Saturday 29 March 2008

Just as well I originally included the 'unbearable' in my blog title because the 'unbelievable' will be too all too soon believable. The incidents of 'believablity' are becoming so numerous that they'll eventually waft over our ears and eyes like the casualties in Iraq. They did get the new Kings Cross train terminal working on Day 1, though.
Heathrow T5: Grand opening chaos (video)
BA faces huge fine for misleading travellers
Terminal chaos continues (video)

Second day of delays as signals fail on Tube. No changes there then since I started writing this column.
Engineering overrun causes rail delays


I guess the Brits still have culture:
Jeremy Irons: Power player (as Harold Macmillan)
Supermac, a true hero for the old Left
and BBC's Nightwaves has a review of Howard Brenton's play Never Had It So Good, an interview with new head of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny and with Ole Sheeren of Rotterdan based architects OMA them what's behind the Central Chinese Television (CCTV) Tower in Beijing. BBC TV's Newsnight has two great spots on China's workforce.

Simon Russell Beale reveals all about Sacred Music

Juliet Stevenson pays tribute to Anthony Minghella

Mark Lawson talks to musicals star Maria Friedman for the whole of BBC's Front Row (Fri 28/3). Her new show is at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

How an eccentric new film gave Richard Strange a summer he will never forget about his role in wacko Harmony Korine's film Mr.Lonely.

And a full length Arthur C Clarke interview on Australian radio

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