Word: bbc
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...juniors, along with Gian Neffinger'93 and Oliver Strauch '94. The record found itsway across the country; it was received warmly atBU, BC, Princeton, Columbia and even as far awayas Berkeley. Then someone sent a copy to Europe.The music pioneer John Peel, of "Peel Sessions"fame, played it on BBC radio, and suddenly BettyPlease started receiving fan mail from England andScotland. The record then made its way to Germany,where it also met with success...
...Angeles' excellent KROQ for several years. I was dismayed to find that while WHRB would come in over my phone, WFNX just wouldn't come in on my radio. I needed my Peter Gabriel, my Pearl Jam, my R.E.M.! Flipping aimlessly through station after station, from WBUR's BBC coverage to Kiss 108's irritating dance mixes, I eventually found what I was looking for--on WBOS, the station that the Unofficial Guide characterizes as "Fleetwood Mac and the Doobies...
Better yet, watch Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) face a similar problem in To Play the King, a wickedly entertaining BBC mini-series that has just debuted on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for a four-week run. Urquhart, the Machiavellian party hack who schemed his way to the prime ministry in the 1990 mini-series House of Cards, is now ensconced in power but facing an unexpected challenge from the newly crowned King of England. The politically naive but idealistic monarch (modeled loosely on Prince Charles) has taken to delivering feisty, compassionate speeches about the poor and staging canny photo...
...after getting an interoffice memo from London headquarters warning that Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Service was threatening to confiscate flak jackets needed in Bosnia. Customs, according to the memo, had also become concerned about whether four-wheel-drive vehicles were being illegally exported. It added, "The BBC, presumably in their eyes a well-known terrorist group, would be treated like any other potential mercenary." The document concluded with the sarcastic assertion that should any staffer get "shot dead by some scumbag in Bosnia," the BBC would definitely complain...
Once again, U.S. audiences have the British to thank for doing overdue justice to an icon of American popular culture. This first-ever TV version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess comes not from an American network but from the BBC. The director is a seasoned hand at such transatlantic transactions: Trevor Nunn, former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the man who brought Cats and Les Miserables to Broadway...