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Super 8 '90s
Feb 12
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Tobias Sturt
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Revisiting ‘Slacker’
‘This story was based on fact. Any similarity with fictional events or characters is entirely coincidental.’ (Copyright notice at the end of Slacker)
Feb 8
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Tobias Sturt
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Revisiting ‘Slacker’
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The I on the wall
Finding ancestors in Auntie’s attic
Feb 6
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Tobias Sturt
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The Singing Detective
All clues and no solutions
Feb 1
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Tobias Sturt
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January 2025
Charlotte Raven, 1969–2025
As you might have seen, the journalist and writer Charlotte Raven died last week. I say ‘you might have seen’ because – despite being…
Jan 27
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Rowan Davies
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Metropolitan Mixtape: 2025 January
Now is the winter of our comfort watching
Jan 25
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The Editors
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Moneyball (2011)
‘How could you not be romantic about baseball?’
Jan 22
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Tobias Sturt
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Moneyball (2011)
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1987: Frank’s Wild Years
Never could stand that dog
Jan 18
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Tobias Sturt
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1987: Frank’s Wild Years
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The Wizarding World
In praise of watching the credits
Jan 15
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Tobias Sturt
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The Wire, but make it Keeley Hawes
Watching Line of Duty from the sickbed
Jan 11
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Rowan Davies
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The Wire, but make it Keeley Hawes
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The Hollow Crown and the BBC
For God’s sake let us sit upon the sofa and watch good things
Jan 8
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The Editors
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OK, Boomer: The Pink Panther
A Bank Holiday movie <comedy French accent> par excellence </accent>
Jan 4
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Tobias Sturt
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OK, Boomer: The Pink Panther
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