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Sorry for going off-topic but the first thing that struck me was this: 01/09/1969 [Bank Holiday Monday programming] I had either forgotten, or never knew in the first place, that the "August" bank holiday fell in September in 1969 (and also 1968, it seems). I don't think HTV's regional news programm...

Maybe. Without the changed punchline, I don't think the joke would have taken off in the way that it did.

Updated twice since yesterday! It's getting more interesting as it goes on.

Maybe I'm being terribly dim, but I don't get the original "oldest gap in the world" punchline...

Excellent - thanks! Glad to see I was right about Dave Allen.

The first episode has now gone up: "Join Martin, Tim, Jon & James during their watch along of arguably the most famous Hancock's Half Hour episodes - 'The Blood Donor' Originally released in 1961..." Link: https://anchor.fm/verynearlyanarmful/episodes/S1-E1---Very-Nearly-an-armful---The-Blood-donor...

Reversing the thread - US Britbox has 'The Good Life' listed as 'Good Neighbors' I believe it was known as Good Neighbors in the US because NBC had an unrelated one-season series called The Good Life a couple of years previously. The NBC series had been run on BBC1 just the year before but no one c...

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Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:50 am

Reversing the thread - US Britbox has 'The Good Life' listed as 'Good Neighbors'

I believe it was known as Good Neighbors in the US because NBC had an unrelated one-season series called The Good Life a couple of years previously.

OT: Some Australians complained that it was called A Country Practice with the American spelling of practise. "Practice" is the correct spelling of the noun in all varieties of English (British, Australian and American). It's the verb where there are differences - "practise" in Britain and Australi...

It was a repeat of the 2013 one, wasn't it?

Sorry Brock, I updated the entry as you posted. I've had it clarified that it was BRMB that broadcast them by someone that has a current subscription to the British Newspaper Archive. Thanks very much for looking into it! I guessed it must have been a BRMB programme - it came as a surprise to me be...

The website says " I became a lowly station assistant at BBC Radio Birmingham, now Radio WM, and was then the first voice on BRMB, where I stayed for almost twenty-five years." about BRIAN SAVIN. Doing a quick search on the British Newspaper Archive there are entries for late 81 and mid 82 in Midla...

That's almost certainly it - thanks. Unearthed by Brian Savin, these recordings have been unheard anywhere in the world since they first aired in the 80's to a local radio audience. In the eighties, Brian Savin produced a radio series called The Big Band Hour. It featured the Johnny Patrick Big Band...

This Saturday at 5pm (in the slot vacated by Andy Marriott's Television Show, as it happens), Serenade Radio is presenting an archive series presented by the late Benny Green, called The Big Band Hour . I thought I was pretty familiar with Benny Green's radio work, but I don't recall any such progra...

Best known as Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street, of course.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56229247

The difference in the age demographic may be reflected by the fact that he's just played the Keith Mansfield theme for Grandstand. On Serenade it was always "News Scoop".

Well, I do think it was mis-represented as satire on the Daily Mail website where the title "Brush with Basil that charmed Chairman Mao... the five greatest celebrity travel programmes of all time" immediately piqued my interest. Entering the article and seeing a picture of Michael Portillo, I genu...

Was it really satire? It seemed more like schoolboy humour to me. Clearly not a Private Eye reader then... Is the Mail renown for its satirical pieces? I have to admit, the printed daily press hasn't been on my radar for a number of years. Looking back through Craig Brown's recent columns for the M...

Whilst the article is obviously spoof, it seems odd timing as it would have worked so much better if it had been in April. But Craig Brown's a satirist. That's what he does - he writes satirical pieces for newspapers, all year round. There wouldn't be much work for him if he could only write them o...

Aha! My fault for not reading the rest of the article and realizing it was a parody... Did "Great British Railway Journeys: From Uxbridge To Hillingdon" really not give it away? Craig Brown is an extremely well-known satirist. He's written the "Diary" column in Private Eye for over thirty years, an...

Just heard the news on Radio 4. I listened to the last series of Clue and thought that Jack Dee's script wasn't quite up to scratch - then I noticed that Iain Pattinson's name was missing from the credits.

How very, very sad. Perhaps it's now time for Clue to call it a day?

Ooops, forgot it was on! Mostly repeats again was it?...will try to listen in on the next one. Yes, and I imagine that since it's a brand new station, it'll be mostly stuff that we've heard before. It'll be interesting to see if the requests reflect a different age range though - Boom Radio is supp...

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Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:40 pm

Thanks for that, will try and catch it..

I remembered! No great surprises, but I wondered how he had so many requests when the station only came on air today...

How did he become so well known? I'd heard of him well before I joined the old forum, and before his book came out. I didn't even know about his website (thanks for that). Was there some "cult" of spotting his appearances?

I remember his contributions to the old forum (did he make it over to this one?). Probably the most famous "extra" ever - he even published a book about it. RIP.

There have been problems with Simon36's PMs previously - see here.

I haven't rewatched the episode or seen a script, but I recall the line as " And I have the knobs on my side". Am I wrong? You are. There's no "And", it's just "I have the knobs on my side." Thanks for that! As an addendum, I ought to confess that I once thought the line was "The knobs are on your ...

I think I may have found another candidate for this category - the "Divided We Stand" episode of Steptoe and Son , where there's the argument over which channel to watch: Harold: "I have the law of contract on my side" Albert: "Yeah but I have the knobs on mine" (IMDb) "I've got the knobs on my side...

An ad came up on my browser a couple of weeks ago saying "You won't believe Petula Clarke at 90." She appears to actually be 88, but she's physically well and independent and still has all her faculties. Petula Clark will be presenting a special musicals-themed edition of Sounds of the Sixties on R...

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Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:43 pm

I wonder if this was just picking up from someone else's incorrect statement or relying on memory.

Well of course the Goodies themselves did spend rather a long time complaining that the show hadn't been repeated, to the extent that it became a running joke on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue...

If only there was a database of Radio Times listings going up to a decade ago when the BBC started publishing their schedules online In fact the cut-off date for Genome makes it look as though there have been no repeats since 1986, with the single exception of "Winter Olympics" in March 2006. The w...