ChrisC

Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – May 2021

See my 2022 update here!

14 months and one minor apocalypse since my last outing, it’s time to return to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and to see how work on the the new expansion has progressed. And progressed it has!

Maps

Manic Street Preachers – From There To Here (BBC2 1998)

Another nice mid-90s documentary, this time on the Manic Street Preachers.

Linkspam

How the Internet Gave Us Access to Obscure Television

Up until the late-1990s, if you missed something on television then it was unlikely you were going to see it again any time soon. Even if you had – and I understand younger readers’ horror at this proposition – managed to position yourself in front of your television at a set time, you would need a hardy memory to remember it over the years.
curious british telly

‘How the Internet Gave Us Access to Obscure Television‘ is a nice short history of of British media trading as it transitioned from tape trading to BitTorrent and then onto modern Youtube.

Comic Relief’s Income

Apparently it was Red Nose Day 2021 a couple of weeks ago and I completely missed it – as I have for the past decade or so – which is odd because, as a child, I used to really enjoy it.

Anyway, I wondered how it’s income was standing up after – of course – the effects of inflation have been taken into account.