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Where's Fi?
Fi is currently holidaying in an undisclosed locatation. No but if it makes you feel any better it will be cold... We can only hope John Lewis manage to stay afloat until she's back...
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25 November: 2007 Calendars
Torquil and I went for a quick pint after work the other evening (we did ask the girls in the office but each of them had something else on apparently). Among the many interesting topics discussed was that of 2007 calendars.
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JP's measly blog
i note from earlier blogs that some members of our team seem to be less than enthusiastic about the prospect of Christmas coming around the corner... i refer you to JP Devlin's blog about the Christmas lights of Regent Street here.
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Finger Jousting
Ever heard of the sport of finger jousting? Let JT and Ed explain.
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Alison Faulkner
Alison Faulkner contacted us with her choices and the reasons behind them.
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SafariCast
Gary Mortimer is a Hot Air Balloon driver pilot based in South Africa.
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Rowland Rivron
tries to persuade us that caravanning is great.
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Philip Carter
What a serious business it is when nerves and stress catch up with you and you can鈥檛 do your job.
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William Sampson
What do we really mean when we say 鈥榯orture鈥 and what is the real cost to those who suffer it?
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David Gardiner
Shopkeeper David Gardiner explains his retailing philosophy of life.
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Felix Dexter
Comedian is our studio guest this week.
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Matt Harvey
In 1992 began performing poems and is now a veteran of the UK鈥檚 festival circuit.
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Hum...
We were sitting in our ideas meeting talking about the mystery of - as you do - when Bernie, one of our fearless new office companions took a break from her hard work organising the Food and Farming Awards to shout out that quite apart from this hum, there are currently and that it's definitely true because her cousin has seen them.
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18 November: Christmas Lights
The Christmas lights on Regent Street looked very pretty this morning on the way in, have a look for yourself . They do however signal that it's time to trek around the shops buying Christmas presents, something I dread about this time of year.
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spooky buildings....
Greetings people - hope all is well in your world. You join me on a packed Thursday in our new offices at Broadcasting House (see earlier blogs from Maria and Torquil). You might be interested to know a small fact about how your licence fee has been spent ...
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Adam Hart-Davis
鈥淧oor little sucker, how will it learn, when it is climbing, which way to turn?鈥 This is just one of the questions wants his children to consider through the delightful ditty 鈥楳isalliance鈥, sung by . The track he inherited from his parents is 鈥淭hree Brothers鈥 by .
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Cerys Bannister
Retired neurosurgeon Cerys Bannister explains her philosophy of life.
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Missing Husband
On November 16th last year Bernard Cook sent his wife Bernadette a text saying 鈥楲ove you lots鈥 accompanied by 25 kisses. He then booked out a van from his company pool of vehicles and got in it and drove off.
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James Bond To The End
"James Bond: To The End" is a drama podcast based on the James Bond film franchise.
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Female Referees
Can women referee a football match as well as men? Karen Williams reckons she can.
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Druids
Philip Harris wanted to draw our attention to his life as a Druid.
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Shyama Perera
Shyama started her working life as a newspaper journalist. She was the youngest reporter ever taken on by the Guardian at the time, and later moved into television and radio before ultimately settling for a life raising two children and writing novels.
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Elvis McGonagall
Elvis McGonagall - poet, twit and armchair revolutionary does the rhyming this week. Find out more about him on his .
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Change of address
So we've moved to our new office on the 7th floor of Broadcasting House which means that we're finally within abuse-hurling distance of each other and have to pay slightly closer attention to our . Yesterday Maria wrote a blog of quite unprecendented brilliance and wit about our new surroundings (or so she says) which then inexplicably disappeared or got eaten by the dog or something. She was understandably crushed by this experience, so now the torch has been passed to me.
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11 November: Oh Jemima look at your uncle Jim
This morning's Inheritance Tracks from Faustin Charles caused a nationwide sing-a-long to a long forgotten childhood nursery rhyme as bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms echoed to the sound of "Oh Jemima look at your uncle Jim". Did this ring any bells for you? If so, tell us where you first heard it. Ginny and George got in touch to say they remember it from their own childhoods one in Trinidad and the other in deepest Surrey.
Continue reading "11 November: Oh Jemima look at your uncle Jim"
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My Philosophy: Reptile rescuer
Nick Martin is a Reptile Rescuer in Inverness. His work with neglected and abandonned has given him much to think about over the years. He shares his life philosophy with us...
