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An update. A bit of necessary behind-the-scenes red tape took much longer than expected, but I’m delighted to report that that’s now all sorted and we can get the CDs manufactured.

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First rule of merchandising, Spike. Get ‘em ‘ooked. (First rule of Bluesky: no videos over 50MB.)

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The Major wants you to know he’s perfected the world’s first LP made out of custard! Don’t get too excited just yet. There’s paperwork and stuff to complete before we can flog them, but flog them we will.

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All 25 promo videos I produced for @fasttunesltd.bsky.social 's TV themes album can now be viewed on their YouTube channel, in glorious 4K. www.youtube.com/@fasttunesli... * Picture Box * Are You Being Served * Nationwide * Left Bank Two * Doctor Who * and many more!

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Happy new year, and thank you for your support. I found this years old list of things Gavin and I would have liked to record. We managed some, while others will have to wait. Somehow I don't think we're ever going to get around to Jim'll Fix It, though. Decent couple of tunes, but...

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In case it got a bit lost amidst the excitement over Wallace/Who/Stacey, here's me and Ben chatting about some possibly slightly less hotly anticipated Christmas Specials of Grange Hill, The Goodies and Roland Rat - The Series... timworthington.org/2024/12/24/l...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Christmas Eve. The Likely Lads. Gavin has cleverly arranged this so it incorporates the different versions used across the TV and radio series, and so it lasts for longer than the original 30 seconds.

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Day 23. Manège, reproduced on water-filled wine glasses. It took a fortnight.

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Day 22. Television. Sung by musical star Adele Dixon on 2 November 1936 for the formal opening of BBC Television. She was appearing in Over She Goes at the Saville Theatre at the time. On that day, her role on stage was taken by Gilly Flower, later to find renewed fame as Miss Tibbs in Fawlty Towers

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Day 21. Following a brief spot of public paranoia that television sets could be used to look into viewers’ homes, the BBC kicked off their experimental broadcasts to Olympia in the summer of 1936 with a song cunningly titled “Here’s Looking At You.”

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Day 20. How did you spend the first lockdown? I attempted to recreate the theme to Doctor Who using techniques as close as possible to those employed by the great Delia Derbyshire. A bold experiment. The secret ingredient is a 4-speed analogue tape recorder which has a usefully springy brake.

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Presenting the final running order for THE NEXT PROGRAMME FOLLOWS SHORTLY by the amazing GAVIN SUTHERLAND and the majestic FAST TUNES ORCHESTRA. It’s out on 19 March 2025, 3 months from today. Possibly sooner if they don’t hang around with the paperwork. YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DESERVE IT!

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Day 19. Getting this in early before my battery conks out. Grandstand. Pete says “knowing how sports rights holders can be notoriously strong on copyright infringement, I've captured the twelve sports from the 1980 opening titles via the medium of old video games.”

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Day 18. What’s wrong with your local television transmitter this week?

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This promo video was fun to work on. It's all stock footage, except for the opening Northern Ireland shot, which I did this summer.

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Day 17. A gentle reminder that our BPI* Beige Award Winning Idents EP is still available. *Benest’s Phonographic Industry www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...

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Day 16. University Challenge. Boing!

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Day 15. A little early. Major’s orders. Early night tonight, stocktake tomorrow under intense supervision. Sara’s Tune. A tune familiar to me despite it being before my time. Mostly from hearing it in French lessons, played back from a tape older than the people watching it.

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Outside the usual purview of this group, but I thought you might like to hear a burst of Peter The Postman in Danish. Olaf Nielsen plays Brian Cant, Freddie Phillips plays the guitar. I wonder if the original Music and Effects tracks still exist?

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Day 14, and it’s time once again to go Nationwide. On a Saturday? This is the final theme before Nationwide became Sixty Minutes. Hardly anybody seems to remember it nowadays.

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Day 13. Live From Her Majesty’s, a programme remembered today for Jimmy Tarbuck’s frequent attacks on striking miners… and nothing else.

