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I'm very sad that Ashes to Ashes has come to an end. It wasn't Life on Mars but it was still fabulous and full of disturbing fashion (apparently perms are more popular at the moment because of it?!) and clowns. Gene Hunt, despite all his faults is still ♥.

Torchwood - very sad that it's coming to an end next week. :(:(:( I'm sure it only just started. Damn UK TV shows having such short seasons.

The Colour of Magic adaptation over Easter - much better that the Hogfather was. I still don't think Rincewind should have been as old as David Jason is but despite that, it seemed to work. The Luggage was so well done and I want one of my own. Imagine how easy moving house would be if you could lob everything into it and it just followed you to the new house!

Stargate SG-1: The Ark of Truth - I still haven't watched it yet. That's for this weekend I think.

Yay Friday!!

spooky

Oldest recorded voices sing again

An "ethereal" 10 second clip of a woman singing a French folk song has been played for the first time in 150 years. The recording of "Au Clair de la Lune", recorded in 1860, is thought to be the oldest known recorded human voice. A phonograph of Thomas Edison singing a children's song in 1877 was previously thought to be the oldest record. The new "phonautograph", created by etching soot-covered paper, has now been played by US scientists using a "virtual stylus" to read the lines.

"When I first heard the recording as you hear it ... it was magical, so ethereal," audio historian David Giovannoni, who found the recording, told AP. "The fact is it's recorded in smoke. The voice is coming out from behind this screen of aural smoke."

Go and listen to the clip - I heard this on the radio yesterday morning and it's very freaky. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!

Doctor Who next Saturday!! I've just watched David Tennant on the Friday Night Project. <3<3