Rosalyn Connors BEM BCAc
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Journalist, Broadcaster, Archivist.
On air now with Sunday Delight it's @rozzyc.bsky.social playing great music, and with special guest, actor Warwick Davis talking about the 1988 movie 'Willow'. Tune in on FM, on DAB or online gateway978.com/live
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November 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
On air now with Sunday Delight it's @rozzyc.bsky.social playing great music, and with special guest, actor Warwick Davis talking about the 1988 movie 'Willow'. Tune in on FM, on DAB or online gateway978.com/live
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I'll order extra shortbread.
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'll order extra shortbread.
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My blu rays have arrived - but I have to wait until Christmas!
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
My blu rays have arrived - but I have to wait until Christmas!
@martinmauthor1.bsky.social @simoncoward.bsky.social @jabberwocky65.bsky.social At last. Out today. Has anyone here ordered these? Finally a decent version of a #BrianClemens classic. I had better start saving some pennies for the UHD version. 🙂https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyIa4QIB_k
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November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
@martinmauthor1.bsky.social @simoncoward.bsky.social @jabberwocky65.bsky.social At last. Out today. Has anyone here ordered these? Finally a decent version of a #BrianClemens classic. I had better start saving some pennies for the UHD version. 🙂https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyIa4QIB_k
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Good choice, or maybe 'Nurse Will Make It Better'? 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good choice, or maybe 'Nurse Will Make It Better'? 🎃
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20% discount off 'A THRILLER in Every Corner' this week, the extensive 700+ page tome on all things #BrianClemensThriller.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
20% discount off 'A THRILLER in Every Corner' this week, the extensive 700+ page tome on all things #BrianClemensThriller.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
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Discount above ⏫ ends midnight tonight Oct 31
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Discount above ⏫ ends midnight tonight Oct 31
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It would have been the incomparable Michael Jayston’s 90th birthday this week so it has to be the singular greatest #BrianClemensThriller episode, A Coffin for the Bride tonight @rozzyc.bsky.social @martinmauthor1.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It would have been the incomparable Michael Jayston’s 90th birthday this week so it has to be the singular greatest #BrianClemensThriller episode, A Coffin for the Bride tonight @rozzyc.bsky.social @martinmauthor1.bsky.social
Join me @rozzyc.bsky.social at 1pm for an eclectic mix of music on #SundayDelight. The 'Retro Rewind' takes us to 1984, the year Doctor Who viewers were introduced to Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown. My guest this afternoon is actress Nicola Bryant. On 97.8FM, DAB, & at www.gateway978.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Join me @rozzyc.bsky.social at 1pm for an eclectic mix of music on #SundayDelight. The 'Retro Rewind' takes us to 1984, the year Doctor Who viewers were introduced to Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown. My guest this afternoon is actress Nicola Bryant. On 97.8FM, DAB, & at www.gateway978.com
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From memory, Bravo aired the TVM of 'Possession' in 1996 (and also 'Sleepwalker'), as sales copies of the original version couldn't be traced/accessed at the time #BrianClemensThriller
October 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
From memory, Bravo aired the TVM of 'Possession' in 1996 (and also 'Sleepwalker'), as sales copies of the original version couldn't be traced/accessed at the time #BrianClemensThriller
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Yes, our British TV system/market - 3 and then 4 channels - was very different to the 'syndication' programming model designed for a multitude of local stations as in the US, Australia and a few other places. Only changed somewhat with the main arrival of satellite broadcasting in the 1990s
October 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Yes, our British TV system/market - 3 and then 4 channels - was very different to the 'syndication' programming model designed for a multitude of local stations as in the US, Australia and a few other places. Only changed somewhat with the main arrival of satellite broadcasting in the 1990s
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Those TVM sequences had their uses! Alongside the marketing potential of a 'new' series, they bumped up the running time to c73 minutes, the standard programme length for a US 90min broadcast slot at the time.
October 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Those TVM sequences had their uses! Alongside the marketing potential of a 'new' series, they bumped up the running time to c73 minutes, the standard programme length for a US 90min broadcast slot at the time.
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One of those episodes that doesn’t really get talked about much and probably isn’t highly rated but I really like it.. and James Berwick is excellent in it #BrianClemensThriller
October 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
One of those episodes that doesn’t really get talked about much and probably isn’t highly rated but I really like it.. and James Berwick is excellent in it #BrianClemensThriller
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My rewatch of #BrianClemensThriller this evening is all about gambling, & with very high stakes. Here's the London area TV Times billing from Saturday 8th February 1975, with viewers in the captial (including me) getting to see the episode at least an hour ahead of the rest of the UK.
