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January 21st 1999 |
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Posh car shop, Finchley Road, NW3 I passed this shop twice everyday on my way back and forth to the tube station. The shop’s empty now and has been for a couple of years. |
Woman asleep on the Metropolitan line, between Kings Cross and Finchley Road |
January 20th 1999 |
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Going to bed early on a work night The cat with me is Patrick, who belonged to my flatmate PH. I’m reading the guide to February films at the National Film Theatre. I must have still been going down there a lot in those days. I think I’m wearing the hat as a joke – it wasn’t that cold in my room. |
Barack Obama sworn in as the 44th US President |
January 19th 1999 |
January 19th 2009 |
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Flower Shop, West Hampstead This florist’s shop is still there. It looks really good on dull Winter days when the baskets of hyacinth bulbs and crocuses seem especially necessary. |
Kitchen table, Monday night |
January 18th 1999 |
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Transfer No. 1 – 4th floor BBC This was 10 hours spent in a small, darkened room with no windows and just an editor for company as we transferred comedy clips from a bunch of archive tapes. That’s my notebook on the desk with all the timecodes of the clips we would have needed. |
David Robb eating a Tunnock's tea-cake, West Hampstead 11.30am |
January 17th 1999 |
January 17th 2009 |
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People flying kites at Hampstead Heath – Parliament Hill The most famous place for flying a kite in London. I like the movement and the concentration in this picture. Kite-flying can be a serious business. |
Light in the backgarden, West Hampstead |
January 16th 1999 |
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RT, Cooking at 471a Finchley Road Here is RT cooking a stir-fry on a Saturday night. The back to front clock says it’s 8 o’clock. |
Cordelia Feldman, West Hampstead 9.45am |
January 15th 1999 |
January 15th 2009 |
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Mike Parkinson Jnr. Assistant Producer, Comic Relief Jukebox Mike worked with me on Comic Relief Jukebox as the other AP. He was a great laugh, and never took the producer too seriously, much to the producer’s annoyance sometimes. I think this may have been his first job in telly, but he stuck with it, and was working as a producer a couple of years later. I think he married one of the comedians from ‘Smack the Pony’ – but don’t quote me on that. |
Tropical fish at the O2 Centre, Finchley Road When the O2 centre first opened it was famous for its tropical fish tanks which were huge, and for its rocky waterfall escalator up to the mezzanine level. In its first year the O2 Centre was twinned by an artist called Adam Chodzko with an acre of Desert in Arizona, and in that acre of real desert there was a sign post with the directions of how to get to the O2 Centre on it. Earlier this year they ripped out the rocks and the waterfall and the big fish tanks so that they could put yet another café into the space. There are now three cafes in the 02 centre - all chains. The fish tanks are smaller and more compact. For more info go here |
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