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Listed below are comments made by Doctorfrankenstein between Friday, 28th November 2008 and Tuesday, 2nd December 2008.

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The Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 3:26pm on 02 Dec 2008 There are plenty of opportunities, contests and schemes for the individual regions of the Uk, you just need to look for them, be they television, radio, film, theatre, literature etc - Just check out arts councils, film funds etc; sign up to the newsletters - The Writersroom is just the tip of the iceberg, with an obvious bias towards schemes that produce output for the BBC - Check out the CH4 website (sorry to advertise your rivals) that is very cross-media -
I'm not familiar with Alfred Bradley's body of work but it is clear that in THIS CASE it is for promoting radio writing from the North - maybe he set up the scheme himself or it was in his will, I don't know; sometimes schemes/competitons are open entry, sometimes for a specific group
It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine...) 00:45am on 28 Nov 2008 I'm sure Julie Graham, (er, one, if not the lead character ) will be thrilled to know that some viewers think she is under forty (go check) - She is over a decade older than Carolyn Seymour the original Abby Grant, with the other lead from the original, Ian McCulloch, under forty as well - The actor who played her husband may have been the 'right' side of 40, as with the Outdoor Pursuits instructor, who we may see again - We have seen only about a dozen and a half survivors in total so far, and have been told in the first episode that certain groups would be more vulnerable (i.e young, ill, and presumably the elderly). How old is the scientist? Yes, there are several non-white characters, but this is modern Britain, and it is possible there is a reason, to be revealed, for this - If not, what does it matter? This is not the white middle class in crisis if -you- take- away Waitrose 70's version - However, having said that, I remember watching the orginal (yes, I'm over forty) and finding it more logical in its characterisation and more exciting in structure - Why Abby returned to the supermarket just didn't seem logical, nor the 'mexican stand off' - Look a 'bad' black guy in the backround! l

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