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Dukenfield
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Popular culture obsessive : 20th Century film. Records, TV and books : 70s, 80s & 90s pop & dance music; Music Hall. Social history. Seaside towns & piers
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dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Dated but interesting cash-in biopic The Tommy Steele Story (1957 77 mins.)

[BBC2 12.50 & iPlayer for 52 days]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
The Tommy Steele Story (1957)
Teenager Tommy Steele joins the merchant navy, but his boss tells him he has to choose between his guitar or a career at sea. He chooses music and ret
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November 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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whosthatgav.bsky.social
If you live in 1988:- THE SMASH HITS READERS POLL - THE RESULTS!!! 📊🎶💗🪩 #SmashHits 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣8️⃣ - 2/2
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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pulpcurry.bsky.social
If there’s any of you who profess to be into noir and have not yet seen MR INBETWEEN, you need to fix that asap. If you need further convincing, my @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a few years ago
#noirvember

crimereads.com/mr-inbetween/
Mr. Inbetween: It’s Time to Appreciate the Genius of This Very Australian Noir
I recently chaired a panel in which several American crime writers discussed their most memorable discoveries in terms of noir television and film during the various COVID lockdowns we have all end…
crimereads.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
The beginning to every Morrissey lyric
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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mikemccahill.bsky.social
...while Moby does something subtle but lovely with "Souvenir" #totp
youtu.be/jZm4xdAzolQ?...
Souvenir (Moby Remix)
YouTube video by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Topic
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November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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bsrg1.bsky.social
Puzzums, 1920s.
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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saucyseventies.bsky.social
Anthony Newley, born on this day in 1931. Here's his contribution to the hippy movement, a version of George Harrison's Within You, Without You. Far out man!
September 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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agnes-guano.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the whirling manic force of nature that is actress and singer Su Pollard - born this day 1949!
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

A psychological #horror from #Hammer Demons of the Mind (1971 84 mins.)
directed by Peter Sykes; starring Paul Jones & Robert Hardy with support from the under-rated Gillian Hills.

[ @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 22.10]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
Demons of the Mind (1971)
Psychological horror starring Paul Jones and Robert Hardy. Bavaria, 1830: a baron obsessed by demon-lore keeps his son and daughter prisoner in a remo
www.radiotimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Steven Spielberg's efficient version of HG Wells' classic sci-fi novel War Of The Worlds (2005 111min.)
starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning.

[Great Action 21.00)

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
War of the Worlds (2005)
Sci-fi thriller based on HG Wells's novel, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. When aliens invade Earth, divorced dock worker Ray Fe
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November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last nights first watch #film was Roger Corman's glossy supernatural #horror The Haunted Palace (US, 1963)

with Vincent Price, Debra Paget & Lon Chaney Jr.

letterboxd.com/film/the-hau...

#60sFilm #SixtiesCinema
The Haunted Palace (1963)
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
letterboxd.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Period thriller Footsteps in the Fog (1955 86 mins.)
with Stewart Granger, the tremendous Jean Simmons and Bill Travers.

[Film 4 12.50 &+1]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Period thriller starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons. In Victorian London, the schemes of wife murderer Stephen Lowry to get rid of the maid who
www.radiotimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

The engaging Smokescreen (1964 70 mins.)
starring Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain and Gerald Flood.

Shot in Mid 60s Brighton

also : #SamKydd & #DerekGuyler alerts!

[ @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 15.50]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
Smokescreen (1964)
An insurance investigator delves into a mysterious accident in the south of England involving an apparently driverless car plunging over a cliff. Thri
www.radiotimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Céline Sciamma's charming fantasy drama Petite Maman (2021 73 mins.)
starring Joséphine Sanz and Gabrielle Sanz.

[Film 4 1.30AM Tuesday & +1]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
Petite Maman (2021)
Fantasy drama starring Joséphine Sanz and Gabrielle Sanz. Eight-year-old Nelly joins her mother, Marion, in cleaning out the rural home of her recentl
www.radiotimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Saturday morning treat: seeing the stylish thriller Rififfi (1955) projected for the first time.
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Alejandro Amenábar's period supernatural thriller The Others (2001 99mins.)
starring Nicole Kidman with Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James Bentley and Christopher Eccleston

[BBC4 22.25 & iPlayer for 27 days]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
The Others (2001)
Period horror thriller starring Nicole Kidman. In a remote mansion on the Channel Island of Jersey at the end of the Second World War, Grace is prayin
www.radiotimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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anonopin.bsky.social
We all really should be snapping up media like CDs, DVDs, Blurays, books and so forth. What else are you going to do with your time when the digital apocalypse happens? Right now CDs/DVDs/books are so unpopular that charity shops sell 3 for a quid. I reckon we've lost our minds.
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
@lushattic.bsky.social

Had the recycling lads in today to take away the shop fittings.

I'm now only a day or two away from being an actual drain on the nation's economy.
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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glennkenny.bsky.social
Here Quatermass tours the site of several Pere Ubu album artwork photo shoots
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Right then, after a day off line (because of Reasons) what have I missed?
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
pop single of the day :

Lonnie Gordon – Happenin' All Over Again
(UK Supreme Records #vinyl 7" 45)

released in January 1990; reached number 4

youtu.be/wmUy788_fuY

#nineties #pop #dance #SAW #vocal #90smusic
#45s #singles
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
This fuckwit’s in charge of nuclear missiles
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
#MoodMusic record of the day :

The Latin Dance Beat Of Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra
(UK Hallmark Records 10 track #vinyl LP 1967)

youtu.be/pK-xuSXBXGw?...

#sixties #Latin #rhumba #mambo #instrumentals #sunshine #groove #60smusic
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
#cassette of the day :

Max Bygraves – Party Sing-along With Max Bygraves
(UK EMI Records Executive Series 10 track tape 1973)

youtu.be/4G4Q4ioBcuE?...

#seventies #pop #nostalgia #party #KneesUp #vocal #TV #superstar #70smusic
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Just hoping that one day soon, people will tire of targeting and terrifying asylum seekers and instead, they will turn on politicians who whip up hatred and division to grab at power for themselves…
They are the ones who are failing us.
Not these people.
Prejudice can never make anyone’s life better
zoejardiniere.bsky.social Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 15d
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM