How could anyone resist an episode of Celebrity Cricket with Mr Pastry in it? This is what we want

A tweet by @Llama In a Tux (dated Sep. 10, 2022): Don't you understand? The human race IS an endless number of monkeys. And every day we produce an endless number of words. And one of us already wrote Hamlet

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

This is a thing of absolute beauty and magnificence - saddens me to realise that there is no way on earth I will ever find time to get through its 1,000 or so pages and do exactly that

I’ve got no idea what you’d call this pudding, but it’s got ice cream, chocolate and apple in it and I’m liking it bigly

‘Can you hear me, mother?’

Artworks - v. by Tony Harrison - BBC Sounds The controversial poem by Tony Harrison, to mark his death.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: a reading by Tony Harrison of his epically powerful V almost has me in tears as I walk @bbcsounds.bsky.social

Joan Baez has NOT sacked all the journalists. Blatant misinformation

The time he stepped in for Wogan is worth seeing again too- possibly the most excruciating half hour in the history of British TV. Yikes

If you fancy a nostalgia rush watch the repeat of Kenneth Williams’s Comic Roots episode on BBC iPlayer. Wonderful lump in the throat scenes of working class life in St Pancras, already disappearing by then. Classic telly

Will we get to throw turnips at him?

Tudor crisp and worth his salt? AI might be better on reflection

Mrs Murton before she was Mrs Merton. A tale of TV A clue as to why Caroline Aherne became such a much-loved talent of the 1990s in British comedy, bar none.

Mirthful stuff as ever by Mr K about t’ origins of Mrs M open.substack.com/pub/martinke...

Some of whose previously unseen work is also featured in ‘Beware of the Bull’, the Jake Thackray bio by @jakethackrayfan.bsky.social that we published. Brilliant Tish pic on the cover of ‘The Unsung Writer’ too

I realise this isn’t the biggest issue in the world right now but it needed saying

Radio phone ins. ‘Can I just say hello to…’ Yeah, of course you can. Ring ‘em up. Why are you boring every other bugger with it?

I did put the bin out last night

Just found myself getting annoyed by what someone wrote in 1764 about Horace Walpole. Probably need to get out more

Sunday afternoon radio presenter heard on BBC Sounds just now: ‘The Animals! from Newcastle! Who knew?’ Wasn’t joking either. Can’t get the staff, these days

I don’t think they’ve thought this ‘Reform’ name through. What are they going to call themselves once this so-called ‘reform’ has been completed?

Farage’s Peoples Front? I suppose that would have rhyming slang going for it

You’re welcome Andy. Wonderful stuff by all involved

Have heard this now. I’m biased but, honestly, it’s the best hour’s podcast listening you’ll have all year. Magnificent

255. Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer by Paul Thompson — Backlisted Biographer and singer-songwriter Paul Thompson joins us for a new episode of Backlisted devoted to the life and work of Jake Thackray, the so-called 'Yorkshire chansonnier' who died in 2002. Thackray ...

*in the voice of Jake Thackray introducing one of his songs* "This is a very good episode of Backlisted all about Jake Thackray, and if you like things that are very good, perhaps you will enjoy it. See what you think." @backlisted.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/255...

Jake Thackray: ‘If you must put people on pedestals, wear a big hat’

He had it right, did Jake (although was prepared to overlook that when it came to Georges Brassens. Life can be complicated, eh?)

Aw, one of my absolute favourites. Wonderfully wise and funny writer. RIP

‘And the next pot will be drawn by Christ on a bike…’

If you get another chance to see this, do so. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz had a hand in it too. Hauntingly beautiful, I found it

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

That time of year again… and I’ll be using a very special bookmark @stevenallon.bsky.social

THE LOST FILMS OF HOLLYWOOD calendar 2026 - Print Trail Shop From Cliff Richard's version of K-POP DEMON HUNTERS to Abbott and Costello’s MEN IN BLACK - discover the greatest movies never made! Imagine if SHAUN OF THE DEAD was actually a remake of a saucy Conf...

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Same. Got two. Intend to frame each month’s movie this time next year and hang ‘em on the wall - brilliantly done