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Dr Who?
If you missed Children In Need last night (perhaps because you were out having a life), then you missed the most fantastic eight minutes of TV this year – Dr Who: Time Crash. In a charidee special,...
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that’s another hour of my life I can’t get back
No-one in the Plannersphere seems to have been blogging about ITV’s Moving Wallpaper/Echo Beach experiment. Which surprises me as I thought they wouldn’t have missed the chance to lay into to...
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Grouching about angsty theatre
I went to see Northern Ballet Theatre’s Hamlet the week before last at Leeds Grand Theatre. Northern Ballet had obviously decided that what Shakespeare’s famous tale really needed to give it a bit of...
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The Good Shopping Show
I popped down the motorway to the Good Food Show in Birmingham on Wednesday on a bit of a spying mission to see which brands were putting serious money into the event. The surprising thing was how few...
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a spoonful of Stiles and Drewe
I went to see a fab musical version of Peter Pan in Leeds over Christmas and as a result I’ve become a fan of the composers Stiles and Drewe, who also adapted Mary Poppins for the stage. Their...
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Get your teeth into Being Human
Last night I stumbled across the first episode of Being Human on BBC3 and I’m hooked. It’s a quirky, dark, comic tale about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost living together in a house in Bristol. If...
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I think I love the Andaz
While I was in London for Interesting2009, I decided to made a weekend of it and thanks to the wonders of google found the Andaz hotel in Liverpool Street. This is a hotel so cool that it doesn’t have...
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Dr Who – reckless, skirt-less and bigger, but not as bad as I thought it was...
(Do not read if you are outside the UK and want to watch series five episode one as spoilers follow) So the 11th incarnation of Dr Who finally got his first airing last night. Regular readers will...
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why Lists make the research world go round
I love Lists (check out my talk at Bettakultcha if you need any convincing). So I was cheered when I saw this tweet from Andrea: I need a new notebook called "researchers I met and liked" — Andreea...
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re-evaluating How Brands Grow
At last week’s 1-up, Andy Nairn recommended during his talk that everyone should read How Brands Grow by Byron Sharp. So I got hold of a copy and have been ploughing through it since then. It might as...
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