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  • Coward audio biography released

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    BBC Audiobooks has released an audio tribute to Sir Noël Coward, written and presented by Literary Executor, the late broadcaster and critic Sheridan Morley. Contributors to Noël Coward: An Audio Biography include Sir Laurence Olivier, Lord Mountbatten, John Gielgud, John Mills, Sybil Thorndike and Joyce Carey.

  • Blanc discusses The Restaurant’s return

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    After losing The Apprentice to BBC One channel bosses at BBC two cooked up another business-themed reality hit last year with The Restaurant, hosted by world-renowned chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc. The show sees Blanc put pairs of aspiring restaurateurs through their paces with the prize of a partnership with the famed chef.

  • Bumper celebrations for Christie's 118th birthday

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    Whodunnit fans are being invited to join the celebrations for Agatha Christie’s 118th birthday when the annual week-long celebration of the author gets underway on September 14th. The author’s work is to be celebrated across a range of media with the premiere of a new Poirot television adaptation of Mrs McGinty’s Dead on ITV1 and…

  • TVonics launches latest set-top box

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    British digital TV specialists TVonics has unveiled a new Freeview receiver which the company says can convert even the oldest of analogue sets to digital. The MDR-250 digital TV receiver was launched today at the IFA show in Berlin and can be connected either through the standard SCART socket or via the television’s aerial.

  • French cop show 'Spiral' gets UK DVD release

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    Acclaimed French crime drama Spiral gets a long-awaited UK DVD release courtesy of 2|Entertain. The 2005 drama first aired on Canal+ and has been showin in the UK by BBC Four where it won consistently good audience figures.

  • Sony unveil new Walkman models

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    Walkman makers Sony have announced the next incarnation of their MP3 players at the IFA exhibition in Berlin. Three new series have been unveiled, each with a feature set designed to appeal to different markets.