Another glorious programme from the BBC Archive team. This one from 1974. youtu.be/O-gt7QzUy5M?...

Listening to this as I whizz past where Havelock House used to be on the train. #ITV70 😐 youtu.be/MAHL9cV4a0w?...

“We are not going to be erased as the LGBTQ+ community […] I wanted to show my support as a gay business that is gay-owned and operated.” – Lane Blackwell www.advocate.com/news/florida...

A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: BBC2 from 22 September 1989 2124:30 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2877

A new service has been recovered by TandCsApply: Thames from 22 September 1989 0324:21 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2876

Worth a watch: a 1980 film from the BBC NI Archive on the punk band Ruefrex. (Look out for the scene with the mosh pit which has a lit Super Ser in the middle of the floor. 😨) Narrator is Jackie Flavelle. youtu.be/M4giMqoVVWE?...

HQ capture (3/3)

...a wonderful piece of BBC history lives again. This unit was last used on-air in 2012 for DSO! (2/3)

Pleased to say that despite a truly horrific leaky battery and stinky exploding RIFA caps... (1/3)

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

This is wonderful. Watch it on BBC iPlayer.

The Bangor railway line runs past the front doors of Belfast City Airport (less than 100m away) and - if this plan is taken forward - it may be possible to get trains to stop there by 2040.* You can't say this country lacks ambition. * the year, not twenty to nine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New watch face. Thanks to @nmsni.co.uk for extracting the background from the GNAT original hardware. 😎

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

The Bluesky Gaeilge feed has come alive again, it picks up content in Irish. So it can be a respite from the Anglo-madness out there. Is a good place to engage with the language on a daily basis. Remember there's a translate option in the ... dropdown, it's not a failure to use it, learn from it.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Letter in The Observer today. “I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

These are the stories I want from social media 👇

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

ICYMI, our UTV archive show is now available on the ITVx player. Watch it here! tinyurl.com/Sixties-NI-T...

We’re pleased to announce that Richard Marson’s long-awaited history of BBC Children’s TV will be published on November 17 in trade paperback and a collector’s hardback, limited to 300 copies. Order Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children’s Television now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

Breaking: Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does. "RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza." about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...

This is one of the best radio jingles of all time.

The current wait time to complain to Royal Mail about the quality of service in my area (1st class post takes between 3 and 10 days) is currently estimated at being 20 minutes.

I find the citing the Aberfan disaster in a nutcase conspiracy theory deliberately created for political purposes to be deeply offensive.

Comparing the Copernicus imagery of Lough Neagh between 2023 and 2025 shows how the blue-green algae situation has been even worse this year.

Correct. I’m glad we established this.

It's aign of the pressures causing long-term decline of butterflies if they are only at average levels after a hot summer like the one we've just had...

*Still* no news on series 2 of Albion Market.

Archive TV fans may want to know that The Biddy Baxter Story is being shown tonight at 10.30pm on BBC4. #BluePeter

Latest football scores continue to be available on Ceefax nmsceefax.co.uk

Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4

Mr Benn is on BBC Four now.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

And now it runs on a cheap watch.

Television Centre is on fire! Or has been. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62qr5ldppqo

Reason bank branches are closing number 57 of an occasional series. "Hi, my mum only has a current account with you but would like a savings account. If I bring her in would you be able to set up a savings account for her?" "No, sorry, accounts can only be opened online or on the phone."

The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube Beginning in January ‘26, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with 100s of episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, 1 episode at a time

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

You don’t say.

The Newry Pride flags were torn down again last night. Someone is afraid of catching the gay but I think it might be too late already. Find them. Check their hard drives. Absolutely pathetic. 🏳️‍🌈

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

It's Newry Pride this weekend and the town was looking great, all decked out. And then last night someone went through the whole town and tore them all down. Emboldened, fragile dicks. Dundalk Pride delivered 40 flags today so let's see what happens now. 🏳️‍🌈

TDs have promised to back more than a dozen Oireachtas broadcasting workers who do not get paid when the Dáil and Seanad are not sitting