“Work on giving the Forth Bridge its last coat of paint for at least 20 to 30 years is being accelerated. Balfour Beatty, the engineering group, has promised to try to complete the most famous painting job in Britain by 2012 and finally consign the familiar bon mot “like painting the Forth Bridge” to history.”
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“Summits”
Christ’s Fellow Professor David Reynolds and alumnus Russell Barnes (m. 1987) have teamed up again to make a series of films entitled “Summits”.
Ranging from Chamberlain and Hitler to Reagan and Gorbachev, this three-part series will air on BBC4 on Wednesdays at 9pm, starting on Wednesday 30 January, with repeats probably on Thursdays and Saturdays.
It is linked to David’s book “Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century” (Penguin). Russell’s other work includes a series of films about Darwin, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, to be screened at the end of 2008.