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The Street, series 3, by Jimmy McGovern, BBC 1
The final series of The Street demonstrates the possibilities and limitations of its form – both of which may now disappear from television drama
Neighbourhood Nervous Breakdown. Television review – Tom Jennings
Old public guidance clips
A host of old public servic announcements detailing everything from the Do & Don'ts of Dating, Going Steady, and how to avoid being a drop-out.
EduKaTe yur Branes!1!!1!!
Everyone's seen those amazing 1950 public information broadcast clips, like Duck and Cover (how to survive a nuclear attack) - the kind that were parodied by Harry Enfield in the early 90s.
Islam and Science
BBC Four's 3-part series 'Islam & Science' starts tonight, and presenter, physicist Jim Al-Khalili, begins by discussing 'the language of science'.
In an article today, he also discusses the work of who he considers the 'first true scientist', al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham:
[i]without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.
Top ten TV shows of 2008
Continuing our series of year-end reviews, Libcom presents our pick of the best television programmes broadcast in the UK in 2008.
The Wire - Season 5
Art - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading around the subject of art, film, music and literature.
More information
General Problems of Culture
- Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture – Nelson/Grossberg, Eds.
- Recapturing Marxism – Levine/Lembcke, Eds.
Literature and Art
- The Dada Painters and Poets – Motherwell, Ed.
- The Dada Almanac – Huelsenbeck, Ed.
- The Situationist International Anthology – Knabb, Ed.
The Street, by Jimmy McGovern, BBC 1, November-December 2007. Television review
Review of The Street, series 2 - the latest TV drama from Jimmy McGovern .
That Kitchen Sinking Feeling
The Road to Guantanamo, dirs. Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, Channel 4, 9th March 2006. Television review
Review of a docudramatic critique of the War on Terror
Likely Lads in the Global Gulag
It’s A Free World ..., dir. Ken Loach, Channel 4, September 24th 2007. Television review
Tom Jennings’ review of Ken Loach’s latest slice of social realism
Trading In Desperation by Tom Jennings
