I'm exactly the same. Shit, innit?

BTW your Beatles Rooftop Gig hangs in pride of place above my record collection.

I would answer but I HAVE to update my OS. And then watch this advert…

So that's where the salt liquorice comes from!

Indeed... he just doesn't have that everyman quality that most Spielberg heroes have (btw... watched Minority Report for the first time the other day - same problem).

Not sure who needs to see this but...

Jake Thackray!

I once walked into a Specsavers store. I asked for an eye test only to be told it was one of their hearing aid outlets.

With it's (stunning) cartoon video and comical production it must have been designed to pull in a young audience (worked with me)... but lyrically, it's pretty powerful stuff:

Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together

That's because one them is invisible.

The others are, made of rock, stretchy and on fire.

You realise that if we all dress as monkeys for the return of Artemis 2, when they come out of the pod, one will be invisible, one will be on fire, one will be made of rock and the last? Oh my.

The Fast Show Middle Class Argument I'll get my coat1 YouTube video by teresa sanchez

And we had some jolly good games of scrabble.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxOX...

Did he play the part on stage?

Different beast but the Zucker- Abrahams-Zucker trick of naming one line parts by the line is a thing of joy. “Hey, I ordered a cheeseburger” rather than “Man #3”.

I feel those old adaptations are closer to theatre pieces which gives them their tone. BTW The Outfit is on iPlayer - it feels like a stage play they couldn’t get on, so made a film instead.

Who’s Maké and what’s Money Art?

Shortest Ever Police Car Chase | Hot Fuzz | Full Throttle YouTube video by Full Throttle

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Fire the roof!

Lovely article... One of the most ignored aspects of 'Life' was that they put chords to each song on the lyric sheet (repeated for the next 2 albums). As a guitar beginner at a time when the guitar mag only did metal and gods, the chance for an indie kid to buy an album and play along was priceless.

Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB A weekly show all about audiobooks recorded at the RNIB Talking Book studios.

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I don't have a team, it's just me, and I don't charge any money!

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In social media parlance: This!

A company brought out a AI version of Judy Garland’s voice (have Garland voice your…!). Listening to it, I never realised she was such a dull, uninspired, predictable actor.

That is what this internet thing is for!

Talking Books at 90 - The First Recorded Voices (and the equipment used) From the phonautograph to a smart speaker, today's Read On not only looks at the history of 90 years of RNIB Talking Books recording (and the equipment used), but goes back to the invention of rec...

New Read On - The Audiobook Show

From the phonautograph to a smart speaker, today's Read On not only looks at the history of 90 years of RNIB Talking Books recording (and the equipment used), but goes back to the invention of recording as a whole.

audioboom.com/posts/886651...

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Hedgehogito ergo sum.

"Lady Don't Fall Backwards" would be my book on Desert Island Discs.

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Did you have to flip the DVD half way through?

One of my first jobs was at a post production house in Soho. A shabby old bloke knocked at the door. My boss told me to let him in and shake his hand, “you’ll thank me later”. I did and they sloped off for a pint. Turns out that man was Bob Godfrey. My boss was right.

I'm really enjoying listening to The Lord of the Rings, but I seem to have gone through four postmen.