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Thursday 6 January 2011
Dara O Briain kept on his toes by the BBC ... and the Mail

Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain. The comedian has made the Daily Mail see stars during Stargazing Live. Photograph: Bbc
Is Dara O Briain the busiest man in television? The Daily Mail points out that the "burly Irish comedian" has appeared in no fewer than five BBC shows of late – Mock The Week, Three Men Go to Scotland, Have I Got News For You, The Apprentice: You're Fired! and Stargazing Live. The Mail may not be a huge fan, though, saying OB "annoyingly talked over the excellent Dr Brian Cox" in the stargazing show. Never mind, Dara. The BBC loves you. (The Guardian)

Clever use of social networking. Bit creepy, mind.

The most diabolical phantom

The Man Who Never Was
(1956) Dir: Ronald Neame

Based on the WWII mission Operation Mincemeat was part of the wide spread deception plan Operation Barclay, The BAFTA winning The Man Who Never Was tells the story of "The most diabolical phantom" - an, albeit dead, anonymous victim of peumonia gains a new identity as Major William Martin, Royal Marines. The corpse is dumped at sea with false top secret documents containing fake letters falsely stating that the Allied attack would be against Sardinia and Greece rather than Sicily, the actual point of invasion. Major Martin was deliberately left to wash up on a beach in Punta Umbría in Spain...

The plot thickens and tensions grows in this good old fashioned World War 2 thriller and went on to be known as "the most successful strategic deception in the history of warfare"

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The Archer's. Experts in Foley

The Bear Family and Me

Great nature doc.

BBC's best programmes in the last few years have been similar Lost Land of the Tiger, and Lost Land of the Volcano some epic shows with likable experts not necessarily presenter led with genuine twists and turns with revalatory discovaries.