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Francis Wheen explores the history of the 1970s. He began the decade as a schoolboy at Harrow, and he relives his experience of auditioning for the honour of singing the new boy's solo at Churchill's Songs, a process he describes as a "posh X-Factor". It was future Prime Minister Ted Heath who conducted the orchestra, and Wheen goes on to discuss Heath's chaotic early 1970s government. In the 25 years preceding Heath's government, there were two states of emergency declared in Britain (in 1955 and 1966); during his three-and-a-half-years in charge of the country, Heath declared five. It was around the time of the last state of emergency that Wheen decided to drop-out and move to London, but he soon found out that the counter-culture of the 1960's had long ended, crushed by the gloom of Heath's almost Dickensian London. Wheen goes on to relate stories such as how William Armstrong, the head of the Civil Service, once gathered all of his staff together and told them to go home and prepare for Armageddon, how former Labour MP John Stonehouse unsuccessfully faked his own death, and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's mental decline. Overall, Wheen explains how the 1970s was a decade when the remarkable became unremarkable.
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society
Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-semitism, bullying and smugness which marred his years at Harrow. He says that public schools are nurseries of vice and immorality, which only call themselves independent out of shame. Their dubious charitable status, worth £100m a year, is subsidised by low income families.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
- published: 05 Feb 2010
- views: 12415
The remaining summations and the final vote: Martin Rowson, Barnaby Lenon, Francis Wheen.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
- published: 18 Oct 2012
- views: 2063
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
Writer Francis Wheen tells the that paedophile Charles Napier used fizzy drinks and biscuits to groom schoolchildren.
- published: 24 Dec 2014
- views: 208
*** "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". That should be enough for most of you to work out whom Radio 4 listeners have voted as their favourite philosopher: the winner of the In Our Time Greatest Philosopher Vote, chosen from 20 philosophers nominated by listeners and carried through on an electoral tidal wave of 28% of our 'first-past-the-post' vote is the communist theoretician, Karl Marx.So, when you strip away the Marxist-Leninism, the Soviet era and later Marxist theory, who was Karl Marx? Where does he stand in the history of philosophy? He wrote in his Theses on Feuerbach, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it" - which begs the question, is he really a philosopher at all? ***
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Anthony Grayling
Francis Wheen
Gareth Stedman Jones
- published: 07 Dec 2015
- views: 25
Christopher Hitchens questions the mourning that occurred in the wake of Princess Diana's death. Funny.
- published: 07 Mar 2013
- views: 22817
Francis Wheen on everything you ever wanted to know about HSBC and the Telegraph, plus an interview with Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about the Eye's own Gnome Mart. Free ant with every download! (Please note: ant may be lost in transit)
This channel is a compilation of all podcast of Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast. Enjoy!!
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A brand new podcast from the UK's number one best-selling current affairs magazine. With Ian Hislop.
- published: 22 Mar 2015
- views: 94
Festive version of the quiz featuring teams of university graduates.
In Christmas University Challenge, teams of prominent graduates from 14 universities and university colleges will compete for the glory of their institutions and the honour of being declared Series Champions.
Each team will compete in one of seven first round matches.
The four teams with the highest winning scores will play in two semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final.
Line-up (team captain listed first)
King’s, Cambridge: Noreena Hertz, author, economics writer, academic and speaker; David Walker, Bishop of Manchester; Martin Bell, author and lecturer and Thomas Adès, composer, conductor and pianist.
Trinity Hall, Cambridge: Adam Mars-Jones, novelist and literary critic; Tom James, Olympic gold medal-winning rower and management consultant; Dan Starkey, actor and Emma Pooley, Olympic silver medal-winning cyclist and professional triathlete.
Royal Holloway, London: Francis Wheen, journalist, writer and broadcaster; Valerie Vaz, Labour MP for Walsall South; Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes and Tori James, speaker and adventurer.
Manchester Metropolitan: Bernard Hill, actor; Eddie Morland, Chief Executive, Health and Safety Laboratory; Gordon Taylor, Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association and John Thomson, comedian and actor.
York: Sir Michael Dixon, Director of the Natural History Museum; Adam Hart-Davis, writer and broadcaster; Helen Geake, archaeologist and Finds Adviser to the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum and Philip Lawson, composer, arranger and singer.
Warwick: Simon Calder, travel writer and broadcaster; Jonathan Coe, novelist; Sir Bob Kerslake, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government and Simon Bailey, Keeper of the Archives, University of Oxford.
Leeds: James Mates, ITV News’ Europe Editor and ITV Weekend news presenter; Jacqui Oatley, sports broadcaster and commentator; Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge and Julian Dutton, comedy writer and actor.
Balliol, Oxford: Sir Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed; Charlotte Higgins, culture writer and journalist; Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute and Roger Cohen, op-ed columnist.
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News anchor; Samuel West, actor and director; Michelle Paver, children’s author and Philip Hensher, novelist, critic and journalist.
Hull: Dame Jenni Murray, journalist, writer, broadcaster and presenter of Women’s Hour; Rosie Millard, journalist and Chair of Hull City of Culture 2017, Malcolm Sinclair, actor and President of Equity and Stan Cullimore, musician, actor, children’s writer and columnist.
Goldsmiths, London: Corrie Corfield, Radio 4 announcer and newsreader; Neil Innes, singer-songwriter; Fiona Rae, artist and Shazia Mirza, comedian and columnist.
Surrey: Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics, author, broadcaster and presenter of Radio 4’s The Life Scientific; Sue Blackmore, psychology writer, lecturer and broadcaster; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor, composer and record producer and Michael Price, composer, editor and arranger for film and TV.
Edinburgh: Philippa Gregory, author; Quentin Cooper, science writer and broadcaster; Allan Little, BBC special correspondent and Judith Miller, antiques expert, writer and broadcaster.
Newcastle: Kate Adie, author and broadcaster; Giles Fraser, journalist, commentator and Church of England priest; Alastair Reynolds, science fiction author and John Yorke, Managing Director of Company Pictures.
Fixture list:
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs. Warwick - 20 Dec 2014
Hull vs. Newcastle - 23 Dec 2014
King’s, Cambridge vs. Royal Holloway, London - 24 Dec 2014
Edinburgh vs. Leeds - 25 Dec 2014
Trinity Hall, Cambridge vs. Balliol, Oxford - 26 Dec 2014
York vs. Surrey - 29 Dec 2014
Manchester Metropolitan vs. Goldsmiths, London - 30 Dec 2014
Semi-Final 1 - 31 Dec 2014
Semi-Final 2 - 1 Jan 2015
Final - 2 Jan 2015
- published: 20 Dec 2014
- views: 10682
Francis Wheen reads from his upcoming book, 'Strange Days Indeed,' at the Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary event held at the roundhouse in Camden.
- published: 25 Aug 2009
- views: 861
Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster.
Wheen was born into an army family and educated at two independent schools: Copthorne Preparatory School near Crawley, West Sussex and Harrow School in north west London.
Running away from Harrow at 16 "to join the alternative society," Wheen had early periods as a "dogsbody" at The Guardian and the New Statesman and attended Royal Holloway College, University of London after a period as a crammer. At Harrow, he was a contemporary of Mark Thatcher who has been a recurring subject of his journalism.[citation needed]
In April 2012, Wheen suffered the loss of his entire book collection, his "life's work", and an unfinished novel, in a garden shed fire.
Wheen is the author of several books, including a biography of Karl Marx which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999, and has been translated into twenty languages. He followed the biography of Karl Marx with a "biography" of Das Kapital, which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx's major work as well as other incomplete volumes. Wheen had a column in The Guardian for several years. He writes for Private Eye and is currently the magazine's deputy editor. His collected journalism – Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies won him the Orwell Prize in 2003. He has also been a regular columnist for the London Evening Standard.
