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...fantastically literal and he took from Blair what he wanted to hear. Only when it became clear that Blair wasn't going to stand down did the plates start flying through the air." The sound of breaking crockery can be heard well beyond the confines of Westminster. A BBC TV crew, accompanying Brown on his Africa trip, asked a passerby in the Kenyan shantytown of Kibera if he recognized the visiting dignitary. The reply: "He's Tony Blair's biggest rival." Few members of the Labour Party believe that what now divides their leaders is ideology. "There may be discussions...
Sources: UPI; New York Times; Reuters; Los Angeles Times; New York Times (2); BBC...
...docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day (Discovery, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. E.T.) did not set out to be a VSDM. That changed with the Indian Ocean tsunami, when entire habitations were, like the Roman city in 79 A.D., erased by a rumbling from beneath the earth's crust. A BBC co-production (as is Dirty War), Pompeii gives a scientific blow-by-blow of Vesuvius' eruption. More interestingly--and with more resonance today--it tries to tell the disaster's human story...
...also hook up the same line to his TV. Instead of selling basic cable-style packages, which often force consumers to pay for channels they don't want, PCCW opted to offer a content menu that is almost entirely ? la carte. Fees for individual channels?among them BBC, HBO, the Disney Channel and MTV?start at about $2 a month. Subscribers can readily drop channels and sign up for new ones on a monthly basis with a few clicks of their remote controls. "I like the freedom," says secretary Leung Man-fung, whose pay-TV bill comes to just...
...idea has snowballed and there are now more than a thousand podcasters. The content could use an upgrade, but at least there's variety. Podcasts range over such topics as religion (see godcast.org), filmmaking (skinnybones.net), cover songs (coverville.com) and tech talk (engadget.com). Traditional radio outlets like NPR, the BBC and Air America are increasingly posting podcasts as well. If you want to get a handle on it all, PodcastAlley.com is emerging as an easy-to-use portal to the podcast world. The site features ratings, discussion groups and lists of some of the newest and most interesting podcasts...