General Open Thread – TV Shows (2)
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10 February 2017 at 07:03 #55499
@misrori The last “literary” novel I read was one by Ishiguro about people wandering in some sort of nebulously fantasy version of England — had a picture of a grail-like object on its very drab cover. I didn’t like it much, didn’t see the point, but the writer is excellent, and I was dragged along to the (unsatisfactory) finish willy nilly. The rest of the stuff that I see advertised and reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books I tend to ignore. I like murder mysteries, preferably with a bit of the supernatural.
Right now, for example, I’m enjoying a fast, flippant private eye novel called “Her Nightly Embrace”, about a young East Indian Brit who sees various gods (from all kinds of religions) lurking around as he pursues a very peculiar case. Instead of, say, “Middlemarch”. I think I read that one a few decades ago, but . . . maybe I did, maybe I didn’t.
Barnes & Noble is usually pretty good, in terms of breadth, especially in mysteries, but also nonfiction, which I also like very much, when it’s readable and surprising.
10 February 2017 at 07:29 #55501Anonymous @
Hi there! You must be doing really well, with autism, to hop out the house and browse thru books occasionally. That’s really great. Good on you. You must live in a place where there’s a lot of like-minded people who visit book stores which is also very good.
@ichabod. I think Mum loves the tNY Times book reviews. Atwood, Brookner and Byatt are often novelists who review the books -from what Mum used to say. SHe’s a total fan of a writer called Anita Brookner. I picked up one of her books from the ’80s and was amazed at the pithy writing. It was very comprehensive, the whole story with plenty of plot and twists but all in 200 pages. She loves this author. In our classes we have to restrict our word limit. In philosophy (bringing in the show Firefly which @pedant @jimthefish and @scaryb all mentioned to us – in order to make my comment relevant!) we were shown existentialism in Firefly and in the novel, The Plague.
In our debate on when a knife becomes a ‘knife’ we had to present an Opinion in 1 minute without referring to concepts used by other groups. I don’t think the teacher said that, but I deduced it necessary to focus on my grasp of the concept. I was reminded of Brian Cox (scientist) who when asked, on a Aussie panel show, “is there a purpose to life?” answered (unexpectedly) “no, there isn’t. But we are inevitable.” I applauded the TV!
I guess different types of fiction appeal to people. I’m no fan of murder mysteries. The ones you mentioned @missrori I used to see in bookshops but then I don’t have time to go to bookshops and all of them in our area have closed down due to internet book sales, I think, which is sad, in one fashion. 🙁
But Mum and I have really tried to learn the craft of ‘pith.’ Not easy 🙂
Enjoy your weekend,
Thane & Puro <realises this is the wrong thread and dashes away>
10 February 2017 at 07:48 #55502@thane15 Sometimes you just can’t help applauding machines. Does Cox believe, do you know, that “we” (sapient, choice-making beings) are inevitable, at some point and in some form, everywhere? I mean space aliens, of course. I think they’re out there because we’re in here, and life even as we know it on our own planet seems to be just about infinitely adaptable, like the creatures that live at the deepest sea floors where no light goes, or in the fissures of undersea volcanoes. The stuff is just *everywhere* on this planet, so why not others too, some sapient, some not?
10 February 2017 at 09:12 #55504@ichabod I am reading the same book. IT has taken me over a year and I am on the point of giving up. I loved Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go and I love Arthurian mythology so was thrilled when this book came out but it just doesn’t work. Ursula LeGuin nailed the problems in her review. I don’t often read fiction, mostly non fiction for research purposes. I was reading “The High Mountains of Portugal” by Yann Martel last year on a trip to Canberra which I was really enjoying. Had only one chapter left when I got home and have not picked it up since. I have been reading a bit of Hogfather of a night while waiting for youngest son to turn off his computer. Unfortunately the subject I am currently researching, South Australian History does not make for exciting reading. Even more unfortunately books on the topic are rarer than hens teeth.
But as @Thane13 points out this is the TV thread and I cannot think of anything TV related right now. My TV viewing in general is even more dated than my reading choices. ((re)Watching ep 1 of Time Team this morning for example.)
cheers
Janette
10 February 2017 at 09:17 #55505I still read, but mostly Medivel murder mysteries. However, I do listen to quite a few Talking Books and hve found a few beauties.
