Oh that’s nice news: ITV has confirmed that 70 Up, the tenth film in the 7 “Up” documentary series, will be aired in 2026. I loved those programmes.
You see that sign there? It says 'apple sauce.' Ex-BBC radio, former teacher, Bristolian in exile, loves C20th fiction mainly by female writers, writing, classic TV.
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Oh that’s nice news: ITV has confirmed that 70 Up, the tenth film in the 7 “Up” documentary series, will be aired in 2026. I loved those programmes.
Amol Rajan, right?
Given recent interest in Play For Today, I wrote a fair bit about Blue Remembered Hills in my 1989 undergraduate dissertation on Dennis Potter. Recently rescued from the loft and digitised. Wish I’d stuck to writing about TV now. Maybe it’s not too late.
A Victorian solicitor has been stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after being caught using AI-generated false citations in court case - he has acknowledged he did not verify the case list www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here: www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V... >>
Blimey. Can they send more than one person home? #GBBO
Oh dear I'm not even annoyed by anyone yet. #GBBO
"The most ruthless ROBINSON of all time"? Would that it were; would that it were.
Maybe all the trades who've told me over the last year that I need to get rid of al ofl my books are right. Maybe I should burn them. Watch the Blogmywiki Foundation burn a million pages.
Hello, Dave?
See also: two to three. And when we were expecting our 2nd I asked a 2-child colleague for advice. "It's too late to give you the advice you need."
Now if only we had a massive glut of allotment courgettes. Oh, hang on...
Goals!
New stationery arrived, lads.
Did he maybe ... hypnotise his vote share bigger?
Wow.
Like the man said, books are a load of crap.
Don't think I'd seen the black & white photos before. Fantastic. And since we're all about Martin Parr, here I am in 2018 relaxing in front of a large Martin Parr print.
Rare Keynsham reference in a cartoon in @privateeyenews.bsky.social no. 1646
This Martin Parr documentary, made 26 years ago and repeated on BBC4 last night, has a striking resonance now in the light of Brexit and England’s current outbreak of flags.
Can we nail the LIE of so-called Frank Cooper’s so-called Oxford marmalade? 🍊 Not made in Oxford 🍊 Not invented by Frank Cooper but by his wife
I wonder if there’s a useful shorter word for ‘1930s-style autocratic politics’?
Thanks police helicopter for keeping me awake. Where were you on Saturday night when child 2 and his mates were being assaulted‽
Massive pile of books on my bedside table. I don’t want to read any of them. I don’t think I want to read anything ever again.
And a Bob Baker and Dave Martin episode of Public eye just started on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
Martin Parr doc on BBC Four at 9pm
Just when you thought you have seen every possible arrow key layout…
Good morning! This week's theme is 'A-Z of London'. A is for Aldwych. ------ 'Aldwych, Bush House, Winter' by Michael Alford michaelalford.co.uk
Unexpected Throbbing Gristle reference on Radio 3 just now.
Oh joy, now Outlook is sending me something called a 'reaction daily digest' full of HTML character codes like < > ée
- Many bands start out trying to make deliberately unlistenable music and unwatchable performances and then decide the *really* subversive thing to do is sign to a major label, get in the charts and make loads of money. Over and over and over again.
Finished Rip it Up and Start Again. What did I learn? - That Malcolm McClaren was a wrong 'un and I will never touch anything he was associated with ever again - PiL were named after Muriel Spark's The Public Image...
The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station Davina McCall Rabbit Stew turned out lovely.
I bloody love CMAT.
I'm listening to Jamie Oliver Petrol Station whilst cooking this. I really am.
Thank you. I thought this was a good thing for him to be doing!
Yes, others were not so lucky.
I mean shows just how well outlawing N2O was. Now the streets round here are just littered with larger cans instead of sparklets. And these guys were using the canisters to hit people with. (And bricks, and a knife.)
Thank you
Thank you. He's had some rotten luck what with that and Mexico.
"It's no use, sarge, they've got a getaway barge." "Damn, they could be literally anywhere on this stretch of canal."
thank you
Or helicopter, the amount of time it spends over our house.
Upset, shaken, physically ok despite being punched in the face.
Shaken but physically not that bad, even though he got punched in the face.
Two people in hospital, apparently. One with all his front teeth knocked out. The assailants got away on a high-speed... barge. Police failed to catch them.
Child 2's first attempt at putting on an event was going swimmingly until 3am when a load of middle aged blokes on nitrous oxide turned up and beat the shit out of everyone.
Nothing new here. Godley and Creme had already recorded a similar burial in 1977 using a Sennheiser Dummy Head, an old door at the foot of stairs, a shovel and some dirt, for Consequences.
