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Steven Moffat is coming to your living room

New Doctor Who on the way and its new presiding genius – Steven Moffat – has given a nice interview to The Guardian. He’s the man behind The Empty Child and Blink, which is not the best episode of Doctor … Continue reading

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Best free iPhone apps

    The shame of it… I had my brain surgically removed by a very nice man in the shop and he gave me a shiny new iPhone 3GS in exchange. In case you’ve not heard of the iPhone, it’s a … Continue reading

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Gaggle and Boxee

Today I am mostly playing with the BBC iPlayer, Flickr and YouTube on the free Boxee media centre software on my netbook and listening to Gaggle… and yes, thank you very much to the person who said I should stick … Continue reading

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Perfect Lives

Channel 4 used to show stuff like this – Robert Ashley’s ‘opera for televsion’ called Perfect Lives. In 1983 this blew me away. I watched every minute. I think I might have to get the DVD – even on YouTube … Continue reading

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Lauren Laverne on BBC 6Music

This made me laugh out loud. So lovely to have mornings back again on 6Music… sigh. And I had that Holly Johnson in my studio a few weeks ago. I was sitting there playing out most of ‘Two Tribes’ on … Continue reading

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