Missy
10 February 2017 at 12:30 #55506@janetteb I know, me too 🙂
@ichabod Yes, Cox does, to some extent. We may use gravity eventually to reach into far ‘corners’ where light can’t penetrate. Based on what he’s said and how I was thinking I came to a conclusion (foolish, I know) that we (us as the one person) exist in the ‘now’ and so others also exist in their personal ‘nows.’ If this is the case, everyone’s ‘now’ is actually the future. If that’s the case, the future must exist. It always exists.
Has ‘time’ always existed? Not sure on that: speculation at best. But the Inflation theory associated with The Big Bang is interesting. To make this relevant, many telly shows are interrogating this and comparing it with Intelligent Design taught in some of your schools -this is scary.
So due to our evolution and building blocks on this planet we shouldn’t be surprised to exist at all. If everything has a system here (laws of gravity, weight, ratio) then in another universe other forms could exist -with their own in built scientific systems.
I get I’m 15 and muck up this stuff. So I wouldn’t quote me on Professor Cox. But, backing into Doctor Who where the first life forms happened due to what the Doctor did -right back in the 1960s -that’s interesting too.
Have a good day!
10 February 2017 at 12:36 #55507sorry, I didn’t want to sound like I was lecturing! I was outlining stuff. I make mistakes ALL the time -my mate in one of my classes is SO smart and composed. He’s good at sport (all of them) as well as English, Legal, Business, Philos; and the Math/Sciences! It’s called STEM now (Sci; Tech; Eng; Math) but it should be called S.T.E.A.M
13 February 2017 at 19:56 #55533@thane15 others also exist in their personal ‘nows.’ If this is the case, everyone’s ‘now’ is actually the future. If that’s the case, the future must exist. It always exists.
Clarify? If you mean that everyone’s “now” includes thoughts and intentions about the future, I wouldn’t say that that means that the future exists but rather that a vast number of potential futures exist in the form of ever shifting thoughts in everybody’s heads. From the “God’s Eye” point of view, past, present, and future could be said to all exist fully formed in the mind of the all-perceiving consciousness that people call “God” because time doesn’t apply to God; it stands (?) outside of time. But that viewpoint is meaningless to us because all of physical reality is infused with Time (is the exercise of Time, you could say, because the physical universe is in a constant state of change, and those changes as observed by us are how we mark and measure Time).
For us, fixed to our human’s eye view traveling with Time, Time’s Arrow only goes in one direction. We can’t see the past (only whatever fragments we find and use to infer what it was like), or the future because from our fixed-but-moving p.o.v. it hasn’t been woven yet out of the billions of individual choices + actions/reactions of the laws of physics, that haven’t happened yet (that’s what computer simulations of future trends are for, and also why they are so — inadequate). We can’t step away far enough (to where “God” stands, outside of Time) to see the entire universe whole from beginning to end, complete in every detail at every second of its existence. (I think maybe that’s why we’ve kept inventing Gods — for the security of feeling that Somebody knows the whole story.)
I wouldn’t worry about being 15. I’m a lot older than that and still muck things up.
And I do like the idea of including “English” with science and math — all languages. Happy S.T.E.A.M.ing!
13 February 2017 at 20:32 #55536I didn’t know where to put this, so I’m going to put it here, despite it being radio rather than TV. I could’ve started a radio thread but I wondered how much traction it would get.
As some of you may know, my wife died of breast cancer, and being part of that was awful but also very inspiring, in how she dealt with it and the wonderful care she got. In the UK, a very respected journalist, Steve Hewlett, was diagnosed with cancer several months ago and he has decided to document his illness on the radio every Monday.
It is amazing stuff. Tonight’s episode left me in tears. Last week’s episode left me in tears. But every episode also leaves me feeling positive about the strength of the human spirit.
He is interviewed by my fellow Scot, Eddy Mair, who is turning out to be one of the nations best broadcasters. Their conversations are far from maudlin. I would urge you to listen, it truly is remarkable radio and I’m sure it will win all the awards going (although that is very far from the point).