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Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades. Hitchens, often referred to colloquially as "Hitch", was a columnist and literary critic for New Statesman, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Mirror, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. He was an author of twelve books and five collections of essays. As a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, he was a prominent public intellectual, and his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded and controversial figure.
Hitchens was known for his admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, as well as for his excoriating critiques of various public figures including Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Diana, Princess of Wales. Although he supported the Falklands War, his key split from the established political left began in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left to the Rushdie Affair. The September 11 attacks strengthened his internationalist embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insisted he was not "a conservative of any kind", and his friend Ian McEwan describes him as representing the anti-totalitarian left.
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18:59Francis Wheen @ 5x15 - On the 1970s
Francis Wheen @ 5x15 - On the 1970sFrancis Wheen @ 5x15 - On the 1970s
Francis Wheen explores the history of the 1970s. He began the decade as a schoolboy at Harrow, and he relives his experience of auditioning for the honour of singing the new boy's solo at Churchill's Songs, a process he describes as a "posh X-Factor". It was future Prime Minister Ted Heath who conducted the orchestra, and Wheen goes on to discuss Heath's chaotic early 1970s government. In the 25 years preceding Heath's government, there were two states of emergency declared in Britain (in 1955 and 1966); during his three-and-a-half-years in charge of the country, Heath declared five. It was around the time of the last state of emergency that Wheen decided to drop-out and move to London, but he soon found out that the counter-culture of the 1960's had long ended, crushed by the gloom of Heath's almost Dickensian London. Wheen goes on to relate stories such as how William Armstrong, the head of the Civil Service, once gathered all of his staff together and told them to go home and prepare for Armageddon, how former Labour MP John Stonehouse unsuccessfully faked his own death, and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's mental decline. Overall, Wheen explains how the 1970s was a decade when the remarkable became unremarkable. -
9:56IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-semitism, bullying and smugness which marred his years at Harrow. He says that public schools are nurseries of vice and immorality, which only call themselves independent out of shame. Their dubious charitable status, worth £100m a year, is subsidised by low income families. Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools -
8:38IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (12 of 12)
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (12 of 12)IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (12 of 12)
The remaining summations and the final vote: Martin Rowson, Barnaby Lenon, Francis Wheen. Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools -
2:08Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier; Writer Francis Wheen tells the that paedophile Charles Napier used fizzy drinks and biscuits to groom schoolchildren. -
41:29Marx (In Our Time, 14/7/05)
Marx (In Our Time, 14/7/05)Marx (In Our Time, 14/7/05)
*** "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". That should be enough for most of you to work out whom Radio 4 listeners have voted as their favourite philosopher: the winner of the In Our Time Greatest Philosopher Vote, chosen from 20 philosophers nominated by listeners and carried through on an electoral tidal wave of 28% of our 'first-past-the-post' vote is the communist theoretician, Karl Marx.So, when you strip away the Marxist-Leninism, the Soviet era and later Marxist theory, who was Karl Marx? Where does he stand in the history of philosophy? He wrote in his Theses on Feuerbach, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it" - which begs the question, is he really a philosopher at all? *** GUESTS: Anthony Grayling Francis Wheen Gareth Stedman Jones -
10:48Diana: The Mourning After - Pt2 (Christopher Hitchens)
Diana: The Mourning After - Pt2 (Christopher Hitchens)Diana: The Mourning After - Pt2 (Christopher Hitchens)
Christopher Hitchens questions the mourning that occurred in the wake of Princess Diana's death. Funny. -
20:49Episode: 2- Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
Episode: 2- Page 94: The Private Eye PodcastEpisode: 2- Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
Francis Wheen on everything you ever wanted to know about HSBC and the Telegraph, plus an interview with Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about the Eye's own Gnome Mart. Free ant with every download! (Please note: ant may be lost in transit) This channel is a compilation of all podcast of Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast. Enjoy!! Subscribe @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQClZjskHgnoSISAwjznpA A brand new podcast from the UK's number one best-selling current affairs magazine. With Ian Hislop. -
29:04University Challenge - Christmas 2014 E01 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs The University of Warwick
University Challenge - Christmas 2014 E01 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs The University of WarwickUniversity Challenge - Christmas 2014 E01 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs The University of Warwick
Festive version of the quiz featuring teams of university graduates. In Christmas University Challenge, teams of prominent graduates from 14 universities and university colleges will compete for the glory of their institutions and the honour of being declared Series Champions. Each team will compete in one of seven first round matches. The four teams with the highest winning scores will play in two semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final. Line-up (team captain listed first) King’s, Cambridge: Noreena Hertz, author, economics writer, academic and speaker; David Walker, Bishop of Manchester; Martin Bell, author and lecturer and Thomas Adès, composer, conductor and pianist. Trinity Hall, Cambridge: Adam Mars-Jones, novelist and literary critic; Tom James, Olympic gold medal-winning rower and management consultant; Dan Starkey, actor and Emma Pooley, Olympic silver medal-winning cyclist and professional triathlete. Royal Holloway, London: Francis Wheen, journalist, writer and broadcaster; Valerie Vaz, Labour MP for Walsall South; Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes and Tori James, speaker and adventurer. Manchester Metropolitan: Bernard Hill, actor; Eddie Morland, Chief Executive, Health and Safety Laboratory; Gordon Taylor, Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association and John Thomson, comedian and actor. York: Sir Michael Dixon, Director of the Natural History Museum; Adam Hart-Davis, writer and broadcaster; Helen Geake, archaeologist and Finds Adviser to the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum and Philip Lawson, composer, arranger and singer. Warwick: Simon Calder, travel writer and broadcaster; Jonathan Coe, novelist; Sir Bob Kerslake, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government and Simon Bailey, Keeper of the Archives, University of Oxford. Leeds: James Mates, ITV News’ Europe Editor and ITV Weekend news presenter; Jacqui Oatley, sports broadcaster and commentator; Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge and Julian Dutton, comedy writer and actor. Balliol, Oxford: Sir Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed; Charlotte Higgins, culture writer and journalist; Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute and Roger Cohen, op-ed columnist. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News anchor; Samuel West, actor and director; Michelle Paver, children’s author and Philip Hensher, novelist, critic and journalist. Hull: Dame Jenni Murray, journalist, writer, broadcaster and presenter of Women’s Hour; Rosie Millard, journalist and Chair of Hull City of Culture 2017, Malcolm Sinclair, actor and President of Equity and Stan Cullimore, musician, actor, children’s writer and columnist. Goldsmiths, London: Corrie Corfield, Radio 4 announcer and newsreader; Neil Innes, singer-songwriter; Fiona Rae, artist and Shazia Mirza, comedian and columnist. Surrey: Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics, author, broadcaster and presenter of Radio 4’s The Life Scientific; Sue Blackmore, psychology writer, lecturer and broadcaster; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor, composer and record producer and Michael Price, composer, editor and arranger for film and TV. Edinburgh: Philippa Gregory, author; Quentin Cooper, science writer and broadcaster; Allan Little, BBC special correspondent and Judith Miller, antiques expert, writer and broadcaster. Newcastle: Kate Adie, author and broadcaster; Giles Fraser, journalist, commentator and Church of England priest; Alastair Reynolds, science fiction author and John Yorke, Managing Director of Company Pictures. Fixture list: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs. Warwick - 20 Dec 2014 Hull vs. Newcastle - 23 Dec 2014 King’s, Cambridge vs. Royal Holloway, London - 24 Dec 2014 Edinburgh vs. Leeds - 25 Dec 2014 Trinity Hall, Cambridge vs. Balliol, Oxford - 26 Dec 2014 York vs. Surrey - 29 Dec 2014 Manchester Metropolitan vs. Goldsmiths, London - 30 Dec 2014 Semi-Final 1 - 31 Dec 2014 Semi-Final 2 - 1 Jan 2015 Final - 2 Jan 2015 -
2:51Francis Wheen at Lord North Street
Francis Wheen at Lord North StreetFrancis Wheen at Lord North Street
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2:18Francis Wheen at the Old Bailey
