Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Saturday, November 07, 2026

The Joy of Six 1603

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"More than 74,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and up to ten thousand are missing u...
Monday, November 02, 2026

Fortean Times nods on yoghurt and the Stiperstones

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I went into Leicester today to see Pawel Pawlowski's new film Fatherland and also to buy the new issue of Fortean Times at the T.G. Jone...
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Sunday, November 01, 2026

The Joy of Six 1600

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"In a sacred ceremony dating back to time immemorial, a researcher from a poverty charity or housing campaign group raises their mournf...
Thursday, October 29, 2026

Two early screen appearances by Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)

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The actor Patrick Stewart died yesterday. This story from the Hollywood Reporter concentrates on his appearances in Star Trek and X-Men, wh...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

David Hemmings film of David Bowie concert tour to be seen at last

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Embed from Getty Images Here's some good news from the Guardian . David Hemmings' film of David Bowie’s 1978 Isolar II tour will be...
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Turning Point UK chief executive suspended by Tories over contract killing claims

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Headline of the Day has already been won by a penis-biting dog from Rutland, but this Guardian story is still worth your attention: Former...
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Thursday, October 15, 2026

Gophers! – The strange strange show that no one remembers

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As I have long been convinced that I am the only person who remembers Gophers!, a bizarre comedy series screened by Channel 4 in 1990, I...
Wednesday, October 14, 2026

"A little heaven here on earth": Launde Abbey in Leicestershire

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Remember Thomas Cromwell's final words in the wonderful Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light ? "There is an abbey, Launde, in the he...
Monday, October 12, 2026

Crash! (1971): An experimental television film with J.G. Ballard and Gabrielle Drake

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This film, made for BBC2 and broadcast in 1971, features J.G. Ballard and Gabrielle Drake.  It must have been inspired by one of the linked ...
Thursday, October 08, 2026

Matt Brittin and Manon Dave need a traditional BBC arse-booting

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Many have spent the day unsure whether to be outraged by BBC senior management or point at it and roar with laugher. Here's director gen...
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The Joy of Six 1588

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"Tony Blair once observed that the first step from opposition to government is an honest analysis of why you are in opposition. Kemi Ba...
Friday, October 02, 2026

The Joy of Six 1585

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"Burnham’s speech was, in some ways, an exercise in calling the electorate’s bluff. 'I have given you what you often say is missing...
Monday, September 28, 2026

The Joy of Six 1583

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The New World warns that Rupert Lowe is coming for your parents: "Lowe’s success exemplifies how Facebook has weaponised the anxieties...
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Saturday, September 26, 2026

The Joy of Six 1582

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"Watching him involved engaging a kind of cognitive dissonance: this desperate, thin man was the same person as a sweet 6-year-old sayi...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Violet Bonham Carter and Mary Stocks remember the struggle for women's suffrage

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I thought I had finished blogging for today, but this video is too good not to share with you tonight. It's a BBC2 discussion from 1968 ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

The Joy of Six 1577

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Sam Bright says the government's indecision on how to meet the threat of Nigel Farage has cost us all: "Labour has been dismally s...
Friday, September 11, 2026

A website on Alec Guinness's two BBC series as George Smiley

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Here's what we need: a website devoted to the BBC productions of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People . Gu...
Sunday, September 06, 2026

Joan Littlewood on Brian Murphy's This is Your Life

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I've written several times about Joan Littlewood and her extraordinary influence on British theatre. Here is a short clip of her, record...
Friday, September 04, 2026

Richard O'Sullivan's This is Your Life from 1974

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The actor Richard O'Sullivan has died at the age of 82. He was never out of the studio as child star in the Fifties and early Sixties, a...
Friday, August 28, 2026

The Joy of Six 1568

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Tom Perry links to a review of the duty to report child sexual abuse brought in by the Crime and Policing Act 2026. It finds that because o...