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    IPC Digital Catalogues

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    All IPC catalogues at your fingertips. Industrial cleaning’s world has never been so digital. ...

    Headhunter (2009)

    Headhunter (2009)

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    Martin Vinge, (35), former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated...

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David McK (3623 KP) rated Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3) in Books

Oct 19, 2025  
PG
Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3)
Jonathan Stroud | 2005
6
6.0 (3 Ratings)
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The final part in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy, all set in an alternative modern-day-ish London where magic is a real thing and with those able to wield it (or, more accurately, able to summon various magical creatures including Djinni to carry out their orders) in power, again following (roughly chapter about) the main three characters of the magician John Mandrake, his Djinni Bartimaeus and the commoner Kitty Jones who has magical resistance.

Which, as the ages-old Djinni Bartimaeus points out, is something he has seen time and time again throughout the ages: those able to perform magic rise to the top until magical resistance starts growing amongst the downtrodden commoners, who then over-through their rulers.

The trilogy, as a whole, I felt is enjoyable enough but does need to be read in order, with this perhaps the best.
  
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    "Radio HQ (lite version)" is a modern internet radio receiver that enables you to listen lots of...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Alternative 3 in TV

May 4, 2019 (Updated May 4, 2019)  
Alternative 3
Alternative 3
1977 | Documentary, Sci-Fi
8
5.5 (4 Ratings)
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One of the great TV hoaxes, from back when such things were still considered an acceptable jape. Made, for the most part, with great care and attention to detail, the result is very convincing and unsettling viewing - although the presence of fairly well-known actors in a couple of roles does kind of blow the gaffe a bit, long before the end.

Some people will argue that claims that this is a hoax are just a smokescreen and the makers either stumbled onto the truth or were trying to blow the whistle on a real conspiracy, which is why this show vanished into obscurity for a long while after its transmission. I really don't know, but parts of the story here do seem eerily close to reality, 40 years on, and the questions Alternative 3 raises about how much to trust the media are still pertinent today.