Remotely Interesting

Credit where it is due

Twenty Twelve is an award-winning BBC comedy series, a mockumentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

A right royal eyeful

Buckingham Palace stands sturdy and resolute as the centrepiece of episode 1 of The Queen's Palaces.

Gordon held '70s together

Gordon Jackson was a rock, who, with nothing more than strength of will and a robust Scottish accent, held the 1970s together.

Passion on the moors

This I ask you: what, and perhaps why, is a moor?

Problem going global

It is hard to understand why people - and sometimes supernatural beings - want to take over the world.

You'll just have to trust me on this

It was just last week, as I was enjoying a lavender-infused foot bath, that I asked Juan to get for me, from my extensive library, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

Anglicans come up with a winner

Religion is something I take very seriously.

I go for the Anglicans.

TV satire maiden America

To the untrained eye, the Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant is an American ladies' beauty competition that has something to do with ladies' bosoms.

Remotely Interesting: Whole less than parts

UKTV's new series This is Jinsy is a little bit Monty Python, a little bit The Goodies, a little bit Little Britain and a little bit League of Gentlemen.

Remotely Interesting: Different class of heroes

There is a moment during the documentary Lost Airmen of Buchenwald that says something about the way men thought and spoke when in mortal danger back in the 1940s.

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