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On what would have been Kenneth Williams' 99th birthday why not check out our show about Carry On Screaming? www.patreon.com/posts/carry-...

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LISTENERS TOP 20 PETER SELLERS FILMS: Stand by to be STUNNED as such classic Sellers flicks as Ghost In The Noonday Sun, Soft Beds Hard Battles and Where Does It Hurt FAIL to make the chart! But which films did? Listen to find out! open.spotify.com/episode/1Rum...

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Allan Williams the Beatles' first manager born 21 February 1930. He opened the Jacaranda at 23 Slater Street, Liverpool in 1958 opposite Jackson's art shop not too far from the art college where John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe were students and got the band their first booking in Hamburg in 1960

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Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool waterfront area around Mann Island and the warehouses/pubs of 'Nova Scotia'. 1890. Including docks, foreground buildings serving the cross-Mersey underground railway and - just in - George's dock (right) later filled in to build the 'three graces'.

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This Oldie #cartoon #redraw is available from The Chris Beetles Gallery, London #penandink #watercolour #originalart #military #weapons #missiles #aesthetics www.chrisbeetles.com/artist/537/j...

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21 February 1956 Brian Epstein's last will and testament. According to Mark Lewisohn the only will he ever drew up (but not legal because it was unwitnessed) The same day Brian applied to study drama at RADA provoking a huge row with his dad who had set him up with his own shop in Hoylake, Wirral

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BBC Radio should be making a satirical show called ITMAGA. #topicalcomedy

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Top tunes as the Big Beatles Sort Out continues looking at the UK's number one hit records through the 1960s. This week early 1968. I was at Marymount Convent School where I was made to stand in front of the class and eat some horrid sandwiches that had been retrieved from the bin where I'd put them

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20 February 1957 Bill Haley and the Comets appeared at the Liverpool Odeon. In the audience was the then 14 year old Paul McCartney who said it was the first concert he had gone to. Tickets were 17 shillings and 6, 15 shillings or 12 and 6. 15 shillings would be equivalent to £23.11 today

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I don't see Trump demanding elections in Russia. ...ironically one year, almost to the day, after Alexei Navalny's murder.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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19 February 1963 The Beatles were photographed in Derby Square, Liverpool around the Queen Victoria monument for Honey Magazine. Their second single Please Please Me album had just gone to number 1 in the NME chart and the Please Please Me album had been recorded 8 days earlier

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Happy Birthday to Ghost Town, 5 years old today - a bumpy start just as the pandemic kicked in but it did ok! Thank you to everyone who read it, reviewed it, got in touch to talk about it. Above all, thanks to the mighty @littletollerbooks.bsky.social who made it happen. X

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The great Graeme Garden is 82 today. There is a rule when it comes to The Goodies: as a child you preferred Bill, maybe Tim. Rarely Graeme. As an adult you realise Graeme was the best.

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Happy Birthday Graeme Garden, born this day in 1943.

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16 to 20 February 1960 the Liverpool Institute school put on a production of George Bernard Shaw's St Joan. Future newsreader and head boy Peter Sissons was in the cast. Also much further down the cast list and only given a non speaking role, the 17 year old Paul McCartney

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This is a really fun and very well put together podcast about the classic TV show Blackadder - the sort of podcast I could only ever dream of being asked to appear on. But wait a moment! What's this?!.....

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It’s insight like this which justifies the power these men wield.

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

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Friday 16 February 1962 - Brian Epstein's contract with The Beatles had come into force at the beginning of the month but then this happened when they went to pick up Paul on the way to their evening's bookings (as related in Mark Lewisohn's Tune In)

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The first episode of At Last the 1948 Show was broadcast 15 February 1967. I didn't see it at the time, so here it is now www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqAi...

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On at Liverpool's Cavern Club on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 February 1958 - Mr Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band. I like the fact that Acker's management were referred to as The Bilk Marketing Board

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Yes, please. What a great idea.

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This is more the sort of news I want to see. Also very interested to learn that the "bigger" Crunchie bars for the "same price" were discovered to be smaller than the bars had been previously www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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And in other news it has been revealed that the Pope is Catholic.

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First broadcast 30 years ago today: Arena: The Peter Sellers Story - a three-part documentary for which the word 'definitive' really doesn't do it justice. We discussed it with @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5AW0...

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11 February 1963 Sylvia Plath died aged just 30 at 23 Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill, London. The same day The Beatles were less than 2 miles away at EMI's Abbey Road studios recording the bulk of their first LP Please Please Me during an 11 hour session

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Saturday 10 February 1962 The Beatles were over here in the Wirral playing at St Paul's Church Youth Club on the corner of North Road and Rocky Bank Road, Tranmere. The band would have learnt in the previous few days that they had been turned down by Decca following their audition on 1 January.

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A 10-year-old has a better plan for stopping plastic pollution than most politicians. Amaya Edwards discovered an Australian scheme that’s keeping rivers and oceans clean. So why hasn’t the UK adopted it? she wants to know. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Elon Musk says USAid “needs to die.” But slashing US foreign aid isn’t just cruel— it’s more than that: It's a health security disaster. And the void left by USAid's departure is a gift for China in the battle for soft power. By Prof Natasha Lindstaedt

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They promised, they delivered

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