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S04E01 Weathering Midnight Waves Turning Amanda Bad

Iconochromatic - January 31, 2020 10:13 - 1 hour
Iconochromatic not dead! We talk about lots of films! But not as many as we could have done. In this we talk of: Amanda Bad Boys For Live Midnight Traveler The Turning Waves Weathering With You (Plus a little about 1917, Bombshell and Jojo Rabbit)


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Nu Iconochromatic Series 3 Episode 3 – Sorry Can’t Remember What We Talked About #2

Iconochromatic - June 19, 2019 19:50 - 1 hour
Recorded best part of a month ago. And we talked about some films. They were probably some that were good and some that weren’t quite so good. And we probably didn’t express our opinions on them very well. But anyway some of you seem to like to listen to us so here it is. Finally. [...]

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Nu Iconochromatic Series 3 Episode 2 – Sorry Can’t Remember What We Talked About #1

Iconochromatic - June 19, 2019 19:17 - 1 hour
We talked about some films. A long time ago. Then I forgot to upload it. For a LONG time. So long we recorded another podcast quite a long time ago that was after it. Sorry. We talk about some films. I could listen back to it and find out but that would mean I have [...]

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Nu Iconochromatic Series 03 Episode 1 – Favourite Colette Front Upside

Iconochromatic - February 06, 2019 19:31 - 49 minutes
Talk about The Favourite, Colette, Front Runner and The Upside. And it’s really short. Only 50 minutes as opposed to our more usual 90 minutes or so. So that’s good. Probably.

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NU Iconochromatic Series 3 Episode 0 – Films to Come in 2019

Iconochromatic - February 05, 2019 22:34 - 1 hour
Derek, Chris and Stephen talk about.. HEY! Wait a minute! What’s this Stephen?? Oh yeah! Stephen Batchelor oft our listener and occasional guest joins us once again to improve things hugely. Anyway as you’d expect from the title, we’re looking at what films are coming out in 2019 and saying which...

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Nu Iconochromatic Series 2 Episode 21 – The Best Films of 2018

Iconochromatic - January 05, 2019 13:50 - 1 hour
After first of all giving you the list of the most disappointing cinema experiences in 2018 we now give you our most lovely experiences. Again we didn’t see everything but of what we saw these were wonderful films. At first we were thinking that 2018 was going to prove a rubbish year but there we...

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Nu Iconochromatic Series 2 Episode 20 Worst Films of 2018

Iconochromatic - January 05, 2019 13:17 - 46 minutes
There may well have been worse films in 2018 but we didn’t see every film so can only go on our feelings toward what we saw. Some of the selections may be rather surprising to you as others may have rated them to be in the best. Anyway for 46 minutes you can find out [...]

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Nu Iconochromatic Series 2 Episode 19 – L’Monde Spider Overlord Hood Crimes Trace Nation Foot Week

Iconochromatic - December 01, 2018 09:41 - 1 hour
This episode sees us review: Assassination Nation Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald The Girl in the Spider’s Web He Won’t Get Far On Foot L’Monde Lamant Double Leave No Trace Overlord Robin Hood (2018) And of course this podcast edition has bits that ar...

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Nu Icomochromatic Series 2 Episode 18 – Peterloo Fog Widows Hate Nutcracker Rulez

Iconochromatic - November 17, 2018 10:24 - 1 hour
Almost keeping up with every two weeks kind of schedule (but hey the last two were less than a week apart!) here’s another mediocre episode of ill expressed opinions stated in stumbling incoherent fashion. In this episode Chris had been rubbish and not watched any films at the cinema so Derek had...

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Nu Iconochromatic Series 2 Episode 17 – Halloween Regular

Iconochromatic - October 31, 2018 11:15 - 1 hour
Hot on the heels of our last episode we present for Halloween, another standard show! It does feature a review of the 2018 Halloween film though so that’s something. REVIEWS OF: Bad Times At El Royale Bohemian Rhapsody First Man Halloween 2018

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Episode 6

UNFINISHED BUSINESS with THE IMPLAUSIBLE SCHMENDRICK - September 24, 2012 14:16
UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode6RichardDreyfus   Welcome to episode 6, a reltively short one this week because I only had a half hour in the morning to record the tunes so I chose two short ones. These I wrote very soon after purchasing my first ever relatively cheap uk...

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Episode 5

UNFINISHED BUSINESS with THE IMPLAUSIBLE SCHMENDRICK - September 17, 2012 14:22
  UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode5BrightWhiteLies   Here's episode five for you. While I was just at the end of recording the first tune some dogs starting barking outside, see if you can hear them, I think they kind of fit. These two songs are the only two I've ever...