I think iPlayer radio is available in all countries (without a TV licence) so hopefully you can all have a listen. If you want to hear a proper radio event and the story of a genuinely down-to-earth hero, as we probably all are when it comes down to it, check it out.
13 February 2017 at 21:16 #55537I’ve been listening to it too – Mair is an excellent interviewer striking just the right tone for Hewlett I think.
Apparently the Royal Marsden has been flooded with letters for Hewlett from R4 listeners.
Hewlett talked a little bit today about being aware of the impact of his PM interviews and what it’s like to be part of what has become a “major news story”.
Even the Daily Fail covered it sympathetically yesterday without bashing either the BBC or the Guardian (whilst quoting a Guardian story). Wonders will never cease!
It is ground-breaking radio and it must be, as a broadcaster, a really moving experience, when you know your craft (even at death’s door) is impacting so significantly.
We (meaning the Brits) rarely talk publicly about cancer and of course so many are affected. We, perhaps even more rarely, talk about death. In some ways I think the Victorians “did” death better than us – with their mourning clothes, their publc acknowlegment of the time-span of mourning (a long time – not just a couple of weeks).
Very sorry you had to go through that with your wife.
Mortality is very difficult to wrap one’s head around.
14 February 2017 at 00:21 #55538That was really interesting. Mum listened to all the episodes but I could only listen to two of them myself.
Thank you for putting us in the right direction and placing them somewhere we could listen to them.
I am studying at home today (yay -air-conditioning).
Mum is passing her regards to you, Craig & is understanding how difficult it would have been listening to the radio journal, @craig.
Thank you for putting that up. It’s tough to listen to & important to hear how people cope (pragmatically?)
I think what you said is what I meant? & the arrow of time, according to physics specialists goes in one direction -but the point is that it DOES travel to the future. A future or futures that is already happening. Time is measured differently. Time exists but it also isn’t the same which is why “now” becomes “the future.” I find that comforting. It releases me from a ‘pressure’ of time and the pressure of “being.” Neither living as if one day is all there is nor living as if forever is all there is? I think I have Mum to thank for some of these thoughts because of the meditation I did. It helped me to relax and cope with stressors but it didn’t have a ‘god’ -like concept.
I have Faith but Mum’s isn’t based on a god-like being. Not anymore anyway: “our purpose is to have no purpose or our purpose is to have purpose.” That could be how Puro says it. But probably better than that 🙂
Thank you for reading.
Thane.
14 February 2017 at 00:29 #55539@juniperfish I was reading your input about The Abominable Bride (several times I typed adominable!) and was impressed. It’s really helped me to think. My teacher is also using this episode in her classes about ‘text’ which is wigging Mum out! But I find it impressive.
I won’t say anymore about that here for spoilers or in case people haven’t seen TAB yet. We have ordered S4 or Sherlock and that is due to be picked up tomorrow. Miss @missy you have also probably got your copy now?
Happy Valentine’s to everyone by the way (I know it’s a big commercial thing but our teacher last year spoke of how Valentine’s Day came about and I think Miss @mudlark would know a lot about that being very qualified in history and also the writers here would know it too!).
Looking forward to going thru all the pages of Sherlock’s analysis as that is part of the 45 mins of reading my family wants me to do each day. Honestly, last year I was doing hardly any reading (I used subtitles as an excuse for reading!) but now I was given an ultimatum: read or do more chores! I chose reading……
I hope to get smarter by the minute! 🙂
Thank you.
Cheers, Thane.
14 February 2017 at 09:15 #55540thanks
14 February 2017 at 22:37 #55544@thane15
You dangled the bait in front of my nose, so I’ll bite 🙂
I don’t know what or how much your teacher told you about Valentine’s day and I may not be able to add much – if anything, since I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the subject of hagiography.
St Valentine (Valentinus?) is one of those saints of the early church about whom little or nothing is known. There are at least three possible candidates and a number of legends which accumulated around the name, all of them probably apocryphal. In one version he was a Roman soldier who was martyred; in another, a bishop of the early church in Italy. Or he may never have existed; some saints, particularly in the Greek Orthodox church, appear to be no more than thinly disguised pre-Christian deities or demi-gods.
