Ben Aaronovitch
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social
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Author of the Rivers of London Series
reposted by
Ben Aaronovitch
Dr Lynne Hardy
3 days ago
My con appearances are pretty limited this year, but next weekend I’ll be at Chaosium Con UK chatting all about the Rivers of London RPG. The following weekend,
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social
joins me on the Chaosium booth at UK Games Expo. It would be lovely to see you there!
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Rivers of London with Ben Aaronovitch
Now in it's 19th year, UK Games Expo (UKGE) is the largest Hobby Games Convention in the UK. A fun event appealing to families as well as the enthusiast.
https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/3557-rivers-of-london-with-ben-aaronovitch/
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Back at London Zoo to hear about Oyster bed restoration, saving Darwin’s Frogs and Mexican pupfish.
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 683 683CHEF! (1993) w: Peter Tillbury Criminally overlooked sitcom starring Lenny Henry.
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Chef! Second Season Opener
YouTube video by Christopher Herman
https://youtu.be/YxVlULXAFSk?si=bxEtzj5A0jSbTJ1Q
7 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 587 SURGICAL SPIRIT (1989) w: Annie Bruce, Raymond Dixon, Graeme Garden, Peter Learmouth, Paul McKenzie and Annie Wood. Based on the beautifully acid tongue of a real surgeon.
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Surgical Spirit S01E01 The Lecture
YouTube video by UKSer
https://youtu.be/N-sFwPejc7I?si=eBqFTwjfSXd7wKPS
8 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 766 THE NEW STATESMAN (1987) w: Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran How could I have forgotten Alan B’Stard – biggest majority in the house. Pin up boy for the Heritage Foundation.
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The new statesman Intro
YouTube video by TVTunes Quiz
https://youtu.be/MAFHFTzBTbA?si=8lRPlAozu0DDn8NA
9 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 702 KEEPING UIP APPEARANCES (1995) w: Roy Clarke. It’s pronounced Bouquet!
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Keeping Up Appearances Intro (1990 - 1995)
YouTube video by CultKidzTv
https://youtu.be/dhlR_4GKElU?si=Uz_fFlic4c9eU_L7
10 days ago
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Finished draft zero of the latest book - now for some sleeeeeep
11 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,583 --> so so very close.... THE VICAR OF DIBLEY (1994) w: Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer In 1993 the COE authorised the ordination of women – no, no, no. no. no, yes!
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Vicar Of Dibley - Intro - Series 2 Enhanced
YouTube video by Kizzer94
https://youtu.be/p1B5_95qm8A?si=OclUQGgTQ1V-wD0A
11 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 938 ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE (1990) w: David Renwick I don’t believe it! A traditional sitcom – sort of.
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One Foot in the Grave - Intro
YouTube video by FxBeatz
https://youtu.be/3_vgOj8SQnc?si=Yzlj01EEZjGv6wHS
13 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 836 NINGHTINGALES (1990) w: Paul Makin Channel Four, in the early days, had a remit to innovate – or at least unsettle.
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Nightingales s01e02 'takeaway'
YouTube video by tozmusictv
https://youtu.be/cg0HKJmZHa4?si=BL-sfFWkrOpKPcDV
14 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 518 CHELMSFORD 123 (1988) w: Rory McGrath and Jimmy Mulville Famously starts with a scene in Latin with subtitles and a surprise (and totally unauthorised) character cameo.
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Chelmsford 123 - Series 1 - Theme / Opening
YouTube video by Weliketvthemes
https://youtu.be/Oc_Mrp5glEs?si=fZ2vwLwHztTAEW71
15 days ago
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reposted by
Ben Aaronovitch
Peter Geoghegan
19 days ago
🔴 NEW: Reform UK's £4m crypto donor Ben Delo has dismissed his US conviction as a "non-crime" But we got the court docs - and found a different story US federal prosecutors said he "thumbed his nose at the law" and had led a "criminal enterprise"
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m-donor-thumbed-his-nose-us-law-ben-delo-crypto-conviction
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,142 BLACKADDER (1983) W: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson and Ben Elton For you Baldrick the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people.
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Blackadder - All four Opening Credits
YouTube video by TV Themesongs
https://youtu.be/RSpPuP5xwaQ?si=tHUk6gwmI-CwYj40
18 days ago
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Any excuse will do to post the WHAT ABIGAIL DID THAT SUMMER video.