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2:19Francis Wheen at the Carlton House Terrace
Francis Wheen at the Carlton House TerraceFrancis Wheen at the Carlton House Terrace
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2:44Francis Wheen - Strange Days Indeed
Francis Wheen - Strange Days IndeedFrancis Wheen - Strange Days Indeed
Francis Wheen reads from his upcoming book, 'Strange Days Indeed,' at the Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary event held at the roundhouse in Camden. -
4:58Vultures on top of vultures - James Randi - The JREF - Atheist Trumps
Vultures on top of vultures - James Randi - The JREF - Atheist TrumpsVultures on top of vultures - James Randi - The JREF - Atheist Trumps
how the divine pen of m. nostradamus annihilated the modern atheist movement: http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/t1310-the-boobquake-911 dave gorman, adam rutherford, francis wheen, philip pullman, stephen fry, peter singer, adam savage, paul kurtz, stewart lee, ibzi lawrence, daniel loxton, -
30:43Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz June 26 2015 Full Podcast
Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz June 26 2015 Full PodcastFriday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz June 26 2015 Full Podcast
Sandi Toksvig hosts the long-running topical quiz for the last time, joined by Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus. Neil Sleat reads the cuttings. Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. A BBC Radio Comedy Production. Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent. Subscribed @ http://www.youtube.com/user/FridayNightComedyPod
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Francis Wheen @ 5x15 - On the 1970s
Francis Wheen explores the history of the 1970s. He began the decade as a schoolboy at Harrow, and he relives his experience of auditioning for the honour of singing the new boy's solo at Churchill's Songs, a process he describes as a "posh X-Factor". It was future Prime Minister Ted Heath who conducted the orchestra, and Wheen goes on to discuss Heath's chaotic early 1970s government. In the 25 years preceding Heath's government, there were two states of emergency declared in Britain (in 1955 and 1966); during his three-and-a-half-years in charge of the country, Heath declared five. It was around the time of the last state of emergency that Wheen decided to drop-out and move to London, but he soon found out that the counter-culture of the 1960's had long ended, crushed by the gloom of Hea... -
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-semitism, bullying and smugness which marred his years at Harrow. He says that public schools are nurseries of vice and immorality, which only call themselves independent out of shame. Their dubious charitable status, worth £100m a year, is subsidised by low income families. Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools -
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (12 of 12)
The remaining summations and the final vote: Martin Rowson, Barnaby Lenon, Francis Wheen. Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools -
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier; Writer Francis Wheen tells the that paedophile Charles Napier used fizzy drinks and biscuits to groom schoolchildren. -
Marx (In Our Time, 14/7/05)
*** "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". That should be enough for most of you to work out whom Radio 4 listeners have voted as their favourite philosopher: the winner of the In Our Time Greatest Philosopher Vote, chosen from 20 philosophers nominated by listeners and carried through on an electoral tidal wave of 28% of our 'first-past-the-post' vote is the communist theoretician, Karl Marx.So, when you strip away the Marxist-Leninism, the Soviet era and later Marxist theory, who was Karl Marx? Where does he stand in the history of philosophy? He wrote in his Theses on Feuerbach, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways,... -
Diana: The Mourning After - Pt2 (Christopher Hitchens)
Christopher Hitchens questions the mourning that occurred in the wake of Princess Diana's death. Funny. -
Episode: 2- Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
Francis Wheen on everything you ever wanted to know about HSBC and the Telegraph, plus an interview with Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about the Eye's own Gnome Mart. Free ant with every download! (Please note: ant may be lost in transit) This channel is a compilation of all podcast of Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast. Enjoy!! Subscribe @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQClZjskHgnoSISAwjznpA A brand new podcast from the UK's number one best-selling current affairs magazine. With Ian Hislop. -
University Challenge - Christmas 2014 E01 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs The University of Warwick
Festive version of the quiz featuring teams of university graduates. In Christmas University Challenge, teams of prominent graduates from 14 universities and university colleges will compete for the glory of their institutions and the honour of being declared Series Champions. Each team will compete in one of seven first round matches. The four teams with the highest winning scores will play in two semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final. Line-up (team captain listed first) King’s, Cambridge: Noreena Hertz, author, economics writer, academic and speaker; David Walker, Bishop of Manchester; Martin Bell, author and lecturer and Thomas Adès, composer, conductor and pianist. Trinity Hall, Cambridge: Adam Mars-Jones, novelist and literary critic; Tom James, Olympic gold medal-wi... -
Francis Wheen at Lord North Street
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Francis Wheen at the Old Bailey
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Francis Wheen at the Carlton House Terrace
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Francis Wheen - Strange Days Indeed
Francis Wheen reads from his upcoming book, 'Strange Days Indeed,' at the Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary event held at the roundhouse in Camden. -
Vultures on top of vultures - James Randi - The JREF - Atheist Trumps
how the divine pen of m. nostradamus annihilated the modern atheist movement: http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/t1310-the-boobquake-911 dave gorman, adam rutherford, francis wheen, philip pullman, stephen fry, peter singer, adam savage, paul kurtz, stewart lee, ibzi lawrence, daniel loxton, -
Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz June 26 2015 Full Podcast
Sandi Toksvig hosts the long-running topical quiz for the last time, joined by Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus. Neil Sleat reads the cuttings. Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. A BBC Radio Comedy Production. Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent. Subscribed @ http://www.youtube.com/user/FridayNightComedyPod -
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A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Zoe Lyons and Elis James join Miles to take a look at the headlines of the moment. Producer: Richard Morris A BBC Radio Comedy Production Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent. Subscribed @ http://www.youtube.com/user/FridayNightComedyPod -
Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz May 29 2015
Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and 'Answer Me This' podcaster Helen Zaltzman join regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and host Sandi Toksvig to discuss the Queen's Speech, naughty men from FIFA and internet trolls. Diana Speed reads the news. Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. A BBC Radio Comedy production. Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent. Subscribed @ http://www.youtube.com/user/FridayNightComedyPod -
Robert Maxwell's libel writs 1of3
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws -
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (Highlights)
Short highlights from the Intelligence Squared debate held on Wednesday 3 February at Central Hall Westminster. Arguing for the motion were Francis Wheen, Martin Rowson and David Aaronovitch. Arguing against the motion were Barnaby Lenon, Mary Beard and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. The debate was chaired by Francine Stock. Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools -
Robert Maxwell's libel writs 2of3
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws -
Robert Maxwell's libel writs 3of3
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws -
J'Accuse The News Part 2
From Channel 4's Without Walls season. Broadcast in 1994, a polemic by Allison Pearson criticising the values and journalism of BBC and ITN TV News. Includes contributions from Francis Wheen, Julia Somerville, Mark Tully and Joanna Coles and discussion about the way TV news covers the Third World. -
HS2 cost? Take the word billiion and stick a random number in front of it!
Sandi Toksvig with Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front, Roisin Conaty and Jeremy Hardy -
The "Kalam" Argument Is Pushing Up The Daisies. RIP!
"Breaking News - Dr. Craig Drops the Teleological Argument!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDO9WoN7G9A Th1sWATriumph's video about his book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZQ06UEOVE The other two books: "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World", by Francis Wheen "Chance and Necessity" by Jacques Monod Here is a video about Dr. Craig's use of his knowledge of physics, made by a lay person. I suspect a scientist doesn't have time to deal with Dr. Craig. I welcome any (well-founded) criticism about any mistakes you may discover in my presentation. Dr. Craig confuses "randomly formed universes" (an analogy with "Boltzmann's brain") with "bubble universes" or other kinds of universes, comprising a multiverse. Links to videos I have used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBIsLTQ-GKQ https:/...
