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At least one person asked for a final blog post on Rev, and the final episode has now gone out, so here goes. If you haven't seen it yet...

After yesterday's edition of Rev, there was a flurry of tweets, expressing sadness and disappointment about it. Avoiding spoilers, suffi...

Catching up with TV the other day, we watched the first episode of the new series, Peaky Blinders. I have to say at the start that I enjoyed...

Image via Wikipedia Although I will be over in church for some music he probably wouldn't approve of, I'll be recording the BBC4 pro...

Taking a week's holiday seems to have taken me out of the pattern of blogging at all. As I'm taking a few minutes out, it seemed a g...

An item on the news last night described an area of Johannesburg as having been a muggers' paradise, but now is more like... London. 1...

Image via Wikipedia The other day I finally got round to buying a DVD I have wanted to have for some time - a compilation from The Tube, the...

I love this. It's from the freebies on the BBC site. Sam Tyler as he would be in Camberwick Green. Brilliant.

If you just want to view Lent posts, click Lent under the labels heading in the right-hand side-bar Day of rest for Lent blog. Then again,...

One of my favourite current TV shows is back, complete with bronze Ford Cortina, sideburns and sheepskin coats. I couldn't even resist t...

Caught up with some of my musical past when I taped a set of compilations from the Old Grey Whistle Test screened recently. For those who c...