All posts tagged "BBC"
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712EntertainmentDoctor Who announces partnership with Disney+
The new partnership between the Time Lord and Mickey Mouse was announced today with updates on the status of the existing Doctor Who catalogue.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Atlas of Disease, by Sandra Hempel
A fascinating cartographic insight into the worlds most deadly diseases and epidemics.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress, by David Olusoga
Based on the BBC television series, Civilisations, historian, television presenter and author David Olusoga presents a look at the two-way interaction of first contact with old civilisations, and how art has represented progress through the ages.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Civilisations: How Do We Look? / The Eye of Faith, by Mary Beard
Based on the BBC television series, Civilisations, professor of classics at Cambridge University, Mary Beard, presents a look at art and history, and the intersection of art and faith, examining how we make sense of it all both in and out of its original historical context.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Sounds Appealing, by David Crystal
Debate over correct pronunciation has existed for centuries but, as English becomes more and more of a global language of communication, the need to be intelligible to others is ever-more important.
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1.4KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Fleabag
A woman bumbles through life from one misadventure to another finding solace in all the wrong ways as she tries to deal with a recent tragedy. This is the play that started the hit BBC-TV comedy series.
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1.9KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Blake’s 7: The Way Ahead, by Big Finish
A two-part, full-cast audio adventure to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the ground-breaking science fiction TV series, Blake's 7.
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851Books & LiteratureBook Review: Chronologica, by The Whitaker’s Team
A children’s historical compendium beginning with the mythical foundation of Rome by the twins Romulus and Remus in 753BC to world-shaping events of 1989.
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711Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: UNIT – Silenced, by Big Finish
The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) must try to stop an alien invasion force but all memory of the aliens disappears when you look away.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Survivors Series 5, by Big Finish
A virus has decimated Earth's population & now a mutated strain has broken out, sending the surviving population into a blind, selfish panic.
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600Books & LiteratureBook Review: Doctor Who: The American Adventures
A collection of short stories (by multiple authors) for young readers, centering on the twelfth Doctor's adventures through time in the USA.
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1.7KFilm & TVDVD Review: Peaky Blinders Season 3
It’s been 2 years since the last time we saw the Peaky Blinders – both in real time and series progression – and much has changed for the Shelbys.
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755Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Early Adventures 3.1 – The Age of Endurance
An original Dr Who adventure featuring the original characters who are dropped into the middle of a war when the TARDIS lands on a still and eerie spaceship.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who – The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield 3: The Unbound Universe, by Big Finish
Professor of archaeology, Bernice Summerfield, is kidnapped into an alternative, war-torn universe where she teams with a new Doctor on 4 new adventures.
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1.3KFilm & TVDVD Review: Dad’s Army (2016)
In 1944, the decrepit home guard of Walmington-on-Sea may be England's last hope to prevent a Nazi invasion in this film adaptation of the classic TV sitcom.
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1.9KArtsTea Tree Players Take A Trip ‘Up Pompeii’
Well known for their hilarious British farces, Tea Tree Players are about to present the South Australian premiere of the stage version of Up Pompeii. Written in the seventies by Carry On… stalwart Talbot Rothwell and Sid Colin, Up Pompeii was a BBC television comedy series starring the one and only Frankie Howerd, basically to cash in […]
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678Film & TVDVD Review: The Night Manager
Written by master of suspense John Le Carre, this miniseries follows a prestigious hotel's night manager who gets caught in the seedy crime underworld of Cairo.
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634Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
A 2-hour lunch or dinner from Hell served with slapstick by Basil, Sybil and Manuel - three much loved characters from the 1970s comedy, Fawlty Towers.
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785Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Doctor Who’s Midnight
A recreation of an episode of the BBC sci-fi TV series, Dr Who. The Doctor becomes trapped when a tourist shuttle breaks down and something tries to get in.
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1.3KFamilyTheatre Review: Deadly 60 Live
Steve Backshall has made a living out of courting danger. He has been stalked by a polar bear, accidently bitten by a shark, went swimming with killer whales to name only a few.
