Peter Counsell
@counsellpeter.bsky.social
I never was the man I used to be.
Marvellous letter.
45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Marvellous letter.
Orange Alert.
Why is someone ALWAYS trying to reboot The Prisoner when we've already got Stephen Fry and Jools Holland??
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November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Orange Alert.
Not as revered as Rattlesnakes but, for me, every bit as lovely. Perfect Blue.
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Not as revered as Rattlesnakes but, for me, every bit as lovely. Perfect Blue.
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Morning everybody, England electing to bat are 1-1 or if you’re in Australia, 1-1.
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Morning everybody, England electing to bat are 1-1 or if you’re in Australia, 1-1.
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Worth remembering that when you’re humming the greatest Stone Roses songs - Resurrection, Fools Gold, I Wanna Be Adored - you are humming Mani’s bass melody. Not Squire, not Brown, but the bass line
Terrible news
#RIPMani
Terrible news
#RIPMani
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Worth remembering that when you’re humming the greatest Stone Roses songs - Resurrection, Fools Gold, I Wanna Be Adored - you are humming Mani’s bass melody. Not Squire, not Brown, but the bass line
Terrible news
#RIPMani
Terrible news
#RIPMani
I have a great deal of like for this tune. Arguably the most 80s song and video possible. Either that or Obsession by Animotion.
Imagination by 'Belouis' 'Some' - wine bar art-funk tail-end of New Romantic stray hit for Smash Hits-derided oddly-monickered Max Headroom-alike, propelled chartwards by famously 'banned' nude-deploying video. Follow-up Some People only appealed to some people.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I have a great deal of like for this tune. Arguably the most 80s song and video possible. Either that or Obsession by Animotion.
Good grief. Mani.
Mani once told me I was the best bass player in the world. "That's a lot of bollocks" I told him. "You were in the Stone Roses & came up with I Am The Resurrection and loads of other amazing bass parts, and now you're in Primal Scream". "Yeah", he said. "But you're playing with Weller!" -
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Good grief. Mani.
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Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
That leaking roof? Merely a symptom of the True Causes.
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
That leaking roof? Merely a symptom of the True Causes.
One of very few tunes for which ‘epic’ is a suitable term. Irredeemably linked with irresponsible driving on a French motorway a long time ago.
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
One of very few tunes for which ‘epic’ is a suitable term. Irredeemably linked with irresponsible driving on a French motorway a long time ago.
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Cook and Greenaway.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Cook and Greenaway.
Rather like this. Nice lettering and layout. Modest and dry text. On a 53 Cooper if you’re interested. Good ad.
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Rather like this. Nice lettering and layout. Modest and dry text. On a 53 Cooper if you’re interested. Good ad.
This is SO well done.
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is SO well done.
The Rug’s Don’t Work.
TFW you can’t remember the right spell to get your magic carpet flying
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Rug’s Don’t Work.
Any of those would have been lovely. But the Beta HPE top (with apologies to my late father who had four Capris).
Factoid: Well, two hatchbacks & two shooting brakes (I guess the Scimitar & Lancia fulfil the latter category).
Anyway, your attention should be directed to the R17 GTS & its just visible side stripe which made it seem like a car from the French version of Starsky & Hutch…
Anyway, your attention should be directed to the R17 GTS & its just visible side stripe which made it seem like a car from the French version of Starsky & Hutch…
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Any of those would have been lovely. But the Beta HPE top (with apologies to my late father who had four Capris).
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Rewatched this sketch on French and Saunders last night. Just brilliant.
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Mark Knopfler, Lemmy Kilmister, David Gilmour o Gary Moore JUNTOS
YouTube video by RockFM
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November 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Rewatched this sketch on French and Saunders last night. Just brilliant.
youtu.be/QeIxJzdPD0A?...
youtu.be/QeIxJzdPD0A?...
Just delayed getting out of the car by two minutes and fifty five seconds as Nick Grimshaw @bbc6.bsky.social has just played When I Saw Her Standing There. The best early Beatles song.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Just delayed getting out of the car by two minutes and fifty five seconds as Nick Grimshaw @bbc6.bsky.social has just played When I Saw Her Standing There. The best early Beatles song.
Promised You a Monorail
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Promised You a Monorail
My default.
A little girl comes out of the chip shop crying.
Her dad: What’s wrong?
Little girl: I wanted he chips, and so I ate them, and now they’re gone.
Her dad: What’s wrong?
Little girl: I wanted he chips, and so I ate them, and now they’re gone.
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My default.
Banger.
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Banger.
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Only been in this train for three minutes and the woman in the next seat just said into her phone 'Like Eric Morcombe said, I've only got one arm full!' I have pulled the emergency cord.
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Only been in this train for three minutes and the woman in the next seat just said into her phone 'Like Eric Morcombe said, I've only got one arm full!' I have pulled the emergency cord.
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I suspect this will be catnip to a fair few people I know on here. A blog that focusses on British character actors, with screengrabs. Most recent postings - Andy Bradford, Diane Fletcher, Brian Capron, Gabrielle Glaister, Nicholas Woodeson. Catnip! familiar-unknown.blogspot.com
familiar unknown
a miscellany of British character actors who are still with us
familiar-unknown.blogspot.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I suspect this will be catnip to a fair few people I know on here. A blog that focusses on British character actors, with screengrabs. Most recent postings - Andy Bradford, Diane Fletcher, Brian Capron, Gabrielle Glaister, Nicholas Woodeson. Catnip! familiar-unknown.blogspot.com
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