So, wracked with pain, terrified of oblivion or raddled with dementia?

Can anyone recommend a radio station that just plays a well-curated cross-section of classical music with minimal announcements & without pally presenters, self-aggrandising promos, news bulletins, ads for TV shows, e-mail-in listener participation contests &c? Basically, a pre-1990s Radio 3.

I’m doing Frome FM’s Live Vinyl Hour at 6pm. You have been warned. @fromefm.bsky.social 96.6FM in the Frome area or online at www.frome.fm

In memoriam HST, who could forget it passing the cooling towers of Didcot power station?

Particularly looking forward to the Gershom Parkington Quintet playing a selection of Bygone Melodies.

Frome FM @fromefm.bsky.social is festive nostalgia central this xmas, with repeats of the semi-legendary (just ask AI) Cast-Off Corner Xmas Special from Dec 2009 at 4pm today and 1pm tomorrow … www.frome.fm … Still on Mixcloud, too … www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/cast...

Budget cuts call for diversification in the police service.

Lest we forget

It’s suddenly gone a bit Python here.

And so it begins …

1/2 How AI is improving our lives, an occasional series. A while back I downloaded a spreadsheet of my record collection to my phone, so if I was in a shop with no signal, I could check to see if I already had something before I bought it again. Today that happened.

Revisiting my first crush from 1971 … Mary, I hasten to add, not Mungo or Midge.

The recent death of John Woodvine reminded me of the best TV cop show there never was.

I sometimes think DI Fred Pyle has been moved to HWDC Langley and goes through spells where he thinks it is ‘my turn’. I’d better leave him a wad of notes in a toilet cistern.

My @fromefm.bsky.social show from last night. Beefheart, Zappa, Geesin… everything you need to soundtrack your Friday work day. Show sponsored by @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/319-...

Now all I have to do is learn Spanish and the mysteries of Slim John will finally be revealed to me!

The Space Folk Horror Lounge Railway 200 special has arrived at Mixcloud Central where this service terminates. www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/54-s...

Tonight at 9pm on @fromefm, the Space Folk Horror Lounge celebrates Railway 200 - and in the true spirit of British railways, it’s two months late. www.frome.fm

Back in the day, no-one used to say ‘back in the day’.

I don’t understand why Jesus Christ would want to save anyone from the mastery of appetite.

In the days when it was still funny to set up a ‘bell’/‘hell’ rhyme then not say the shocking word ‘hell’ after all, Jon Pertwee seems to have defied convention and at about 1:15 has replaced ‘hell’ with ‘fuck’ youtu.be/_9J_ePDNkqs?...

A double CD set comprising 81 minute’s silences recorded on Armistice Days between 1929 and 2000 …

Tom Rickey asked me to bring along some of my fave records for his @fromefm.bsky.social show Mixed Bag last week - so I did! Ha ha, that’ll learn him 😁 … www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/15-m...

I thought the ‘nut brown maid’ referred to a woman tanned and wizened by working in the sun, until my wife started hulling fresh walnuts before knowing that they have a semi-permanent stain.

Rebuilding Avebury stone circle, 1937 historicengland.org.uk/images-books...

That aged well.

Tony Hart was born 100 years ago today.

The Caunter has gone 😥

My sole brush with screenwriting immortality was in 1986 when me & my mate Mark wrote a sketch for a BBC kids’ TV show called Fast Forward. Watched the show today. It is irredeemably awful. This is our sketch. They changed the end. We thought ours was better. youtu.be/Al3zZboqFkA?...

Followers of @fromefm.bsky.social’s Space Folk Horror Lounge … could the mystery of Slim John finally be solved … ? I found the book!

Morning

Went to this place and amazingly found something to buy.

In recognition of a hard-working toilet.

As has been the case with every holiday I’ve been on since I was about 7, I’ve spent all my pocket money on the first day & have to spend the rest of the week going round boring free attractions.

Bunk Johnson’s Original Superior Band … so, if they were the original, what were they superior to? And it suggests there were non-original Superior Bands, is the implication that they were inferior?

My cold has reached the ‘Roger Moore Voice’ stage.

Funny how it’s always the shitty science fiction things that come true rather than the utopian dreams

Funny how the cast of Fame never went on to have much fame. I’d avoid that particular performing arts academy if I wanted to get on.