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20th November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘BBC Radio 5’

The Media vs. the Mid-Summer Doldrums

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Features
It isn’t Alien vs. Predator, but it’s close. You thought that this summer’s blockbuster was Batman? Hancock? Kung Fu Panda? Nope. This summer the talking media heads have had little real work, so making it up as they go along seems the way to go.
We’ve seen befuddled AARP poster child John McCain’s repeated flip-flops, dumb [...]


Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Cash

By Denis Campbell • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Business
Memorial Day weekend in the USA, a similar 3-day Bank Holiday weekend in the UK and a Pentecost holiday week across much of continental Western Europe meant this was the ideal weekend to launch the biggest blockbuster film of the 2008 summer season. After a long absence, Harrison Ford dusted off his Indiana Jones character [...]