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(26-12-2024 22:16 )Doddle Wrote:  Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing
7.x To the Lot Valley in South-West France, which was a field day for the cinematographers. They both caught a vandoise, Paul got a bream and Bob managed a carp. They moved spots a lot, and even got through 2 different accommodations, and made good fun of rudimentary French. They both acknowledged that age is catching them up. Another successful catch.

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
8.1 To the river Itchen to seek wild brown trout. Their first spot in a water meadow yields a grayling, as Paul marks another birthday, whilst their second spot is less interesting but Bob manages to get the trout in the teeth of a rainstorm. Paul also talks to actor Jim Murray about his hopes to help salmon stocks in chalk streams.

(25-10-2025 21:18 )Doddle Wrote:  Classic Movies: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A quite marvellous epic of love and war.

Classic Movies: Passport to Pimlico
One other issue I have with this series, besides the excuse to repeat themselves so much (another bloody Ealing comedy?!), is their capacity to repeat the information they impart and discussions they have. So one presenter will introduce a topic, then talk to someone else about it as though it's news, whilst another presenter will separately talk about it as if nobody else has brought it up.

The Bottom Line
Steve Clemons talks to veteran Middle East correspondent Chris Hedges about the prospects for Trump's visions of peace, then later to Professor Evan Medeiros about Trump's Asian tour and whether it'll do anything to achieve his aims vis-a-vis China.

Talking Pictures - John Wayne
Some more genial chats across his career, spiced up by Parky failing to persuade him that his views on High Noon and McCarthyism were wrong.

(28-10-2025 22:17 )Doddle Wrote:  Susan Calman's Grand Day Out
9.5 "Poldark Country" this week, i.e. Cornwall. Special Cornish bagpipes, an old tin mine, scything, and the amusing comment that Telegraph literally means "far-write" (as opposed to far right, eh newspaper fans?).

SC's GDO
9.6 "King Arthur country" this week, i.e. Somerset, and inasmuch as the Knights of the Round Table might have worn Clarks Shoes, drunk cider, travelled on the West Somerset Railway, and used Haynes manuals, it was as accurate as any other retelling.

Transformers Ep 15 "Fire on the Mountain" Season 1.

Late Night w/Seth Meyers
Reese Witherspoon has co-written a book with Harlan Coben, Zadie Smith had never been on the show before, Ethan Hawke did an amusing skit about line-learning, and Chloe Fineman was from SNL.

The Footage Detectives
Simon Vaughan continued the run of guests, with Ally Pally footage of early shows from the 1930s.

Global Public Square
FZ repeats familiar themes on Gaza and the Ukraine, but does at least consider the Sudan, and the crisis of masculinity, because he has guests with new books on those topics.

Late Night w/Seth Meyers
Isla Fisher in a somewhat risque dress dislikes Halloween, whilst director Judd Apatow has done a memoir. Whilst Emma Stone is also not a Halloween person, and Florence Welch appeared to be having a manic episode.