links for 2009-06-30

• Breakfast with the Beeb - a New Yorker's view of Radio 4
  "Listen to Radio 4 and the country that emerges is witty and engaging, well-read if parochial, always up for a walk to the pub down the lane. Watch Channel 5 on TV and you see a nation obsessed with home repairs, footballers, and the Botoxed winners of Big Brother. Radio gave me the England I'd gotten to know reading Evelyn Waugh, and that I half-expected to find."
  
  
• Flickr: Looking Into the Past
  This must be what it looks inside the head of Nicholas Lyndhurst's character Gary on the sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart.
  
  
• TV Cream: Programmes for Schools and Colleges
  Many happy memories of watching the small round white blobs disappear into a blue backgrounds before 'How We Used To Live'.