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Episode 4

UNFINISHED BUSINESS with THE IMPLAUSIBLE SCHMENDRICK - September 10, 2012 13:57
UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode4BodyAndBlood Here's episode four. Very recent tunes these two, one written by candle light because of a power cut, and because acoustic guitars don't require electricity, and one I wrote just today, kind of, the lyrics are a poem I wrote a...

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Episode 3

UNFINISHED BUSINESS with THE IMPLAUSIBLE SCHMENDRICK - September 03, 2012 14:43
UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode3BraveandBrightandCallMeTommy Here's Episode Three, hopefully it doesn't send you into a bout of the sads. Bit of a heavy subject in teh first song, "Brave & Bold", which is about aids and death and horrible horrible times, but it's also ab...

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Episode 2

UNFINISHED BUSINESS with THE IMPLAUSIBLE SCHMENDRICK - August 27, 2012 12:56
UnfinishedBusinessWithTheImplausibleSchmendrick Episode 2 Edmund J and Sweet Nothings   So, welcome to episode two, which includes a tune about the great Edmund Jacobsen and a little Ukulele tune about peaceful protests and planting flowers. Edmund Jacobsen being a psychologist who worked on ...

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Episode 1

UNFINISHED BUSINESS with THE IMPLAUSIBLE SCHMENDRICK - August 20, 2012 15:55
UnfinishedBusinesswithTheImplausibleSchmendrickEpisode1EugeneWesley Hello and welcome to episode 1 of "Unfinished Business with the implausible schmendrick", the implausible schmendrik being a music project type thing that I'm working on mostly on my own but with occasional help from some othe...

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Eden Project: Palms and Peppers

Plants and people - for iPod/iPhone - March 28, 2012 03:45 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Tour of the Eden Project.


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Eden Project: Busy Lizzy (Imaptiens gordonii)

Plants and people - for iPad/Mac/PC - March 28, 2012 03:44 - 2 minutes - Video
Busy Lizzy is native to eastern Africa, but grown in the Eden Project.

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Eden Project: Busy Lizzy (Imaptiens gordonii)

Plants and people - for iPod/iPhone - March 28, 2012 03:44 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Busy Lizzy is native to eastern Africa, but grown in the Eden Project.

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Fruit Ripening

Plants and people - for iPod/iPhone - March 28, 2012 03:43 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Professor Greg Tucker explains why fruit ripen.

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Fruit Ripening

Plants and people - for iPad/Mac/PC - March 28, 2012 03:43 - 5 minutes - Video
Professor Greg Tucker explains why fruit ripen.

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Royal Horticultural Society: Colour chart

Plants and people - for iPad/Mac/PC - March 28, 2012 03:42 - 3 minutes - Video
Dr. John David describes how the colour chart is used for recording plants.

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Royal Horticultural Society: Colour chart

Plants and people - for iPod/iPhone - March 28, 2012 03:42 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Dr. John David describes how the colour chart is used for recording plants.

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Pest Control (Push and pull systems)

Plants and people - for iPod/iPhone - March 28, 2012 03:41 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Professor John Picket explains how he used the push pull system to help African farmers

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Pest Control (Push and pull systems)

Plants and people - for iPad/Mac/PC - March 28, 2012 03:41 - 4 minutes - Video
Professor John Picket explains how he used the push pull system to help African farmers

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Prog Review 20: New Blood Deluxe Edition - Peter Gabriel

You Are Allowed to Enjoy This...The PODCAST! - October 23, 2011 11:42 - 11 minutes ★★★ - 2 ratings
Get your copy of this album here: http://amzn.to/newblooddeluxe I wasn't particularly a big fan of Gabriel's last orchestral effort "Scratch My Back" so I wasn't expecting much from this bumper release. The set contains a blu-ray, DVD, and 2 CD albums - covering all the facets of the Live Bloo...

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Prog Review 19: Photos of Ghosts - PFM

You Are Allowed to Enjoy This...The PODCAST! - October 18, 2011 11:40 - 15 minutes ★★★ - 2 ratings
Buy your copy of this album here: http://amzn.to/photosofghosts This time I take a look at a band hailing from Italy that under the guiding light of Peter Sinfield and ELP had a little bit of success outside their native isles. Download the album from eMusic here: http://bit.ly/pJcbd4 Music ...

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Prog Review 18: The Snow Goose - Camel

You Are Allowed to Enjoy This...The PODCAST! - October 14, 2011 11:34 - 16 minutes ★★★ - 2 ratings
Get your copy of this album here: http://amzn.to/snowgoosedeluxe My review of the seminal album by Camel, which is an instrumental exploration of a book by Paul Gallico. Music used in this video: "Stinkhorn" by Darren Lock Songs from the album "Start" by Darren Lock To buy this music, visi...