John Williams
@worldoftelly.bsky.social
I like telly and I talk about it here https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofTelly and write about it here https://worldoftelly.beehiiv.com/
When you're about to go to bed but spot the forgotten jar of cockles in the fridge...
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
When you're about to go to bed but spot the forgotten jar of cockles in the fridge...
Another podcast done. I think that’s the first time I had to have a piss in the middle of one. We didn’t record that bit.
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Another podcast done. I think that’s the first time I had to have a piss in the middle of one. We didn’t record that bit.
This is like an image from the end of a Fulci film.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This is like an image from the end of a Fulci film.
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Seems like the appropriate time for this - a compendium of arcane Glaswegian slang from Roddy McMillan's 1974 Play for Today, The Bevellers.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Seems like the appropriate time for this - a compendium of arcane Glaswegian slang from Roddy McMillan's 1974 Play for Today, The Bevellers.
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Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Network DVD and Blu-rays are available again via Future Network/Quoit Media futurenetwork.wales?v=7885444af42e Liquidated stock apparently. Now I can finally buy Bottoms Up! on blu-ray and never watch it.
Future Network – FREE UK DELIVERY! NEW TITLES ADDED WEEKLY!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Network DVD and Blu-rays are available again via Future Network/Quoit Media futurenetwork.wales?v=7885444af42e Liquidated stock apparently. Now I can finally buy Bottoms Up! on blu-ray and never watch it.
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
FLA 33: Mark Watson (16/11/2025)
For over twenty years now, the writer-performer Mark Watson has sustained two parallel careers. In one of them, he has pursued stand-up comedy to great acclaim, both in live settings and via broadc…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
Just finished reading @whenisbirths.bsky.social’s excellent book Into the Groove. Highly recommended. Too many highlights to list, but I did love Justin questioning the arrest rate of The Laughing Policeman and the revelation that Barry Manilow chose NWA’s Express Yourself as his record of the week.
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just finished reading @whenisbirths.bsky.social’s excellent book Into the Groove. Highly recommended. Too many highlights to list, but I did love Justin questioning the arrest rate of The Laughing Policeman and the revelation that Barry Manilow chose NWA’s Express Yourself as his record of the week.
I yearn to subscribe to Penguinews. I suspect most things would be just fine if only I could do that.
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I yearn to subscribe to Penguinews. I suspect most things would be just fine if only I could do that.
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What Doctor Who story - and James Bond film - did Terrance Dicks borrow from for the last of his Mounties trilogy? Another great long post here: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/war-...
War Drums of the Blackfoot, by Terrance Dicks
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November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What Doctor Who story - and James Bond film - did Terrance Dicks borrow from for the last of his Mounties trilogy? Another great long post here: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/war-...
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I’ve only just stumbled across the fantastic fact that Margaret Thatcher’s 1970s voice coach, who taught her to lower her voice and speak more resonantly, was none other than Catherine Fleming, who voiced the evil Animus in bonkers 1965 Doctor Who serial The Web Planet. The Zarbi’s not for turning!
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve only just stumbled across the fantastic fact that Margaret Thatcher’s 1970s voice coach, who taught her to lower her voice and speak more resonantly, was none other than Catherine Fleming, who voiced the evil Animus in bonkers 1965 Doctor Who serial The Web Planet. The Zarbi’s not for turning!
Tonight's reading was inspired by @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's Blake's 7 blu-ray interview with Brian Croucher.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Tonight's reading was inspired by @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's Blake's 7 blu-ray interview with Brian Croucher.
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The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…
cstonline.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
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Here's something not many people have talked about. The Golden Shot started on the 8th July 1967.
But on the 1st July 1967, they had a mini 10-minute show, in order to get the applicants for the main show the following week.
But on the 1st July 1967, they had a mini 10-minute show, in order to get the applicants for the main show the following week.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Here's something not many people have talked about. The Golden Shot started on the 8th July 1967.
But on the 1st July 1967, they had a mini 10-minute show, in order to get the applicants for the main show the following week.
But on the 1st July 1967, they had a mini 10-minute show, in order to get the applicants for the main show the following week.
