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Jon Pertwee performing on a 1957 episode of Six-Five Special as part of Adam Faith's skiffle group.

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NUJ expresses concern at removal of Apple’s ADP. Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary: "We are concerned bad actors deploying spyware will feel emboldened by weakened protections for UK Apple users, risking harm to journalists and our democracy." www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

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I recognise that Giulia!

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15 years ago today... recorded but never transmitted! Guest had been left in the pub after a pre-record of their latest song in the afternoon, for the package recorded in the evening & had been overserved too many “lemonades”..

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Retuned to Channel 5 for “Eric Sykes: 50 Years of Laughs” - without doubt the nicest man I’ve met in my time in television..

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Never a frown with Gordon Brown #totp

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KRAFTWERK KLAXON #totp

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I bumped into Leo Sayer in the paddock at the 1993 Portuguese F1 race (he was a huge F1 fan) - he had a permanent pass from Bernie, I’d donated a kidney to get paddock access #totp

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Was there a strike at the BBC when this episode of #totp was produced? There’s no audience?

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Rod Temperton klaxon #totp

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Boogie Nights… written by a man originally from Cleethorpes #totp

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Never got the point of Friends as a television show.. still don’t, never will #totp

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You should be able to just walk in to your local BBC local radio station and hand over the £169.50 with the words "and don't let those cunts in London get their hands on this".

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I hear the new Bond girl is called Alexa Ordermorestuff

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More Old Foolery. Where the fun don't stop. Even when it really needs a wee. This week @quantick.bsky.social and @ianmartin.bsky.social are joined by northern screenwriting legend, @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social SOUND ON and all that.

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BREAKING: Spud U Like have announced they are the new owners of the Triangle franchise.

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What an absolutely diabolical idea..

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In all the Eastenders 40 noise, nobody has mentioned the final series of Are You Being Served started on the 18th of Feb 1985 meaning Wendy Richard was on screen as Miss Brahms the night before she first appeared as Pauline Fowler.

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Another bit of BBC Wales ident revival from 2006. This one involved dusting off and re-powering the old mechanical globe, replacing a blown bulb with one from Steve’s car and getting veteran BBC Wales Announcer Geraint Jones to record his VO from the commentary booth at the Welsh Open Snooker.

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I wrote a piece about Father Ted (and at no point did I use the phrase 'How I Made Father Ted' which makes me sound like God - thank you, headline writer....😫😫😫) archive.ph/yQySr

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This is WAY better than Atmosphere #totp youtu.be/C1H381BRnTQ

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I love Nightshift by The Commodores #TOTP - Downtown Radio had a late night show called Nightshift presented by June Nightingale (I think?) used to play it regularly

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The story of how Mark and Dave brought a COW back to BBC Wales. vimeo.com/1056578810

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40 years on, the old BBC1 COW (Computer Originated World) still looks glorious...

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Resurrecting a thing for tomorrow night. #TVPres #BBCWales

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I'll tell you what, you never see signs saying "Cryptocurrency is king" in chippies, do you? Just one reason why it's shit for cunts. #NonceCoin

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A LUCKY ESCAPE! Jimmy Savile had auditioned/tested for the Wombles narraton before they found Bernard Cribbins. Here's a letter to me inviting me to try. I don't remember ever trying for it, I stuck to the music and singing, and they found Bernie Cribbins soon afterwards. #Wombles #JimmySavile

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You can call me Greeneyes… if you dare! (14 September 1970)

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Nobody:... Neurodivergent brain at 4am: Recreate the block of flats from the 1969 kids' TV series Mary Mungo & Midge, exclusively as a vector graphic, complete with them waving from the window. Make every flower accurate. Do it do it do it do it do it... #illustration #graphics #TV #art #ASD #ADHD

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UK TV ident people: "Here's a CGI animation that Yorkshire Television spent 30 grand on. Isn't that cool for 1987?" The Dutch: "Hold our beer"

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Every now and then a #DoctorWho fan will commit a labour of love so extraordinary. She's animated four missing episodes! İn a unique and endearing style! Wow. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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I remember when Ramsay McDonald called Stanley Baldwin a “big old shithouse” via a Labour semaphore group back in the day.

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The DfT is opposing a plan by Hull Trains to run Sheffield/King’s Cross, as well as an extra Hull/London service, which would “further constrain LNER’s ability to operate additional services to Leeds, for which it has firm rights.” www.railmagazine.com/news/2025/02...

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Inevitably some of these #ABBAattheBBC performances will have been lip synced, but you’ve got to hand it to them, they were bloody good at it..

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“And now on BBC Four, a load of brilliant performances by ABBA at the BBC arc’d to 16:9 so they’ll look woeful and badly framed, when it was all shot 4:3. But it was edited by a teenager who thinks television was always widescreen - sorry.”

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Want to feel old? This is what Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot looks like now. #TOTP

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Had John Lennon ducked Phil Collins would be number 1 with a far superior record #totp

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Australia has a lot to answer for.. #totp

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Imagine the excitement of getting tickets for an 80s #totp at the temple of broadcasting that was Television Centre and it was a show with this diabolical “performance”

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You can tell it’s an early 80s #totp because the one effect available to the vision control folks is deployed - the mighty star filter

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The kids are better at miming the song that the Spices #totp

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