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The British photographer, now 47, has been snapping surfers for 25 years. I have to say the closest I've come to an interest in surfing was watching Laura Crane on Love Island. Actually, I tell a lie - I used to watch Home & Away religiously when I was a kid. Those were the days. …
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The classic 90s satirical comedy had a couple of pilots and this one shows Chris Morris asking someone from McDonald's about warfare. The Day Today and Brass Eye were controversial in their time. But a lot of the depicted surrealism doesn't seem so strange in 2019. In this pilot, you see Chris Morris without the …
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PhoneShop is one of the best comedy series of the last 10 years. Characters like Razz Prince are the reason why. I can't remember why I started watching PhoneShop but it was a brilliant decision. I've not heard a single bad word said about it and I don't plan on changing that. Why would I …
We interviewed Simon as part of Black History Month. It's a pleasure to have Simon take part in our Black History Month festivities. Besides being a good friend of mine, Simon is also a speech-language therapist and founder of Power In Discussion, an organisation creating positive discussion in the context of mental health and well-being, …
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Shanarà Phillips is a black filmmaker, writer and editor from London. Her love of visual storytelling has taken her around the world and she recently had her video, He's Not Like That, featured at the BAFTAs as a finalist. We interviewed her for Black History Month. What is your favourite city in the world? To …
Accent-switching is a wondrous talent, for entertainment or as an element of code-switching. Peter Sellers was a skilled intellect. In a 1979 sketch, he presented "The Complete Guide To Accents of The British Isles", as Don Shulman, an American professor of “accents and languages”. He travels through Europe and Britain playing numerous accents from John …
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2018 will bring with it a look at jazz's influence on UK culture over the last 90 years in Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain. Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain will run from Saturday 27th January to Sunday 22nd April 2018 at Two Temple Place, London. It will feature …
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There's nothing worse than ordering a pizza and not getting what you wanted. It's happened to me before but I've refrained from calling the cops on them vendors. This person couldn't contain his anger. Gloucestershire Constabulary received a call from a person complaining about their incorrect order, much to the police's chagrin. Officers took to …
The beauty of photography is its ability to capture so many words in a single flash of light and form. Sook Moon is one such creative who brings a new life to the seemingly mundane: butchers' markets, closed convenience stores, empty alleys. Yes, they are stylised in a certain way but not to diminish the …
You'd expect a man who made the latex heads for Spitting Image to have a wicked sense of humour and that's precisely what you get here. Wilfrid Wood gave his opinions on some of his favourite books for It's That Nice. More than likely you won't have read many of these apart from the last …
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