Tim F
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Teacher, writer. When I go, I'm going like Elsie.
George Michael died in 2016, not 17.
#bbcradio4
#frontrow
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All Starmer needs to do is to say he knew all along what a slimy, duplicitous, nonce-adjacent little shit Mandelson was, which is exactly why he was the best person to be ambassador to Trump's America.
about 24 hours ago
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Never thought I had much in common with Rupert Everett until I reached this sentence: "The butter-cutting cheekbones of old have gone." I feel ya, Rupe.
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‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett
‘Brash, disingenuous, lethal’: that’s how the 67-year-old actor describes his younger self. He lied to his partners, disrespected his audiences, betrayed his friends. Has this indiscreet, unreliable h...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/01/rupert-everett-interview-rivals-madfabulous
1 day ago
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That was an odd one. Wordle 1,808 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
1 day ago
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Having much fun on Facebook with people who complain about pronouns despite not being able to recognise a pronoun at five paces.
2 days ago
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Next week, the CEO of Waitrose has to tackle the climate crisis and the woman who runs that nice branch of Gail's in Notting Hill gets the Middle East.
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Former M&S chief appointed to tackle UK youth unemployment crisis
Key part of Marc Bolland’s government advisory role will be to help disabled or depressed young people find training or job
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/30/former-ms-chief-appointed-to-tackle-uk-youth-unemployment-crisis
2 days ago
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Happy Sunday. Wordle 1,807 2/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
2 days ago
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Vanilla Ice is still playing though. So that's good.
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Trump attacks artists dropping out of US Freedom 250 concert and mulls appearing himself
Performers Young MC, Poison frontman Bret Michaels and country singer Martina McBride raised concerns the event will be political.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy02j1n87wlo
3 days ago
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I have told some people on a Facebook group that Top Gun is rubbish and it's as if I punched their mums.
3 days ago
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I am reliably informed by my under-butler that it is no longer One-Nil To The Ars-e-nal.
3 days ago
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The best ever Morse, Masonic Mysteries, is now on ITV3.
3 days ago
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#totp
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Father Ted: Nuns! Reverse! Reverse!
ALT: Father Ted: Nuns! Reverse! Reverse!
https://static.klipy.com/ii/4e7bea9f7a3371424e6c16ebc93252fe/07/bc/8R2yH5TluDcafInPvQdf.gif?hh=396&ww=498&mp4=QpRcR6MPepmk49EyVGq&webm=b4Aztg8V2CeDovkhgcHq
4 days ago
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Always thought it odd that both guitarist brothers in UB40 played left-handed.
#totp
4 days ago
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Is that Myleene Klass on the end?
#totp
4 days ago
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My vision of hell is Gail Porter introducing Robbie Williams for eternity.
#totp
4 days ago
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I JUST SAW A JUST EATS RIDER STOP (or at least slow down on purpose) AT A ZEBRA CROSSING.
4 days ago
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Did anyone else know the novelist Lawrence Norfolk is the nephew of the artist Peter Blake?
#bbcradio4
5 days ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
5 days ago
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"Natasha makes plans for the future." Does it involve going a long way away?
#TheArchers
5 days ago
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I once fixed Boris Johnson's future mother-in-law's computer and she took me out to lunch as a thank-you.
add a skeleton here at some point
6 days ago
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That Tony Blair, eh? What's he like?
6 days ago
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I wrote something about a rather splendid teacher, who died at the weekend.
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About a teacher
I’ve been very lucky with teachers. Chris Brooks, who taught me about Blake and Dickens. Campbell MacKay, who taught me about Beckett and St...
https://culturalsnow.blogspot.com/2026/05/about-teacher.html
6 days ago
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Rose Ruane
7 days ago
I swear seeing my cats cook themselves into a sort of Dali flopped clock, weepingly ripe Brie puddle across impossible distances of carpet makes me feel ten times more stiflingly hot in my own baking body
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Thai police dressed as ‘hot girls’ to trap drug dealer and successfully execute undercover raid
The music was loud, the streets were crowded and a troupe of glamorous dancers swayed through the festival in sparkling outfits and heavy makeup. To most people in the crowd, they looked like part of ...
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/thai-police-dressed-as-hot-girls-to-trap-drug-dealer-and-successfully-execute-undercover-raid/articleshow/131323982.cms?fbclid=IwdGRjcASCb3pjbGNrBIJvRWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhLIW7D1SwoCSOnvIZC3h26yIeLN0s9ROyhkIWH4HmYlRVBoBMzUQ-vnw1MU_aem_kPmGenYwCLRJdMDOndFbAQ
7 days ago
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Hoping she hasn't said anything nasty about Carol Vorderman's bottom.
