Germans in 1945:

Also my cotton gin has stopped working

'I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace'

'Really Anne, you without a Bluesky account. I don't know how you manage.'

You should follow our Finlay. He's a bright young thing.👇

The judge said, "This may seem unduly lenient, but the last place you want to put alcohol thieves is behind bars."

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Decade: Off Menu (2019) Podcasts were meant to be better than this, weren’t they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.

Happy 41st birthday to James Acaster, the man described by @finlay24.bsky.social as "the worst girl you know’s favourite comedian".
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Decade: Blackstar (2016) In a new series on 10 cultural works from the last 10 years, FINLAY McLAREN assesses David Bowie’s album Blackstar.

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David Bowie's last album Blackstar was released ten years ago today.

Here's me on the record and how Bowie's death marked the beginning of the end for post-war Britain.

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Decade: Blackstar (2016) In a new series on 10 cultural works from the last 10 years, FINLAY McLAREN assesses David Bowie’s album Blackstar.

"Bowie was always looking ahead. He had an uncanny ability to predict the next big thing. This is why in 2016, he chose to die."
@finlay24.bsky.social on "Blackstar", released ten years ago today.
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Bohemian Shat-sody

In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.

Keir Prudence. Juan After 909. Jeremy Allen-White Album.

I rewatched A Matter of Life and Death last night, what a strange & wonderful film, it seems to find your own liminal spaces & speak to them – the fog, the stairway & those pink rhododendrons. It is both here & it is not here – as one reviewer wrote the “too-muchness of it all is exactly the point”.

Chic Murray at the piano in "Gregory's Girl". My single favourite 30 seconds of any film, ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY_3...

As a humble podcaster, it’s good to see this headline. You feel immense pressure to get on the video pod train, but it’s so fucking expensive to do - which feels like the complete antithesis of what podcasting was supposed to be; a chance for the indies to have a shot.

Last night on YouTube: Coronation Street FINLAY McLAREN meets the neighbours…

Actress Voliet Carson, who most famously played Ena Sharples in Coronation Street, died #OTD in 1983.

Here's our @finlay24.bsky.social on the very first episode of Corrie, in which "The height of drama comes when Ena storms in to complain about a bad egg".

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Ex-situationship just posted a song on their story that *could* be construed as being about me.

Looking forward to the Boxing Day Wallace and Gromit, which is made from all the leftover bits of plasticine lying around at Aardman, and pickle.

Last night on YouTube: Coronation Street FINLAY McLAREN meets the neighbours…

"If you go down to the Street today, you’re sure of a big surprise..."
@finlay24.bsky.social on Coronation Street.
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Here's me on Coronation Street and the disappearance of working class Britain from TV
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A very merry Christmas from all of us here at Finlay Towers!

I have an essay about the first episode of Coronation Street coming out on Boxing Day, Fin-Fans. Hope you'll all enjoy!

What? No Ian Watkins?

1975 Christmas Radio TV Times Magazine Travel back 50 years into Christmas TV's past. The Christmas Radio TV Times gathers links to TV programmes from Christmas week 1975.

Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁

Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.

Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶

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It didn't embed properly! How embarrassing! I'm going back to bed.

Fifty years ago today, Leo McKern made his first appearance as defence barrister Horace Rumpole in an episode of Play for Today by John Mortimer.

Here's something I wrote about the resulting Rumpole series Rumpole of the Bailey.

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