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I'm not here to sell anything and please don't follow me if that's ALL you're here for. Also, I don't always follow back (esp. if your timeline mainly contains the same political stuff I'm already getting lots of).
An entry from the Radio Times for tomorrow's afternoon play on Radio 4 called The Book Club. Wilf Scolding plays three parts.
I see Chris Carter's* soothing his broken heart with a part in tomorrow afternoon's drama on Radio 4
#TheArchers
*Wilf Scolding
A social realist turned society portraitist, Hubert von Herkomer made a fortune and advertised his national roots by building a gigantic Bavarian house in Bushey in Hertfordshire. In 1883 he founded an art school in the town which attracted a large number of artists to the area.
What's with all the remakes of Kind Hearts and Coronets recently?
Oh I missed or forgot those....Ha, yes. What a fantastic swap that would have been!
A very good listen about the horrible reality of a period of protest
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
There are winners and losers in the "wet or dry winter" stakes, aren't there?
Cow Parsley was the winner last year I seem to remember and this spring it's definitely camellias.
Never let it be said that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social aren't terrific influencers.
They're remaking Seance on a Wet Afternoon!
I'm going to be giving the "end of an era" Call the Midwife episode a miss tonight. My bestie and I are gonna watch it when we're away together soon. Carrying on a tradition that started with Ashes to Ashes and then took in Downton Abbey...
I don't think I ever remember a TV programme being referred to by name in #TheArchers before?
Nothing to see here. Just 4 elderly siblings shoulder-dancing to Fantasy by Earth, Wind and Fire as we cruise along Ware High Street. Thank you Whispering Bob
#SoundsOfTheSeventies
A far right protestor holds up a sign reading "we are Jeffrey Epstein"
There was a far-right protest against mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York yesterday and well, that's quite the sign
Before we know it Ruairi's going to be walking down the street (or maybe jogging) with a bit of newspaper sticking to his shoe that he... just... cannot... dislodge...
#TheArchers
#OneForTheOlduns
Definitely the line of the week: "I thought I saw the boat moving". #TheArchers
It's always lovely to listen to a #DesertIslandDiscs where there's plenty of "and this person helped me along the way".
No man is an island....
And to think Judi Dench played Anne Hathaway a few years ago (and didn't win a BAFTA).
#desertislanddiscs
I'm clearly all about the accents today.....
Have finally started Waiting for the Out with Josh Finan.
Bloody hell he's good with accents.
First saw him with a scally Scouse accent (close to his own?), then as Gerry Adams, now as a Londoner.
And the writing is pretty good too.
Have to say when accents aren't top notch in a film it really comes down to the director, doesn't it, not being enough of a matron: "No. Go and do it again. Those corners aren't sharp enough".
Closely followed by....there's a reason that filmmakers are advised not to present a biopic in a linear way.
(it often goes saggy after the midway point).
My most recurrent thought watching The Testament of Ann Lee was....
I better loads of the actors in it thought "wow, FINALLY those free-movement classes at drama school are paying off".
"Elusive in both tone and meaning".
Don't get me wrong, some of the music/songs were truly lovely but the "action" didn't need any... more... slowing down.
Watching the woman in front of me. In the second half her head fell dejectedly onto her hand whenever the opening chords of a song struck up
The Testament of Ann Lee is a funny old film. Great choreography, great cinematography, awful hotchpotch of accents, shouldn't have had songs IMHO. QI though...
Hidden wheelchair elevator designed to look like a set of marble stairs at the entrance of the Kimpton Fitzroy London Hotel.
The attendant at the top operates it.
Good leadership and decency.... well there's a thing.
What's the difference between Vietnam and Iran?
Trump had a plan for getting out of Vietnam....
All of the right news stories, not necessarily in the right order.
Think I'd call that the Beloved Free Market, rather than bribery...
Oh hang on.... maybe I'd cause offence by trying to do it as a foreigner?
I feel we Brits are woefully unprepared for travel to some countries.
Not having grown up in a culture of day-to-day bribery we're lambs to the slaughter.
I mean what is the going rate for bribery these days? How should one go about it? I need to know.....
