Joking Apart is a BBC television sitcom written by Steven Moffat about
the rise and fall of a relationship. It juxtaposes a couple, Mark
(Robert Bathurst) and Becky (Fiona Gillies), who meet and fall in love
before getting separated and finally divorced. The twelve episodes,
broadcast between 1993 and 1995, were directed by Bob Spiers and
produced by Andre Ptaszynski for independent production company Pola
Jones. The show is semi-autobiographical; it was inspired by the
then-recent separation of Moffat and his first wife. Some of the
episodes in the first series followed a non-linear parallel structure,
contrasting the rise of the relationship with the fall. Other episodes
were ensemble farces, predominantly including the couple's friends
Robert (Paul Raffield) and Tracy (Tracie Bennett). Paul-Mark Elliott
also appeared as Trevor, Becky's lover. Scheduling problems meant that
the show attracted low viewing figures. However, it scored highly on
the Appreciation Index and accrued a loyal fanbase. One fan acquired
the home video rights from the BBC and released both series on his own
DVD label.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1613:
The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a
cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of
William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre>
1659:
Russo-Polish War: The hetman of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky and his allies
defeated the armies of Russian Tsardom led by Aleksey Trubetskoy at the
Battle of Konotop in the present-day Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Konotop>
1880:
Pomare V, King of Tahiti, was forced to cede the sovereignty of Tahiti
and its dependencies to France.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti>
1995:
Shuttle-Mir Program: During the STS-71 mission, Space Shuttle Atlantis
became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space station
Mir .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle-Mir_Program>
2006:
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,
ruling that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to
try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both U.S. and international
law.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdan_v._Rumsfeld>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lager (n):
A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lager>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that
one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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