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Small, hairy ex-library assistant

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Triceratops chasing a golf ball about the spaceship, isn't there? Or did I just dream that after a cheese supper?

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Animated Ben Hur, featuring "The Voice Talents of Charlton Heston". also stars Long John Baldry as Balthazar, apparently. There are more things in heaven and earth, etc etc

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I'm reading Darkfever, which was a NYT bestseller but never took off in the UK. It's set in Dublin. It is quite clear why it would not be popular here; fuck ME. (It is also extremely bad generally on top of extremely offensive)

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Something I forgot to mention about this - the flowers signify the studio is in use for a secular broadcast. If it was religious programming, that white arch had a cross projected onto it.

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If you think I'm about to startle you with a thing you'd long forgotten, you're absolutely right - I once startled you in a pub by suddenly chanting "Keeeeny Dalgliiiish" at you.

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Some photographs you keep coming back to. They live in your head and you have to revisit them every now and then. Like this one, of Mark Twain playing with a vacuum lamp while Nikola Tesla watches in the background.

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It's the way the bassline starts to clamber on the choruses. Doesn't do it on the first one. Or the second. Fairly straightforward, ascending behind the vocal. On the third chorus, it starts to *dance*.

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I wonder what they made of it all. I do actually love that one of Jack Train. Another one of those people who looks like he sounds, if you know what I mean...

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3B and 3D, two of the three Talks studios, and the Talks waiting room lounge. Never did I imagine they broadcast from rooms like this. Washington on the wall, curtains, the whole bit.

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6D and 6E, effects and grams. Is that an actual bass drum mounted on the wall of the studio? I think it might be.

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Studio 6D - Main Effects. I think this might be my favourite, because of that table at the front. Six different surfaces, "to enable various effects to be produced by friction"

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Studio 8B - Debates and Discussions. Somehow, this looks exactly like I expected it to.

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New reaction shot to Naomi Wolf posts just landed

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The Dramatic Control Panel. Never was a piece of equipment more accurately named.

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Studio 3E, used for religious services, 1932

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Got lost in a couple of old BBC publications - "Broadcasting House" from 1932, and a Picture Book from 1950, both of which are catnip for the likes of me. Something fascinating on every page, pretty much. For a start - Dimbleby Senior in pensive mode.

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I'd live in the library there, if they'd only let me. Feels like home.

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Odd, isn't it? I always keep an eye out for you or Robert when I'm out and about...

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He ran a pub on the Isle of Dogs, didn't he? The Waterman's Arms, I think. I was always rather fond of a good Dan Farson documentary. Such an engaging host.

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Feels absolutely spot on to bracket this with the Cohen documentary, because it feels like another window into a vanished world. The two work so well together, don't they?

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The James Cameron one ("Temporary Person Passing Through") is extraordinary, as is the Georgia Brown one about cockneys. Just astonishing television.

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Best one's definitely Ravensbourne. That's a full Colin Cant children's drama with a moody title sequence. Young girl sent off to board out of season discovers ancient and mysterious powers gathering which only she can defeat. Crow's wings flapping in slow motion in the titles.

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Amused by how many stations on my Tuesday journey sound like old BBC shows. Nunhead's definitely an 80s techno-thriller starring Denis Lawson. Crofton Park - goings on above and below stairs in a country mansion. Eileen Atkins probably wrote it. Shortlands - public school antics with Jimmy Edwards.

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I've a funny feeling Stipe was on the cover of that particular issue. He was definitely on at least one of the ones I was working through today.

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Right on the verge of everything changing. It hasn't happened yet, but you can see the shadows dancing on the horizon. Within months, it's ALL going to erupt. Remarkable.

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Today's discovery - Q magazine giving it the full Judith Hann in a 1999 issue. "You've been unable to play your mp3s away from your computer - until now. Now, you can take almost a full hour with you by copying onto the Rio portable player's 64mb memory..."

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Picked up a copy of the "All The Presidents Men" Special Edition over the weekend. The documentaries are really quite something. Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee and colleagues in 2005 darkly warning of danger ahead. I don't think they could have had any idea how dark it was going to get.

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Two series of 6 episodes each, all remade from the first couple of series. If you do Audible, you can get both bundled up for one credit, and I recommend 'em very highly!

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May I recommend (if you haven't heard them) the radio remakes of the earlier (predominantly lost) episodes? If you're hankering after the feel of those years they might be the thing. David Calder as George. Charlie Brooks as Mary and for the first series, that Tennant feller as Andy. They're ace.

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Like the thing that covers a car engine. That's how Tommy used to pronounce it and if it's good enough for Thomas "T.V" Vance, it's good enough for the likes of us.

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Documentary on this has just startled me by pointing that George Raft kept on turning down the roles that Bogart later made his own - High Sierra, Falcon, All Through The Night and (possibly) Casablanca.

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Watching "The Maltese Falcon". One of those films where everywhere you look there's somebody doing something brilliant - Lorre, Astor, Greenstreet, but none more so than Bogart. Bloody hell, when he smiles (which he doesn't do that often) it's like a flashbulb going off. What an amazing film.

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Well, if the news coming out of France proves to be accurate it's going to set the tin hat on a few days that have left me feeling that we might - just might - be alright after all. I continue to hope.

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"What's the best episode of television you've ever watched?" THIS. "The Signalman" is my single favourite bit of television. "Quatermass and the Pit" is my favourite serial. This is my favourite episode of any series, ever.

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This "One Pair of Eyes" repeat just reminding me once again of my desperate need for BBC4 to repeat what's left of it. Just one, every week. Late on Saturday night. It'd be amazing. Aye, and I can probably expect my long cherished documentary about Timothy Birdsall at more or less the same time.

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Wouldn't dream of it. You'll remember.

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He takes brilliant concepts and leaves them slightly worse. But his fans insist they're now BETTER.

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I thoroughly enjoyed it too. Sam Rockwell's brilliant, there are some ridiculously silly moments, lots of fun set pieces, lots of great people thoroughly enjoying themselves. Some of the CGI's unfortunate but it's not unique in that. I had a great time with it.

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Digging through one of my DVD folders, and stumbled across my copy of the South Park film. Not only is it a *flipper*, but one side of it features the film formatted for 16:9 screens; the other for 4:3. Feels like a relic from The Old Time, frankly.

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This is not the first time this exchange has taken place...

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The relationship in this house in a nutshell ME (singing the theme to "Little Blue" in the kichen) Playing in his bath as most of us do / he took his mummy's fountain pen and broke it in two / The ink it squirted in the water, wow! His mummy's got a blue boy now HER That Elephant's a DICK!!!

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- Would you pay me a pound for every grain of sand in my hand? Ah, well, that saves you some. Well, would you do it? -No. Of course not. -Ah, well that's a pity. You missed out on a good bargain, for I can only hold about ten thousand grains of sand in my hands. Did you think it would be more?

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People often ask me - "have you got that picture of Cary Grant in uniform with a puppy poking out of the pocket?" Yes, they do. They rush up to me in the streets, it's true. Well, yes. Yes, I do. And here it is.

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Well, everyone. Since we've all had a hell of a few years, and things have shifted a bit in the last 24 hours - I think we deserve a treat. Time for the kitten seen from underneath photo? Oh, I think so. We've all been very good. We deserve it.

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The last fourteen years have battered us all so much - I don't think I quite realised how much. Even the slightest possibility that there might be some appointments made on the basis of knowledge and ability... well, it's so bloody refreshing.

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