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It's amazing how a piece of music can immediately transport you back 50 years!

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Day 12. The Gallery. Please don’t send your artwork in. Not since that newsreader got into a bit of trouble a while back. (The audio on this was edited with pinking shears, in memory of Tony Hart. We also went to the trouble of miking the vibraphone with - get this - TWO WHOLE MICROPHONES.)

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Day 12. The Gallery. Please don’t send your artwork in. Not since that newsreader got into a bit of trouble a while back. (The audio on this was edited with pinking shears, in memory of Tony Hart. We also went to the trouble of miking the vibraphone with - get this - TWO WHOLE MICROPHONES.)

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A reminder that for the next 50 hours and 11-and-a-half minutes (approximately) the postage is FREE on copies of our IDENTS EP. bsky.app/profile/fast...

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Day 11. Christopher Mayhew MP is primarily remembered these days for taking mescaline on camera in 1955. Based on Mayhew’s description of what he experienced while under mescaline, this is how we imagine waiting for the television to start looked to him. Perhaps a lot slower.

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Day 11. Christopher Mayhew MP is primarily remembered these days for taking mescaline on camera in 1955. Based on Mayhew’s description of what he experienced while under mescaline, this is how we imagine waiting for the television to start looked to him. Perhaps a lot slower.

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Well, this is a joy.

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DAY 10: It’s freezing out. Absolutely Parky, in fact.

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DAY 9: Are You Being Served? The loop contains a 30-year-old recording of a 60-year-old till. It was a massive cast iron thing, and it had such a distinctive ring that I asked Jean, the lady who ran our local chip shop, if I could record it for posterity. Welcome to posterity.

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For the, ahem, record, we sold 46 copies of Idents in the first week.

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DAY 8: ATV Midlands Montage

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DAY 7: The Dick Emery Show

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Sale. Sale? SALE! For one week only, we pay the postage. Get it delivered in time for Christmas for a tenner! THE MAJOR HAS SPOKEN! VERY LOUDLY! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...

An update. A bit of necessary behind-the-scenes red tape took much longer than expected, but I’m delighted to report that that’s now all sorted and we can get the CDs manufactured.

First rule of merchandising, Spike. Get ‘em ‘ooked. (First rule of Bluesky: no videos over 50MB.)

The Major wants you to know he’s perfected the world’s first LP made out of custard! Don’t get too excited just yet. There’s paperwork and stuff to complete before we can flog them, but flog them we will.

All 25 promo videos I produced for @fasttunesltd.bsky.social 's TV themes album can now be viewed on their YouTube channel, in glorious 4K. www.youtube.com/@fasttunesli... * Picture Box * Are You Being Served * Nationwide * Left Bank Two * Doctor Who * and many more!

Happy new year, and thank you for your support. I found this years old list of things Gavin and I would have liked to record. We managed some, while others will have to wait. Somehow I don't think we're ever going to get around to Jim'll Fix It, though. Decent couple of tunes, but...

In case it got a bit lost amidst the excitement over Wallace/Who/Stacey, here's me and Ben chatting about some possibly slightly less hotly anticipated Christmas Specials of Grange Hill, The Goodies and Roland Rat - The Series... timworthington.org/2024/12/24/l...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Eve. The Likely Lads. Gavin has cleverly arranged this so it incorporates the different versions used across the TV and radio series, and so it lasts for longer than the original 30 seconds.

Day 23. Manège, reproduced on water-filled wine glasses. It took a fortnight.

Day 22. Television. Sung by musical star Adele Dixon on 2 November 1936 for the formal opening of BBC Television. She was appearing in Over She Goes at the Saville Theatre at the time. On that day, her role on stage was taken by Gilly Flower, later to find renewed fame as Miss Tibbs in Fawlty Towers

Day 21. Following a brief spot of public paranoia that television sets could be used to look into viewers’ homes, the BBC kicked off their experimental broadcasts to Olympia in the summer of 1936 with a song cunningly titled “Here’s Looking At You.”

