Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes. No, genuinely. I listened to them all. Even the one that's just bells.
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Most people in the UK won't remember Shelley Duvall's high concept actorly visually ambitious folklore anthology Faerie Tale Theatre, but it was so prestigious that over here, Channel 4 showed it as a 'proper' drama. Here's @gfrancie.bsky.social's thoughts on it.
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Rod Hull and Emu might get reduced down to that clip of them deservedly knocking Parky off his chair, but honestly, it's hard to get across just *how* anarchic Emu's Broadcasting Company really was. Here's me and @whenisbirths.bsky.social having a go...
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Never mind in the heart of Transylvania - there's plenty of us out here in the real world, myself and @alkennedy.bsky.social included, who actually preferred Count Duckula to Danger Mouse... *ducks*
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Definitely worth listening to for my attempt at doing an impression of DI Burnside alone!
1986 Children's BBC gangland thriller Running Scared was so unrelentingly grim that it used actual authentic 'villain' slang without explaining it. Here's @markreckons.bsky.social on being confused by the menacing references to 'bins'.
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Why did @emmaburnell.bsky.social wish that Mrs. McCluskey was her actual real life non-fictional headmistress, even if it would have meant her uncharacteristically moderating her language to 'flippin' eck!'? Find out in this...
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Watch with @emmaburnell.bsky.social on Grange Hill, @markreckons.bsky.social on Running Scared, @alkennedy.bsky.social on Count Duckula, @whenisbirths.bsky.social on Emu's Broadcasting Company and @gfrancie.bsky.social on Faerie Tale Theatre.
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During the seventies, Denys Fisher Toys secured the rights to pretty much every television programme and celebrity going and slapped them onto games that were essentially just flashy Ludo. This is what happened when I played all of them. Well, apart from one...
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Giant Hogweed, 'Adult' Teletext, Trebor giveaways and graffiti insulting Enoch Powell...
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The Larks Ascending - a history of comedy on BBC Radio 3. It's like a lost world of humour hidden away in the small print in Radio Times.
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It's understandable that the Bond contributions and the later Oscar-winning scores tend to overshadow John Barry's earlier beat-boom era soundtrack work, but a good deal of it really is tremendous and here are some quick thoughts on where to start...
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With huge thanks to @pablovich.bsky.social for standing in as host, here's me on what The Magic Roundabout is and why I love it so much.
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If you love Press Gang, then you have a lot of reason to be grateful to Stephen O'Brien - a viewer who actually became involved with the show. You can hear all about his fascinating story - including how Steven Moffat discovered Blur - here...
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Why do we still find Bagpuss every bit as haunting - in a positive sense - as we did at the time it was first broadcast? Steve O'Brien shares his thoughts on some of the possible reasons here...
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One of the main reasons Grange Hill was so popular was that there was always a character or two that you secretly wished you could actually go to school with. So who did John Rain.want to team up with for a slice of the moneymaking mischief action?
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Orm And Cheep - a nervous flightless bird and a more worldly-wise worm who aspired to, erm, sing - were kindly puppet pals who cared for all of their forest friends. So why did Juliet Brando want their natural predators to intervene??
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With @sliderulesyou.bsky.social on Orm And Cheep, @johnrain.co.uk on Grange Hill, Steve O'Brien on Bagpuss, Stephen O'Brien on Press Gang and @outonbluesix.bsky.social - with a little help from @pablovich.bsky.social - on The Magic Roundabout.
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Absolutely thrilled to have been invited on to RHLSTP Book Club for a chat with @herring1967.bsky.social about The Golden Age Of Children's TV - and here's definitive proof that Johnny Ball really *did* balance a gold bar on his back in Think Of A Number...
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What makes a really good ending? I think I know, and here are ten of my favourites...
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Now - The Summer Album - the long-forgotten follow-up to Now - The Christmas Album - is one of the most baffling compilations ever released, grouping songs by words rather than by sound. Accidental genius, and here's a Smash Hits-assisted look at it...
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Summer Chart Party is possibly the most baffling compilation that has ever existed. It's just a collection of recent hits of varying degrees that has little to do with 'Summer', 'Party' or arguably even 'Chart'. But over the summer of 1990, it was inescapable...
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Melanie Williams on Kelly Monteith, Aubrey, Kellogg’s Rise & Shine, Girl and Jackie Magazine, The Man Who Juggled Blocks On Variety Shows, Rimmel Coffee Shimmer and much much more...
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What is the best episode of Mr. Benn and why is it the one with the balloon race?
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During the school summer holidays, the BBC would sometimes show programmes so dull that they actually *stopped time*...
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Celebrating this #internationalwomensday with my “WOMEN’S TROUBLES” stand-up comedy routine from my 2025 Edinburgh Show WE’LL SEE. This was my most talked about routine of that show.
So what better way to celebrate #IWD than with #womenstroubles #standupcomedy #comedy youtu.be/WSeT-ffjpR8
As a youngster I was fascinated by railway station graffiti and its badly punctuated flashes of a secret world of sex, drugs, 'grasses' and, well, 'Jimmy' Hendrix. Here's a love letter to this lost art, scrawled onto a dilapidated wall in magic marker.
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First interview for my forthcoming BFI Film Classics book on the Beatles' first film... Always a joy talking to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth...A Word In Your Ear.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSD...
ALF, quill in hand, writing romantic poetry
ALF, quill in hand, sniffing a flower
ALF eating his quill
Carla Gugino!
OUT NOW! In an all new ALFsplaining this week...
ALF gets poetic - and we meet a bonafide "before they were famous" guest star!
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Can't Help Thinking About Me. Tons of my columns and features with even more footnotes, updates and bizarre facts nobody asked for about Chigley. Paperback (15% off code PRINTED15) or Kindle from here.
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