The feast of St Valentine coincides, near enough, with the date of a pre-Christian Roman festival, the Lupercalia, which was celebrated on February 15th. The Lupercalia long predated the rise of Rome as an imperial power and seems to have originated as a shepherds’ pastoral ritual relating to the protection of the flocks. The coincidence of dates could indicate that the early Christian church co-opted this pagan festival for their own purpose, a practice which seems to have been fairly common. The date chosen for the celebration of Christmas, for example, was the same as or close to various European mid-winter festivals, including the Roman Saturnalia, and a letter from Pope Gregory to St Augustine, who was sent to England to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons, suggests a deliberate policy of founding churches on the site of pre-existing sacred shrines. Even now, in Britain, there are many wells and springs associated with saints names which were believed in medieval times to have curative properties, and the veneration of many if not most of these sites is likely to long predate the introduction of Christianity, to a time when they were associated with particular local deities and spirits. In a few places in Britain there are still annual ‘well dressings’ when the local holy wells are decorated with an elaborate display of flowers and greenery. Many of these wells are associated with St Helen, and I doubt very much whether the Helen in question had anything to do with Helena, the mother of Constantine, discoverer of what was believed to be the True Cross.
But I digress. The association of St Valentine’s day with romantic love seems to go back no further than the 14th century, when it was believed to be the day on which birds began their courtship, but the tradition may also owe something to the medieval ideal of courtly love – the pure (?) love of the chivalrous knight or squire for a lady, having nothing to do with marriage, which remained a pragmatic and business-like arrangement between families.
In my curmudgeonly opinion none of this justifies the modern commercial hoo-ha. A discreet card to the object of one’s affection or admiration has a certain appeal, but I draw the line at hugely expensive bouquets of red roses which are unlikely to last more than a couple of days before they wilt, or equally expensive, heart-shaped boxes of chocolates 😈
Changing the subject:
Good for you, choosing reading; but I hope that you don’t come to think of it as a chore, because that rather defeats the object of the exercise. From my own point of view, books and reading were what broke down the walls and opened the whole world to me – the world of facts and science, of fiction and imagination, of speculation and possibility. But then I have been addicted to reading since the age of six, and I know from long experience that many others, including some of my close friends, see and experience things differently, so I make no judgements.
14 February 2017 at 23:27 #55547@thane15
An afterthought: It occurs to me that I was talking about reading chiefly in relation to books, because for me and all other readers of my generation books were our principal resource. But now, for better and worse, there is the internet, which offers an infinitely more accessible, world-spanning library for anyone who can learn to use it with discretion.
That said, and speaking strictly for myself, words on the page are still much easier to read and digest than words on the computer screen .
15 February 2017 at 13:51 #55551I believe there is a movement afoot to rename it St Hallmark day.
15 February 2017 at 22:03 #55552Thank you! You went to so much trouble -I appreciate it very much.
Our teacher didn’t mention the things or ideas you did. There was some mention of a Roman vomitarium which I don’t think is a valentine’s day connection, anyway!
At school the year 12s sell roses fro $2 and as it’s about 35 degrees they die anyway before anyone gets on a bus. Kind of like ‘young love’ anyway 🙂
Thank you, Thane.
(@pedant LOL!)
15 February 2017 at 22:07 #55553I expect, with the comment of ‘young love ‘ and ‘roses’ wilting I’ll be told “for one so young you are cynical”
True, true.
15 February 2017 at 23:54 #55554@thane15
A vomitarium (vomitory in modern English) is just a fancy word for exit…
16 February 2017 at 03:17 #55555@thane15 Yes, just checking — we’re more or less on the same page about Time’s Arrow. I’ve just started a book called “Why Time Flies” by a man named Burdick, very new, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, so I might have some good Time tidbits to bring to the table.
Meditation is good for relieving stress, provided that it’s a technique that works for you. I’m doing drawing lessons to help with that — I’m better at contemplation (focusing in an unforced but pointed way on something outside of self) than at meditation, myself. Chores can also be done, part of the time anyway, in a meditative or contemplative way, which is (I think) how I came to no longer dislike washing the dishes. Lots of great sensory input in running water, slippery dish soap, clattering of dishes and silver, the shiny look of things . . . soothing. Taking out the garbage, maybe not so much?
@craig @juniperfish I’ve started listening to the interviews. Strong stuff; thanks for links.