Francis Wheen @ 5x15 - On the 1970s
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- Duration: 18:59
- Updated: 03 Feb 2014
- views: 675
Francis Wheen explores the history of the 1970s. He began the decade as a schoolboy at Harrow, and he relives his experience of auditioning for the honour of si...
Francis Wheen explores the history of the 1970s. He began the decade as a schoolboy at Harrow, and he relives his experience of auditioning for the honour of singing the new boy's solo at Churchill's Songs, a process he describes as a "posh X-Factor". It was future Prime Minister Ted Heath who conducted the orchestra, and Wheen goes on to discuss Heath's chaotic early 1970s government. In the 25 years preceding Heath's government, there were two states of emergency declared in Britain (in 1955 and 1966); during his three-and-a-half-years in charge of the country, Heath declared five. It was around the time of the last state of emergency that Wheen decided to drop-out and move to London, but he soon found out that the counter-culture of the 1960's had long ended, crushed by the gloom of Heath's almost Dickensian London. Wheen goes on to relate stories such as how William Armstrong, the head of the Civil Service, once gathered all of his staff together and told them to go home and prepare for Armageddon, how former Labour MP John Stonehouse unsuccessfully faked his own death, and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's mental decline. Overall, Wheen explains how the 1970s was a decade when the remarkable became unremarkable.
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Francis Wheen explores the history of the 1970s. He began the decade as a schoolboy at Harrow, and he relives his experience of auditioning for the honour of singing the new boy's solo at Churchill's Songs, a process he describes as a "posh X-Factor". It was future Prime Minister Ted Heath who conducted the orchestra, and Wheen goes on to discuss Heath's chaotic early 1970s government. In the 25 years preceding Heath's government, there were two states of emergency declared in Britain (in 1955 and 1966); during his three-and-a-half-years in charge of the country, Heath declared five. It was around the time of the last state of emergency that Wheen decided to drop-out and move to London, but he soon found out that the counter-culture of the 1960's had long ended, crushed by the gloom of Heath's almost Dickensian London. Wheen goes on to relate stories such as how William Armstrong, the head of the Civil Service, once gathered all of his staff together and told them to go home and prepare for Armageddon, how former Labour MP John Stonehouse unsuccessfully faked his own death, and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's mental decline. Overall, Wheen explains how the 1970s was a decade when the remarkable became unremarkable.
- published: 03 Feb 2014
- views: 675
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
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- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 05 Feb 2010
- views: 12415
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society
Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-se...
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society
Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-semitism, bullying and smugness which marred his years at Harrow. He says that public schools are nurseries of vice and immorality, which only call themselves independent out of shame. Their dubious charitable status, worth £100m a year, is subsidised by low income families.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
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Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society
Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-semitism, bullying and smugness which marred his years at Harrow. He says that public schools are nurseries of vice and immorality, which only call themselves independent out of shame. Their dubious charitable status, worth £100m a year, is subsidised by low income families.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
- published: 05 Feb 2010
- views: 12415
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (12 of 12)
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- Duration: 8:38
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
- views: 2063
The remaining summations and the final vote: Martin Rowson, Barnaby Lenon, Francis Wheen.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/p...
The remaining summations and the final vote: Martin Rowson, Barnaby Lenon, Francis Wheen.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
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The remaining summations and the final vote: Martin Rowson, Barnaby Lenon, Francis Wheen.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
- published: 18 Oct 2012
- views: 2063
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
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- Duration: 2:08
- Updated: 24 Dec 2014
- views: 208
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
Writer Francis Wheen tells the that paedophile Charles Napier used fizzy drinks and biscuits to gro...
Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
Writer Francis Wheen tells the that paedophile Charles Napier used fizzy drinks and biscuits to groom schoolchildren.
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Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
Writer Francis Wheen tells the that paedophile Charles Napier used fizzy drinks and biscuits to groom schoolchildren.
- published: 24 Dec 2014
- views: 208
Marx (In Our Time, 14/7/05)
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- Duration: 41:29
- Updated: 07 Dec 2015
- views: 25
*** "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and "From each according to his abilities, t...
*** "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". That should be enough for most of you to work out whom Radio 4 listeners have voted as their favourite philosopher: the winner of the In Our Time Greatest Philosopher Vote, chosen from 20 philosophers nominated by listeners and carried through on an electoral tidal wave of 28% of our 'first-past-the-post' vote is the communist theoretician, Karl Marx.So, when you strip away the Marxist-Leninism, the Soviet era and later Marxist theory, who was Karl Marx? Where does he stand in the history of philosophy? He wrote in his Theses on Feuerbach, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it" - which begs the question, is he really a philosopher at all? ***
GUESTS:
Anthony Grayling
Francis Wheen
Gareth Stedman Jones
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*** "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". That should be enough for most of you to work out whom Radio 4 listeners have voted as their favourite philosopher: the winner of the In Our Time Greatest Philosopher Vote, chosen from 20 philosophers nominated by listeners and carried through on an electoral tidal wave of 28% of our 'first-past-the-post' vote is the communist theoretician, Karl Marx.So, when you strip away the Marxist-Leninism, the Soviet era and later Marxist theory, who was Karl Marx? Where does he stand in the history of philosophy? He wrote in his Theses on Feuerbach, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it" - which begs the question, is he really a philosopher at all? ***
GUESTS:
Anthony Grayling
Francis Wheen
Gareth Stedman Jones
- published: 07 Dec 2015
- views: 25
Diana: The Mourning After - Pt2 (Christopher Hitchens)
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- Duration: 10:48
- Updated: 07 Mar 2013
- views: 22817
Christopher Hitchens questions the mourning that occurred in the wake of Princess Diana's death. Funny.
Christopher Hitchens questions the mourning that occurred in the wake of Princess Diana's death. Funny.
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Christopher Hitchens questions the mourning that occurred in the wake of Princess Diana's death. Funny.
- published: 07 Mar 2013
- views: 22817
Episode: 2- Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
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- Duration: 20:49
- Updated: 22 Mar 2015
- views: 94
Francis Wheen on everything you ever wanted to know about HSBC and the Telegraph, plus an interview with Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about the Eye's own Gnome Ma...
Francis Wheen on everything you ever wanted to know about HSBC and the Telegraph, plus an interview with Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about the Eye's own Gnome Mart. Free ant with every download! (Please note: ant may be lost in transit)
This channel is a compilation of all podcast of Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast. Enjoy!!
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A brand new podcast from the UK's number one best-selling current affairs magazine. With Ian Hislop.
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Francis Wheen on everything you ever wanted to know about HSBC and the Telegraph, plus an interview with Ian Hislop and Nick Newman about the Eye's own Gnome Mart. Free ant with every download! (Please note: ant may be lost in transit)
This channel is a compilation of all podcast of Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast. Enjoy!!
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A brand new podcast from the UK's number one best-selling current affairs magazine. With Ian Hislop.
- published: 22 Mar 2015
- views: 94
University Challenge - Christmas 2014 E01 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs The University of Warwick
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- Duration: 29:04
- Updated: 20 Dec 2014
- views: 10682
Festive version of the quiz featuring teams of university graduates.
In Christmas University Challenge, teams of prominent graduates from 14 universities and ...
Festive version of the quiz featuring teams of university graduates.
In Christmas University Challenge, teams of prominent graduates from 14 universities and university colleges will compete for the glory of their institutions and the honour of being declared Series Champions.
Each team will compete in one of seven first round matches.
The four teams with the highest winning scores will play in two semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final.
