Category: setisoppO

  • What’s The Opposite Of The Moon?
    What’s The Opposite Of The Moon?

    Friday again. Another episode of our weekly podcast of opposites. This week on setisoppO, we discuss what might be the opposite of Morris Dancing, Muesli, and the Moon. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo052.mp3   In it, I mention this moment from the film Dante’s Peak. Man alive, those model shots are something else. Annoyingly, I can’t find the advert…

  • What’s The Opposite Of Head Slapping?
    What’s The Opposite Of Head Slapping?

    Let’s start with the inevitable Friday link to my podcast setisoppO, the podcast of opposites. This week, we discuss the possible opposites of a trophy, an ironing board, and head slapping. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo051.mp3   So, about that head slapping. Any fan of Alan Partridge (back on your screens soon) will recognise the mantra of the Bald…

  • What’s The Opposite Of Pouting?
    What’s The Opposite Of Pouting?

    Here’s the latest episode of setisoppO, our podcast about the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. This week, pouting, wheelbarrows, and Kleenex. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo050.mp3 We briefly touch upon the sitcom Only Fools And Horses. Here’s the trailer for its first ever episode. And here’s a more famous Del Boy doing the continuity a…

  • What’s The Opposite Of A Chocolate Eclair?
    What’s The Opposite Of A Chocolate Eclair?

    Here’s a new episode of the podcast of opposites setisoppO. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo049.mp3   And here’s some adverts for fresh cream cakes, using the famous slogan as coined by Salman Rushdie in the early 1980s (along with Aero’s ‘irresistibubble’).  

  • What’s The Opposite Of A Film Director?
    What’s The Opposite Of A Film Director?

    Time for a new episode of setisoppO, the podcast of opposites that I do almost every week. Here’s our first birthday episode, in which we wonder what might be the opposite of ladybirds (or ladybugs if you prefer), film directors, and didgeridoos. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo048.mp3   This is the moment in Revenge Of The Sith that I…

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    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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