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Single & Single

I wouldn’t choose the novels of John le Carré as my special subject on Mastermind.

Television

Where have all the satellite dishes gone? They were a reliable guide to the socio-economic status of the householder.

Gems

You will be familiar with the long term penetration of the British security services by Soviet agents; Maclean, Burgess, Philby, Blunt etc.

What’s on the Wireless?

In March this year I wrote a post expressing approbation for BBC Radio 3.

Perfect Spy Series X Two

I have been listening to a lot of Romanian on TV this week.

Drive-Away Dolls

A new Ethan Coen film is released in the UK today.

The British Museum Had Lost Its Charm

Two short novels I read recently on rainy days and there have been plenty of those: The Tap Dancer, Andrew Barrow, 1992; The British Museum is Falling Down, David Lodge, 1965.

Few people enjoy paying taxes but I don’t mind buying a TV licence and a parking permit and would pay other taxes were they to be re-introduced; namely a wireless licence (abolished in 1971) and a dog licence (abolished in 1987). I don’t suppose either raised much revenue, a wireless licence cost £1 5s. in… Continue reading Radio Three – It’s For Me!

Bacon in Moscow.

Life is too short to listen to dull plays on Radio 3, or so I thought.

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