Line-up (team captain listed first)
King’s, Cambridge: Noreena Hertz, author, economics writer, academic and speaker; David Walker, Bishop of Manchester; Martin Bell, author and lecturer and Thomas Adès, composer, conductor and pianist.
Trinity Hall, Cambridge: Adam Mars-Jones, novelist and literary critic; Tom James, Olympic gold medal-winning rower and management consultant; Dan Starkey, actor and Emma Pooley, Olympic silver medal-winning cyclist and professional triathlete.
Royal Holloway, London: Francis Wheen, journalist, writer and broadcaster; Valerie Vaz, Labour MP for Walsall South; Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes and Tori James, speaker and adventurer.
Manchester Metropolitan: Bernard Hill, actor; Eddie Morland, Chief Executive, Health and Safety Laboratory; Gordon Taylor, Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association and John Thomson, comedian and actor.
York: Sir Michael Dixon, Director of the Natural History Museum; Adam Hart-Davis, writer and broadcaster; Helen Geake, archaeologist and Finds Adviser to the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum and Philip Lawson, composer, arranger and singer.
Warwick: Simon Calder, travel writer and broadcaster; Jonathan Coe, novelist; Sir Bob Kerslake, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government and Simon Bailey, Keeper of the Archives, University of Oxford.
Leeds: James Mates, ITV News’ Europe Editor and ITV Weekend news presenter; Jacqui Oatley, sports broadcaster and commentator; Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge and Julian Dutton, comedy writer and actor.
Balliol, Oxford: Sir Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed; Charlotte Higgins, culture writer and journalist; Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute and Roger Cohen, op-ed columnist.
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News anchor; Samuel West, actor and director; Michelle Paver, children’s author and Philip Hensher, novelist, critic and journalist.
Hull: Dame Jenni Murray, journalist, writer, broadcaster and presenter of Women’s Hour; Rosie Millard, journalist and Chair of Hull City of Culture 2017, Malcolm Sinclair, actor and President of Equity and Stan Cullimore, musician, actor, children’s writer and columnist.
Goldsmiths, London: Corrie Corfield, Radio 4 announcer and newsreader; Neil Innes, singer-songwriter; Fiona Rae, artist and Shazia Mirza, comedian and columnist.
Surrey: Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics, author, broadcaster and presenter of Radio 4’s The Life Scientific; Sue Blackmore, psychology writer, lecturer and broadcaster; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor, composer and record producer and Michael Price, composer, editor and arranger for film and TV.
Edinburgh: Philippa Gregory, author; Quentin Cooper, science writer and broadcaster; Allan Little, BBC special correspondent and Judith Miller, antiques expert, writer and broadcaster.
Newcastle: Kate Adie, author and broadcaster; Giles Fraser, journalist, commentator and Church of England priest; Alastair Reynolds, science fiction author and John Yorke, Managing Director of Company Pictures.
Fixture list:
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs. Warwick - 20 Dec 2014
Hull vs. Newcastle - 23 Dec 2014
King’s, Cambridge vs. Royal Holloway, London - 24 Dec 2014
Edinburgh vs. Leeds - 25 Dec 2014
Trinity Hall, Cambridge vs. Balliol, Oxford - 26 Dec 2014
York vs. Surrey - 29 Dec 2014
Manchester Metropolitan vs. Goldsmiths, London - 30 Dec 2014
Semi-Final 1 - 31 Dec 2014
Semi-Final 2 - 1 Jan 2015
Final - 2 Jan 2015
wn.com/University Challenge Christmas 2014 E01 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Vs The University Of Warwick
Festive version of the quiz featuring teams of university graduates.
In Christmas University Challenge, teams of prominent graduates from 14 universities and university colleges will compete for the glory of their institutions and the honour of being declared Series Champions.
Each team will compete in one of seven first round matches.
The four teams with the highest winning scores will play in two semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final.
Line-up (team captain listed first)
King’s, Cambridge: Noreena Hertz, author, economics writer, academic and speaker; David Walker, Bishop of Manchester; Martin Bell, author and lecturer and Thomas Adès, composer, conductor and pianist.
Trinity Hall, Cambridge: Adam Mars-Jones, novelist and literary critic; Tom James, Olympic gold medal-winning rower and management consultant; Dan Starkey, actor and Emma Pooley, Olympic silver medal-winning cyclist and professional triathlete.
Royal Holloway, London: Francis Wheen, journalist, writer and broadcaster; Valerie Vaz, Labour MP for Walsall South; Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes and Tori James, speaker and adventurer.
Manchester Metropolitan: Bernard Hill, actor; Eddie Morland, Chief Executive, Health and Safety Laboratory; Gordon Taylor, Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association and John Thomson, comedian and actor.
York: Sir Michael Dixon, Director of the Natural History Museum; Adam Hart-Davis, writer and broadcaster; Helen Geake, archaeologist and Finds Adviser to the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum and Philip Lawson, composer, arranger and singer.
Warwick: Simon Calder, travel writer and broadcaster; Jonathan Coe, novelist; Sir Bob Kerslake, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government and Simon Bailey, Keeper of the Archives, University of Oxford.
Leeds: James Mates, ITV News’ Europe Editor and ITV Weekend news presenter; Jacqui Oatley, sports broadcaster and commentator; Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge and Julian Dutton, comedy writer and actor.
Balliol, Oxford: Sir Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed; Charlotte Higgins, culture writer and journalist; Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute and Roger Cohen, op-ed columnist.
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News anchor; Samuel West, actor and director; Michelle Paver, children’s author and Philip Hensher, novelist, critic and journalist.
Hull: Dame Jenni Murray, journalist, writer, broadcaster and presenter of Women’s Hour; Rosie Millard, journalist and Chair of Hull City of Culture 2017, Malcolm Sinclair, actor and President of Equity and Stan Cullimore, musician, actor, children’s writer and columnist.
Goldsmiths, London: Corrie Corfield, Radio 4 announcer and newsreader; Neil Innes, singer-songwriter; Fiona Rae, artist and Shazia Mirza, comedian and columnist.
Surrey: Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics, author, broadcaster and presenter of Radio 4’s The Life Scientific; Sue Blackmore, psychology writer, lecturer and broadcaster; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor, composer and record producer and Michael Price, composer, editor and arranger for film and TV.
Edinburgh: Philippa Gregory, author; Quentin Cooper, science writer and broadcaster; Allan Little, BBC special correspondent and Judith Miller, antiques expert, writer and broadcaster.
Newcastle: Kate Adie, author and broadcaster; Giles Fraser, journalist, commentator and Church of England priest; Alastair Reynolds, science fiction author and John Yorke, Managing Director of Company Pictures.
Fixture list:
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford vs. Warwick - 20 Dec 2014
Hull vs. Newcastle - 23 Dec 2014
King’s, Cambridge vs. Royal Holloway, London - 24 Dec 2014
Edinburgh vs. Leeds - 25 Dec 2014
Trinity Hall, Cambridge vs. Balliol, Oxford - 26 Dec 2014
York vs. Surrey - 29 Dec 2014
Manchester Metropolitan vs. Goldsmiths, London - 30 Dec 2014
Semi-Final 1 - 31 Dec 2014
Semi-Final 2 - 1 Jan 2015
Final - 2 Jan 2015
- published: 20 Dec 2014
- views: 10682
Francis Wheen at Lord North Street
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Updated: 16 Aug 2009
- views: 1360
- published: 16 Aug 2009
- views: 1360
Francis Wheen at the Old Bailey
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:18
- Updated: 16 Aug 2009
- views: 2242
- published: 16 Aug 2009
- views: 2242
Francis Wheen at the Carlton House Terrace
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 16 Aug 2009
- views: 1060
- published: 16 Aug 2009
- views: 1060
Francis Wheen - Strange Days Indeed
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- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 25 Aug 2009
- views: 861
Francis Wheen reads from his upcoming book, 'Strange Days Indeed,' at the Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary event held at the roundhouse in Camden.
