This is "Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize" level irony.

A little bit about the late, gorgeous Joanna Pettet; at my Instagram account. www.instagram.com/p/DanShealtpU/

We are halfway through this year's episodes and we've got some great stuff coming up: youtu.be/MB-MZfhFUjQ?...

Well, that went up quick... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845832426

Louise Lasser in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman gives one of the greatest, funniest, and most unsettling performances I‘ve ever seen. She was incredible. RIP.

Louise Lasser 1939-2026 RIP

Farewell to Ian Kennedy Martin, creator of The Sweeney, Juliet Bravo, The Chinese Detective.

My wonderful friend Leslie Woodhead, the only person to film the Beatles in the Cavern, the pioneer of docudrama, and a wonderful human being has died aged 88. An extraordinary, very humble filmmaker who fostered the talents of Stephen Frears, Paul Greengrass, and many others. I’ll miss you

Sorely tempted to remix Love Missile F1-11 using only samples from Yus, My Dear.

Christ, Wogan had some mad guest lists.

The video version of our latest podcast is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/2HLSuroXpBg Please like, subscribe and tell your friends if you enjoy it. Thanks!

NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 37. Journalist, broadcaster and author @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social joins me on the textcast to discuss her superb new book on the Beatles’ first film, 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night, and chats about some of her cherished music purchases. firstlastanything.co.uk/2026/07/05/f...

Ryan is playing the long game here. His mind games will pay off in a future penalty shoot-out.

Belfast. After that shameful omission I have to go a long way down the list to Colchester and Chelmsford.

We’re doing a show on Puckoon soon. I’d like any memories or moments from the book that particularly resonate with you that we can include. (If you’re like me you discovered it in your dad’s drawer (along with My Secret Life by ‘Walter’) and had never read anything like it before. Or since.)

You don’t always remember exactly what people did, but you never forget how they made you feel. I've written about my friend Justin Richards, who died last weekend. peteranghelides.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/j...

New! WORLD WAR ONE (aka "________!") pod.link/1569929507 In which your genial host opines that the show contains one of Milligan's career-best performances. We also wonder why Sellers thought Spike was better looking, why Harry played seven parts, and WHY Hughie Green? With @graemelf.bsky.social

In which we ponder Muttley's parentage, try to remember all of the contestants in the Wacky Races, and explore the unexpected sexiness of Hey There, It's Yogi Bear.

A new episode of World of Telly is now available wherever you get your podcasts. This time we take a look at Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines via a whistle-stop tour of Hanna-Barbera. The video version of this episode is running a little late and will be released later this week.

I've written a thing about Margo: the Surbiton sum of all fears open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

Penelope Keith RIP

A happy 90th birthday to David Rudkin, visionary writer of Afore Night Come, Penda's Fen, The Sons of Light and so much else besides. I am immersed in another of his plays for an upcoming book project. The sheer abundance of things to say about his work and what he himself says never fails to amaze.

This should have been tagged to @cathoderays.bsky.social

The one positive side of long drives for unpleasant reasons is the chance to catch up on podcasts. I've been very late to the party with @grindrod.bsky.social's Monstrosities Mon Amour but I picked a couple - Nottingham (where I'm from) and Stevenage (which I used to know a bit) - and loved them.

I listened to this yesterday and it's excellent. Lee's reaction to Kevin Eldon's extraordinary alien voice is a particularly great moment.

It's a YoLD bonus mini-edition covering those ten weeks in 1976 everyone's been banging on about this week. What were we watching? Drama in which nothing happens, cartoons in which everything happens, monumentally inane competitions and a touch of rabies. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

This song has brought me much joy over the years. This original is great, and then there's the bizarre Mel and Dave version which always makes me laugh, and then Hank's version on The Larry Sanders Show which nearly killed me and I think about most days. RIP.

Regularly spun in our house when I was a boy. RIP David Clayton-Thomas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFEe...

I once met and chatted at some length with the great Alan Plater and he was everything I hoped he'd be. Do meet your heroes.

Sixteen years ago today we lost Alan Plater. A man who's work has given me far greater pleasure than almost all other writers combined.

Dipping into Italian soundtracks of the 1970s (see skeets/replies passim) reminded me of when the Guardian, bless them, asked me to write something about Lucio Fulci (whose go-to composer was Fabio Frizzi).

Fucking legend. RIP.

“It’s a long way from anywhere…” Just heard that Dave Greenslade has died. Currently greatly enjoying again his superbly witty and inventive scores for A Very Peculiar Practice on BBC4. His work on Gangsters too was brilliant, both of and ahead of its time. “We’ll always love you.” RIP.

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"This is a little something that we like to call... Out To Tender"

Here we go again. I think the Who news has died down enough now.

Michael Keating obituary by me : Michael Keating obituary www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

On This Day - In 1932 Ed Bishop was born. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson

Given that the Who news is such a massive distraction this feels like a very weird day to be recording a podcast about Dastardly and Muttley, although thinking about it I suppose any day is a weird day to record a podcast about Dastardly and Muttley.

This has just come up in conversation, the proof that the Hugh Wisdom who co-wrote the theme tune to Sorry! was a pseudonym for Norman Wisdom.

We love you: that’s why we’re here. My celebration of 40 years of A Very Peculiar Practice - with contributions from Peter Davison, Andrew Davies, Barbara Flynn and Davids Tucker and Troughton. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/71b8b80...

I've just turned the football on and if I was Roy Keane I'd steer clear of Bolsheviks.

Final plug for this episode. Many thanks to everyone who left a YouTube comment (even the bizarre ones). It really helped us massively. youtu.be/qjX_f7pmic0?...

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

Great thread. The old US network system was impatient and often brutal, but what's replaced it can be worse for the opposite reason. TV used to thrive on being immediate and reactive, and now everything takes much longer without making the end result better.

Late to the party but this is good stuff. Nice to see Death is a Good Living covered as it's a gem of a series, and thanks to Una I now know that Michael Powell directed episodes of Espionage which will encourage me to dig out the DVD set. Well worth a listen.

I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers. 🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 ⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

Kay Patrick was a lovely, kind, intelligent woman who managed to act in two Doctor Whos, direct nearly 300 Coronation Streets and write a book! She also generously gave me a couple of otherwise lost photos from The Savages we can now all enjoy thanks to her. So sad that she has died: RIP Kay ❤️

MARTY FELDMAN: One Pair Of Eyes pod.link/1569929507 In 1969 Marty visited a Margate fairground, a Punch & Judy show, a smoky jazz bar, a textile factory run by a radio ventriloquist, Eric Morecambe's doorstep and a railway station with Peter Sellers, all in his pursuit of the truth: What IS comedy?

If you enjoyed our video podcast about Beasts (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjX_...) then don't forget there's also a newsletter which goes into exhaustive detail about the ordering of the episodes with some ratings analysis thrown in for fun. www.patreon.com/posts/157540...