Category Archives: free time

For One Week Only: King James Bible

Posted on January 11, 2011 by cpjobling

2011 apparently marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. To mark the occasion, the BBC made a bit of a splash last week with a sequence of three forty-five minute documentaries fronted by James Naughtie … Continue reading →

Posted in free time, podcasts | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Sharing Shirley because the BBC wants me to…

Posted on October 25, 2009 by cpjobling

The BBC encourages the sharing of this video from Dame Shirley Bassey’s recent appearance on the electric Proms. So here it is, with the “Girl from Tiger Bay” (which Shirley is of course) composed by James Dean Bradfield, who’s playing … Continue reading →

Posted in free time | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment