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Private Eye Classified

Does anyone know if the ads they have in the back of Private Eye actually work? IE, do people begging for help with money to fund their education etc actually get money put directly into their bank accounts by kind readers?

hayvend

Here is what I got from the vending machine at the ICA before I ran out of cash - yes, I only had £4:

Recommended TV

Dennis Potter: Brimstone and Treacle
                    The Nigel Barton plays
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Director John Irvin
Brass Eye
The Day Today

Recommended Films

The Wicker Man, Director Robin Hardy
Chris Cooke: One For The Road (stars Hywel Bennett from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Richard)
Japanese Story, Director Sue Brooks
Enemy Of The State, Director Tony Scott

enamel paint

when I was 8 or 9 I bought a bike in a auction (held at a fete at my school in Helpston) with my pocket money, and used a small pot of silver enamel paint from a model shop to paint the bike silver. My memories of that bike are joyful, cycling for miles on my own, no handed, exploring villages and countryside that were new for me and seemed only to exist on those rides. Found once, never to be found again. See undercurrent about George Shaw, who paints using enamel paint: Utopia in Humbrol

Recommended books

François Mauriac: Therese
Hermann Hesse: Demian
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus
J G Ballard: The Drowned World
The Tales of Hoffmann (my copy = Four Square Classics published new selection and translation by Michael Bullock, 1962)
Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
                         A Separate Reality
                         Journey to Ixtlan
                         Tales of Power
Germaine Greer: The Whole Woman
                      The Female Eunuch
                      The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
Gordon Burn, Damien Hirst: On the Way to Work
R.K. Narayan: The Man-eater of Malgudi
John le Carre: Absolute Friends
                   Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
                   Call for the Dead
Malcolm Bradbury: Eating People is Wrong
                         Stepping Westward
H. Palsson & P. Edwards (Translators): Seven Viking Romances
Jakob Walter, Mark Raeff (Editor), O. Springer (Translator): The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
Edmund Wheatley, Christopher Hibbert (Editor): The Wheatley Diary: A Journal and Sketchbook from the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign

If you want to buy any of these books from amazon, click on the titles & urbanomic makes some cash!

Top of the Pops

Why has Top of the Pops adopted the Consignia logo as its own?