Benjamin Judge is in his fifties…
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1000 films at the cinema
For the last ten years, I have kept a record of everything I see at the cinema. From January 2016 to the end of 2025 I saw 621 films, or roughly 1.2 films a week. This data is made slightly useless by the Covid lockdowns (I saw 3 films at the cinema in 2020) and…
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1976, a place, Walsall
I was born in the Manor Hospital, Walsall, at about eight o’clock in the morning. I had no opinions on the town at the time. It’s not very famous, Walsall. It’s one of the few towns with a league football club that people seem not to have heard of. It was briefly ‘Europe’s Fattest City’…
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1000 Species
How easy would it be to see one thousand species of animal, in Britain, in ten years? I think, it depends. I read the other day there are seven thousand species of fly in the UK so, on that basis, pretty easy. Except, importantly, a lot of those flys are very very similar, and small,…
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1976: An Introduction
I don’t remember a thing about 1976 because I was a baby. This could end up being a major flaw of this project: a complete lack of direct knowledge of the first four of five years of my life. We are not starting strong… 1976 in the UK. It was hot. The Sex Pistols played…
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hello…
I don’t know how it happened. One minute I’m in my forties, the next I’m fifty. Old. Like… half a century old. Or, to put it another way, I have lived an amount of time that feels important (to me) because it takes a fiftieth of that time for the earth to orbit the sun…
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