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Spooks at Brunel University

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

<meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.3 (Unix)" name="GENERATOR" /><br /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </style> </p> <p class="western">…well not actually real spooks (..i don’t think..) but from the popular BBC Television series <a target="_blank" title="WARNING - Adobe flash site, already crashed my pc once" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/spooks/">Spooks.</a></p> <p class="western">The last episode of Spooks (<a title="Summary of episode 10 s6" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/series6_ep10.shtml">series 6 episode 10</a>) was partly filmed on Brunel’s uxbridge campus. Not that anyone told me, i just recognised it when it was on over the christmas holiday.</p> <p class="western">The first scene is inside the libary extension - the glass fronted building in which the “sniper” is hiding out in an empty “office space” to get a view across to the “restaurant” - The hamilton centre’s bar The Hub. The Spook “<font size="1">Ben” </font>then arrives and goes to get the sniper, a corridor from the engineering and design school is used as the spook tries to track down the sniper. When the camera shows what the sniper is looking at through his scope you see the balcony of the hamilton centre, this is the outdoors bit of The Hub which is one of the bars here at brunel.</p> <p class="western">From the episode:</p> <p class="western"><img alt="getting out of the car" title="getting out of the car" src="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/hercules/files/blog/Spooks-s06e10.jpg" /> <img alt="Brunel Libary in BBC TV spooks" title="Brunel Libary in BBC TV spooks" src="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/hercules/files/blog/brunellibaryinspooks.jpg" /></p> <p class="western"><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS" color="#a6c0cc"> © Kudos Film & Television Ltd 2004</font></p> <p class="western">Reality:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" class="western"><img alt="Hamilton centre" title="Hamilton centre" src="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/hercules/files/blog/Hamiltoncentre.jpg" /> <img alt="the main walkway" title="the main walkway" src="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/hercules/files/blog/brunelwalkway.jpg" /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" class="western"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" class="western">Photos of Brunel University by <a title="Adam and Eva" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cimarosti/sets/72157600232809393/">Adam and Eva</a> - thank you for <a title="CC by NC" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC by NC licencing</a> your work.</p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> | <a href="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/2008/01/09/spooks-at-brunel-university/#respond" title="Comment on Spooks at Brunel University">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"><a href="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/2008/01/">Next Entries »</a></div> </div> </div><div id="footer"> <p> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0</a> | </a> Michael Wood | <a href="?page=credits">Credits</a> | <a href="http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/admin/index2.php" >Admin</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>