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Green party announce new candidate for Makerfield byelection
Sarah Wakefield, Manchester city councillor, to stand for party after initial candidate withdrew
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/26/green-party-announce-new-candidate-makerfield-byelection-sarah-wakefield
7 days ago
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Just helped someone on a Facebook group to identify a French movie she last saw as a child in the 70s. Not with AI (which coughed up a cartoon from 2012). By having seen it and remembering it.
7 days ago
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Just heard Nick Robinson describe Sonny Rollins as "the last jazz great of the 20th century" and I suspect Herbie Hancock will be wanting a word.
7 days ago
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If you think broadcast journalism might have lost its sparkle, go to the 1 hour 23 minutes spot and listen to Emma Barnet kicking the living shit out of the preposterous Danny "Dunning" Kruger of Reform. Contains swears.
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Today - 25/05/2026 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002wsxb
8 days ago
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What if the cheese melts? Can you get a prize for cheese spreading?
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Cheese rolling 2026: Racers preparing to take on Cooper's Hill near Gloucester
Competitors will be running down the hill on what is expected to be the hottest day of the year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c626nq7wx76t
8 days ago
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PEOPLE'S FRONT OF JUDAEA KLAXON!
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Elon Musk retweet signals rightwing split that could help Andy Burnham in Makerfield
Restore Britain, set up by the former Reform MP Rupert Lowe, appears to be taking some support from Nigel Farage
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/25/elon-musk-retweet-andy-burnham-makerfield-byelection-reform
8 days ago
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Today is the sort of day when I appreciate living in a draughty, abysmally insulated Victorian conversion. Remind me of this in January.
8 days ago
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Movie alert. The Small Back Room, one of Powell/Pressburger's less famous efforts (unjustifiably, IMHO) starting on TPTV now.
8 days ago
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Is there a single social, political, legal or economic problem that isn't blamed on Keir Starmer?
#bbcradio4
8 days ago
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When I was that age I would have *loathed* the whole idea of going to Disney World.
#the1%club
9 days ago
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Irons looked buggered. This is my contribution to football discussion for the day, probably the year.
9 days ago
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Just heard LL refer to Emily Watson as a "character actor". Does that mean "too old to play leads now"?
#desertislanddiscs
#bbcradio4
9 days ago
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"And why not tune into Any Answers?" I'm guessing this is intended as a rhetorical question.
#BBCRadio4
10 days ago
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This just in: man goes to theatre.
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King appears as surprise guest at sold-out Shakespeare play
The monarch sat with the audience to watch a performance of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Tempest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwp0pz72pxo
10 days ago
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The Dark Knight iteration is all very well, but did Nolan ever get his characters to go surfing?
10 days ago
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Tim F
Odd This Day
10 days ago
Today I learned that this exists and my flabber became somewhat gasted
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Sammy Davis, Jr - You Can Count On Me (Theme From Hawaii 5-0)
YouTube video by TOP401976
https://youtu.be/BnCEVOSarqw
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This morning, an 18-year-old Slovakian student suggested that the present post-literate age can be traced to the creation of Dada in 1916. Sometimes I bloody love my job.
12 days ago
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Instagram is trying to sell me ostomy panties.
12 days ago
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A weird one. Wordle 1,796 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
13 days ago
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The best thing that happened to Pompey all season.
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Southampton expelled from play-offs for spying on Middlesbrough, Oxford and Ipswich
Southampton have been thrown out of the play-offs after admitting they spied on three clubs during the Championship season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwy2pnpqjl7o
14 days ago
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A quick pre-work brew in my favourite coffee shop and uh, they're playing Starship ffs
14 days ago
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Twlldun
16 days ago
Guardian are running a list of the 100 best “is Britain now ungovernable” articles next weekend
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Janey 🏳️⚧️
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#DesertIslandDiscs
production team. ONLY PICK CASTAWAYS WHO LOVE MUSIC AND LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT. That is all. Doesn't even need to be great music. Gary is a prime example.
16 days ago
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I want to hang out in Gary O'Donoghue's bedroom drinking beer and playing old records. This is a rare compliment.
#DesertIslandDiscs
16 days ago
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I like the daft, slightly postmodern Curry's TV ads and I'm not sorry.
17 days ago
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