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For a bit of a change, yesterday, I headed off to watch a pilot Radio 4 show being recorded. Medicine Balls attempts to make the burning medical questions of the day into a funny panel show. Hosted by Dr Phil Hammond, it might well be making it onto the airwaves, some time in the next year or so, so I thought I’d let you know my thoughts on it.
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Just in case opening boxes at random seems too sophisticated:
GOLDEN BALLS with JASPER CARROTT
GOLDEN BALLS is an exciting new game of luck, intuition and barefaced bluff, hosted by the one and only Jasper Carrott. The tension and game play of Poker meets the jeopardy of ‘Deal or No Deal’.100 Golden Balls – each worth a different cash amount. A possible half a million pounds up for grabs. But only if the players can avoid the dreaded Killer Balls that have the power to turn thousands into pennies in seconds.
This is a truly compelling new game show that will have you hooked from the first viewing. One definitely not to be missed.
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The show will take place on weekdays at BBC TV Centre, White City, London during March and April at 4.15pm and 7pm. The minimum age is 18 years. Group bookings and repeat visits are welcome.
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As mentioned earlier on the blog, the NFT has been running a Troy Kennedy Martin season this month. On Tuesday night, I went to see the great man himself get interviewed.
I can’t say I was overly impressed by the interviewer, Chris Dunkley of the FT. He clearly knows how to analyse television very well and frequently made good points to TKM about his work (“It seems to me you like anarchy” and “Anti-authoritarianism is clearly very important to you” being insights that TKM seemed surprised to discover were true about himself after a few moments’ reflection).
But when it came to getting information out of his interviewee rather than putting forward theories, he didn’t really have any questions. There were also striking gaps in his knowledge: he didn’t for instance, when discussing TKM’s use of the supernatural in Edge of Darkness, probe TKM about his imagined Knights Templar sub-plot and the original “Craven turns into a tree” ending – TKM didn’t volunteer the information either. In fact, TKM didn’t help matters at all, since he rarely answered any of the questions put to him directly, answering some other question instead. (eg Audience member: “Was it hard writing the Sweeney movies as 90-minute scripts and did you intend them to be more emotional or violent?” TKM: “I just thought of them as episodes. I wrote the Malta because…”)
So it was all a bit hit or miss, more like a “Troy Kennedy Martin’s greatest hits” evening. There weren’t any real revelations, no big “I got my ideas for this from…” moments. But there were some nice anecdotes. And it’s not every NFT audience that includes Ken Loach, Michael Wearing and G F Newman (with hat).
In case you’re wondering what TKM’s up to right now, he’s working with James Lovelock (of the Gaia hypothesis) on movies for HBO about climate change, although the climate for climate change is changing too rapidly for him right now: everyone was a sceptic when he started a few months ago, now everyone believes. He imagines the work as “two 90 minute movies”. Now that should be interesting, if it ever emerges.
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