Chris Hallam
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Freelance writer. Nostalgia, TV, film, old things.
2025. Book 54.
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2025. Book 53.
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Book review: One of Us, by Elizabeth Day
This enjoyable novel from the reliable Elizabeth Day adopts the viewpoint of several individuals each of whose lives are linked in various different ways. We meet Serena, a semi-aristocratic beauty…
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I've never seen The Horse Whisperer
Coming to Robert Redford late
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RIP Robert Redford. My favourite of his films was All The President's Men (1976).
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2025. Book 52.
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2025. Book 51.
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Book review: The Predicament, by William Boyd
A minor criticism: this book is not particularly well-served by its title. ‘The Predicament’ tells us almost nothing about this novel’s contents and risks making it sound like a c…
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Book review: Margaret Thatcher – Life After Downing Street
Whatever happened to the Iron Lady? While most of us are fairly familiar with the first British woman prime minister’s 11 tumultuous years in office, the passage of her remaining 23 years , i…
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2025: Book 50.
21 days ago
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2025. Book: 49.
24 days ago
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Learn all about Tales of the Unexpected and The Eagle has Landed in my new features in the latest Best of British magazine.
30 days ago
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Oh boy! Read all about the history of Quantum Leap in my new feature in the latest issue of Yours Retro!
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2025. Book: 48.
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I am disappointed by the decision to cancel Between the Covers. Odd though that people always attack the BBC so fiercely for cancelling things. They never give them any credit for putting them on in the first place!
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RIP Terence Stamp (1938-2025).
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2025. Book 47.
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World War II quiz - British Comedy Quiz - British Comedy Guide
This Friday 15th August is VJ Day, a date marking eighty years since the end of the Second World War in 1945. With this in mind, how many of these Second World War-themed questions written by Chris Ha...
https://www.comedy.co.uk/quiz/10004/
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Enjoyable new podcast from Miranda Sawyer. Recommended.
add a skeleton here at some point
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2025: Book 46.
about 2 months ago
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2025: Book 45
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Ahoy there! The latest Yours Retro contains my two new features on the Coppola clan and the fall of TV chef, Fanny Cradock. Check it out!
about 2 months ago
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@guinnessworldrecords.com
Read all about the life of author Frederick Forsyth and the history of Guinness World Records in my new features in the latest issue of Best of British magazine. Available now!
about 2 months ago
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#WeWereLiars
let down by a poor final episode.
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2025. Book 44.
about 2 months ago
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Book review: Generation Tarantino, by Andrew J. Rausch
Few figures have come to personify the lively independent cinema of the Nineties more convincingly than Quentin Tarantino. But this book isn’t about him or, at least, it’s not just abou…
https://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/book-review-generation-tarantino-by-andrew-j-rausch/
2 months ago
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Chris Hallam
Mega City Book Club
2 months ago
Cheers, Chris. Thank you for being part of the 300
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reposted by
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Mega City Book Club
2 months ago
The book club reaches 300 episodes and Pete Wells helps me countdown the top ten covers from the first 300 progs as voted by listeners. Thanks to everyone who helped us get this far and stay tuned for more.
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2025. Book 43.
2 months ago
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Shining a light on Shine On Harvey Moon - Comedy Rewind - British Comedy Guide
We look at the popular Marks & Gran comedy that began in 1982 and looked at post-war Britain's return to 'normal'.
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2025. Book 42.
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2025. Book 41.
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2025. Book 40.
3 months ago
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2025. Book 39.
3 months ago
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My new feature in Yours Retro is all about the Sheen acting dynasty. Miss it, miss out!
3 months ago
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#RIP
Michael Madsen. 1957-2025. Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs.
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2025. Book 38.
3 months ago
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2025: Book 37.
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Read about how Sherlock Holmes defeated Hitler in my new feature in the latest Best of British magazine...
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2025. Book 36.
3 months ago
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2025. Book 35.
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Iain Banks : where to start?
Iain Banks, who died this month, was one of my favourite writers. In a career spanning twenty-nine years, he wrote an impressive twenty-nine books including the science fiction Culture books (as “I…
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Book review: Margaret Thatcher, by Iain Dale
No British Prime Minister has attracted such a wide a variety of sobriquet as Margaret Thatcher. To the tabloid press, she was always “Maggie,” a name she was never known by privately. …
https://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/book-review-margaret-thatcher-by-iain-dale/
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2025. Book 34.
4 months ago
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#TheBalladOfWallisIsland
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THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND - Official Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters March 28
YouTube video by Focus Features
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTi-e20yVNs&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
4 months ago
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2025. Book 33.
4 months ago
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Read my new features on both Gene Hackman's career and Michael Caine's marriage in the latest Yours Retro...
4 months ago
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Read my features all about the actors, Patrick Macnee and Jean Marsh in the latest Best of British magazine.
4 months ago
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2025. Book 32.
4 months ago
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Extra Teeth
4 months ago
And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Ten! Submissions will be open from JUNE 1st - JUNE 14th. We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.
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