Showing posts with label Coronation Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coronation Street. Show all posts
Monday, November 03, 2025

A 1959 Monitor feature on Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop

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I've struck gold with this 1959 report on Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at Stratford East from the BBC arts programme Monitor. ...
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Saturday, March 01, 2025

Cole Palmer's great uncle was a member of Sweet Sensation

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This just in from our Trivia Desk... The black British soul group Sweet Sensation topped the singles chart in 1974 with Sad Sweet Dreamer. O...
Monday, December 02, 2024

"Ooh, Your Eminence!": A short review of Conclave (2024)

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If you enjoyed The Death of Stalin or the television adaptation of Tinker Tailor Solder Spy, you will enjoy Conclave - it's another film...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Continued on next monument: A tribute to Timothy West

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Or, to be precise, a tribute to Timothy West and Bradley Hardacre. There were three seasons of the Channel 4 comedy Brass in the early 1980s...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

The Exorcism: The scariest thing I have ever seen on television

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Written for Terence Towles Canote's  10th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon . What’s the most frightening thing you’ve seen on ...
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Tuesday, October 03, 2023

The three Dickies: More about Malcolm Saville on Children's Hour

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We've seen that the third actor to play Malcolm Saville's child character (and my first literary hero) Dickie Morton was tried for m...
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Monday, September 11, 2023

John Stevenson, Coronation Street and Brass

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The television scriptwriter John Stevenson died last week. He was the leading scriptwriter for Coronation Street in the days when, because i...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

The pilot episode of Blackadder will be shown on Thursday

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Radio Times makes a big fuss about the never-screened pilot episode of Blackadder, which is being shown by Gold (not a Freeview channel) on...
Monday, May 15, 2023

I've found another fan of No Room at the Inn

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It can be difficult to keep all your rabbit holes in the air, and it's high time we went back to No Room at the Inn . This is the film t...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Boy who appeared in radio dramatisation of a Malcolm Saville story was later tried for murder at the Old Bailey

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This is not what you expect to find when you do a little gentle research into the BBC Children’s Hour dramatisations of Malcolm Saville’s ea...