@mudlark Ah; so that’s what a “well-dressing” is! Is there an outdoor ceremony that goes with this?
16 February 2017 at 20:31 #55558@thane15
No trouble at all. As long as there is anybody here who finds my occasional off-topic outpourings interesting, it is a pleasure. If it becomes tedious, I hope that people will tell me so 🙂
@pedant As thane says, LOL, but these days there are so many Hallmark festivals in the calendar; how do we distinguish them one from t’other?
@ichabod The tradition of well dressing/well blessing is – nowadays at least – largely confined to villages in the Peak District – the upland areas of central England which are on limestone with many natural springs – and takes place during the summer months. I suspect that the original tradition survived in a few places and has more recently spread to others whose inhabitants did not want to be outdone. At times the Church has disapproved of the practice, but nowadays the presentation of the ‘dressed’ well is generally accompanied by a short religious service (if you can’t beat them, join them) and a local brass band is often engaged for the occasion. I gather there are sometimes Morris dancers as well 🙄
17 February 2017 at 05:57 #55563@craig: No, I didn’t know about your wife. I am so sad for you.
@ichabod: I had to smile. Every time I see the word *sapient* the vision which comes to mind, is The Luggage!
@thane15; Yep, it came the other day and we’ve watched the first film – I’m eeking them out. *rolls eyes*
@pedant: I like that – good one.
Missy
Missy
17 February 2017 at 08:10 #5556918 February 2017 at 05:19 #55575Everyone in general: Morris dancers??? How embarrassing. Incidentally, I should have written *eking* not *eeking*
(blushes profusely)
Missy
18 February 2017 at 05:23 #55576@ichabod: Did you watch the documentary by Terry Pratchett which dealt with Euthanasia?
Missy
18 February 2017 at 06:51 #55580@missy No, I didn’t know he’d done such a documentary, although I saw some comments on the subject that he made in a couple of his later interviews, talking about the disease.
18 February 2017 at 09:33 #55582Not sure if anyone in the UK has been following the TV show called Tattoo (or Taboo?)
Its about a Coat and its friends a jaunty Hat and a Knife. They return to early 19th Century England bent on revenge of some sort.
The Coat glowers and mumbles its way around London docks and some countryside.There’s loads of faces you’d recognise – Jonathan Pryce wheezes his part as a Powerful Person; Tom Hollander is a louche chemist; Mark Gatiss is Mark Gatiss in grotesque makeup who has wandered in from a different show set at the same period.
It must be an open set as Herrick has also wandered in, but no one knows he’s a vampire.There’s also a bloke with tattoos in it, who’s often in or around water.
I’m not sure I’m enjoying it. The Coat is hardly a sympathetic character, though it is very striking, as it strides its way across muddy streets with a Purpose.
But I will keep watching as I’m not sure quite how the Coat will get its comeuppance.
Maybe it’ll end up in the water with the tattooed bloke.18 February 2017 at 11:15 #55584@whisht. On reading descriptions of Tattoo I doubt very much that it is “my kind of series” and it not only stars Tom Hardy, he wrote it; a double negative for me.
I am sticking to repeats at the moment, Time Team in the mornings while I do the exercise bike thing and Dr Who at night. Currently watching Inferno. Not so enthused about this first series with Pertwee. Interesting ideas but lacking in that magical quality that is so hard to define but makes Who what it is.
Cheers
Janette
18 February 2017 at 11:30 #55585I actually don’t know that show either? But I do recall Being Human -the Vampire series with Aiden ….someone.
18 February 2017 at 13:13 #55587I watched the first four episodes of Taboo before realising that watching Tom Hardy grunting his way round a fantastical version of early 19th century London was beginning to get tedious, that my interest in finding out what on earth was going on and how it would all end was not sufficient to overcome my impatience with a plot that seemed to be going round in circles at a somewhat stodgy pace, and that there were probably more productive ways of spending a Saturday evening.
To say that The Coat, aka James Delaney, is a ‘hardly a sympathetic character’ is a very restrained understatement on your part, given his penchant for incest, murder, the odd spot of cannibalism and an occasional recourse to what appears to be some form of black magic 😉
18 February 2017 at 13:32 #55588What happened? I posted something here a few minutes ago and now it has disappeared. Ah well, try again.
