Skip to content
Gruts

Gruts

🦆

  • Home
  • Contents
  • About
  • Books
  • Random

Writing tagged: ‘bbc’

Somebody buy the BBC a thesaurus

The BBC struggles to describe the late General Manuel Antonio Noriega.

Published 01-Jun-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, politics, words

Lending a whole new meaning to the word ‘personality’

BBC: Andy Murray wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year award

Published 20-Dec-2015
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, celebrities, sport

595 clarification

In which I spot a real howler in BBC1's otherwise excellent ‘Happy Valley’.

Published 01-Jun-2014
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, buses, hebden bridge, tv, yorkshire

Outraged of Hebden Bridge

Last night, I dreamt that I caught the end of a piece on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, in which some feminist was spouting bollocks about Charles Darwin.

Published 05-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, charles darwin, correspondence, dreams, feminism

Gravitas and dignity

Advice to the BBC on how to up the Auntie.

Published 20-Nov-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: archduke stephen palatine of hungary, bbc, charity, children in need, tv

Inconsistency

BBC reluctant to describe homeopathy as useless.

Published 18-Nov-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: alternative medicine, bbc, bullshit, homeopathy, medicine

Ooh look!

The BBC has used one of my photos.

Published 03-Nov-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, photos

Shite at twice the price

BBC stars 'are not paid too much'.

Published 02-Jun-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc

Weapon of choice

Pistachio nuts!

Published 27-Jan-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, conspiracy theories, dad, mum, paranoia, terrorism

Feeding the masses

RSS is where it's at.

Published 18-Nov-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, journalism, news, rss, stense

Posts pagination

Page 1 Page 2 Older posts

BUY MY BOOK!

On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
Buy at Amazon: UK | .com | etc.

RECENT PHOTOS

More photos »

RECENT READING

RECENT COMMENTS

  1. Jacky on Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane

    Dear Richard, I am browsing reviews of Is a river alive. Nobody dare pointing at the naked king. To take…

  2. Chris S on Bobby Brewster

    I remember H E Todd visiting our school in Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk in 1973 or 1974. It was a real…

  3. Keith Beach on Science FTW!

    I'd have thought it would be best at dawn before the sun had time to warm up properly!

  4. Andy on Fanny Cradock

    If you live in the UK you can watch her shows over Xmas 2024 on Freeview channel 601 ! And…

  • @friendsofdarwin on Twitter
  • My Facebook page
  • My Instagram account
  • My photos on Flickr
Gruts

Made in Europe