Fifteen years ago (can it really be that long?!) the charts were dominated by the sound of Britpop. The sumer of 1995 was one of the best summers for British music in recent memory, with the release of singles including ‘Alright’ by Supergrass, ‘Common People’ by Pulp, and ‘Wake up Boo’ by the Boo Radleys. [...]
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It’s times like these when we need Tracy Flick to remind us how nasty electioneering can get. With a general election weeks away, the broadcasters are getting into the spirit with the first of the much-publicised pre-election debates on Channel 4 tonight. Unfortunately, this is the one with the chancellors so it’s bound to be [...]
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Foodies are in for a treat tonight from the Beeb. Masterchef continues at 8.00pm on BBC One (and can I just say how pleased I am they have finally dispensed with the annoying one must go through set up and the fake tension that created. This ‘everyone, some people or no-one will go through’ thing [...]
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The wine’s hopefully been mulled, the chestnuts are roasting… or at the very least you’ve unscrewed a bottle of Lambrini and opened a box of Celebrations. So what televsisual treats are there to see you through this festive season?
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BBC Four’s seasons are some of my favourite telly events. It’s not that every season interests me in the same way, but I love the diversity of them. The new Electric Revolution season is one of the more interesting, with its focus on gizmos and gadgetry. Last night, Simon Armitage gave us an interesting, if [...]
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How can an agnostic be converted into a Christian? Jon Ronson films a group at the well-known Alpha Course at St Aldate’s church in Oxford to find out the secret of this course’s apparent power to create new believers in ‘How to Find God’, the first episode of a new series of religious-themed documentaries on [...]
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My third favourite (after Sue Perkins and Sandi Toksvig) celebrity lesbian, retailing superstar Mary Portas returns to our screens tonight in the first of a new three part series, Mary Queen of Charity Shops. The series is essentially the same as the last series, only she’s now gone all credit crunch and instead of turning [...]
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Apparently, the BBC have decided tonight is the night to confront the nation about its overeating. Two ‘human interest’ documentaries follow the attempts of two women (I’m hoping some overweight men turn up in at least one of these programmes because I’m getting very sick of the emphasis in the media on women needing to [...]
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