Francis Wheen reads from his upcoming book, 'Strange Days Indeed,' at the Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary event held at the roundhouse in Camden.
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Francis Wheen reads from his upcoming book, 'Strange Days Indeed,' at the Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary event held at the roundhouse in Camden.
- published: 25 Aug 2009
- views: 861
Vultures on top of vultures - James Randi - The JREF - Atheist Trumps
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:58
- Updated: 10 Jul 2012
- views: 777
how the divine pen of m. nostradamus annihilated the modern atheist movement:
http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/t1310-the-boobquake-911
dave gorman...
how the divine pen of m. nostradamus annihilated the modern atheist movement:
http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/t1310-the-boobquake-911
dave gorman,
adam rutherford,
francis wheen,
philip pullman,
stephen fry,
peter singer,
adam savage,
paul kurtz,
stewart lee,
ibzi lawrence,
daniel loxton,
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how the divine pen of m. nostradamus annihilated the modern atheist movement:
http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/t1310-the-boobquake-911
dave gorman,
adam rutherford,
francis wheen,
philip pullman,
stephen fry,
peter singer,
adam savage,
paul kurtz,
stewart lee,
ibzi lawrence,
daniel loxton,
- published: 10 Jul 2012
- views: 777
Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz June 26 2015 Full Podcast
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- Duration: 30:43
- Updated: 26 Jun 2015
- views: 5805
Sandi Toksvig hosts the long-running topical quiz for the last time, joined by Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus. Neil Sleat reads th...
Sandi Toksvig hosts the long-running topical quiz for the last time, joined by Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus. Neil Sleat reads the cuttings. Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. A BBC Radio Comedy Production.
Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent.
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Sandi Toksvig hosts the long-running topical quiz for the last time, joined by Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus. Neil Sleat reads the cuttings. Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. A BBC Radio Comedy Production.
Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent.
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- published: 26 Jun 2015
- views: 5805
FridayNightComedyFromBBCRadio4 20151030 FriComedyTheNewsQuiz30Oct2015
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- Duration: 28:10
- Updated: 01 Nov 2015
- views: 2098
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Zoe Lyons and Elis James join Miles to take a look at the headlines o...
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Zoe Lyons and Elis James join Miles to take a look at the headlines of the moment. Producer: Richard Morris A BBC Radio Comedy Production
Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent.
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A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Zoe Lyons and Elis James join Miles to take a look at the headlines of the moment. Producer: Richard Morris A BBC Radio Comedy Production
Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent.
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- published: 01 Nov 2015
- views: 2098
Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz May 29 2015
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:18
- Updated: 30 May 2015
- views: 4376
Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and 'Answer Me This' podcaster Helen Zaltzman join regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and host Sandi Toksvig to discuss the Queen's Spe...
Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and 'Answer Me This' podcaster Helen Zaltzman join regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and host Sandi Toksvig to discuss the Queen's Speech, naughty men from FIFA and internet trolls. Diana Speed reads the news. Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. A BBC Radio Comedy production.
Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent.
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wn.com/Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz May 29 2015
Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and 'Answer Me This' podcaster Helen Zaltzman join regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and host Sandi Toksvig to discuss the Queen's Speech, naughty men from FIFA and internet trolls. Diana Speed reads the news. Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. A BBC Radio Comedy production.
Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent.
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- published: 30 May 2015
- views: 4376
Robert Maxwell's libel writs 1of3
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- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 09 Feb 2009
- views: 5917
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
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From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
- published: 09 Feb 2009
- views: 5917
IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (Highlights)
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 04 Feb 2010
- views: 7330
Short highlights from the Intelligence Squared debate held on Wednesday 3 February at Central Hall Westminster. Arguing for the motion were Francis Wheen, Marti...
Short highlights from the Intelligence Squared debate held on Wednesday 3 February at Central Hall Westminster. Arguing for the motion were Francis Wheen, Martin Rowson and David Aaronovitch. Arguing against the motion were Barnaby Lenon, Mary Beard and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. The debate was chaired by Francine Stock.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
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Short highlights from the Intelligence Squared debate held on Wednesday 3 February at Central Hall Westminster. Arguing for the motion were Francis Wheen, Martin Rowson and David Aaronovitch. Arguing against the motion were Barnaby Lenon, Mary Beard and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. The debate was chaired by Francine Stock.
Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/public-schools
- published: 04 Feb 2010
- views: 7330
Robert Maxwell's libel writs 2of3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 09 Feb 2009
- views: 3171
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
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From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
- published: 09 Feb 2009
- views: 3171
Robert Maxwell's libel writs 3of3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:43
- Updated: 09 Feb 2009
- views: 2558
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
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From 1992, Francis Wheen looks at Robert Maxwell's attempts to stifle journalist by using the British libel laws
- published: 09 Feb 2009
- views: 2558
J'Accuse The News Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:04
- Updated: 20 Jan 2008
- views: 3498
From Channel 4's Without Walls season. Broadcast in 1994, a polemic by Allison Pearson criticising the values and journalism of BBC and ITN TV News.
Includes...
From Channel 4's Without Walls season. Broadcast in 1994, a polemic by Allison Pearson criticising the values and journalism of BBC and ITN TV News.
Includes contributions from Francis Wheen, Julia Somerville, Mark Tully and Joanna Coles and discussion about the way TV news covers the Third World.
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From Channel 4's Without Walls season. Broadcast in 1994, a polemic by Allison Pearson criticising the values and journalism of BBC and ITN TV News.
Includes contributions from Francis Wheen, Julia Somerville, Mark Tully and Joanna Coles and discussion about the way TV news covers the Third World.
- published: 20 Jan 2008
- views: 3498
HS2 cost? Take the word billiion and stick a random number in front of it!
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
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Sandi Toksvig with Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front, Roisin Conaty and Jeremy Hardy
- published: 02 Feb 2013
- views: 724
The "Kalam" Argument Is Pushing Up The Daisies. RIP!
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- Duration: 18:08
- Updated: 19 Jul 2013
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"Breaking News - Dr. Craig Drops the Teleological Argument!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDO9WoN7G9A
Th1sWATriumph's video about his book:
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"Breaking News - Dr. Craig Drops the Teleological Argument!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDO9WoN7G9A
Th1sWATriumph's video about his book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZQ06UEOVE
The other two books:
"How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World", by Francis Wheen
"Chance and Necessity" by Jacques Monod
Here is a video about Dr. Craig's use of his knowledge of physics, made by a lay person. I suspect a scientist doesn't have time to deal with Dr. Craig. I welcome any (well-founded) criticism about any mistakes you may discover in my presentation.
Dr. Craig confuses "randomly formed universes" (an analogy with "Boltzmann's brain") with "bubble universes" or other kinds of universes, comprising a multiverse.
Links to videos I have used:
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"Breaking News - Dr. Craig Drops the Teleological Argument!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDO9WoN7G9A
Th1sWATriumph's video about his book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZQ06UEOVE
The other two books:
"How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World", by Francis Wheen
"Chance and Necessity" by Jacques Monod
Here is a video about Dr. Craig's use of his knowledge of physics, made by a lay person. I suspect a scientist doesn't have time to deal with Dr. Craig. I welcome any (well-founded) criticism about any mistakes you may discover in my presentation.
Dr. Craig confuses "randomly formed universes" (an analogy with "Boltzmann's brain") with "bubble universes" or other kinds of universes, comprising a multiverse.
