Posts Tagged with 'bbc'

26 Jul 2008

BBC Beijing Olympics Advert

Claire saw this advert the other evening and mentioned it to me. I hadn’t seen it. She mentioned it to the people at work, and they hadn’t seen it either. Claire was certain she’d seen it on TV and hadn’t just dreamed it, especially when she could recall so much detail.
Well, [...]

10 May 2008

News Title of The Year Goes Too…

The news title of the year must go to the BBC for this gem…

If that’s not enough, the first sentence is open to interpretation too…
At least one of Britain’s birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.

30 Oct 2007

TopGear Made Me Cry

As is common in a lot of households in the UK, Sunday evenings at 8pm is TopGear time. For those who don’t know, TopGear is the best car program I’ve ever seen and it’s broadcast on BBC 2 every Sunday at 8pm. This week’s episode has got to go into the history books as [...]

05 Jan 2007

Is the BBC Becoming Guilty of Sensationalism?

I despise sensational reporting at the best of times and try and avoid it where I can. I don’t read crap papers like The Sun and the Daily Mirror for this exact reason, and often rely on the BBC for their account of the news.
However, I think they’re starting to slide down the slippy [...]

  • → The other day Claire mentioned that BBC Food has improved their recipe search fascility so that you could search by ingredient and then narrow your search down further. My warped mind instantly thought of testing it for horse… so this morning, that’s what I did, just to satisfy my curiosity. Well, sorry to disappoint folks - no fine French horse cuisine recipes from the Beeb. For the curious, the closest it got was “horse mushrooms” used in two recipes. ( 0 )