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Spooks Prop Spooks Passenger

An oil drum stuffed with wires and other highly realistic bomb paraphernalia caused problems near Deptford train station last week. A hawk-eyed passenger spotted the suspect barrel in a yard close to the station, and rightly alerted authorities. But, and you’ll have guessed this from …

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Londonist Stays In

Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV and radio over the coming week. Monday Chelsea Flower Show 2009 (BBC2, 20.00-21.00) Tickets are all but sold out but you can catch the highlights, sans attack of the hay fever, courtesy of Titchmarsh and Co. Same …

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Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV and radio over the coming week. Monday Ashes to Ashes (BBC1, 21.00-22.00) Back to the 1980s in the time-travelling, Bowie-referencing cop show set in London. Friday English Heritage (BBC2, 21.00-22.00) Unmissable documentary for anyone who regularly uses …

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Red Dwarf Cast To Appear In Berkeley Square Wednesday

Fans of the returning space comedy might like to meet their heroes in the flesh (and, in Kryten’s case, aluminium) tomorrow night. The cast of Red Dwarf will make an appearance in costume in Berkeley Square from 5pm tomorrow. No Craig Charles, though. The first …

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Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. Bite-size edition. We might just give up on this column. Monday Chelsea Pensioners: Girls Allowed (BBC4, 20.00-20.30) Sadly, that’s Girls Allowed (as in they’re letting female veterans into the Royal Hospital Chelsea), not …

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Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. Some good stuff in the early part of the week, followed by a barren nothing in the schedules. Guess there’ll be plenty of London on the news, though, thanks to the G20 meeting. …

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Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. Monday The Great Sperm Race (C4, 21.00-22.10) If you were off sick (or pregnant) when human fertilization was explained at school, tune in to Channel 4 tonight. The act of conception will be …

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Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. We really shouldn’t bother this week. Such scant picking. But, for the sake of completeness, here’s what’s on with a Londony theme. Good job spring is here. Monday Law and Order UK (ITV1, …

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Londonist Stays In

Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. Dull week for London TV as series come to a close and others drag on. Roll on the new season. Monday Law and Order UK (ITV1, 21.00-22.00) Ho-hum series reaches part 3 with …

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Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. Monday The Real Pink Panther: Lord Victor Hervey (C4, 20.00-21.00) Gentleman thief Lord Hervey was jailed in the 1930s for a couple of Mayfair jewellery robberies. All cracking stuff, but we want to …

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Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. Monday Law and Order UK (ITV1, 21.00-22.00) The long-anticipated London incarnation of the popular US franchise starts tonight. Look out for him off of Coronation Street, her off of Dr Who, and matey-boy …