This Christmas on #TPTV Channel Premiere! Classic Spy-Fiction Series begins Sunday 28th December at 4pm! THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (1964) #TPTVsubtitles Stars #DavidMcCallum #RobertVaughn

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The incongruity between price and quality (and also quantity) is quite something on this pub beer list.

The Christmas card from the Prince has arrived.

Robin Smith, bless him, judging a pack of racists needed to be silenced, from Derek Pringle’s obituary for the great England & Hampshire batsman. In an era when England struggled to win Tests, let alone Series, Smith was a fabulous player of frequently frighteningly fast bowling. I adored him.

Behold, a massive career survey of unabashed schlock master Irwin Allen, with hundreds of pictures and a forward by Billy Mumy of Lost in Space. mzs.press/The-Fantasy-...

We have a special award for this evening, to honour the work of Martyn Cornell (@thezythophile.bsky.social) as his contribution to beer writing throughout his life. We present Martyn’s Lifetime Achievement Award to his brother, Dave Cornell.

I get asked quite often if it's possible to get my book about Children Of The Stones and all of ITV's other spooky fantasy-based seventies children's serials from the long-deleted DVD release from anywhere? Well, it's now available here... www.patreon.com/posts/comple...

My latest reviews for Drinks Retailing.

Lovely film that highlights the value the BBC gives us. Early exposure for a young Ian Hislop too.

The BBC is a public service broadcaster - news, drama, music, documentary and at its heart, be it for children or adults, education. It's World Service reaches around the world and in a fragmenting world it must survive, writes Stephen MacNair.

Exactly 75 years ago today, BBC Television began regular broadcasting at Saturday teatimes with the very first episode of Whirligig, one of its first well-known, long-running children’s shows. To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website. But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)

West Coast music your thing? #Mastermind tonight has a round on the Laurel Canyon scene in the '60s and '70s set by me.

It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...

Another classy offering from N Ireland’s #ourbrewery, this time an 8.5%, bottle-conditioned saison. Tart, refreshing and keeps you interested.

Those UK journalists backing Trump - a man who endorses the murder of a journalist because he’s ‘controversial’ - against the BBC need to see if they can find their moral compass

Good to see @peterprinsleymp.bsky.social support #BBC "It is striking that those most eager to discredit it on social media often present themselves as patriots. In truth, few actions are less patriotic than undermining an institution that contributes so profoundly to Britain’s identity."

Hooray! Just learned @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is to air The Man From U.N.C.L.E. series!

The WAC campaign to date More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Sad to hear this. A pioneer for American craft brewers in the UK and the beers were great, too.

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

The 1967 billboard for Love's Forever Changes album in West Hollywood. The original album art was by Bob Pepper.

The Thornbridge/Theakston, bottle-conditioned, 'from the Union' take on Masham Ale is a joy. Traditional English strong* ale at its best. * 6.5%, for readers from other countries.

The whole of the quite frankly amazing Public Service Broadcasting performance at 2022’s BBC Proms is up at YouTube and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Do I love PSB? I darn well do. And the entire show -orchestra, choir, horn section, film, light show - is nothing other than remarkable. Go see.

So much of what I’ve done has been because various archives let in a curious independent weirdo like me. What little research I did at the BBC Archives (some of it in this latest episode) was incredibly valuable/fascinating. To think that I would now be shut out is absurd.

"Z Victor 1 - Tomorrow rare, early black and white episodes of 🚓 Z-CARS begin on #TalkingPicturesTV channel." 🚓 Beginning Friday 14th November 8pm #TPTVsubtitles

If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The BBC is now in a fight for its life. It enemies will be happy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

Number of pubs stocking draught Bass passes 1,000 as AB Inbev's sales drive takes hold. So distribution has nearly trebled from a couple of years ago. Latest directory of stockists: nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

The WAC is a hugely important resource for historians (I've made extensive use of it on multiple projects) and these hugely significant changes are an effective bar on access.

Bar towel of the day.

He appeared on all of the band's releases from 1977's "Packet of Three" EP through 1991's "Play": ultimateclassicrock.com/squeeze-gils...

Just watched Back to the Future at the cinema again. Tremendous.

spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide

You regular reminder that Lulu's Youtube channel is a television archive that puts the BFI to shame. From about 1975 she's been taping all her own TV appearances (or getting them to run off tapes for her archive). Happy birthday Lulu! youtu.be/BJmJH3tQlMQ?...

🎵 #VinceTaylor performs 'A Whole Lotta Twistin' at 6:30am for CINEBOX MEMORIES on #TPTV

#Roxy fans. Tune into #Mastermind tonight. I set the questions.

The sheer grifting determination of these ghouls knows no bounds. Even as we hear the man charged is a British national who lives in Peterborough with police suggesting no obvious terror link, they cling desperately to the idea this is somehow linked to immigration. Shameless stuff.

On this day in 1936: The start of the BBC’s regular TV service from Alexandra Palace. See programme archive, oral history interviews - and some amazing images from those pioneering days:

Bar towel of the day.

Historic riverside pub reopens in time for Halloween #Oxon #Oxfordshire 🔗: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/...

FAO publicans who love cask ale: Joule's is looking for someone to operate The Coopers Tavern in Burton-upon-Trent. They emailed us to ask if we'd share this because, we gather, they really want someone who will be excited to run this particular pub. www.joulesbrewery.co.uk/vacancy/coop...

I think it's appalling that Britain's most enduringly popular family don't pay income tax or VAT, but it's hard to deny how much joy they bring to the general public. That chandelier gag alone...

Still nothing on the BBC website as far as I can see.

Please read this and help us defend public access to this remarkable resource. It's a place I know and love, somewhere where the people and the materials have been of boundless assistance to my work (and my passion) for more than 30 years.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #pubs #savepubs

A sadly ironic end to the history of Ringwood Brewery that played a key role in the small brewers' revolution

Celia Imrie farting makes the BBC News homepage. This is where we are.