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What Abigail did that summer
YouTube video by Ben Aaronovitch
https://youtu.be/euUH3ECqmbk?si=N5GDQ_rjpHYb0r4d
18 days ago
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What's up with those foxes? What's the secret behind the missing kids in Hampstead? What's up with Abigail throwing her mobile in a pond? Find out with the May special offer on KINDLE of.... WHAT ABIGAIL DID THAT SUMMER - 99p
18 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 760 AUF WEIDERSEHN PET (1983) w: Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais So now the sitcoms diverge, absurdist comedy goes one way, gritty observational comedy goes the other…The writers make adjustments….
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Auf Wiedersehen Pet opening titles
YouTube video by The Retro Lounge
https://youtu.be/BTY5G_4-Wns?si=pJJP9MM5GJ2S1yru
19 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 766 ALLO ALLO (1982) w: David Croft & Jeremy Lloyd, The Nazi’s had always been figures of fun in British Comedy – even during the war.
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Bonus Smith & Jones…
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'Allo 'Allo - Opening Theme Tune & Introduction
YouTube video by DavidCroftcouk
https://youtu.be/3eTaxXkH0_I?si=Q2CJSJBC_0jVk8JQ
22 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 522 WHOOPS APOCOLYPSE (1982) w: Andrew Marshall & David Renwick If you can’t have a laugh in the face nuclear annihilation when can you?
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Whoops Apocalypse... intro
YouTube video by richard arif
https://youtu.be/CMAFd1MEmd4?si=C0kPyZdsa0ZwQqKA
23 days ago
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Alexandra Palace - on a clear day you can see Quatermass.
24 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,055 THE YOUNG ONES (1982) w: Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, And then everything changed…
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THE YOUNG ONES - Intro
YouTube video by cameo
https://youtu.be/CtEbPOOu-Bw?si=qwmoUVwDsl0UJLio
24 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 751 ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES (1981) w: John Sullivan Cause where it all comes from is a mystery…
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Only Fools and Horses Opening Titles remastered in HD (2021)
YouTube video by nsmmedia
https://youtu.be/yDea_Yu0NxM?si=m1vWIATuw53aYQcK
25 days ago
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In the post today - the Dutch edition of RIVERS OF LONDON - soon to be available in the Netherlands and beyond.
26 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,229 BUTTERFLIES (1978) w: Carla Lane Couldn’t find a proper titled sequence.
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Butterflies - Theme / Opening
YouTube video by Weliketvthemes
https://youtu.be/8LP6-2lAlvs?si=S5G9oLMcS6zCbfFv
27 days ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 789 CITIZEN SMITH (1977) w: John Sullivan Long live the People’s Republic of Tooting! Remember the episode with the tank!
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Citizen Smith - Theme / Opening
YouTube video by Weliketvthemes
https://youtu.be/4eabA4rz6hU?si=hulnhb5LaV8LJ8Ou
28 days ago
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Oops forgot the picture
29 days ago
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Jim Henson lived just up the road from Keats and the OG Goldfinger.
29 days ago
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Trend Research - 2020 - aspiring young teen influencers - YouTube, TikTok or something else that granddad here has never heard of?
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 787 THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN (1976) w: David Nobbs I didn’t get where I am today without watching Leonard Rossiter… Great! Super!
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - s01e01 - Hippopotamus
YouTube video by Bygone Television Classics
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about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 801 FAWLTY TOWERS (1975) w: John Cleese and Connie Booth I actually find this painfully funny. I can’t help it – I just feel sorry for Basil.
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Fawlty Towers (1975-1979) - - Opening credits 4K
YouTube video by Classic TV Zone
https://youtu.be/Tu33t09V7ws?si=EI5WSSuKKhuzWBDY
about 1 month ago
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After an enforced hiatus I’m back with Brokenwood and I love the fact that Frodo nearly always finds the victim 🤣
about 1 month ago
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Serious research question - 2020, "shopping" at Primak mid twenties woman, slim - briefs or mini-briefs?
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 683 THE GOOD LIFE (1975) – w: John Esmonde & Bob Larbey I actually felt for Marge and Jerry who stayed good friends with the Goods through thick and thin.
