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(23-01-2025 13:22 )Doddle Wrote:  Adam Richman Eats Football
3 - Chelsea
To West London, for a cabbies' doorstep sandwich, a fine diners' scotch egg, and a fancy lamb kebab. But he disliked the Chelsea bun.

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4 - Aston Villa
Well, we all know how cosmopolitan Birmingham keeps claiming to be. So, it's pad thai, followed by wild mushroom & truffle ravioli, followed by a mixed grill. He's less taken with pork scratchings, though.

Star Trek Voyager Ep 17 "Retrospect” Season 4

(27-01-2025 21:22 )Doddle Wrote:  Jules and Greg's Wild Swim: The Island Adventure
2 - "The Uists", namely Eriskay, South Uist and Benbecula. Their van conking out was the main subplot, as their kids and dog were AWOL. They made sure to discuss Whisky Galore too.

J&G's WS: TIA
3 - Harris & Lewis, rounding off the Hebrides, with a new van, banter about woolly hats, the RNLI, Gaelic, seals, and oh, some more swims.

Look at Life - The Village Sleeps Again
Bypass mania in the 1960s, how drivers coped with such dizzying new motorways, and how busy villages like Markyate, Stilton and Wetherby were now as quiet as the grave.

Look at Life - The Spoilers
Tourism booming, litter perils for wild horses, countryside redevelopment and so on.

Star Trek Voyager Ep 18 "The Killing Game" Part I Season 4

(28-01-2025 13:44 )Doddle Wrote:  Artist of the Year - Masterclass
17/20 Christian Hook talks on Playing With Colour, which he demonstrates using just 7 colours, and doing a picture based on a blank bust of a face, which doesn't have any colour.
18/20 Fin Campbell-Notman returns to talk on Painting Skies and Clouds, based on a colour photo of some trees on a hilltop.

AotY - M
19/20 Wendy Barrett returns to talk on Drawing With Paint, using a profile shot of her live sitter, Fred.
20/20 Judge Tai returns to close off the series with a go at How To Attempt A Portrait, with a chattier more humble style than usual.

Overall, a fun series, though if I had to summarise all the masterclasses into one word, it would be layering.

(28-01-2025 21:15 )Doddle Wrote:  Why Bridges Collapse: The Genoa Disaster
From 2019, looking at the August 2018 failure of the Polcevera Bridge, talking to some of those who survived the fall, and then engineers and folks telling the history of its construction, what techniques were supposed to help it, and why they ultimately might not have done. A pretty grim story, although there was some light amid the gloom: two oldies who lived in low cost housing under the bridge got together as a result.

Why Bridges Collapse: The Baltimore Disaster
Of all the premises for a series... last March saw the Francis Scott Key Bridge get hit, and collapse into the water, killing many (though last minute warnings enabled traffic measures that saved many more - plus at that time of night there were less at risk). Opened in the Spring of 1977, it was unlucky that a subsequent incident in 1980 led to changing policies for new bridges, but tough luck for older bridges.

Star Trek Voyager Ep 19 “The Killing Game" Part II Season 4

(27-01-2025 13:05 )Doddle Wrote:  Unspun World w/John Simpson
Back for a new series, and still nowt on the Middle East, or even Ukraine. Instead, a special from Taiwan about Chinese past, present and supposed future.

UW w/JS
Another special, this time from Latvia, and devoted to the Ukraine situation, culminating with a long rehash of John's previous coverage of Moscow events, going back to 1979.

Talking Movies - awards season nominations "special"
Tom Brook was in New York to consider the after-effects of the LA wildfires on Oscar nominations, how a Latvian animation is that country's first ever Oscar nomination in any category, whether Emilia Perez is a musical challenge to Wicked, and other bits n bobs.