Seen and heard - December 2009

"The Art of Russia" (BBC TV series, with Andrew Graham-Dixon)
"Cranford" (BBC TV series, inspired by the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell)
"Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films" (BBC documentary about the Quaker storyteller, whose animations with Peter Firmin touched the lives of every child growing up in Britain between the 1950s and the 1970s, and who died at the end of 2009)
"Carols from Kings" (the Xmas eve service of nine lessons and carols)
"A Celebration of Classic  MGM Musicals" (BBC Promenade Concert 22, reshowing of live broadcast from the summe)
"The Incredibles" (Pixar animation, the BBC Christmas Day family film)
"Hamlet" (filmed version of RSC production, with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart)
"Black Books" (repeats of Channel 4  comedy series from 2000, with Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, and Tamsin Grieg, written by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan)

Seen and heard - November 2009

Enneagram workshop at Turvey Abbey

"Is It Better to Be Mixed Race?" (Channel 4 TV)
"Two Cheers for Cyberspace?", long blog post by John Naughton

"Bright Star" (new Jane Campion film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne)
"Literacy in the Digital University", seminar by Robin Goodfellow to the Open University's Technology and Learning Research Group (see his notes, slides, and blog post)
"The Waters of Mars", episode of "Doctor Who"
"A History of Christianity" (BBC series)
"The Legacy of Domestic Violence" (article in The Guardian - Patrick Stewart, actor and patron of Refuge, on his own violent upbringing and how it has affected him)
"How to Save the World with eLearning Scenarios" (slideshare presentation by Cathy Moore - itself a scenario about re-designing an information-heavy course in competition with a flashy business rival)