2009. No comments.
The BBC won’t survive the next five years without massive changes. It’ll get (or keep) a lot less licence fee. It is much weaker than it ever has been. It is likely to be privatised. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 12 May 2009. No comments.
I never quite know whether Jon Snow is genuinely quaking with rage when he cranks up the aggression from time to time. Anyway, his outrage over MP’s allowances is hard to take. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / TV and Radio on 12 February 2009. No comments.
The Galapagos Islands are under threat from mass tourism and climate change, says David Shukman, reporting from them for the BBC’s Today Programme this morning. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 24 January 2009. No comments.
Alan Rusbridger has suggested that the tax-payer ought to subsidise local newspapers. This is a very bad idea. Even my proposed National Media Trust should not do that. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 23 January 2009. No comments.
The latest Ofcom report and the new Reuters Institute book in their different ways bolster the case for a National Media Trust. They don’t know it, of course. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 17 January 2009. No comments.
Serious journalism is in dire financial straits. All its business models are under threat. It’s time for the literate, affluent, bossy middle class to club together and fix things. They did it for buildings and landscape. Now they can do it for the national debate. More »