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The Good Life theme tune
YouTube video by flares
https://youtu.be/EdcyQuDz98M?si=eCJ8_Q5XrpqKWM1B
about 1 month ago
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Had a fun evening at Uxbridge Library
about 1 month ago
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More Uxbridge
about 1 month ago
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End of the line 😎
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 537 PORRIDGE (1974) – w: Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais If you ever wondered where the use of “naff” as an expletive came from…
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Porridge Intro
YouTube video by RetroWorld
https://youtu.be/dXwJvu36c38?si=raSu9X1nfOkgydsy
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 615 RISING DAMP (1974) - w: Eric Chapell Leonard Rossiter what an actor. He’ll be back further down the list.
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Yorkshire Television Ident & Rising Damp Titles 1975
YouTube video by Archive TV
https://youtu.be/Wp-8xNaXu-A?si=bnRvq4UE2Z6dhLVU
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 559 IT AIN’T HALF HOT MUM (1974) w: Jimmy Perry & David Croft Back then your sets were not required to even aspire to verisimilitude. (I couldn’t find a decent quality opening title video so…)
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum theme stereo.wmv
YouTube video by Paul Yates
https://youtu.be/Hc437Q_dPH8?si=ONxhcfQb_g93a3-a
about 1 month ago
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Emergency Research - wjere did Henry Nock, gunsmith, have his workshop. I need a town or city.
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 789 LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE (1973) w: Roy Clarke This is one of those series that always seemed to be there – a bit like QI is today. It also starred Peter Sallis of WALLACE AND GROMIT fame.
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Last of the Summer Wine - TV Theme & Intro
YouTube video by Telly Titles
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about 1 month ago
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American Research - does West Virginia use the American style dumpsters we see in US films or is there some eccentric local variation.
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 622 MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE (1973) w. Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer Had two spin offs and an American conversion as THREE’S COMPANY
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Man about the House opening titles - Theme
YouTube video by Richard Hall
https://youtu.be/tQRgBYsmAMQ?si=WOu3uOiE6bDYDd4c
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 914 OPEN ALL HOURS (1973) w: Roy Clarke 1973 seems to have been a good year for classic sitcoms.
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Open All Hours Intro
YouTube video by TVTunes Quiz
https://youtu.be/XThIHwxc1nY?si=jGB8IMPAGs0nhLX4
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 820 SOME MOTHERS DO ‘AVE ‘EM (1973) w: Raymond Allen Betty! I’ve been articulated!
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Intro
YouTube video by TVTunes Quiz
https://youtu.be/tduNoff-GHE?si=a_9p9CmzK_kmooTW
about 1 month ago
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 1,065 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS (1973) w: Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais This was a weird one for me because I’d didn’t know who the likely lads were. We didn’t have videos in those days…
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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
YouTube video by Andy Quick
https://youtu.be/Xv3bIKGhnDk?si=WO8MzTE_dFDomz8y
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Ben Aaronovitch
Chaosium
about 2 months ago
DEAL OF THE DAY: Jimmy's Last Dance, a case file for
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social
's Rivers of London
#TTRPG
, is 80% off today at
@drivethrurpg.com
!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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Rivers of London: Jimmy's Last Dance - Chaosium | Rivers of London | DriveThruRPG
A Case File for Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game A stand-alone scenario for Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Gamebased on the novels by Ben Aaronovitch Buy the PDF or get on Print-on-Demand (PO...
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/500871/rivers-of-london-jimmy-s-last-dance
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 550 ARE YOU BEING SERVED (1972) w: Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft I didn’t understand Mrs Slocum’s Pussy until at least 1976.
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Are You Being Served? - Opening Titles and Theme Song
YouTube video by DavidCroftcouk
https://youtu.be/Mz6wvKUsP6M?si=abNouAh4V7CbR-uM
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Ben Aaronovitch
Mark Stay
about 2 months ago
An amazing evening chatting to
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social
at the
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
— a big thank you to everyone who came, the amazing organisers and team at the library, and to
@pddoling.bsky.social
for this photo! Let’s do it again sometime. 😁
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Yesterday’s Word Count = 519 UP POMPEII (1969) W: Talbot Rothwell Rothwell wrote for the Carry On films and Frankie Howard starred in the London stage version of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. I think the lineage is clear.
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Up Pompeii - The Love Potion
YouTube video by Bleep-Bloop Robot Noise
https://youtu.be/brsmsh-6SSo?si=Q8ri1x_B2fg9Oejj
about 2 months ago
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Emergency Research - Norwegian - I need a Norwegian title for an imaginary painting in the style of Odd Nerdrum - called something like - 'The Longing' encapsulated loneliness and despair.
about 2 months ago
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