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Me: So that’s 90 minute edits of stories from the first four Doctors.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.
#DoctorWho In An Exciting Adventure With The Sea Devils is getting a 'special re-edited' repeat on Sunday 7th December at 7pm on BBC Four.
The 90-minute 'blockbuster special' (we just called them omnibuses in my day) will feature new sound design by Mark Ayres and additional music by Lorne Balfe.
The 90-minute 'blockbuster special' (we just called them omnibuses in my day) will feature new sound design by Mark Ayres and additional music by Lorne Balfe.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Me: So that’s 90 minute edits of stories from the first four Doctors.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.
I’m watching the 1977 TOTP on delay. It’s interesting that the BBC were sensitive about anything to do Northern Ireland in those days, but Boney M slipped under the radar with their trenchant analysis and feathery head dresses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m watching the 1977 TOTP on delay. It’s interesting that the BBC were sensitive about anything to do Northern Ireland in those days, but Boney M slipped under the radar with their trenchant analysis and feathery head dresses.
This is horrible news.
Terrible news: Rachel Cooke has died. She was 56.
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is horrible news.
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Tony: The only person who could have done these murders is the man sitting over there, so saying Johnny Oxford pointed at...........men are you skinny!
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tony: The only person who could have done these murders is the man sitting over there, so saying Johnny Oxford pointed at...........men are you skinny!
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
#FridayNightWasHancockNight
The Robe is on. I’d forgotten that trying to spot Christ’s face is like an extended game of Where’s Wally?
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Robe is on. I’d forgotten that trying to spot Christ’s face is like an extended game of Where’s Wally?
Derek Thompson’s big hair! Star Wars! The obscure link to Doctor Who: Black Orchid! All here in the video podcast of Harry’s Game.
The video version of our latest episode is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/8A9mN8qa-3w
Please like and subscribe if you want to see more episodes. Thanks!
Please like and subscribe if you want to see more episodes. Thanks!
World of Telly Episode 14: Harry's Game
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November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Derek Thompson’s big hair! Star Wars! The obscure link to Doctor Who: Black Orchid! All here in the video podcast of Harry’s Game.
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The video version of our latest episode is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/8A9mN8qa-3w
Please like and subscribe if you want to see more episodes. Thanks!
Please like and subscribe if you want to see more episodes. Thanks!
World of Telly Episode 14: Harry's Game
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November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The video version of our latest episode is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/8A9mN8qa-3w
Please like and subscribe if you want to see more episodes. Thanks!
Please like and subscribe if you want to see more episodes. Thanks!
Now I’m watching Liz Parker gargling water in the Radiophonic Workshop. I wasn’t expecting this level of eroticism on a Blake’s Seven blu-ray.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Now I’m watching Liz Parker gargling water in the Radiophonic Workshop. I wasn’t expecting this level of eroticism on a Blake’s Seven blu-ray.
On the B7 Swap Shop extra, there’s an intro with a comment from Gareth Thomas that Noel Edmonds refused to meet any guests before they did the interview. Presumably he thought this would sharpen his brilliant technique, but it explains to me why every single interview NE ever did was a car crash.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
On the B7 Swap Shop extra, there’s an intro with a comment from Gareth Thomas that Noel Edmonds refused to meet any guests before they did the interview. Presumably he thought this would sharpen his brilliant technique, but it explains to me why every single interview NE ever did was a car crash.
This Blake’s 7 blu-ray is amazing. The Roger Murray-Leach interview is great. From Lulu, via The Goodies, to The Killing Fields.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This Blake’s 7 blu-ray is amazing. The Roger Murray-Leach interview is great. From Lulu, via The Goodies, to The Killing Fields.
These are both excellent pieces.
A quiet time on Dirty Feed, and will be for the rest of the year. Busy with a new job and learning how to drive, I won't have time for much else.
I did write these two short pieces about The Golden Shot which you may enjoy:
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/what...
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/that...
I did write these two short pieces about The Golden Shot which you may enjoy:
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/what...
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/that...
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
These are both excellent pieces.