I saw the first four episodes of Taboo before deciding that watching Tom Hardy grunting his way round a fantastical version of Regency London was not all that enthralling, and that any interest I had in finding out what it was all about and how it was going to end was not sufficient to sustain my interest of a plot which seemed to be going round in circles at a somewhat stodgy pace.
Your observation that The Coat – aka James Delaney – is ‘hardly a sympathetic character’ is a remarkably restrained understatement on your part, given his penchant for incest, murder, the odd spot of cannibalism and occasional forays into what appears to be the practice of black magic 😉
19 February 2017 at 05:32 #55600Not my xort of entertainment either, but we only watched part of Human or was it Being Human? One was a documentary about being a human being, the other about synthetic peopls called “synths.” Colin Morgan was one of the actors. Unfortunately we didn’t see all of the above.
Missy
20 February 2017 at 19:55 #55614To return to our discussions about the Hewlett interviews on Radio 4 with Eddie Mare @craig @thane15 and others – sadly PM announced today that Hewlett died this morning in hospital.
Lots of moving tributes from his journalist colleagues, as well as an outpouring from R4 listeners on Twitter.
He would be pleased, I think, that his last journalistic impact resonated so widely.
Our journey through life and death is, for certain, better for the company of others alongside us.
20 February 2017 at 23:11 #55615Thank you for letting me know. Mum was listening to these radio ‘bytes’ and they were amazingly handled and very emotional. Also the practical elements associated with mortality.
He would be pleased, I think, that his last journalistic impact resonated so widely.
Our journey through life and death is, for certain, better for the company of others alongside us.
Absolutely.
22 February 2017 at 22:12 #55637@juniperfish @thane15 @ichabod Yes, sadly I arrived back in the UK on Monday to hear the news about Steve Hewlett. Eddie Mair did a lovely tribute, I thought. I’m told there is a special award waiting in the wings for what has been an extra special piece of radio.
@missy thank you, but no need to be sad for me. She was wonderful and made my life better. And if you will all indulge me I’m just gonna post her pic here, just for myself.
23 February 2017 at 01:32 #5563923 February 2017 at 08:57 #55640A lovely lady in every way.
Puro has added this phrase from a poet:
…The silver answer rang. . .’Not Death, but Love.’
23 February 2017 at 17:36 #55641I just finished The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson. An amazingly detailed novel about a place of which we know so little, and quite apropos for the times in which we live.
@craig Heartbroken to read this new about your wife. Beautiful photo, and I’m sure memories of her to match. I wish I could offer more words of comfort, but words do so little. You are in my thoughts.
23 February 2017 at 17:44 #55642Heartbroken to read this news … sorry about that.
I am reminded of my favorite poem by e. e. cummings:
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
– the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which sayswe are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis
24 February 2017 at 15:05 #55643Gosh, when one dips in and out on this Forum sometimes one finds oneself unexpectedly immersed – in profound thoughts about the nature of the universe and the meaning of life, and in narratives of personal love and loss. This one has floored me somewhat.
I can’t remember whether I have talked on this or other threads about the charity I chair, Inspiration for Life. It was founded by a good friend, a colleague at the University of Sheffield, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and who wanted to make something positive come out of what was happening to him. He died in Feb 2013 and we’ve been raising funds for cancer charities (clinical research, treatment, hospice care, and support for young people with cancer) ever since. I’m very busy just now organising our annual fundraiser, the 24 Hour Inspire which is a 24 hour lecture marathon, with talks on everything under the sun, a pop-up radio station, live music, stand up comedy, an art show and more. It will be our fifth, and although it’s exhausting (the organising, and then the staying awake for 36+ hours whilst it’s all going on) it’s absolutely joyous, and Tim, in whose memory we do it, would love every minute of it. If anyone’s interested in finding out more there are some links here:
<div>https://<wbr />inspirationforlifeblog.<wbr />wordpress.com/</div>
<div>http://www.inspirationforlife.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/<wbr />Inspire4L/
@inspire4L</div>
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<div>Anyone in the vicinity, do come along, it’s open to all. Or you can tune into Radio Inspire on the night.</div>
<div>Because we get very generous sponsorship from the Uni whatever we raise will go to the local cancer hospital (Weston Park) and to Teenage Cancer Trust.</div>
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<div>Cancer is so arbitrary and cruel. Tim was only 48, and had so much more to do, and so much to give. My mum was only 65, and ditto. But both were people of immense warmth and generosity who inspired when they were with us, and continue to do so after their departure, and when I am working for the charity I am always at some level conscious that I’m doing it for them. And this year for Craig’s wife, and for Steve Hewlett, and for so many more.</div>24 February 2017 at 17:45 #55644Hello, I’m a TV producer and we’re looking for Doctor Who fans who want to create a Tardis or Doctor Who themed interior for their house. We’re looking for people who are still in the planning stage who would be willing to let us follow the construction and decoration process. People who have already started work should also get in touch. We are also looking for other unique-themed interiors. Please email homes@barcroftproductions.com with details of your plans.
