Posts by Rich Lock
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Well, I for one won't hear a word said against National Radio when they provide us with exceptionally high-quality programming like this:
The Secrets I Keep, by Georgina Scull
Sunday 24 July 2011
Winter Season Of New Drama 2011“This is the first time I have broken my silence. Maybe now I will rest in peace?”
Two years in the making this is a compelling first person doco-drama where three actors recreate the real-life confessions of three everyday New Zealanders who have held life-long secrets.
The Secrets I Keep is the final play in Radio New Zealand’s winter season of new drama.
Cast: Dame Kate Harcourt, Grant Tilly and Aaron Alexander.
Probably the best thing you'll hear on radio this decade. Unmissable. Tell all your friends and family to tune in at 3.00.
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In the interests of full disclosure, not that it influences my opinion in any way whatsoever, I should probably point out that Georgina Scull is my wife. -
Guardian is now reporting allegations that the police may have sold details of the 7/7 bombing victims to the tabloids.....
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Hebe,
does anyone else think Wendi set up the pie attack?
No, but seeing all that cream spraying everywhere did make me think it was a rather over-literal way to demostrate the, uh, climax of a schadenfreudegasm.
Ah, my coat. Thank you my good man, and here's your gratuity.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Paul Campbell,
not the devil, honest .....
It would explain this
[James Murdoch] is the son of Rupert Murdoch, which makes him the closest thing the media has to Damien from The Omen.
That's a fatuous comparison, obviously. Damien Thorn, offspring of Satan, was educated at Yale before inheriting a global business conglomerate at a shockingly young age and using it to hypnotise millions in a demonic bid to hasten Armageddon. James Murdoch's story is quite different. He went to Harvard.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
This isn't the future I'd thought it would be...
Oh we were brought up on the Space-Race,
Now they expect you to clean toilets.
When you've seen how big the world is,
How can you make do with this? -
the other most notable being Blair doing the same out of desperation and cynicism- he didn't want to be another Kinnock
The bitter truth being that he didn't have to. That whopping majority in '97 wasn't just an accident. I don't think it can be overstated how deeply, heartily sick the UK public were of the sleazy tories by that stage.
Blair could have waltzed out of No 10 the day after the election and announced he was raising taxes, taking all utilities into public ownership and making NI a terrorist organisation, and no-one would have batted an eyelid.
But he didn't, because he's a cockmunch.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Steve Barnes,
<shrugs> Well, arguably better than nitpicking over who ordered what, refusing to split the bill evenly because they didn't order a side or a starter, and who ordered the expensive wine, they didn't get to drink any of it so they're not paying for it, oh no, and why should we leave a tip, aren't these guys paid a wage, etc etc etc until they've sucessfully sucked all the joy and pleasure from the evening and left you feeling like life really isn't worth living any more because everything can be reduced to a price tag.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to BenWilson,
That suggests we need numbers.
A handy visual identification guide for anyone who wants to know what Ben looks like.
You are number 000110....
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Andrew C,
cheap shot, but still want to?
Why not? I'll happily buy drinks for my mates when they can't pay their way, because we're all in this together. It's a social(ist) thing.
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to 3410,
What next?
If it's a girl, Zanella Aprilia Guzzi Bimota.
If it's a boy, Ridley Norton Royal Enfield.