If MacOS can translate ‘Trash can’ to ‘Rubbish bin’ for British English, surely iMovie can translate ‘Ken Burns effect’ to ‘Ken Morse effect’?
I’m going to kill this book if it finishes me. After a pleasant spell with some bands I quite like, we’re back in the region of “…and then SS Child Sex Party reformed as Party in pursuit of mainstream success…”
My ‘this day in 1997’ story is dull. Woken by phone call from sister-in-law with the news. I’d just finished my attachment to NPR and had started working for World Service News. On a day off. I phoned in but they didn’t need me. 9/11 on the other hand…
Spookily #RadMac now playing Disco 2000.
According to wiki he got a retrial for the Alastair Campbell / Daily Mirror one and got 75% of his costs.
Printout's gossip column in June 1981 taking a pop at the journalist Duncan Campbell (not to be confused with the journalist Duncan Campbell.) While the calls may not have been automatically transcribed, is it not interesting that back then phone calls were being routinely tapped & digitised?
I was supposed to be there by 7pm but at 7.30 I was still in London. Adult me was somehow now living in a hall of residence - with other people my age - and all the showers were in use.
A group of people at uni were going to meet up on the Union steps on 1 January 2000. Really. I wonder if any of them ever did.
Anxiety dream about failing to get to Manchester for a university reunion with our favourite professor. I never even got out of London. Though it reminds me…
Reminds me of an Open University film that used to make my mum laugh in which a householder said “that hatch is worth its weight in gold.”
So Julian Allason, founder of Commodore PET Printout magazine, had quite a life. - Became a photographer in the 60s after snapping Keith Richards & Anita Pallenberg in the street - Helped found the Anthony Powell society - Wrote the FT 'How to Spend It' column - Worked as a magistrate and for NACRO
Well this is jolly nice.
I thought the same the other evening.
A companion for Boo:
Thank you - I love that film, great to see it in better quality.
A high quality official version of the incredible 1962 documentary about bonfire building kids, AKA The Bashers, in Barton Hill, Bristol, has dropped on the BBC Archive channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCl...
Never mind AI, Commodore PET computers are coming for your job. (Printout magazine, June 1981).
- Later became a CBT therapist - His brother was Rupert Allason (aka Nigel West) - Died in 2015 aged 67
So Julian Allason, founder of Commodore PET Printout magazine, had quite a life. - Became a photographer in the 60s after snapping Keith Richards & Anita Pallenberg in the street - Helped found the Anthony Powell society - Wrote the FT 'How to Spend It' column - Worked as a magistrate and for NACRO
brb just muting 'death'
Likewise smitten when I heard Peel play it.
Seeing them live was an experience.
You can't read a robot's mind And you can't expect... vultures to be kind.
Spotify doesn't have lyrics for this but any fule no it go "Garlands evergreen! Forget-me-not wreaths! Chaplets see me drugged! I could die in the rosary!"
But srsly
I know everyone hates it, because apparently it’s not ‘accurate’ or something, but I’m enjoying Thunderbirds Vs Alien.
It’s Stitched Back Foot Airman At The BBC next! #totp
Sometimes that’s enough.
Hands, Jensen. #totp
This could be a Jam song. In a good way. #totp
Liz Fraser’s birthday you say?
Funny looking Linn drum #totp
One and a half.
Is this Dollar before they were hip? #totp
Oh good, we’re criticising the documentary Thursday Murder Club for lack of realism now.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
Yarp.
Rob.
in this week's newsletter! I realised I'd been pretty serious for some weeks so I wrote quite a daft list on the things which make me realise that, at heart, I'm still extremely French, even after 16 years here: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/10-ways-in...
rest assured. i have brought all the urine.
More baseless rumours in Printout magazine (October 1980) about a supposed new Commodore 'VIC' computer. Can't see that getting to market.
Pretty sure the Sinclair ZX-81 didn't have Microsoft BASIC, so those talks were imaginary or went nowhere I guess. (Printout magazine gossip column, September 1980),
Ok a joke’s a joke, that’s enough rain now.
Woken from a dream by a kiss, in the dream, like Sleeping Beauty in reverse.
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
I’m missing something here. I couldn’t get through the first series. Does it suddenly improve?
Hope the same happens on buses and suburban trains.
See what I mean!
You could never prise the Archbishop away from the Recreation Ground when Bath were at home.
(A colleague says it suffers from comparisons with Hot Fuzz - which I love - and I kind of get that but there was a Cornetto in it, so I'll give it a pass on that one).
