Reviews
Last Night's Television - Generation Jihad, BBC2; Getting Our Way, BBC4
A power trip to savour
Inside Reviews
The Weekend's TV: The Bible: A History, Seven Ages of Britain
Monday, 8 February 2010
Still holier than thou
Matt Gatward: Giants' steps to glory throw up insight and melodrama
Monday, 8 February 2010
View From The Sofa: America's game: The 2007 Giants/Sky Sports 4
Afternoon Play: The Ditch, Radio 4
Ramblings, Radio 4
Sunday, 7 February 2010
The voices...ah, the voices, soundtrack to a watery nightmare
Tower Block of Commons, Channel 4
True Stories: Moving to Mars, More4
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Politicians who togged up for life in a local tower block seemed less at home than a Burmese family relocating to Sheffield
Last Night's Television:
Simon King's Shetland Diaries, BBC2
Nicola Roberts: The Truth About Tanning, BBC3
Friday, 5 February 2010
Fun where the wild things are
Last Night's Television: Horizon, BBC2
Natural World, BBC2
Thursday, 4 February 2010
"It's a very young field," somebody said about gerontology in the Horizon film "Don't Grow Old". I expect this is a bit of a chestnut at gerontology conferences, one of those jokes that you hope will die soon but just keeps staggering on from year to year. It doesn't even seem to be true, either, since it wasn't long before the voiceover was explaining that scientists have known for at least 80 years about the life-extending properties of a low-calorie diet. Apparently, laboratory mice, which don't have a choice in the matter, manage to stick around for up to 30 per cent longer if they spend their lives in a state of permanent starvation. As a result, there are people who do have a choice, and should know better, who have adopted calorie slashing themselves, apparently untroubled by the fact that the extra 30 per cent of life you get is at least 60 per cent less worth living. You can't even have a drink to take your mind off the boredom. David Sinclair, first seen here tucking into something that looked unhealthily delicious, had had a far better idea: find out what starvation was doing to the body and see if you could find a drug to mimic it. Preferably one that you can grind into powder and sprinkle over a Châteaubriand with hollandaise sauce. He recently sold his company to GlaxoSmithKline for $270m, which rather suggests that they think he's pulled it off. In the meantime, he's already started taking the substance called resveratrol, which he thinks will do the trick: "It's still an investigational molecule," he said cheerfully, "but I felt the science was strong enough for me to take that risk."
Last Night's Television - Coronation Street, ITV1; Tower Block of Commons, Channel 4
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Real taste of the high life
The Weekend's Television: Mo, Sun, Channel 4
The Virtual Revolution, Sat, BBC2
Monday, 1 February 2010
Right in the thick of it
Robin Scott-Elliot: Waiting for Garth – a masterpiece of profound futility
Monday, 1 February 2010
View From The Sofa: Africa Cup of Nations BBC3/Australian Open BBC1
Ed Reardon's Week, Radio 4
Charles Paris: Cast in Order of Disappearance, Radio 4
Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard, Radio 4
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It's taken six series to happen, but now I'm laughing
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