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the detail about the Broad Majestic Shannon from Shane’s sister
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Bob Geldof initially dismissing the Pogues as “paddy-whackery”
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the bloke from the Wire on The Body of An American
People have written that, in Dickens' books, London is a character in its own right. London interacts with other characters, and moves the story forward.
That being the case, it makes absolute sense that people would want to visit the locations associated with the books.
‘Dickensland’ is an entertaining tour of such sites…whether they are real or fake.
Finished reading: Dickensland by Lee Jackson 📚
I quite enjoyed Last One Laughing, but I think it’s more like very good Reality TV than it is like good comedy
I just finished the Walk-In. Great show about fascists and the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate - very, very grim at times, but hopeful
I particularly enjoyed the brief appearance by the guy from Mrs Brown’s Boys (am I the only person in the UK that likes Mrs Browns Boys?)
The Outlaws was fun
Nice to see the bad guy from ‘Bad Sisters’ being the bad guy in Outlaws…and also nice to have people who sound like me, or a bit like me anyway, on the telly
Random painting I like - The Gardener by Simon Saint-Jean.
Podcast episodes that I've enjoyed recently - Armando, Cillian, Barbie, 'the Stalin of the Steppes', Troy, Princess Di, John Wilkes Booth, UFO's, etc
Strong Message Here - Political words of 2024
Barbie and the plasticity of pop - Switched on Pop
UFO sightings: an otherworldly history - History Extra
Cillian Murphy - WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
The Hated and the Dead - Khorloogiin Choibalsan
The Rest is History - Stephen Fry and Troy
Hancock’s Half Hour - Fred’s Pie Stall
A right royal night out - Witness History
You Are There (TV Series) - The Capture of John Wilkes Booth (April 26, 1865) (1953)
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast Episode 1449 - The United States of Conspiracy w/ Robert Guffey
Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”. Word In Your Ear … Word In Your Ear.
The Rest Is History - Podcast Episode 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1)
BBC Soul Music - I Say a Little Prayer for You
Paul Sinha’s perfect pub quiz - Bradford
Word In Your Ear -David Gedge – and a postcard from Peel
Word in Your Ear - Simon Napier-Bell - Marc Bolan, the Who, chains, feathers and German police
Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon — Backlisted with crime novelist Mark Billingham
There are many, many more at: Podcast episodes I’ve enjoyed
My formerly-footballing friend Fred Fieber has done the illustrations for CAMRA’s new leaflet of Salisbury pubs
Fred’s website is Fred Fieber - Pub drawings
The bit of CAMRA’s website relating to Salisbury is Pubs and Clubs around Salisbury
My favourite folkie Christmas songs.
Possibly the best thing I’ve seen in a theatre since The Clash at the Lyceum
Sleeping Beauty at Salisbury Playhouse
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I enjoyed That Christmas last night. It’s a sweet film. It said in the credits that it was based on three different stories, which does make sense, in that the film has a lot going on. Good fun, in any case
The two best songs which start with the same two words, imho
Goin' back - Dusty Springfield
Going back to my roots - Odyssey
I know next to nothing about Mongolia, so this was interesting
My young friend Tom’s podcast about Khorloogiin Choibalsan - the Stalin of the Steppes
The Hated and the Dead - Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Back in the olden days, when Twitter was still a nice place to be, there was a hashtag called #PostASongLyricYouLove
“And I can play hide and seek with my fears And live my days instead of counting my years”
I’m not a fan of the works of either Freddie Mercury, or Kenny Everett and Cleo Rocos, but I’m sure they’d have been great fun on a night out….and this is a sweet story
“In 1988, Princess Diana, disguised as a man, along with broadcaster Kenny Everett and singer Freddie Mercury had a drink in London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern, a gay club in London.”
The Hogwarts Express came through Salisbury station just now
The German rendering of Ben Lyttleton’s Twelve Yards reads like it’s about monitoring elves
I’d read that book too
Lovely BBC radio doc about Shane Macgowan, with his wife, and his sister, and Nick Cave, and Bono, and Geldof, and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all
I particularly enjoyed
BBC - Archive on 4 - Shane Macgowan - The Old Main Drag
To Trowbridge by train today.
In quick succession you go past the White Horse at Westbury, as in Ravilious' painting, and Dilton Marsh, of John Betjeman’s poem
There isn’t a porter. The platform is made of sleepers.
The guard of the last train puts out the light
And high over lorries and cattle the Halt unwinking
Waits through the Wiltshire night.
in honour of the season