My daughter just said 'what's Bagpuss?' so I had to show her at least the opening so of course now I am in bits.

I assume Withnail and I Robot has been done...

I am near the quaint English village of Rising Bollard.

New art arrived. Thanks @sirpaintalot.bsky.social 😍 #art #paddington #buyart

One of my favourite startup genres is “we named our product so badly our first ad campaign is dedicated just to that”

I am near the quaint English village of Rising Bollard.

Another missing episode of the series was written by the great Roald Dahl. One other episode, “The Corpse Can’t Play,” previously resurfaced, leaving four still missing. https://loom.ly/jN4QoPA

Still makes me roar 😂

This EasyHotel is fine but the TV is a bit more ceilingy than I was expecting.

Apparently tube strike disruption over but then a train hit something on the line at New Cross grrr

Join Bob & Dave as they track down the most forgotten 70s children’s TV show, the mystery of its cancellation and disappearance of its creator. 3 episodes out now. Another series is already being planned.

The story of two brothers, one who remembers everything, and one who remembers almost nothing. Which is the gift and which is the curse? theamericanscholar.org/you-must-rem...

Feels like an honest article! My ten-pennies'-worth is: try reading one chapter a day. I'm now over halfway through WAR AND PEACE doing that. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Under the rather grand title of Directorate of Camouflage (Naval Section), this lot spent an entire war pissing around with model ships to make the real thing harder to hit. Nice job if you can get it.

Join Bob & Dave as they track down the most forgotten 70s children’s TV show, the mystery of its cancellation and disappearance of its creator. 3 episodes out now. Another series is already being planned.

Awake half the night. But I plotted out the next three Mind Children stories.

The Britten of 'Britten's faction' is named after Kathleen Booth, née Britten, who wrote - I believe - the first published book on computer programming (1953)...

There’s only one possible answer.

Sigh.

Two cases of Ebola in Brazil you say?

Can't wait to read about Peter Spork, Dinky Molens, Spikel Snesmith and Gravy Joans.

Time for a thread on the inspirations for series 8 of Listen with Other, TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS. The title, obvs, is from the song where the Beatles invented The Chemical Brothers, but the story itself was inspired by a trip to Alnwick in 2013. The bookshop is based on Barter Books, of course...

I’d say the tedious fucking ashtray disqualified himself from Desert Island Discs with this interview in March 2015. See also: not being invited on A Good Read or Front Row. The man’s got nothing. He is the Archbishop of Fuck All.

A blue plaque commemorating 1984-89, when two national computer game magazines were made by a publisher in offices above a shop in Ludlow. Pleased to see this among the medieval heritage!

There's only one great Beatles biopic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek89...

Time for a thread on the inspirations for series 8 of Listen with Other, TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS. The title, obvs, is from the song where the Beatles invented The Chemical Brothers, but the story itself was inspired by a trip to Alnwick in 2013. The bookshop is based on Barter Books, of course...

The third (and final?) part of The Mind Children is out NOW. Dave is contacted by a listener and drives to deepest Somerset on the trail of the elusive creator of forgotten, missing-believed-wiped 70s TV series The Mind Children... on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and at listenwithother.co.uk

There’s an amusing cartoon on page 36 of the current Private Eye. I’m not going to post it here. I suggest you buy a copy.

Enter the world of The Mind Children, an alien race who visited Earth in a 1979 children's TV series that has been forgotten and almost completely erased. Episode 1 is out now. Look for series 9 of LISTEN WITH OTHER on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and at listenwithother.co.uk

You could get your broadband ‘football-ready.’ Or you could just use a bloody aerial or dish.

Adam Dalgliesh appears to be a vampire in Sherlock Holmes on TPTV right now. Confusing.

Cinema talk reminding me that there isn’t a single cinema in Lewisham. The borough. I bet that’s not true of any other.

Little Easter egg: I had to change the name of the podcast-within-the-podcast because it turned out there was a real podcast with the same name. But if you listen carefully to the sig tune, you can hear its original title.

Why is Saturday radio always awful? Doing a bit of DIY, fancied a bit of music. Channel hopping on DAB the choices were: - people shouting at each other - Phil Collins - experimental jazz

I wrote a quick post on Alan Moore, Pop Will Eat Itself and the Oroubouros. quantick.substack.com/p/pwei-alan-...

Drunk LinkedIn is contraindicated.

Farewell, Marcia Lucas. Star Wars (1977) might not have been a hit without you.

Listen to this all the way through and tell me this is not one of the great records about London. It samples THE CHAIN!

Everything breaks

There is only one possible answer.

The third (and final?) part of The Mind Children is out NOW. Dave is contacted by a listener and drives to deepest Somerset on the trail of the elusive creator of forgotten, missing-believed-wiped 70s TV series The Mind Children... on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and at listenwithother.co.uk

Did Morrissey write this?

Adam Curtis, today, striding boldly past the racks of Paul McCartney CDs, heading straight to Inferno by Boards of Canada and then slapping his £20 note down, confidently, on the counter. Narrator: “But in the process of trying to avoid nostalgia, in reality Curtis had…”

I’m missing #totp because there’s only so much misery I can take and I have a story to mix but I am enjoying it vicariously via the medium of you crazy, beautiful Bluesky people.

Let's all go to the shooty egg!

So how’s it going for everyone fighting Musk from inside his own, micromanaged system?

Did someone say beveragino?

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1