Links to videos I have used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBIsLTQ-GKQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHEp855NS6c
- published: 19 Jul 2013
- views: 579
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Dillon Francis - When We Were Young (Grandtheft Remix)
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J'Accuse The News Part 1
From Channel 4's Without Walls strand which was broadcast as part of the "Whose News?" season. A polemic by Allison Pearson in 1994 criticising the values and journalism of BBC and ITN TV News, specifically the use of technology, two-ways, human interest stories and presentation techniques. Includes clips from ITN (Lunchtime News, Early Evening News, News At Ten, London Tonight), BBC News (the 1993 virtual reality sets of Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Six O'Clock News and Nine O'Clock News), Channel 4 News and The Day Today. Features brief clips of: John Suchet, Carol Barnes, Alistar Stewart, Fiona Foster, Trevor McDonald, Michael Brunson, Julia Somerfield, Lance Price, Jon Snow, Peter Sissons, Penny Marshall, Jonathan Charles, Mark Austin, Tom Bradby, Mark Davenport. Contribut... -
Nshuti, Team Leader in Rwanda interviewing Quarat, Finance Officer in WaterAid in Pakistan
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Hanif Kureishi in conversation with Kenan Malik -- Part 2
Closing night of Asia House's Festival of Asian Literature My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia. His new collection begins with the introduction to My Beautiful Laundrette which allowed him to expand upon the questions posed by the film -- about race, class, sexuality. Over the past decades he has developed these ideas as Islam's relation to the West has become one of the burning issues of our age. As with his fictional work, these essays display Kureishi's ability to capture the temper of the times. His conversation with Kenan Malik (From Fatwa To Jihad), himself an outspoken commentator, is sure to provoke an intense and fascinating discussion. This evening is produced in partnership with the Royal Commonwealth Society Filmed & Edited by http://www.yorksmith.co.uk/vide... -
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The Cousins Barry Show, Episode 10- "Return Visit From Sir Francis Bacon"
Sir Francis Bacon, (22 January 1561 9 April 1626) "was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution." Apparently, Sir Bacon is also a laid-back fellow with a surfer, home-spun philosophy, which he attempts to share with us here. Our second show broadcast from The Beach! -
Audio Book Review: Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography: Books That Changed the World by Francis Wheen...
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Dillon Francis - When We Were Young (Grandtheft Remix)
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Have I Got News For You - Paul Merton Being Brilliantly Surreal
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- Duration: 2:09
- Updated: 19 Sep 2010
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Paul Merton strings together a typically surreal story about the four faces of the odd-one-out round with the (almost) correct answer. HIGNFY, Series 7, Episode...
Paul Merton strings together a typically surreal story about the four faces of the odd-one-out round with the (almost) correct answer. HIGNFY, Series 7, Episode 3.
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Paul Merton strings together a typically surreal story about the four faces of the odd-one-out round with the (almost) correct answer. HIGNFY, Series 7, Episode 3.
- published: 19 Sep 2010
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J'Accuse The News Part 1
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- Duration: 9:58
- Updated: 20 Jan 2008
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From Channel 4's Without Walls strand which was broadcast as part of the "Whose News?" season. A polemic by Allison Pearson in 1994 criticising the values and ...
From Channel 4's Without Walls strand which was broadcast as part of the "Whose News?" season. A polemic by Allison Pearson in 1994 criticising the values and journalism of BBC and ITN TV News, specifically the use of technology, two-ways, human interest stories and presentation techniques. Includes clips from ITN (Lunchtime News, Early Evening News, News At Ten, London Tonight), BBC News (the 1993 virtual reality sets of Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Six O'Clock News and Nine O'Clock News), Channel 4 News and The Day Today.
Features brief clips of: John Suchet, Carol Barnes, Alistar Stewart, Fiona Foster, Trevor McDonald, Michael Brunson, Julia Somerfield, Lance Price, Jon Snow, Peter Sissons, Penny Marshall, Jonathan Charles, Mark Austin, Tom Bradby, Mark Davenport.
Contributors include Stewart Purvis (then ITN Editor In Chief), Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and Desmond Hamill.
Note the reference in the introduction to the fact that we will soon be able to access news through our computers!
For a more contemporary critique of television news, look up clips from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe on BBC4.
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From Channel 4's Without Walls strand which was broadcast as part of the "Whose News?" season. A polemic by Allison Pearson in 1994 criticising the values and journalism of BBC and ITN TV News, specifically the use of technology, two-ways, human interest stories and presentation techniques. Includes clips from ITN (Lunchtime News, Early Evening News, News At Ten, London Tonight), BBC News (the 1993 virtual reality sets of Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Six O'Clock News and Nine O'Clock News), Channel 4 News and The Day Today.
Features brief clips of: John Suchet, Carol Barnes, Alistar Stewart, Fiona Foster, Trevor McDonald, Michael Brunson, Julia Somerfield, Lance Price, Jon Snow, Peter Sissons, Penny Marshall, Jonathan Charles, Mark Austin, Tom Bradby, Mark Davenport.
Contributors include Stewart Purvis (then ITN Editor In Chief), Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and Desmond Hamill.
Note the reference in the introduction to the fact that we will soon be able to access news through our computers!
For a more contemporary critique of television news, look up clips from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe on BBC4.
- published: 20 Jan 2008
- views: 7668
Nshuti, Team Leader in Rwanda interviewing Quarat, Finance Officer in WaterAid in Pakistan
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- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 21 Nov 2011
- views: 78
Hanif Kureishi in conversation with Kenan Malik -- Part 2
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- Duration: 14:21
- Updated: 06 Jun 2011
- views: 2301
Closing night of Asia House's Festival of Asian Literature
My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia. His new collection begins with the introduction...
Closing night of Asia House's Festival of Asian Literature
My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia. His new collection begins with the introduction to My Beautiful Laundrette which allowed him to expand upon the questions posed by the film -- about race, class, sexuality. Over the past decades he has developed these ideas as Islam's relation to the West has become one of the burning issues of our age.
As with his fictional work, these essays display Kureishi's ability to capture the temper of the times. His conversation with Kenan Malik (From Fatwa To Jihad), himself an outspoken commentator, is sure to provoke an intense and fascinating discussion.
This evening is produced in partnership with the Royal Commonwealth Society
Filmed & Edited by http://www.yorksmith.co.uk/video-production/event-filming/
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Closing night of Asia House's Festival of Asian Literature
My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia. His new collection begins with the introduction to My Beautiful Laundrette which allowed him to expand upon the questions posed by the film -- about race, class, sexuality. Over the past decades he has developed these ideas as Islam's relation to the West has become one of the burning issues of our age.
As with his fictional work, these essays display Kureishi's ability to capture the temper of the times. His conversation with Kenan Malik (From Fatwa To Jihad), himself an outspoken commentator, is sure to provoke an intense and fascinating discussion.
This evening is produced in partnership with the Royal Commonwealth Society
Filmed & Edited by http://www.yorksmith.co.uk/video-production/event-filming/
- published: 06 Jun 2011
- views: 2301
Francis Lawrence
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 08 Feb 2012
- views: 120
- published: 08 Feb 2012
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The Cousins Barry Show, Episode 10- "Return Visit From Sir Francis Bacon"
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- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 09 Apr 2010
- views: 89
Sir Francis Bacon, (22 January 1561 9 April 1626) "was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney Gene...
Sir Francis Bacon, (22 January 1561 9 April 1626) "was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution." Apparently, Sir Bacon is also a laid-back fellow with a surfer, home-spun philosophy, which he attempts to share with us here. Our second show broadcast from The Beach!
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Sir Francis Bacon, (22 January 1561 9 April 1626) "was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution." Apparently, Sir Bacon is also a laid-back fellow with a surfer, home-spun philosophy, which he attempts to share with us here. Our second show broadcast from The Beach!
- published: 09 Apr 2010
- views: 89
Audio Book Review: Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography: Books That Changed the World by Francis Wheen...
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- Duration: 1:21
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
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This is the summary of Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography: Books That Changed the World by Francis Wheen (Author), Simon Vance (Narr...
