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Today seems the right day to review my year in all aspects of my life - it's a cathartic experience and helps get things in perspective. Professionally it's been a good year. For Fiona the journalist - I've made several films covering subjects … [Read more...]
Christmas is a really good time to review television programmes for a blogger like me as part of my celebrations involves seeking out interesting and offbeat programmes. Last night I watched Imagine...the Art of Stand-Up (Part One) and I really … [Read more...]
What's the worst mistake you've ever made? I'd love to know --- and what did you do about it? I recently read in my local newspaper a letter from a new restaurant owner in Swindon about a review written by a journalist. She's attended his/her … [Read more...]
The serial killings of Fred and Rose West was a case that dominated the early part of my career in newspapers. I didn't cover the story on a day-to-day basis but I knew several journalists who did - and working down the road in Swindon, it was close … [Read more...]
Question Time has returned and they are talking about 9/11 - not surprising given this weekend's tenth anniversary. But just before that on BBC3 was a programme involving a group of young people being taken around America who were all convinced … [Read more...]
I have this need to watch programmes about 9/11 - it was event which left an indelible mark on my psyche and last night was no exception. On watching the programme, The Firemen's Story (Channel 4 or 5) and those remarkable pictures I remember … [Read more...]
I can't help but watch this Channel 4 programme about Stephen Fry's 100 gadgets. I'm falling for this latest in a long line of 'Top 100 this or that' and I can't help it. Does someone as intelligent as Stephen Fry like the same gadgets as me, … [Read more...]
Watching the news tonight and I listened to the mum of 13-year-old boy justifying why her son went to the riots with a hammer strapped to his leg. He wasn't rioting, but he was there. The hammer was for his own protection. She was lamenting the … [Read more...]
Sometimes the media captures a moment in time of an element of society. The pictures of the tributes to Amy Winehouse’s sad death this week show bottles of beer and cider placed carefully among the flowers and candles in Camden. It’s like her … [Read more...]
Midwife care is the talk on the BBC today - which just throws up the whole issue of having a baby and the medical care that surrounds those nine months. I've got three children and there's six years between child 2 and 3 - and I found it amazing … [Read more...]
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