From the same person who brought you Nick Brownlee's Newsletter, the written version, comes Nick Brownlee's Newsletter, the podcast version. Featuring hard-hitting and insightful commentary, leavened with wry observations, listeners' letters and robots, it is "essential listening in troubled times"*. For more go to: https://nickbrownlee.substack.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/NickBrownleePage * Keswick Reminder
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UK-based journalist and broadcaster Nick Brownlee has been reviewing TV since there were only three channels. Now, with literally hundreds to choose from, Nick casts his expert eye over the shows you must see - and the ones you should miss. To watch Nick Brownlee on the Telly on You Tube, just click https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7xr7YfsGrhSs9UjJGqh_1A
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Nick and Garland's Brown Bag Podcast Show was started on a brown bag and is now brought straight to the listener. Sometimes topical, often typical, this is the podcast no one asked for. Enjoy.
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There have been 20 Rebii since crime writer Ian Rankin published his first Detective Rebus book in 1987 -- but only two TV versions. Now Richard Rankin, no relation, aims to make it third time lucky in a new BBC version. Meanwhile Nicole Kidman goes mad in her search for a missing son in Expats. But is it all Hong Kong Phooey? And Bodkin sees podca…
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Journalist and broadcaster Nick Brownlee casts his eye over the latest TV showsAf Pete Crouch
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Fallout, Capote vs The Swans, Red Eye
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Mutants and superfreaks abound in post-apocalypse Hollywood as Fallout becomes the latest best-selling video game to get the multi-million dollar TV treatment by the makers of Westworld. But does the rest of the show match a stand-out performance by Walton Goggins as a 200-year-old bounty hunter with no nose? Meanwhile Tom Hollander is the ugly duc…
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Shardlake, A Man In Full, The Responder
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A hunchback lawyer attempts to win a game of monastic Cluedo in Shardlake, the long-awaited TV version of CS Sansom's bestselling historical novels, while very much in the modern world Jeff Daniels steals the show as a larger-than-life property developer in A Man In Full. And we also take a look at Martin Freeman as the ultra-downbeat but hugely ac…
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Rappin' with Boomin' Tones, Quizzin' with Alan Hull
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In a change from the published programme, Nick Brownlee’s Newsletter returns with special guest and long-time associate Gizmund T Curtis joining Nick down the line. They discuss deadly variant Omicron, late Lindisfarne frontman Alan Hull and soon-to-be-replaced Doctor Who, in that order, and with varying degrees of mental acuity. Meanwhile the robo…
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Kicking off with the best of the yesterday’s action from the crunch Third Form break-time clash on the hard play area, Episode 4 of the podcast moves silkily down the wing, past Nick’s musical reminiscences before crossing dangerously into Dutch podcast territory for the correspondents to bang home the winner. Meanwhile on the terraces, the robots …
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And we’re back. Welcome to Episode 3 of Nick Brownlee’s Newsletter, podcast version, in which you will find more of the material that made episodes 1 and 2 such essential listening, not to mention the trailer. This week, Nick meets a Trappist monk and secures a hard-hitting interview with a leading member of Insulate Britain. Meanwhile his mum desc…
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Against all odds Nick Brownlee's Newsletter, podcast version, has reached the landmark second episode. Listen now to hear the consequences. Included in this episode, the first of a new series in which men talk openly about their feelings, a high-level whistleblower blows the lid off a top secret nuclear catastrophe in Scotland, and Nick takes a tri…
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Man of Fruit, Ear of Goat, Game of Squid
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Welcome to the first episode of Nick Brownlee's Newsletter, podcast version. In it, Nick relates a close encounter with the hit South Korean splatterfest Squid Games and problems with a shortage of roasted animal ears. He also interviews a man who is launching controversial legal action against the producers of the James Bond franchise. There's som…
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Introducing Nick Brownlee's Newsletter, the podcast version of Nick Brownlee's Newsletter, the written version. With Nick Brownlee. And robots.
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What are clothes? Are clothes necessary? Hemp? Tweed? Obama's New Suit Underwear Magical Clothes Rich Girls Perverted Clothes Nick's Corner: Killer Clothes
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Hot Wheels If a Frog Had Wheels Wheel Sports Pen-Wheel Wheel House Wives Wheelman Wheelin' & Dealin' Nick's Corner: The Breaking Wheel
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Sneakers Do robots wear shoes? High Flying Heels Shoes for Cruise Would you rather walk a mile in... Shoe Canivale Tom Brady Uggs Footnotes Nick's Corner: Mock-a-Sins “I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like making a podcast for people without ears.” -Jichael Mordan…
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-Dandy-Lion -Lily-White Sun Burn -Flower Power -Game of Two Lips -Rose by Any Other Name -I'm-a-Pokemon -Nick's Corner: My Flower "The Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.” -Thomas Wolfe
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"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." -whoever wrote the bible
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ― Rudyard Kipling
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“We make up horrors to help us cope in a world without love.” ― Stephen Queen
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