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Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio is a man who we can credit with helping to bring the joys of Italian food to this country and although his foccaccia is at the top of the Foccaccia Pricing Index, who can really put a figure on oozing olive oil dripping out of a slab of spongy bread baked to a luscious crust and salted to perfection?
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just stuff
greetings to you all on this bright and piercingly sunny thursday morning. at least it is here in londonshire. i know that it annoys you if you live far away and people in london assume that you care about what life is like here. but it really is a truly gorgeous day and i wanted to share the uplifting joy of it with you.
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Faustin Charles
Writer, poet and storyteller picks this week's tracks.
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Paris Hilton Podcast
She is not a girl to fight shy of self promotion. TV shows, perfume ranges, party attendances, albums and websites. For your information her inheritance stands at about 340 million pounds.
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Kevin Alderton
In April 2006 Kevin Alderton set a speed-skiing record by covering the Flying Kilometre at Les Arcs at an average 100.94 mph. And this week he travels to the Netherlands to try and set another record.
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Polly Conroy
From a very early age Polly Conroy knew that she wasn鈥檛 comfortable in the boy's body she had been born with.
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Murray Lachlan Young
This week鈥檚 poet, Murray Lachlan Young, has performed in many diverse situations: Mega festivals (and little ones), TV, film and theatre. From Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe to Speakers Corner via the main stage at Glastonbury. He has won over hostile crowds, been threatened with violence and even had to run for his life.
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Sue Perkins
Sue started her career as one quarter of double act Mel and Sue. Together they jumped and shouted and gurned through countless hours of television, notably Light Lunch and Late Lunch. They were nominated for several awards, and won none.
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Moving On Up
It's taken a while but the Saturday Live team has at last been given its own office. Up until now we've been spread around Broadcasting House, occasionally bumping into each other at the stationary drawer (only kidding - we have two).
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7th November - Back in the Office
I am not actually Becky but the hired hand for the week, as Maria and JP are both on holiday. As Fi mentioned on Saturday, we are all currently in Blog School and a man is coming back in six weeks time to assess how we are doing. To be frank we are a class of mixed abilty and I really mean mixed, but remembering there is no "I" in team we are aiming to pull together to keep this blog going.
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Show 8: 4 November - Badger stirfry
Apologies to all those who wrote in to complain that this week's item on eating road kill put them off their cornflakes. But admit it... next time you're driving past a pancaked hedgehog we know you'll be tempted.
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Eating roadkill
Arthur Boyt is an animal lover from Cornwall. And he is not a man who likes to waste things. For many years he has collected roadkill 鈥 and eaten it鈥.
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Living with apartheid: Bill Frankel
The death this week of , former President of South Africa, will cause many South Africans to reflect on all that has changed there since the dark days of apartheid. Bill Frankel was born into a white Jewish family in Johannesburg, and grew up questioning why their society was so cruelly divided.
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Inheritance Tracks: Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War and The Odessa File. He recently published The Afghan.
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Horse Whisperer: Sarah Kreutzer
Sarah鈥檚 early life was troubled and as a young woman she felt restless and
uncertain about the direction her life would take. After her best friend died in
an horrific riding accident, Sarah was plunged into a depression that lasted for
many months.
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Kirstie Allsopp
Kirstie Allsopp joins us this week complete with all her original features. As co-presenter of TV鈥檚 , she made a name for herself as a no nonsense property expert 鈥 and top tip, she says, 鈥渋t鈥檚 a clich茅 but area wins over property every time.鈥
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Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay, acclaimed poet and playwright, was born to an Ethiopian mother and brought up by a white foster family and in children鈥檚 homes. His poems have been described as 鈥渟ongs of the street鈥.
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Chess is Cool
22 year old Alexandra Kosteniuk is an international chess grandmaster and is ranked fifth best female player in the world. Alexandra became a chess grandmaster at 14, but has also achieved fame for her looks and glamorous persona. Let鈥檚 just say she has been called the Anna Kournikova of chess鈥
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blog school
so yesterday the entire team (minus JP who is skiving this week) attended 'blogschool' for an hour in an attempt to turn this blog into the kind of hive of activity that we imagined it would be when we first started.
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Apartheid and green vomit
Fi will be in the office soon but we're just going into a meeting to thrash through ideas for this week. It's been a busy one as usual, and there are lots of ideas bubbling under.
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