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I like telly and I talk about it here https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofTelly and write about it here https://worldoftelly.beehiiv.com/
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The #Blakes7 Production Diary Series C will be published on 31st March, 46 years to the day since the broadcast of ‘Terminal’. Cost/ordering details will be posted on the day. No need to pre-order as it's a print-to-order book. Keep an eye out for more updates. www.cultedge.art
January 20, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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We'll be revealing the publication date for the #Blakes7 Production Diary Series C at 7.15pm this evening.
January 20, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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When they recorded one of these at Pebble Mill in the late 90s, the cast popped in to the BBC Social Club where the barman (me) served them a few rounds. Delightfully, they each chose a drink perfect for their characters (Servalan: white wine, Avon; G&T, Tarrant: pint of Fosters, etc)
January 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
What a goal!
January 18, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I've just switched over to this and witnessed the penalty finally being taken 25 mins into injury time and it was like watching a nervous breakdown. And now extra time!
Absolute scenes at #AFCON2025 final where a last minute penalty favouring Morocco has resulted in managers on the pitch and the Senegal team walking off
January 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
This is comedy #snooker. They’d be better off smacking each other into unconsciousness with the cues.
January 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM
THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT!
January 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
This #snooker is drifting into “one for the purists” territory.
January 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Just watching an old ep of “Man About the House”, really enjoying their scrabble board
January 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Morning all. I'm sitting in Long Eaton Costa, staring at the rain, and contemplating the episode of UFO I watched in my hotel room this morning.
January 18, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Here I am again in the impossibly glamorous surroundings of the Novotel just off Junction 25 of the M1 where the white wine flows like water.*

*I am availing myself of the tea and coffee making facilities.
January 17, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I've missed 6-2. Nice to have it back again. #snooker
January 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
*nips to the bookies to place a bet on all the quarter-finals finishing 6-5* #snooker
January 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
6-2. Bonkers. #snooker
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Hang on? Is a freak comeback occurring? #snooker
January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
The 6-2 first round clean sweep is still on. #snooker
January 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Another 6-2? #snooker
January 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Episode five of our podcast is out now! This month, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social look at the TV shows that greeted the new millennium: Blue Peter, Coronation Street, Trigger Happy TV and Castaway 2000. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Absolutely extraordinary - and hugely welcome: a great archive collection of Ibsen productions and docs coming to BBC Four and iPlayer; the earliest is the 1953 (!) Lady from the Sea with Irene Worth and Robert Harris, produced by Harold Clayton.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Four - Ibsen - Episode guide
All episodes of Ibsen
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 6:35 AM
January 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
No new pictures where are you mentally?
January 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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There's a very good account in Humphrey Carpenter's Radio 3 history The Envy of the World.
January 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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‘Hans Keller invented a composer, Piotr Zak, and transmitted one of his pieces. In fact, “Mobile for Tape and Percussion” was created by Keller walking around a studio striking a collection of musical instruments at random.’

Susannah Clapp on musical hoaxes.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp · Not Quite Music
For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington read the flight patterns of...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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And we have a new ep coming on Wednesday…
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There's a new episode of Through the Square Window out next Wednesday, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social looking at programmes from January 2000. Here's a taste of what's to come...
January 12, 2026 at 9:17 AM