Day 20. How did you spend the first lockdown? I attempted to recreate the theme to Doctor Who using techniques as close as possible to those employed by the great Delia Derbyshire. A bold experiment. The secret ingredient is a 4-speed analogue tape recorder which has a usefully springy brake.

Presenting the final running order for THE NEXT PROGRAMME FOLLOWS SHORTLY by the amazing GAVIN SUTHERLAND and the majestic FAST TUNES ORCHESTRA. It’s out on 19 March 2025, 3 months from today. Possibly sooner if they don’t hang around with the paperwork. YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DESERVE IT!

Day 19. Getting this in early before my battery conks out. Grandstand. Pete says “knowing how sports rights holders can be notoriously strong on copyright infringement, I've captured the twelve sports from the 1980 opening titles via the medium of old video games.”

Day 18. What’s wrong with your local television transmitter this week?

This promo video was fun to work on. It's all stock footage, except for the opening Northern Ireland shot, which I did this summer.

Day 17. A gentle reminder that our BPI* Beige Award Winning Idents EP is still available. *Benest’s Phonographic Industry www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...

Day 16. University Challenge. Boing!

Day 15. A little early. Major’s orders. Early night tonight, stocktake tomorrow under intense supervision. Sara’s Tune. A tune familiar to me despite it being before my time. Mostly from hearing it in French lessons, played back from a tape older than the people watching it.

Outside the usual purview of this group, but I thought you might like to hear a burst of Peter The Postman in Danish. Olaf Nielsen plays Brian Cant, Freddie Phillips plays the guitar. I wonder if the original Music and Effects tracks still exist?

Day 14, and it’s time once again to go Nationwide. On a Saturday? This is the final theme before Nationwide became Sixty Minutes. Hardly anybody seems to remember it nowadays.

Day 13. Live From Her Majesty’s, a programme remembered today for Jimmy Tarbuck’s frequent attacks on striking miners… and nothing else.

It's amazing how a piece of music can immediately transport you back 50 years!

Day 12. The Gallery. Please don’t send your artwork in. Not since that newsreader got into a bit of trouble a while back. (The audio on this was edited with pinking shears, in memory of Tony Hart. We also went to the trouble of miking the vibraphone with - get this - TWO WHOLE MICROPHONES.)

Day 12. The Gallery. Please don’t send your artwork in. Not since that newsreader got into a bit of trouble a while back. (The audio on this was edited with pinking shears, in memory of Tony Hart. We also went to the trouble of miking the vibraphone with - get this - TWO WHOLE MICROPHONES.)

A reminder that for the next 50 hours and 11-and-a-half minutes (approximately) the postage is FREE on copies of our IDENTS EP. bsky.app/profile/fast...

Day 11. Christopher Mayhew MP is primarily remembered these days for taking mescaline on camera in 1955. Based on Mayhew’s description of what he experienced while under mescaline, this is how we imagine waiting for the television to start looked to him. Perhaps a lot slower.

Day 11. Christopher Mayhew MP is primarily remembered these days for taking mescaline on camera in 1955. Based on Mayhew’s description of what he experienced while under mescaline, this is how we imagine waiting for the television to start looked to him. Perhaps a lot slower.

Well, this is a joy.

DAY 10: It’s freezing out. Absolutely Parky, in fact.

DAY 9: Are You Being Served? The loop contains a 30-year-old recording of a 60-year-old till. It was a massive cast iron thing, and it had such a distinctive ring that I asked Jean, the lady who ran our local chip shop, if I could record it for posterity. Welcome to posterity.

For the, ahem, record, we sold 46 copies of Idents in the first week.

DAY 8: ATV Midlands Montage

DAY 7: The Dick Emery Show

Sale. Sale? SALE! For one week only, we pay the postage. Get it delivered in time for Christmas for a tenner! THE MAJOR HAS SPOKEN! VERY LOUDLY! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...

A Major announcement.

DAY 6: Nationwide (Good Word theme)