Been a very strange week, started off chilled and relaxed in the wilds of Donegal, then an unexpected dash back home, followed by waiting and sitting with family and friends, then this morning saying goodbye to my Mother In Law. Elaine, you will be so missed and I'll raise a glass to you tonight.

Brand new on Dirty Feed: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fawlty Towers, here's a look at all the various parodies of the show over the years. "Yes madam, I am frightfully tall." www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/herr...

got bored. made the test card clown

Jesus Christ.

@transdiffusion.org Arrived home last night to find this waiting 😀. Won't mention the fridge magnets...will wait to see how long it is before Mrs B spots them.

Pleasure to be interviewed by RadioINFO in Australia Although I think I’m rude about almost every radio group in here so I guess that’s lessened my job opportunities… radioinfo.com.au/news/the-iss...

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: BBC1 from 14 September 1989 1624:40 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2861

A new service has been recovered by TandCsApply: Channel Four from 11 September 1988 1524:10 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2855

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Thames from 10 September 1990 2324:22 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2853

I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going. Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Thank you.

I sometimes wake in the night with what I believe at the time to be a great character name for the book I’ll never write. Often Spoonerisms. I have no idea why this happens. Last night - Claude Poncrete, Brutalist Architecture Enthusiast.

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Channel Four from 09 September 1988 2224:30 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2850

Brand new on Dirty Feed: today is the 50th anniversary of the studio recording of Fawlty Towers, "Gourmet Night". That episode's famous ending is pictured here. But it wasn't the originally intended finale. Instead, things were going to get rather more peculiar... www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Channel Four from 05 September 1988 2324:59 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2847

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Yorkshire from 05 September 1988 2324:59 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2846

As my radio show highlighting music from children's television that was actually released as music in its own right seemed to go down so well, here it is again complete with 'sleevenotes'. Bagpuss, Clangers, The Banana Splits, Thunderbirds, Stingray and more! timworthington.org/2025/04/23/t...

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: STV from 03 September 1989 2324:59 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2844

A new service has been recovered by John Aspinall: Granada from 02 January 1988 1024:21 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2843

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Channel Four from 02 January 1988 1024:10 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2842

Roku Is adding ‘live tv’. Well well well. “Rather than hunting through individual apps to find live content, you get a proper TV guide-style interface showing what’s currently playing across all available channels.” www.cordbusters.co.uk/roku-launchi...

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: BBC1 from 01 January 1988 0024:00 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2841

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Grampian from 01 January 1988 1924:00 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2840

22 August 1941 | Hungarian Jewish girl Beáta Donner was born. In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

From autumn 1983, listen here to Dublin's country music station Treble TR on a Saturday night. Christine is on the air with a mix of Irish and American country and plenty of listeners' requests. #pirate #radio pirate.ie/archive/satu...

Following the Auschwitz Memorial reminds me every day that the people they murdered were not nameless or faceless. They were individuals and a lot of them were babies.

I'm sitting under an apple tree which has been here since before WW1. It's sister tree fell over last summer, though it's roots have sprouted new shoots. I do wonder will it be around in 2145. Who knows.

How would this even work? “Good news, team. Someone in Basingstoke has deleted 50gigs of photos. We can shut down a server.” ???

You can watch the full 47-minute 2010 interview with Biddy Baxter talking about her life and TV career - complete with transcript - here at the 'Connected Histories of the BBC' site created at @sussex.ac.uk connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org/play/?id=418

One of Rediffusion London’s few efforts at actually serving London.

Didn't need a jingle but I added one anyway because I'm feeling nice today

It's here! Our 180-page book all about ITV children's programmes (£10) or the book with the Plus Pack of ITV ephemera facsimiles (£20)! Buy now, get it delivered in SEPTEMBER.

15 July 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Jeannette Rotbaum, was born in Paris. In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Airchecks over on Twitter has postage the Live aid jingles you can see them here: #liveaid #liveaidat40 www.aircheckdownloads.com/jingles/radi...

I feel seen! One of the very best #OorWullie panels I've ever read - bravo!

OTD 1985 we sat inside all day with the curtains closed watching TV and listening to the global stereo simulcast on FM radio 📺 📻 #LiveAid40 #LiveAid

OOO on.

Wicklow Community Radio began as a temporary summer station in 1982 but due to its success continued on a full-time basis. Under various guises, Co. #Wicklow continued to have its local #pirate station until 1988. pirate.ie/archive/sund...

A new service has been recovered by TesTVWhirl: BBC2 from 24 August 1987 2224:14 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2774

The first edition of The Kenny Everett Video Show was broadcast on this day in 1978.

'Five Go On TV'. The Daily Mirror reports the launch of the Famous Five (3rd July 1978).

This is absolutely the plan. Make it "indispensable", then ratchet up the costs. It's so obvious, it hurts.

It's a Leo Sayer/Ron Grainer kind of evening here......

I suppose there are some advantages to this climate - 'tis Raspberry time 😀

Food for thought. www.spreekbuis.nl/patrick-kick...

This morning in 1916 after days of monumental artillery bombardment on the Somme, British and allied troops were going over the top. Well over 100,000 men attacked. It would be the bloodiest day in the history of the British army.

I *may* need to bring this back.

A new service has been recovered by DFF_Text: DDR1 (DFF) from 31 December 1989 2124:00 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/874

From our series about early #pirate #radio in #Cork, listen here to the first full day on Radio City from 1980. pirate.ie/archive/earl...