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Science vs Faith Jun 26

Came across this online the other day (either via Facebook or another blog), but now it comes to link back appreciatively, I can’t remember where. Sorry.

Anyway, here’s the link. It’s Science and Faith represented as flowcharts.

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Hut 33 Jun 25

Last night, I went to the recording of a new radio sitcom called Hut 33 at the recently refurbished (and very art deco) Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House. Despite having been in the audience for a few TV shows, it was my first time at a radio recording.

The show itself was pretty good, in a fairly run-of-the-mill Radio 4 sitcom kind of way. It’s set in a codebreaking hut in Bletchley Park in 1941 – with hilarious consequences. They recorded two episodes yesterday, the first of which is being broadcast this morning at 11.30am on Radio 4. It’s worth a listen if you fancy a mid-morning chuckle.

It’s got a pretty cast, including:

  • Robert Bathurst, mostly of Cold Feet and My Dad’s the Prime Minister fame although I know him from Joking Apart and recently saw him on stage in Whipping it Up (he is very tall)
  • Tom Goodman-Hill off of the sketch show Spoons and the film Festival
  • Olivia Colman off of pretty much every comedy going at the moment, and in particular Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look/Sound, Green Wing and Confetti
  • Lill Roughley off of Victoria Wood
  • and Fergus Craig of comedy duo Colin & Fergus who I’ve failed to see every year at the Edinburgh Fringe

If you miss today’s broadcast, you can almost certainly Listen Again (or, rather, for the first time) on the BBC Radio 4 website.

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A forgotten factoid Jun 22

Catching up on various post, I see from the newsletter for former pupils that the late cricket coach Bob Woolmer studied at my old school.

Now that I’ve read it, it’s jogged a memory of my dad (knowledgeable about both cricket and my school’s alumni) telling me the same many years ago, when I wouldn’t have known who Bob Woolmer was.

Other illustrious ex-pupils include the actor Alec McCowen, Doctor Who stunt man Tip Tipping, and, er, TV presenter Nick Knowles.

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18DS3 Jun 05

Another couple of hours on internet TV channel 18 Doughty Street yesterday. You can watch the first hour – Vox Politixhere. Particular nod to fellow panellist James Oates, of Cicero’s Songs, who writes a top LibDem blog and who I met for the first time last night.

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