He's not the star of Blackadder, but if you haven't seen it, being a Stephen Fry completionist is as good a reason to watch as any (beyond the fact that it's brilliant). He's only in series 2 and 4 on a regular basis though.

The Tooms episodes, while very good (from what I remember) were unsettling at the time and I still recall one with a couple of twin girls that still creeps me out.

If you have an interest in cycling or even the pressures of professional sport then I can thoroughly recommend it. It does risk leaving you cynical about the sport of cycling though.

Read Tyler Hamilton's book The Secret Race - there is a very useful explanation of why doping gives different advantages to different people.

Quite an eclectic mix this month (a couple of weeks off work over Christmas gives me more opportunity to read than usual)

I thought Thousand Autumns was much better than Cloud Atlas, I just couldn't get along with it and it was a real struggle to finish.

No nudity that I remember. It was OK, but I'm not sure if my positive feelings were increased because it helped me pass an hour and a half of a trans-atlantic flight. (Damn Delta and the lack of VoD screens in economy, and my employer for being too cheap to pay for better seats). I suppose the cut for the flight would…

Kind of a strange mix this month, Terry Pratchett's Dodger, which I
really liked, as I have almost all of his YA books. It probably helps
having some knowledge of Dickens so it was fun picking up on some of the
references. I've also finally finished Cloud Atlas which I was very
disappointed in. Coming to it from The…

Kind of a strange mix this month, Terry Pratchett's Dodger, which I
really liked, as I have almost all of his YA books. It probably helps
having some knowledge of Dickens so it was fun picking up on some of the
references. I've also finally finished Cloud Atlas which I was very
disappointed in. Coming to it from The…

Hogfather is significantly better than The Colour of Magic, but then again, so is the source material.