Lockdown Links #2

BBC delivers biggest Education offer in its history - including devoting significant airtime to Education on BBC Two:
"The BBC is to deliver the biggest education offer in its history across more of its platforms. It will bring together BBC Two, CBBC, BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer and online to deliver a new education offer to children, teachers and parents as a third national lockdown begins."

The pandemic stranded this couple 4,780 miles apart. That’s when they knew they had to be together for good:
"Sam Morrison’s proposal to Shifra Samuel in Amsterdam included a boat ride and inflatable tube-man costumes."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"Forty-two years ago, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy made its debut on BBC Radio 4. To mark this momentous anniversary, here are a collection of clips related to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or HHGTTG if you prefer, or H2G2 if you like brevity, or tHGttG for completionists, or even The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if hyphens are your thing."

It gets … worse: what can we learn from movies set in 2021?
"A look ahead, courtesy of movies set in the next 12 months, suggests we should expect natural disasters, even more all-consuming tech and a super swine flu."

New York transit workers: 'We don't get respect':
"New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is essential to keeping the city moving. But workers say throughout the pandemic they haven’t been given the care or respect of other frontline workers. A New York City subway conductor and a bus driver share their stories with BBC News."

Star Wars: New Trailer For The High Republic Book Series:
"Early last year, Disney and Lucasfilm revealed a new era in Star Wars storytelling, announcing 'The High Republic', which will chronicle an era in that Galaxy Far, Far Away that is an even Longer Time Ago. A new trailer for the book and comics series is now online."

Casualties of War:
"An atrocity in Vietnam."

It's Time to Declutter Your Streaming Watchlists:
"Have you ever come across a show and thought, “I should add that to my list,” only to find out it was already there? With so much content, it’s easy to build a lot of unwatched clutter."

We Are All Related: Artists, Writers, and More Share Wishes for 2021:
"Contributors to MoMA Magazine share their wishes for 2021, from honest reckonings to immortality."

A Farewell to Adobe Flash—and the Messy, Glorious Web: "The software helped create an amateur internet. It’s a far cry from the glossy, corporate one we know now."