Pause for Thought on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show (Thursday 16th September 2010) – My transcript from the show
The Pope is coming to town, and some people are not happy about it. There are protests lined up, some by former victims of child-abuse from members of the Catholic Church; others simply because they [...]
“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”
Roald Dahl
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Today marks the birthday of the amazing children’s writer, Roal Dahl who inspired millions of children around the world with stories of fantastic foxes, giant peaches and magical [...]
Eid greetings from all at emel HQ!
For many people around the world, Eid will be falling on the Friday. Why not spend some quality time this weekend with your friends and family at some of our handpicked ideas?
We found them interesting, hope you will too
1st September
Enchanted Palace
Exhibition
Kensington Palace transforms into a magical multisensory [...]
Good evening all! It’s been a hectic start to the week here at emel; we’ve been working on putting the final touches to our new TV advert (watch out for it. We’ll let you know when it goes live) and sourcing ingredients for the next food shoot. Speaking of food, what are your favourite halal [...]
Day 1 of Ramadan ‘10 is almost over at the office. Not surprisingly, it has been a relatively quiet day here. Our caffeine rich environment now lies barren as we wait for the last couple of hours to go. The team are busy wrapping up the Eid issue. I’m in the process of road testing [...]
When Chelsea Clinton got married last weekend the event is estimated to have cost between $3-$5million. Chelsea’s Vera Wang dress alone came in at around $20,000. Such celebrity, high cost weddings are nothing new; with the exclusive pictures often being sold to the likes of Hello for upwards of £1million.
Yet, wedding extravagance is not the [...]
August 6th – 65 years ago today a bomb codenamed “Little Boy” was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which had been spared conventional aerial bombardment so that it would be a “pristine target”. With a radius of one mile from Ground Zero, the first effect of the explosion was blinding light, accompanied by [...]
Toy Story 3 has said to bring grown men to tears. Readers to BBC Online have been writing in with films that make them cry (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10814813)
We had a quick run-round in the emel office to find out which films have brought tears to the eyes of our staff:
Bambi
ET
Sophie’s Choice
Shindler’s List
Step Mom
Beaches
Dev Das
PS I Love You
It’s [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter from a friend of mine who I studied with last year. He made the effort to write out a physical letter and send it my way in a bid to check up on how life was going and also rekindle the lost artform of letter writing. [...]
Hello all,
As you might have already heard, we are currently workng on the Eid issue (it’s a little strange like that, we work over a month ahead). Our editor (Sarah) has sent our messages in the past asking people to send in stories that we are looking for. Right now, we are hunting for stories [...]