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This is the summary of Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography: Books That Changed the World by Francis Wheen (Author), Simon Vance (Narrator).
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Carlton House
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 10 Feb 2011
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- published: 10 Feb 2011
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Audio Book Review: Born of Ice: A League Novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator)
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This is the summary of Born of Ice: A League Novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator).
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Francis Wheen @ 5x15 - On the 1970s
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IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
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Francis Wheen ;None of us thought to report Charles Napier;
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Marx (In Our Time, 14/7/05)
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Episode: 2- Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
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Francis Wheen - Strange Days Indeed
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Vultures on top of vultures - James Randi - The JREF - Atheist Trumps
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Friday Night Comedy Podcast The News Quiz June 26 2015 Full Podcast
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Woman arrested in Moscow for murder after brandishing child's severed head
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Monday they had arrested a nanny and charged her with murdering a young child in her care after local media broadcast footage of a woman brandishing a severed head near a busy Moscow metro station ... The motive for the crime was unknown, they said....
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Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Wins An Oscar For Best Actor
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Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar for 'The Revenant' (Photo credit. VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images) After four nominations, Leonardo DiCaprio has finally earned an Oscar for his role in The Revenant. The actor beat out competition from Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl), Matt Damon (The Martian) and Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs). In [...] ... ....
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Pakistan on alert as governor's assassin is hanged
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Pakistan on Monday hanged the assassin of a governor seeking reform of the country's blasphemy law, officials said, in a blow to the supporters who feted Mumtaz Qadri as a hero and had threatened violence if he was executed ... Qadri, a former police bodyguard, shot liberal Punjab governor Salman Taseer 28 times in an upscale market in Islamabad in 2011 ... "We started crying, but he hugged us and chanted 'God is great,'" Abid said ... ....
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Brie Larson wins Best Actress Oscar for 'Room'
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Actress Brie Larson won her first Oscar in the best actress category for her heartbreaking portrayal of a woman kidnapped and kept in captivity for years in 'Room'. Larson, 26, was favourite in the highly competitive category despite critically-applauded performances by previous Oscar-winners Cate Blanchett (Carol) and Jennifer Lawrence (Joy) ... "Thank you Academy ... ....
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Pay up or else ... What's more, the festival demands that writers do not appear on the same topic within 30 days or 40 miles of the festival ... Only the authors are expected to work for nothing. Many of us have had enough of that," he said. Novelist and critic Amanda Craig wrote an open letter calling for the boycott that other writers such as Linda Grant, Francis Wheen, Joanne Harris and Louisa Young have now signed ... ....
Bowie was to the 70s what the Beatles were to the 60s
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If the Beatles captured a 60s of optimism and love, Bowie was the signature artist of the 70s – distilling paranoia and confusion into pop both euphoric and terrifying. David Bowie had no feel for the 1960s. No wonder he floundered ... The 1970s, though ... A decade of cults, terrorists, scandals, recessions, defeats, environmental panic and a sense of constant crisis – what Francis Wheen described in his book Strange Days Indeed ... Related ... ....
David Bowie: the man who thrilled the world
Edit The Guardian 11 Jan 2016
From glam to neo-soul to his mysterious final album, David Bowie remained one step ahead throughout a prophetic career that pushed sexual and social boundaries. Alexis Petridis salutes a brilliant enigma ... “Look at me, I’m in heaven ... But The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is riven with dread and horror, mired in what the journalist Francis Wheen later called “the collective nervous breakdown” of the 1970s ... ....
David Bowie: Blackstar review – a spellbinding break with his past
Edit The Guardian 07 Jan 2016
4 / 5 stars. Taking a headlong plunge into electro-acoustic jazz, Bowie’s 25th album is lyrically inscrutable and thrillingly strange. @alexispetridis ... Related ... It seemed plausible ... there’s a pleasing circularity to the idea of a muse that burst into life amid what the writer Francis Wheen called the “collective nervous breakdown” of the 1970s, apparently sparking up again amid the collective nervous breakdown of the present day ... Twitter ... ....
Stoke City 0 Liverpool 1: Mark Hughes out of time as hope of reviving Potters’ ...
Edit The Independent 05 Jan 2016
... 1970s from Watergate to the belief that the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, was a Soviet agent, the journalist Francis Wheen recalled a conversation in a newspaper office....
The bad sex award needs a new sort of climax
Edit The Guardian 20 Nov 2015
The Literary Review has been a force for good in British public life, and I must sentimentally say that it was the first place I ever had anything published ... Well, I haven’t read that ... Related. Bad sex award 2015 ... No ... One of the congregants, Karl Marx’s biographer Francis Wheen, told me that a notorious erotic novel – a work by the New Statesman’s former film critic John Coleman – had recently been reissued as a Kindle download ... ....
William Shawcross, profile: From scourge of Nixon to Establishment lackey?
Edit The Independent 05 Sep 2015
One day last year a man with a kindly face beset by a mass of greying curls answered the door of his comfortable home to a young Eritrean who asked him for money ... But to some it was a political appointment, initiated by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude ... Sketch by Lauren Crow ... The Making of a Media Empire in 1992, he was denounced by the journalist Francis Wheen, who claimed he was “genetically programmed” to fickle politics ... Born ... ....
Wellbeing is a healthy business
Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 20 Mar 2015
South Africa’s was going down “but is beginning to slowly go up” ... “Chopra’s transformation from an obscure salesman of alternative potions to a national guru can be dated precisely to Monday, July 12 1993, when he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show to promote his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind,” writes sceptic and critic Francis Wheen in How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World....
Living with dementia: now we can say to the scared and frail: you needn’t be alone
Edit The Guardian 08 Mar 2015
The times they are a-changing. The tide is turning. A culture that for so many years has been dominated by diagnosis and cure, targets met or targets failed, is softening ... Obituaries sometimes talk of people “losing the battle” against their illness ... Last week, I went with my co-campaigners Julia Jones and Francis Wheen, and with our unflagging parliamentary patron Valerie Vaz to whom we owe so much, to the House of Commons ... To say ... ....
The Top Ten: Synonyms that sound like opposites
Edit The Independent 22 Feb 2015
Tom Startup pointed out that flammable and inflammable appear to be opposites but actually mean the same. Someone called Generally Right offered slim chance and fat chance, which is nice ... 1 ... 2. Heritable, inheritable Chris Jones at the double ... Ravel, unravel Xlibris1 again and Francis Wheen, who says ... --> ... ....
Seven things you didn't know about me: The latest Facebook fad
Edit The Independent 02 Feb 2015
Bonnie Greer. Bonnie Greer is a playwright, novelist, librettist and critic. She is also the Chancellor of Kingston University in Surrey. 1 I’m a direct descendant of a black man who owned slaves. 2 One of my mentors was Norman Mailer. He totally supported my work. I hate it when he’s labelled a misogynist. He wasn’t to me. 3 My true love is theoretical maths and physics ... Francis Wheen. Francis Wheen is a journalist, writer and broadcaster ... ....
Londoner's Diary: Only Savile Row will suit to meet the President
Edit London Evening Standard 26 Jan 2015
The first day of Barack Obama’s visit to India was marked by a breakthrough on the two countries’ nuclear deal but there was also an unexpected fashion highlight ... Journalist Johann Hari — who stepped down from the Independent four years ago after owning up to plagiarism and insulting fellow hacks via a sock puppet — has sent off letters of contrition to two of his victims, the Observer’s Nick Cohen and Private Eye’s Francis Wheen ... ....
Economists got it right on carbon tax, even if Greg Hunt doesn't want to admit it
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 24 Dec 2014
If you categorise Marx's Das Kapital as an unfinished literary masterpiece, as Francis Wheen has done, then there's no ......
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