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22 January 2011. Horrible Histories wins the 2010 British Comedy Award for Best Sketch Show. The first time a children's show had won a British Comedy Award.

"...it is still, at heart, a kids show, so if you're not really, really happy for us, that's the same as punching a baby!"

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Black Doves Fanvid - Edited by me,

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Glamour, April 1993.

Photographed by Douglas Keeve.

Model: Caroline Ellen.

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The man's so sexy it should be ILLEGAL!!!

[consultingskeletondetective]

yanno I'll just be going about my life and then randomly remember Cabin Pressure exists and it really chirps me up

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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Summary: Sinbad (John Phillip Law) and the Vizier of Marabia (Douglas Wilmer) must find the three pieces of a golden amulet they believe will lead them to the Fountain of Destiny before the evil magician Koura (Tom Baker) does.

Charm of Harryhausen's stop motion cannot overcome how terribly the film has aged, with “special” mention going to the racism.

Rating: 1.75/5

Photo credit: Into Film

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Aikatsu: The Stars of Legend-Birthdays, gems, and ages

Author's Note: Season 1 takes place from August 2022-December 2023, while Season 2 takes place from January 2024-August 2024. Season 3 will take place from September 2024 onwards.

Season 1:

Raki-December 7, 2005 (Blue Chalcedony; S1: 16 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Wakaba-September 3, 2004 (Pink Sapphire; S1: 17 years old; S2: 19 years old)

Radiance-April 23, 2005 (Yellow Diamond; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Clara-March 18, 2005 (Morganite; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Susie Sokolova-January 23, 2006 (Rose Quartz; S1: 16 years old; S2: 17 years old)

Alexandra J.-March 18, 2006 (Morganite; S1: 16 years old; S2: 17 years old)

Noelle-December 25, 2004 (Topaz; S1: 17 years old; S2: 19 years old)

Yvoria-July 16, 2005 (Ruby; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Ruthie-May 3, 2005 (Chrysoprase; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Rachel-May 3, 2005 (Chrysoprase; S1: 17 years old; S2: 18 years old)

Season 2:

Queen Alexandra-December 1, 1844 (Tanzanite; 179 years old)

Empress Maria Feodorovna-November 26, 1847 (Citrine; 176 years old)

Crown Princess Thyra-September 29, 1853 (Blackstar Sapphire; 170 years old)

Queen Wilhelmina-August 31, 1880 (Gray Spinel; 143 years old)

King Charles XIII-October 7, 1748 (Rubellite; 275 years old)

King Charles XIV John-January 26, 1763 (Garnet; 260 years old)

King George IV-August 12, 1762 (Peridot; 261 years old)

Prince Edward-November 2, 1767 (Citrine; 256 years old)

Princess Victoria-August 17, 1786 (Gray Spinel; 237 years old)

Rosetta-March 27, 2007 (Morganite; 17 years old)

Theodora-September 18, 2005 (Iolite; 18 years old)

Season 3:

Marcella-February 19, 2005 (Amethyst; 19 years old)

Grand Duchess Charlotte-January 23, 1896 (Rose Quartz; 128 years old)

Grand Duchess Xenia-April 6, 1875 (Yellow Diamond; 149 years old)

Princess Alice-December 25, 1901 (Topaz; 123 years old)

Queen Desideria-November 8, 1777 (Gray Quartz; 247 years old)

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W A T C H I N G

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PODCAST: JOHN LLOYD

Whatever happened to funny ads? Have clients buying them? Or have agencies stopped writing them? They used to dominate the ad breaks. Humour was the first tool you reached for after being handed a brief. Why? Well, as that Poppins women says ‘A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down’. Actually…did they dominate ad breaks? Maybe I’ve slipped on my rose-tinted specs again? I reach for an old…

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Tremors: Shrieker Island

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di cambiare momentaneamente argomento e passare al mondo dei fumetti, continuando con la saga fantasy italiana che ormai conoscete bene, Kalya e per la precisione il volume 10. Dopo essere usciti dalla città gjaldest, Kalya e il suo gruppo continuano il loro viaggio ma Aridan è ferito e le sue condizioni si stanno…

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Rezension: Simone Kabst liest einen Gemeinschaftsroman - Vierzehn Tage

Simone Kabst liest einen Gemeinschaftsroman der Herausgeber Margaret Atwood und Douglas Preston Mord kennt kein Alter von 36 Autoren Rezension © 2024 by Ute Spangenmacher für BookOla.de 2024 Hörbuch Hamburg Sprecherin: Simone Kabst ungekürzte Lesung Laufzeit: 929 Minuten Multimedia CD ISBN: 978-3-8449-2944-7 Erscheinungstermin: 15.02.2024 bestellen bei Amazon   Continue reading Rezension:…

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List of free audiobooks on YouTube for anyone interested

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Alice in Wonderland

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H P Lovecraft

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Village by Caroline Mitchell

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (fuck JKR)

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Upside Down by Danielle Steel

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Theif

Accidentally Married by Victoria E. Lieske

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Collector (book one) by Nora Roberts

The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

Dead Man’s Mirror by Agatha Christie

The Hobbit

The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey

The Good Neighbour by R J Parker

The Island House by Elana Johnson

Desperation by Stephan King

The Healing Summer by Heather B. Moore

The Last Affair by Margot Hunt

To Be Claimed by Willow Winter

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Inn by James Patterson

Wonder by R J Palacio

Faking It With The Billionaire by Willow Fox

The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum

The Catcher in the Rye

The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark

Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean

Death of a Nurse by M C Beaton

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Frozen Betrayal by Clive Cussler

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Line of Fire by R J Patterson

Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen

The Remnant by Tim LaHaye

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

Payment in Kind by J A Jance

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Marriage of Anything but Convenience by Victorine E. Lieske

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Inheritance Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The Kama Sutra by Mallanaga Vatsyayana

The Wisdom of Father Brown by G K Chesterton

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robin Hood by J Walker McSpadden

The Poor Traveller by Charles Dickens

Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Atomic Habits by James Clear

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Man After Man

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Charlotte’s Web

Midsummer Mysteries by Agatha Christie

Out of Silent Planet by C S Lewis

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harai

Hamlet by Shakespeare

[justforbooks]

Johnnie Walker

Former pirate radio disc jockey who went to Radio 1 and later became a stalwart of Radio 2

Johnnie Walker, who has died aged 79, began his career as a disc jockey in the offshore pirate radio era of the mid-1960s. He was one of four pirate DJs – the others were John Peel, Tony Blackburn and Kenny Everett – who came to symbolise that time and continued to prosper in its aftermath.

The pirate radio stations, of which the most famous was Radio Caroline, were set up on ships and disused forts in the North Sea, avoiding British regulation by broadcasting from international waters and providing pop music to a British teen market not catered for by the BBC stations of the era.

Their DJs offered a fantasy version of adolescence from clued-up older-brother substitutes who, in the case of Peel, Blackburn and Walker, were former public schoolboys. Within this dreamscape Walker’s persona was that of the smooth-talking kid who got the girl. His theme tune was Duane Eddy’s 1960 American hit Because They’re Young, which more than 40 years later was still being reworked into the intro to Walker’s Radio 2 drivetime slot.

The pirates went on air in the dying months of Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s Conservative government, and Harold Wilson’s succeeding Labour administration devoted an extraordinary amount of energy to suppressing this sound of youth. The Marine Offences Act of 1967 brought an end to prosecution-free pirate radio on 14 August, but Walker could still be heard proclaiming the cause of freedom and the unreasonableness of adults from Radio Caroline the next day.

Peel, Everett and Blackburn were among the DJs who abandoned the rusting boats off the coast for a comfortable billet at BBC Broadcasting House in Langham Place, London, where Radio 1 was launched that September to meet the demand that the pirate stations had identified. The illegal broadcasting had confirmed Walker’s place in teenage affections, but by the spring of 1968 Caroline too had buckled under the pressure to stop broadcasting, and a year later Walker decamped to Radio 1, taking over its lunchtime slot.

Walker was born Peter Dingley in Hampton-in-Arden near Birmingham, the fourth of five children of Trevor Dingley, a salesman for W Canning & Co, an electroplating company, and his wife, Mary (nee Waters). At Solihull school, Peter failed his O-levels because, he claimed, he did not want a piece of paper to determine his path in life. So, at 16, he became a car salesman while moonlighting as a dance hall DJ under the name “Peter Dee”.

In May 1966 he joined Swinging Radio England, on a ship off the coast of Essex, and changed his name to Johnnie Walker. A couple of months later he switched to Radio Caroline, the first, and the most fashionable, of the pirates.

Walker was a radio natural, laconic but warm, and somebody who clearly cared about the music he was playing. His taste was for the adult oriented rock that dominated the pre-punk 1970s – or at least its album charts – bands such as Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan and Steve Harley’s Cockney Rebel.

At BBC Radio 1, this brought him into conflict with a management that had become enamoured with Top 20-dominated playlists. The Bay City Rollers, in those ancient times the teenybopper rage, were, Walker suggested, “musical garbage”. He told callers put out by his views to “take a running jump”. Thus, by 1976 he had quit the station to seek his fortune in California.

He did not really find it, and after spells with the stations KSAN in San Francisco and WHFS in Bethesda, Maryland, he returned to Britain in the early 1980s. He worked for local commercial stations until 1987, when he rejoined Radio 1. He then went to the BBC’s Greater London Radio from 1988 until 1990, when he was sacked for suggesting that the ousting of the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, would have people “dancing in the streets”.

Despite that setback, his career in the 1990s, with Radio 1, LBC and Classic Gold was a success. In 1998 he joined Radio 2, which by then was playing the very same music he had been promoting three decades earlier when it was young and supposedly fresh.

In 1999 the progress of his revitalised career was disrupted when he became the subject of a classic News of the World undercover sting. Walker was videoed taking cocaine and offering to provide the “tycoons” – NoW reporters – with the services of sex workers. He was suspended by the BBC, went into drug rehabilitation and after being fined £2,000 for possession of cocaine was reinstated at Radio 2. The NoW’s work had made it difficult, the magistrate observed, for him to receive a fair trial.

In 2003 Walker took absence from his show for cancer treatment, from which he made a good recovery. In 2009 he began presenting the show that would define his later career, Sounds of the 70s.

He was appointed MBE in 2006, and in 2013 he received the gold badge of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. His eponymous autobiography was published in 2007. In 2008-09 he was an adviser to the Richard Curtis film The Boat That Rocked, an attempt to recapture the pirate radio era.

Walker announced in early October that he was retiring from radio after 58 years, having been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and presented his final Sounds of the 70s show at the end of that month.

He is survived by his second wife, Tiggy (nee Jarvis), whom he married in 2003, and by the son and daughter of his first marriage, to Frances Kum, which ended in divorce.

🔔 Johnnie Walker (Peter Waters Dingley), radio presenter, born 30 March 1945; died 31 December 2024

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Xenia: When will Ted himself…finally show up to the talk?

Alexandra: The final boss.

Alice: You guys know TEDtalks stands for technology, entertainment, and design talks, right?

Xenia: I will not let Ted hide behind these lies any longer!