"Things went wrong, not everything was perfect."

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Links Today, across just half an hour Team GB won legendary gold medals in dressage and boxing and earlier in the morning Regina Spektor w...

The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport   Abi came sixth in her 200m semi final and failed to join the final this time .  That's that.

"The Blog North Awards are new for 2012"

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About Ooh. Interesting : "The Blog North Awards are new for 2012. They celebrate the best of Northern England’s independent publis...

"these rare jewels"

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Links With the exception of the Saturday night, nothing in the athletics portion of the Olympics so far contradicts my argument that the ...

The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport   Abi Oyepitan left the 100m competition after turning in 8th in the semi-final .  Goes in the 200m first round heats this evening.

The Sunday Seven.
Joanna Wyld.
Writer of Programme Notes and CD Liner Notes.

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As a big fan of classical music but always in need of guidance as to the history of the works, biographies of the composers and what to li...

BBC presentation box at the Olympic Park.

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Two Princes , a photo by AbouttheBBC on Flickr.

The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport  Despite beginning well, James Goddard finished 7th in his only race, Men's 200m Individual Medley with 1:59.05 about five seconds...

The BBC should change the game. Or rather games.

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Sport Otherwise it's been an exciting day not just for gold medals but the "entertainment" if that's the words in the wo...

The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport James Godard has made the final of the Men's 200m Individual Medley having stormed through his semi-final coming in third behin...

There are a few changes.

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Film Rather spoiling the fun of finding out by reading the magazine, Sight & Sound tonight released their 2012 list of the greatest fi...

"not a whit of sympathy"

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Music The Arts Desk's Alexandra Coghlan attended the BBC Proms the other night but was only ultimately able to review half a concert be...

Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

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Books Just as The Blue Angel works as a kind of pepto-bismol to Interference , here’s another Paul Magrs novel straight after the indigest...

The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport Larry Godfrey's through to the last sixteen in the individual archery. As the BBC describes , "the Bristolian bowman breez...

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The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport James Goddard's contributed to The Guardian's Olympic Breakfasts series : "My breakfast is really boring – were you ho...

The Sunday Seven.
Vicky Duncalf.
DJ.

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Also as her Twitter profile explains , "s pace writer, comedy writer, copywriter. English girl in Vancouver penning astronomy novel....

The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport   After last night's extraordinary opening ceremony which covered all my bases (Ken!  Sugababes!  TARDIS!  Sir Tim Berners-Lee!) a...

The Road To Beijing Athlete Update.

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Sport Yes, I know. But I'm not sure what else to call this so might as well go with the classic. Archer Larry Godfrey says he's ...

"because he’s dead in the eyes"

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Links   Yesterday I attended the fun fair in Sefton Park.  After the abject terror of the Sky Rider and being tipped upside down with hund...