October 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My rewatch of #BrianClemensThriller this evening is all about gambling, & with very high stakes. Here's the London area TV Times billing from Saturday 8th February 1975, with viewers in the captial (including me) getting to see the episode at least an hour ahead of the rest of the UK.
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In Spain, broadcast under the 'Tension' series title ... and in Malaysia simply as 'Thriller' (with a break for the news) #BrianClemensThriller
October 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In Spain, broadcast under the 'Tension' series title ... and in Malaysia simply as 'Thriller' (with a break for the news) #BrianClemensThriller
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Grand Guignol! Magee, Wall and Henderson - the triumvirate - give their all and contrast the natural Joanna Pettet very well. Some of the imagery is very disturbing and director Malcolm Taylor (though self-deprecating when I spoke to him) is inspired.
October 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Grand Guignol! Magee, Wall and Henderson - the triumvirate - give their all and contrast the natural Joanna Pettet very well. Some of the imagery is very disturbing and director Malcolm Taylor (though self-deprecating when I spoke to him) is inspired.
My guests today on Gateway #DriveTime with @rozzyc.bsky.social: Sarah Pennells, Fiancial Expert, talks about savings. Mark Born, the Head of AA Driving School Academy about modern tech in cars, & David Burton-Sampson, Labour MP for Southend-West & Leigh about #BlackHistoryMonth.
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My guests today on Gateway #DriveTime with @rozzyc.bsky.social: Sarah Pennells, Fiancial Expert, talks about savings. Mark Born, the Head of AA Driving School Academy about modern tech in cars, & David Burton-Sampson, Labour MP for Southend-West & Leigh about #BlackHistoryMonth.
#SundayDelight is at 1pm & I'll play you some tunes from 1975. There's the 'Dream Top Three' & poet Pam Ayres drops by to tell Gateway listeners, in her own words, how not to get scammed in this modern online world we live in. On 97.8 FM, on DAB, & at www.gateway978.com
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October 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#SundayDelight is at 1pm & I'll play you some tunes from 1975. There's the 'Dream Top Three' & poet Pam Ayres drops by to tell Gateway listeners, in her own words, how not to get scammed in this modern online world we live in. On 97.8 FM, on DAB, & at www.gateway978.com
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Wow, top research! Thank you. My memory is almost certainly of seeing the episode in 73.
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Wow, top research! Thank you. My memory is almost certainly of seeing the episode in 73.
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Thank you, Ros. Good question!
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Thank you, Ros. Good question!
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5-4-3-2-1... Thunderbirds are 60!
A personal take on a rocket-powered classic: radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/th... #Thunderbirdsat60 @gerryanderson.bsky.social
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A personal take on a rocket-powered classic: radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/th... #Thunderbirdsat60 @gerryanderson.bsky.social
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Thunderbirds are go again... not that they ever really went away for the show's long-standing fans
As the jewel in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's crown celebrates its 60th birthday, Mark Braxton examines the programme's lasting impact.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
5-4-3-2-1... Thunderbirds are 60!
A personal take on a rocket-powered classic: radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/th... #Thunderbirdsat60 @gerryanderson.bsky.social
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A personal take on a rocket-powered classic: radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/th... #Thunderbirdsat60 @gerryanderson.bsky.social
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Despite it not being up there with my favourites, Ian Henry is his usual brilliant self. Maybe because personally, I find series 4 the weakest of the 6. All about personal preference I guess. I loved him in The Lotus Eaters. Another series I watched when originally broadcast.
September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Despite it not being up there with my favourites, Ian Henry is his usual brilliant self. Maybe because personally, I find series 4 the weakest of the 6. All about personal preference I guess. I loved him in The Lotus Eaters. Another series I watched when originally broadcast.
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I’ve just checked IMDb and you’re right. It was called The Super Secret Cypher Snatch. Bit of a mouthful 😂
September 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’ve just checked IMDb and you’re right. It was called The Super Secret Cypher Snatch. Bit of a mouthful 😂
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Btw this is my least favourite of the Donna Mills episodes and one I don’t rewatch that often.
September 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Btw this is my least favourite of the Donna Mills episodes and one I don’t rewatch that often.
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Enjoy Ros. I’m working tonight or it would have been a rewatch for me too. Yes he was a great character in this episode, finally getting his man. Another ingenious story from Clemens and Feely. Donald was also in the bleak dystopian 1990. Definitely worth a watch.
September 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Enjoy Ros. I’m working tonight or it would have been a rewatch for me too. Yes he was a great character in this episode, finally getting his man. Another ingenious story from Clemens and Feely. Donald was also in the bleak dystopian 1990. Definitely worth a watch.