25 February 2017 at 02:59 #55645@cathannabel halllooo to you from Puro -Thane’s typing as usual <wave>
To anyone reading the post from Cath, it is indeed a great weekend of lectures about the most incredible things. I’ve been following this closely. Even in Oz it’s possible to get involved. The wideworldweb’s fantabulous.
I know you are incredibly busy this time of year, Cath, so (if it was Oz, I ‘d write “stay hydrated”) but to you I’ll write: “get some sleep (if you can!), eat well and stay warm. Aaand have a alcoholic beverage on me.”
Thane and P.
25 February 2017 at 04:38 #55646I wish that I could wax poetic, but I cannot. Instead I shall say that she is beautiful and thank you for posting.
We share a hairstyle.
Missy
27 February 2017 at 09:28 #55660@craig I’m glad you put that photo up. It’s good for us to look at good faces, and think about our own good folks gone. Reminds me of the last lines of “The Lovely Bones”, which are also the best lines of the book. It goes, more or less, like this: “My name is Susie Salmon, ‘salmon’ like the fish. I was here for a while. Now I’m gone. I wish you a long and happy life.”
2 March 2017 at 19:26 #55709@janetteb @thane15 (and Puro) @nerys @cathannabel @missy @ichabod and anyone I may have missed.
Many thanks for all the very lovely comments. I’m sure Nicola would have enjoyed them. You really are a wonderful bunch given this is an internet forum!
I’m sorry if I gave the impression Nicola died recently, she died 14 years ago, but listening to Steve Hewlett reminded me of what we went through and reminded me of my time with her. Which, believe me, is a very good thing.
It has been announced today that Hewlett has been awarded a Royal Television Society Award (which he was told about before he died) and a scholarship has been set up in his name.
10 March 2017 at 09:13 #5576610 March 2017 at 09:17 #55767Unbelievably, it is twenty years since Buffy was first broadcast. Who and Buffy – if that was all there was, spooling endlessly on all tv channels, I’d be content.
10 March 2017 at 11:15 #55768Mum told me that too! And a funny story is that in 1997, home from OS, she saw some ads and said to Dad: “oh look a blonde American with vampires, thank god we’re above all that.”
OMG: She said that she was a telly snob back then & missed out on good shows. It was actually here, when @jimthefish @pedant and other dudes mentioned Buffy, that she actually asked: “So, this is a good show then?”
And then we watched all 7 seasons in 3 months and Angel too!
Cheers to the Buff!
Thank you,
Thane.
10 March 2017 at 14:59 #55770@thane15 and other Buffy fans should know that one of the best entertainment news/commentary websites, the A.V. Club, has been posting new interviews, retrospectives, and the like all this week to mark the anniversary. This tag has links to them, in reverse order of posting.
http://www.avclub.com/tag/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/
The look at shows that serve as Buffy‘s spiritual successors includes the Doctor Who revival, and briefly runs down how the Slayer influenced Russell T. Davies’ approach to it.
10 March 2017 at 15:05 #55772@thane15, @cathannabel and @missrori (and all) Yes, happy Buffy Day. Was thinking to mark it I’d repost the original Buffy blogs and we could revisit our own Buffy experience. Might keep us occupied till Series 10 actually shows up. I’m intending to re-watch a few choice episodes over the weekend anyway.
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