Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
BBC One TV will be airing the first of six episodes of The Omid Djalili Show tomorrow (Saturday) night at 9:30 p.m.
Most stand-up comedians who are commissioned to write and perform first-time TV shows are given a try-out out on BBC Three TV before moving to the mass audience BBC One. Omid has gone [...]
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Ruth Gledhill, religious correspondent of The Times, has posted an interview on her blog with an Iranian Baha’i student who is currently living in London.
The student is here to study music, having been excluded from higher education in Iran purely on grounds of being a Baha’i. She had a childhood dream to be a [...]
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This is what the Free Rice site says about itself:
FreeRice has two goals:
Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor [...]
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OK, I’ll own up. I didn’t go to the Making Rights Real conference in Birmingham yesterday. I’ve all sorts of excuses I won’t burden you with, but it did give me a clear day at my desk to try and sink some of the jobs that have been awaiting my attention. Sadly my to-do list [...]
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