Original playout date: 9 February 2008
Duration: 1:12
After the Empire State Building, we had to get back to JFK for the flight. We didn’t get to see Ground Zero, or the Statue of Liberty, which were all on the agenda, but hopefully there’s always another day.
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Original playout date: 3 February 2008
Duration: 10:40
A very nice visit to the Empire State Building containing a gallery of shots from the observation area.
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Original playout date: 27 January 2008
Duration: 13:54
We pass the Waldorf Astoria, and see Park Avenue, we learn about the charging scheme for yellow cabs, and see some more iconic New York buildings.
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Original playout date: 10 January 2008
Duration: 5:54
A look at New York by night and also on 55th street which seems a bit like London’s Tottenham Court Road in that you can buy various electronics goods. I bought a camera, and it turned out to be less good than I expected, you’ve already heard the crackly audio. In the end I didn’t use it for long.
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The Lonely Terrorist sat on a riverside bench in a suburb of New York where he had been commanded to undertake the Engagement, nursing the ancient flask containing the next step for human history, which God had given him.
Dr Samuel Otherwise was near the end of a distinguished career in the sort of science journalists don’t get to tell the half of and most they write is wrong.
Samuel had long since given up expecting anyone else to have any understanding of his work such of it that wasn’t classified anyway – or his wider ideas and beliefs. At best anyone would take it as a joke, but having totally alienated his university friends, he became overwhelmed by ennui early in life as to explaining the Plan of God with rational arguments; everyone’s false premises were so deeply engrained he could do nothing. He could not enable them to see things as God sees them, so insistent were they in seeing things as men do, applying human value judgements to everything, even the brightest and best could not place themselves outside the space-time continuum and perceive the mind of God. Continue reading “Otherwise Engaged (Short story by me for Daily Telegraph Creative Writing Competition in 2008)”