Ian Greaves

Landed on Hallam Tennyson's memoir today. Very of its time but has this amazing account of a truly awful schoolmaster.

One of those Saturdays where it hits noon and you realise you might have time this weekend to actually like read a book or something. And of course I'm now paralysed by indecision.

In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidance, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

‘All those who care about the BBC’s future should hurry and send in their response before 10 March.

Despite strong public support for the national broadcaster, you can bet battalions of enemies driven by the right will be out in force to undermine it.’

LIVE at Dartington College of Art 1993, by Stock, Hausen & Walkman 15 track album

Mo' Stock, Hausen and Walkman live stuff out today. Bandcamp Friday so be kind and line their pockets. stockhausenandwalkman.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

The Scramble for Cable (1983) YouTube video by rolinsond

I uploaded 20/20 Vision: 'The Scramble for Cable' (C4, 26 October 1983). This looks at the projected rise in cable television, including The Gaming Network and video games and Milton Keynes News. youtu.be/LbBsLMRaIrw

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"For Wyver, the documents he eventually got back from the BBC were surprising in several ways.
First, the heavy level of redaction, which makes the Epstein files look relatively untouched."

Also here: drive.google.com/file/d/1DD7J...

Redacted emails raise questions over the BBC’s relationsh... Internal BBC emails show how a project that may have shed light on the broadcaster’s negotiations with the royal household was quietly shelved

The BBC WAC Campaign has after months of chasing through FOI uncovered the motivation for the 11th hour pulling of a public catalogue of its written archives. This falls short of the basic requirement of a major archive as well as the Charter itself.

£ but see reply.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

I'd been wondering if it was like me moaning that The Light Pours Out Of Me isn't on the Best of Simple Minds.

CD now in the UK and landing far and wide. Excellent commute listen this morning. "Now nearly gone" my immediate pick.

Another!

I've been very confused by the present tense in all of these Jeck mail outs today. RIP

Who can raise my 15 Bandcamp Friday emails before breakfast.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

It's basically Joe 90.

Horrified to learn this morning that Radio Times now costs £5.50.

Jean Boht and her mother. So much gets forgotten. It has too many dimensions to be reduced to catchphrases. (I would plea for them to make an effort to show the original play alongside. That sets up a lot.)

I often quote the radio producer emerging from studio into the green room after a disastrous live show. "No one died."

That's a good outcome some days!

Thank you Frank. Hope you are both well. x

BBC Two - Call My Bluff, 05/08/1977 With Prunella Gee, Hannah Gordon, Humphrey Burton and Bryan Marshall.

Indebted to @simoncoward.bsky.social for pointing out that the Humphrey Burton celebrations continue on Monday with his appearance on a 1977 Call My Bluff. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Kenith Trodd obituary: firebrand TV producer and Dennis Potter’s right-hand man Trodd, who has died aged 90, was the bold and influential producer behind Dennis Potter’s greatest works, championing radical drama and shaping British television with a lifelong commitment to creativ...

We lost Kenith Trodd last weekend, a brilliant producer and forward-thinking man who believed deeply in television and the British screen. He was ahead of his time in many ways. "A film is a film is a film."

My tribute is now up on the BFI website: www.bfi.org.uk/news/kenith-...

Evening schedule for BBC Four, Sunday 8 March 2026

This Sunday might just be the best night on BBC Four in a while. A corking Ibsen double bill, the continuing Pevsner repeats, and at its centre a celebration of the late music and arts supremo Humphrey Burton. (A full run of 100 Great Paintings would be great too.)

Anyway, I might watch it later. Once I've decided which edit to go with.

Confirmation of receipt of the script of Brimstone and Treacle at the BBC. Both title and description are in red ink. "The devil arrives in a suburban home."

Reflecting on Kenith Trodd's death (my online obit will follow at some point tomorrow), I realised that he left us just one day shy of the 50th anniversary of the studio recording of Brimstone and Treacle - that wild stylistic challenge to the senses, full of provocation and unease.

I was at Ken's bedside last week. He gave me some life-changing television (Singing Detective, Leeds United among them) and loved nothing more than a gossip over a long lunch. I also admired his positive forward-thinking attitude to new work, rather than getting cynical in his years. A one-off.

Yep. Found it on the phone