Charles Nove
@charlesnove.bsky.social
Radio presenter, voice-over artist, events host, occasional bus driver.
Latest episode of the podcast out today, with guest Ian Hislop. Pains Stains & Automobiles, wherever you get your podcasts.
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Latest episode of the podcast out today, with guest Ian Hislop. Pains Stains & Automobiles, wherever you get your podcasts.
Action woman Anneka Rice reveals her muse in the Pains Stains & Automobiles podcast.
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Action woman Anneka Rice reveals her muse in the Pains Stains & Automobiles podcast.
October 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Trump, Starmer and Jimmy Kimmel - are amongst the subjects NOT discussed in the latest episode of our podcast. For a very different Special Relationship …. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Episode 4
Podcast Episode · Pains Stains & Automobiles · 19/09/2025 · 33m
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September 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Trump, Starmer and Jimmy Kimmel - are amongst the subjects NOT discussed in the latest episode of our podcast. For a very different Special Relationship …. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
We’re back for more! Episode 2 of the new podcast emerged, blinking, into the daylight, this morning.
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Pains Stains & Automobiles
Personal Journals Podcast · Updated weekly · Is it a sleep aid, a cure for loneliness, or just two friends rambling on?
Come into the unpredictable world of Penny Smith and Charles Nove and find out!
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September 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We’re back for more! Episode 2 of the new podcast emerged, blinking, into the daylight, this morning.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p....
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p....
New podcast - episode 1 out today! If what’s been missing from your life is two old chums rabbiting on, pine no more. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Pains Stains & Automobiles
Personal Journals Podcast · Updated weekly · Is it a sleep aid, a cure for loneliness, or just two friends rambling on?
Come into the unpredictable world of Penny Smith and Charles Nove and find out!
...
podcasts.apple.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
New podcast - episode 1 out today! If what’s been missing from your life is two old chums rabbiting on, pine no more. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Rode the New York subway today, surrounded by characters who looked like they belonged in The Sopranos. One with sausage fingers, a huge guy with a bald head and stary eyes and one I didn’t dare look at, but he was probably the clean-up guy.
March 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Rode the New York subway today, surrounded by characters who looked like they belonged in The Sopranos. One with sausage fingers, a huge guy with a bald head and stary eyes and one I didn’t dare look at, but he was probably the clean-up guy.
Looks like competition for the services of those declared useless by Musk ….
March 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Looks like competition for the services of those declared useless by Musk ….
Washington DC laid on a nice welcome for us….
March 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Washington DC laid on a nice welcome for us….
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New episode of my podcast Trash Talk with Count Binface is up now! Wherever you get your podcasts, naturally. With special guest @charlesnove.bsky.social Get it in your ears here! podfollow.com/trash-talk-w...
March 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New episode of my podcast Trash Talk with Count Binface is up now! Wherever you get your podcasts, naturally. With special guest @charlesnove.bsky.social Get it in your ears here! podfollow.com/trash-talk-w...
Amazing who you see making an unannounced visit to London’s West End
February 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Amazing who you see making an unannounced visit to London’s West End
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These have arrived! - the finished, hardback copies of a little book I've written about the joyfully unpredictable experience of producing Father Ted.
Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.
Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.
January 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
These have arrived! - the finished, hardback copies of a little book I've written about the joyfully unpredictable experience of producing Father Ted.
Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.
Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.
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Plans to cut audio drama from BBC Radio 3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves” 👇
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www.thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to...
Cuts to Radio 3 drama will end ‘National Theatre of the airwaves’ – unions
The most recent commissioning brief for Radio 3 has removed all ‘radio drama slots’, according to Equity, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors
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January 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Plans to cut audio drama from BBC Radio 3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves” 👇
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to...
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to...
Back on concert hosting duty tonight. How anyone gets a reliable tune out of these is a mystery to me!
December 30, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Back on concert hosting duty tonight. How anyone gets a reliable tune out of these is a mystery to me!
In London to host a concert. My dressing room is equipped with a piano and a 4 volume encyclopaedia of Opera. If only I could play or sing…..
December 29, 2024 at 6:25 PM
In London to host a concert. My dressing room is equipped with a piano and a 4 volume encyclopaedia of Opera. If only I could play or sing…..
Amazon’s Christmas Day recommendation for me? Replacement wire for a strimmer. Because nothing says Christmas quite like a strimmer, obviously. 🤷
December 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Amazon’s Christmas Day recommendation for me? Replacement wire for a strimmer. Because nothing says Christmas quite like a strimmer, obviously. 🤷
This card, from friends who had no idea about our current battle to reclaim the loft from meeces, couldn’t have been more appropriate!
December 22, 2024 at 1:39 PM
This card, from friends who had no idea about our current battle to reclaim the loft from meeces, couldn’t have been more appropriate!
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament
Hey, I have an idea for a non-viable business too, can I lobby the government to change the laws so I too can rip off other peoples’ hard work?
Hey, I have an idea for a non-viable business too, can I lobby the government to change the laws so I too can rip off other peoples’ hard work?
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:25 PM
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament
Hey, I have an idea for a non-viable business too, can I lobby the government to change the laws so I too can rip off other peoples’ hard work?
Hey, I have an idea for a non-viable business too, can I lobby the government to change the laws so I too can rip off other peoples’ hard work?
Spotify tells me I’ve used it to listen to 498 songs this year “and one song over and over and over again”! Sounds a bit judgmental….
December 5, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Spotify tells me I’ve used it to listen to 498 songs this year “and one song over and over and over again”! Sounds a bit judgmental….
A great project - I’m delighted to make a few of these appear during the Screentime section of my breakfast show on Magic Classical.
Our first limited-edition release is the Idents EP, currently on sale here: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...
The sounds of Associated Rediffusion, Tyne Tees, Anglia, Ulster, BBC, Westward, Yorkshire, LWT, ATV, Thames and more...
The sounds of Associated Rediffusion, Tyne Tees, Anglia, Ulster, BBC, Westward, Yorkshire, LWT, ATV, Thames and more...
November 28, 2024 at 9:42 PM
A great project - I’m delighted to make a few of these appear during the Screentime section of my breakfast show on Magic Classical.
On awards-show duty in London tonight, and the Christmas grotto feel is all around
November 28, 2024 at 6:43 PM
On awards-show duty in London tonight, and the Christmas grotto feel is all around
Good morning, from the East Midlands branch of Magic Classical! Live on the radio til 10.
November 18, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Good morning, from the East Midlands branch of Magic Classical! Live on the radio til 10.