The story I wrote for BBC World, ‘Pope dogs’ craze triggered by papal visit, with my comment from the Vatican made it onto Have I Got News For You on 2 October.
The story I wrote for BBC World, ‘Pope dogs’ craze triggered by papal visit, with my comment from the Vatican made it onto Have I Got News For You on 2 October.
My story on the Indonesian military’s requirement for recruits to be virgins has now received over 1 million page views.
Jo McDermott presents the BBC London Inside Tottenham Hotspur FC podcast. Listen here.
The analogue television signal is to be switched off in London on Wednesday.
That means an end to Ceefax, the BBC’s teletext service, transmitted via analogue.
The BBC Red Button service will become the alternative.
This is the trailer for the new film Shanghai Calling, about an American sent to Shanghai for work. Lots about this is familiar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKjBRWh5RdE
This week, I reported on the how Chinese expats are celebrating Chinese new year in London, and the cuts being made to the London allowance given to members of the armed forces.
Thank you to those who have left nice comments. I am working on being able to share them.
I have a two-page story about my four years in China in the Globetrotter section of the Daily Telegraph today.