After struggling to persuade enough people to write programmes for it, Bill Gates ordered his own staff to create applications instead.
When I write programmes, I always make the last week in December is always a rest and recovery week anyway.
I've been piloting a creative writing project there, with Chris Meade as part of their Everybody Writes programme in schools.
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Yet he won a fellowship to the Wallace Stegner writing programme at Stanford University, in California; in Palo Alto he became best friends with Ken Kesey, his neighbour and an exile from Stegner.
Only this masterfully written programme could have got away with offering, to a prime-time Tuesday night Beeb audience, an episode centred on the word "ontological", and have the lovely Tom Hollander quite unafraid to say it.
Instead, this long-time Glaswegian's almost-poetic restlessness has taken her into teaching (at the Universities of St Andrews and, latterly, Warwick, where she's a visiting professor to their Writing Programme) and her latest passion, stand-up comedy.
In his role at Consero, Arthur cultivates groups of delegates, conducts pan-European/American market research, and writes programme agendas for the company's Forums.
All participants randomised into the operative group will receive a standardised written programme of physiotherapy for their post-operative rehabilitation.
Writing programmes "keeps the membership happy", says Klaus von Beyme, a professor at Heidelberg University.
