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Unsentimental education

  • 08 January 2009
  • 1 comment

Two programmes show the right and the wrong ways to revive an old idea Oz and James Drink to Britain BBC2 The Diary of Anne Frank BBC1

Service to the public

  • 18 December 2008
  • 2 comments

Those who damned the BBC clearly didn't watch enough of its programmes

What to watch over Christmas

  • 18 December 2008

More questions than answers

  • 11 December 2008
  • 12 comments

This prurient and trivial documentary was yet another missed opportunity The Pregnant Man (Cutting Edge) Channel 4

It's not the end of the world

  • 27 November 2008
  • 5 comments

We love a good disaster fantasy, but this one is too slick to become a classic Survivors BBC1

The revolution will be televised

  • 20 November 2008
  • 3 comments

A drama proves that England's radical past is something we should celebrate The Devil's Whore Channel 4

The past in reconstruction

  • 13 November 2008

Why spice up history? Secret Soviet deals with the Nazis is fascinating enough World War II: Behind Closed Doors BBC2

This is anything but escapism

  • 06 November 2008
  • 2 comments

A timely adaptation of Dickens is a metaphor for the credit card age Little Dorrit BBC1

The John and Pauline show

  • 30 October 2008
  • 2 comments

An invitation to laugh at the Prescotts is motivated by plain old snobbery Prescott: the Class System and Me BBC2

An old-fashioned misery memoir

  • 23 October 2008

A study of Victoria's melancholy youth puts clever women on our screens again Timewatch: Young Victoria BBC2

Green heroes

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20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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