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And So…

Friday, 28 May, 2004 — filed under: news / tv

it begins again.

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Layers

Tuesday, 11 May, 2004 — filed under: news / tv

The ITV News annoys me, and not simply for the usual crimes of interupting a movie or having no real idea of its timeslot.
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Age Before Beauty

Tuesday, 20 April, 2004 — filed under: news / tv

Happy birthday, BBC2.

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To Be Frank

Tuesday, 13 April, 2004 — filed under: news / theatre / tv

I’m watching the BBC’s venerable cockney-o-rama EastEnders and – surprise surprise – Paul Antony-Barber pops up in it.
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AOHL: First Night

Thursday, 11 March, 2004 — filed under: academic / AOHL / lighting / news / photo / tv

It all came together when it needed to. Tonight’s performance was pretty damn near perfect, all the better because we had the markers in (including external examiner Chris Dyer who gave one of the talks at 2D>3D and which reminds me that I still haven’t put up any more notes from then…).
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AOHL: Tech Day

Wednesday, 10 March, 2004 — filed under: AOHL / lighting / tv

It’s been busy times for the Attempts On Her Life crew (and the cast as well, of course). I’ve pulled a couple of twelve hour days now and it’s getting tiring, but tonight I finally burnt the DVD for the video projection. We have three projectors, and a vision mixer which – despite looking like a prop from the original Battlestar Galactica – does exactly what I want it to.
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And So, Farewell

Thursday, 4 March, 2004 — filed under: AOHL / news / tv

The Swithen Massive are gathering together to bid farewell to Garth Merenghi‘s Darkplace.
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Snow Day

Wednesday, 25 February, 2004 — filed under: academic / AOHL / improv / news / tv / web

It snowed last night and when the campus woke up it was still there, thick and crisp:

snow covers the Bretton campus
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New Fez In Town

Wednesday, 25 February, 2004 — filed under: audio / news / tv

The Bretton Mixed-Ability Choir reformed the other day as the Swithen Shouters, and the resultant noise is part of episode five of The Fez Of Etymology, available now.
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AOHL: Update

Monday, 16 February, 2004 — filed under: academic / AOHL / news / tv

This week we were planning on filming elements for Attempts On Her Life, both of our performers in the theatre and some background visuals at Manchester Airport. We all suspected that airports wouldn’t be too keen on having a bunch of students running around in these troubled times, and today we got the no-ahead.
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