Tonight on Channel 5, Doomwatch's Dr Spencer Quist attempts to recreate a popular Golden Wonder corn snack using only methods and ingredients from the 18th century, in John Paul's Georgian Ringos.
At the NF Simpson tribute show at the Royal Court in 2012 we premiered a sketch he had lined up for the 16.11.63 TW3 that was then bumped because of overruns to 23.11.63...and we all know what happened then.
Cope's Notes #8 Peggy Suicide (Head Heritage 2026)
Easiest purchase ever.
It's one of those projects I mean to return to, because the Carpenter book really isn't that useful in terms of unpicking the workings of the show. The camera scripts and production files reveal so much about how fluid the production was, with items bumped a week, a fortnight, and forever.
People like David Nobbs, David Nathan and Dennis Potter all worked at newspapers at the time so were naturally quite immersed in the more arcane stories of the week. Loads of the writers in fact.
I still have an article in me on the handling of her departure by SI, Week Ending, MWE etc.
I recall having to date some audio fragments for Radio Circle and some of the quickies were extremely hard to parse. I thought I had a reasonable working knowledge of the period and had access to all the major newspaper archives.
perhaps an early example of thinking towards syndication
Uncut TW3 is like that. It's also like sitting an exam.
A friend did a brilliant thesis on ITMA which drilled down on what had become completely impenetrable patter monologue, but was in fact layered and dense with meaning. That example suffers from post Fast Show perception.
The converse is true: a lot of context is lost over time. Topicality in 70s Doctor Who was rife but you wouldn't necessarily pick up on that now. The latterday example is Twin Peaks: The Return; its commentary on the lethargic nature of streamed television is already buried within a decade.
It was the producer, not the writer. The much missed Stuart Allen.
Our long Boards of Canada nightmare is almost over.
Never to be consoled!
PA hasn't reported this.
You can always rely on Badenoch flunking PMQs
Finding myself agreeing with Fraser Nelson is quite a new sensation.
There's a man desperately trying to disguise thinning hair.
CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (1974), from the master Jacques Rivette, is an endlessly unique and otherworldly comedy about a librarian and a magician. Impossible to do justice in a post, we'll simply say this: come see for yourself. Showing from 35mm on 28th April 8pm. 🎟️ buff.ly/0hKudKf
I think Politico's 7am mailshot has been the main steer for some time now. I've often noticed how Today doesn't provide its interview schedule to them, thus ensuring irrelevance.
Every headline on every bulletin is speculation, this morning. “Is expected to” in almost every line of copy.
"Insisted." "Expected." The vast majority of guests seem to be former this or former that.
Critical thinking has a broader meaning across the curriculum. One that Gove was happy to diminish.
Good Monday, everyone. I'm off to the storage unit.
What did Nick Robinson expect from that Casablanca analogy other than a conversational dead end.
Saw them at the Lexington about ten years ago, which was great.
Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
Maybe it's the new speakers but the latest reissue of this sounds spectacular.
Essential. Imagine the heat that night.
As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)
Prince
If you are missing Prince as we hit the 10th anniversary of his death you can tune into this academic conference all weekend
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