"This is simple entertainment with no intellectual pretensions: we’re not talking Schindler’s List or Citizen Kane."
Movie director Gerald Thomas was born 105 years ago today. Is his final film, Carry On Columbus, as bad as its reputation suggests?
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You will be visited by three spirits.

Tonight on BBC iPlayer, DOCTOR WHO 'The Two Doctors' (1985).

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Happy 65th to the best loved street in the nation

Here's the blog post that prompted this discussion. I'm prepping a follow up with more recommendations.

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"Call My Bluff is a model of understated entertainment and - God forbid in the present day - maturity."
@benfinlay74.bsky.social on the delights to be found over on BBC Four.
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"Nothing fancy, just some nicely chilled Blue Nun and a few vol-au-vents..."

@alwynturner.bsky.social on the world of LIFE ON MARS.

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Released OTD in 1966, the debut album by Cream, 'Fresh Cream'. Read about my top ten British Blues albums of the 1960s here:
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@lionunicorn.bsky.social #musicsky #blues

Tonight on BBC iPlayer, ONE FOOT IN THE ALGARVE (1993).

This is feature-length Warboys! And as @hellothisisivan.bsky.social has rightly observed, she's one of the greatest ever TV characters. Her mere presence in a scene catalyses a build-up of comic potential.

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From the Sunday Times's guide to the paperbacks of the year.

"That’s the paradox at the heart of BBC Archive’s appeal: we are nostalgic for the pre-digital world, yet only the digital world can give it back to us."
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"We don’t write to order – just stuff that interests us. And when we get bored, we stop. The internet was made for man, not man for the internet"

To mark Lion & Unicorn's ✨️10th anniversary✨️, a celebration of our wonderful writers (& of Britain).👇
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