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Category Archives: TV
Detectorists
A love song about the English countryside and about the English, Detectorists (BBC Four, Channel X, written and directed by Mackenzie Crook) has been my most treasured TV find (see what I did?) of recent times. It’s beautifully, gently, so carefully paced, … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, TV
Tagged BBC, BBC Four, Countryside, love, Mackenzie Crook, Sitcom
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On Coronation Street
A moment of closed-book recall. Possibly 2007, Roy Cropper (David Neilson) is on the payphone in his café, Roy’s Rolls. He complains, to whoever’s passing – Hayley most likely – that he’s been put on hold. ‘Vivaldi’s Four Seasons,’ he … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, TV
Tagged Alan Bennett, Corrie, ITV, Manchester, Roy Cropper, Simon Armitage, Soap Opera
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Steve’s TV Peeves Continued
… previously on Fisher Lane: No’s 1 to 18 are here. Otherwise, we’ll crack on… with this new Bingo card of TV turn-ons and turn-offs. 19. News reports using a related something to ‘project’ the pertinent points upon. A road … Continue reading
Extras, Extras, Read All About It!
Back in nineteen-eighty-something I made a faintly public spectacle of myself by having a bout of the giddy-fits whilst alone in a gathering of relative strangers. Ah, loneliness is a crowded room… By which I mean to say I was … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, Family History, TV
Tagged BBC, Coronation Street, Dallas, David Mitchell, Dynasty, Eastenders
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Irreversibly Awkward ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Cartoon, 7
Posted in Art, Family History, TV
Tagged Ancestry, BBC, Dark Secrets, Genealogy, Who Do You Think You Are
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Strategically Challenging ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Cartoon, 6
Posted in Art, Family History, TV, Work
Tagged Ancestry, BBC, Consultant, Genealogy, marketing, Strategy, Who Do You Think You Are
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Distinctly Unsettling ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Cartoon, 5
Posted in Art, Childhood, Family History, TV
Tagged Ancestry, BBC, Family History, Genealogy, Nostalgia, Who Do You Think You Are
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A Child’s American Cartography
I was a whole heap grown up by the first time I visited the U.S. I was forty, in fact. It wasn’t that I hadn’t travelled a fair bit by then, for I had, and had lived in other countries … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Family History, Music, The Home, TV
Tagged Blondie, Canada, Chicago, Country Music, Elvis, George Hamilton IV, Glen Campbell, In The Ghetto, Jim Croce, John Denver, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Maps, Rock n Roll, Taxi, The Wire
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