Flashpoint (Big Finish Audio Short Trips).

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Audio These Short Trips and the Companion Chronicles have often wrestled with how to justify their subject being the narrator. Often the ...

The Time War 1.

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Audio Much like the Clone Wars in Star Wars, the Time War arguably works best as an abstract concept. When the nuWho Doctors list some of...

Producing Women.

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Film Film historian Kirsten Thompson reveals how by not including exactly who the producers are when awards shows list the Best Picture ca...

Osiris.

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Shakespeare The Guardian's obituary for actress Jane Freeman, best known as Ivy the cafe owner in Last of the Summer Wine has this rat...

The World Beyond The Trees (Big Finish Short Trips Audio).

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Audio Sometimes an audio book is simply lifted by a performance. Nicola Walker's level of commitment and performance makes this essen...

A Heart on Both Sides (Big Finish Audio Short Trips)

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Audio Another pre-cursor to the upcoming Time War boxed set, Nyssa's involvement is revealed in a Short Trip seemingly set between Ter...

"We're trying to defeat the Daleks, not start a jumble sale!"

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TV Just as I was finishing off another half hearted review of a Big Finish Short Trip with a view to going to bed, the BBC do their usua...

The Young Lions (Short Trips Rarities)

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Audio Another wide release for Big Finish's old subscriber exclusive, or as they're officially called "Short Trips Rarities...

Men, again.

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Film Elizabeth Wurtzel on Weinstein. Blistering : "Men who do this sort of thing think they are just being friendly. They are just...

Scene Unseen:
Pizza Pizza - Ein Stück vom Himmel.

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Film Mystic Pizza is one my favourite films from the 80s, the kind of diaspora based romantic drama which simply isn't being made or d...
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The Horn.

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Nature This Guardian piece about the appeal of unicorns somehow manages to reach the end without mentioning Blade Runner in how the beast...

Perfectly Rice.

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Food Here's Tasty explaining how to cook perfect rice. In the past year we've stopped using frozen or vacuum packed in favour o...

"Beat you, cock!"

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TV Having been in bed with manflu for a couple of days, I haven't had a chance to comment on the news that Shada has indeed been anima...

Motion Flow is the new Panned and Scanned.

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Film Director James Gunn and allies are banding together to start a campaign to ask tv manufactures not to put motion flow on by default. ...

All Hands On Deck (Big Finish Audio Short Trips)

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Audio One of two Short Trips dealing with how the Eighth Doctor interacted with some of his old companions during the Time War, this exami...

Drunk in Charge of an Autonomous Vehicle.

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Technology Ars Technica asks, "Should drunk drivers be charged with DUI in fully autonomous cars?" "Though it may seem ob...

The Clone Wars Continue.

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Film Forces of Destiny, the Star Wars series of animated webisodes returns with a couple more stories set during The Clones Wars featuring...

Lear Here.

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TV The BBC has announced a King Lear for broadcast in 2018 starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson directed by Richard Eyre . Here are...

Love Actually is £39.50, £49.50 or £65.

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Film Angie Sammons on the new look Liverpool Confidential website notices that Love Actually will be playing at the Philharmonic Hall in ...

Ghost Train Station.

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Travel For years the railway station at Canfranc on the French-Spanish border was considered a white elephant, a folly, despite its grand ...