“I’d play Subbuteo with my mate Julian. I never owned a set myself. Our games were hideously competitive. That’s why I withdrew from all competition. I just don’t have the ability to cope with losing. As I recall, Subbuteo was surprisingly realistic. You could pass the ball accurately and pull off quite fancy tricks with it. You could certainly suspend disbelief in the game, though I remember finding the players’ large, hemispherical bases upsetting. Being an imaginative soul, I’d project myself into the position of the players. I almost felt as if I was dragging round a large lump of plastic that had been glued to my feet.”
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Whatever the BBC’s faults, we must save the licence fee
With all the leaden predictability of an EastEnders plotline, the brouhaha over Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross, and those blindingly unfunny phone calls to septuagenarian Andrew Sachs has mutated into a good old row about nonagenarian Auntie and her uncertain future. The BBC’s director general, Mark Thompson, came out fighting on Sunday with an impassioned plea: “I do not believe the British public wants us to lose our creative nerve.” He admitted the wrongs that had been done but was forthright about the BBC’s need to nurture talent and to provide content including risqué content for all licence-fee payers.
Free Thinking lecture
To listen to Will giving his Free Thinking lecture in Liverpool on Radio 3, and then being interviewed about the ideas contained in it click here.