In the summer of 2007 the Beeb released iPlayer into the wild for those souls (un)lucky enough to be using a Windows OS, this caused quite a stir amongst those people who use a different OS (i.e. Mac or Linux) and so around this time last year auntie gave the rest of us the iPlayer website. Whilst this was a step in the right direction, and a very polished and extremely usable step at that, it always felt as though we (non windows users) were being fobbed off with the web 2.0 equivalent of a hand me down. Read the rest of this entry »
I think it was first shown last year, or it might have been early this year…I can’t remember.
Anywho, it’s currently showing on UKTV History and BBC Two again, and it was so good the first time round that I’m gladly eating it up again. If you’ve got an hour to spare then hop over to the beebs iPlayer and catch it.
Each episode concentrates on a particular period in british history, with the one on iPlayer focusing on the 80s, especially the “Thatcher Revolution”.
I’m really enjoying this one, which is odd because I really don’t like ol’ Maggie, what she stood for, what she did etc etc. But it’s hard not to have some grudging respect for her.
That’s about it really.
Oh and I’m also phenomenally hung over and I can’t find any make-up remover. The pics are on faceache.
