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Fun At One: My Top Ten Radio 1 Comedy Rarities
To tie in with Fun At One, here are ten little-heard comedy obscurities from Radio 1's archives, featuring a few names you might recognise...The Chris Morris Christmas Show (1990)Little-heard debut...
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Fun At One: Bits And Pieces - Some Small Snippets Of Radio 1 Comedy You Might...
To tie in with Fun At One, and following on from the collection of rarely heard shows, here's a handful of shorter and equally elusive clips of Radio 1 comedy...Peter Cook and Dudley Moore chat to...
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Fun At One - The Story Behind The Book
Below you'll find a two-part interview about Fun At One with my good pal Ben Baker (check out his personal site here), covering how I got the idea for the book and how I researched and wrote it. Along...
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Fun At One - The Shows I Couldn't Find...
If you've been reading the past couple of posts, or if you've been reading Fun At One, you'll know that there's a lot of fascinating stuff in Radio 1's Comedy Back Catalogue. A lot of it was available...
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Fun At One - "If There Is Any News Of The Death Of Michael Heseltine..."
An extract from Fun At One taking a look at a certain notorious incident from the Summer of 1994...During an interview given at the start of the series, Morris had suggested that practicalities of the...
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Not On Your Telly - Excursions Into The Dustier Corners Of The TV Archives
Not On Your Telly is a book collecting some of my articles on the archive TV that we never get to see, with reports from the dustier corners of the archives on the fondly-remembered and little...
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Not On Your Telly: A Guide To Halliwell's Film Guide
To tie in with Not On Your Telly, here's a podcast in which I cast a less than impressed eye over the very same copy of Halliwell's Film Guide that gets castigated in the opening article about the...
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Not On Your Telly: Dylan In The Madhouse
One of the major features in Not On Your Telly is a look at Madhouse On Castle Street, the long-lost 1963 BBC television play starring Bob Dylan. This feature developed out of a review I originally...
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Not On Your Telly: Slip Inside This House
Not On Your Telly includes an in-depth feature on the long-running BBC children's show Play School. To accompany it, here's a previously unpublished piece looking at the various Play School and Play...
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Not On Your Telly - Daleks: Invasion Radio 1966 A.D.
Not On Your Telly includes an article about the first ever full-length Doctor Who-related radio show from 1966. Here's an extract from it...With all of the excitement about the recent recovery of...
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Not On Your Telly - Unwatched And Somewhat Slightly Erased
There are quite a few Doctor Who features in Not On Your Telly, including one in which I set myself the rather self-punishing challenge of writing a halfway decent article about the one story that...
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The TV That Time Forgot: Rubovia
Not On Your Telly includes The TV That Time Forgot, a series of articles looking at my top ten examples of TV shows that were highly popular in their day but are all but forgotten now. At number three,...
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The TV That Time Forgot: Skiboy
Not On Your Telly includes The TV That Time Forgot, a series of articles looking at my top ten examples of TV shows that were highly popular in their day but are all but forgotten now. At number two...
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The TV That Time Forgot: Kelly Monteith
Not On Your Telly includes The TV That Time Forgot, a series of articles looking at my top ten examples of TV shows that were highly popular in their day but are all but forgotten now. And at number...
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Higher Than The Sun: Nothing Can Stop Us/7 Ways To Love
An extract from Higher Than The Sun looking at how Saint Etienne scored a hit single without anyone realising...Perhaps surprisingly, there was less anticipation surrounding Saint Etienne’s projected...
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Higher Than The Sun: The King
An extract from Higher Than The Sun looking at the album Teenage Fanclub made by accident...It must have been some relief, then, when Creation received a telephone call from Teenage Fanclub in late...
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Nothing's Gonna Change My World: The Ten Least Effective Protest Songs
Protest songs are a notoriously difficult artform. Sometimes, like United Artists Against Apartheid and their 'ain't gonna play Sun City' antics, you can be so blunt and unforgiving about the...
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You Belong In Rock'n'Roll
So why, at an all time career height of popularity, did David Bowie see fit to form his much-derided band Tin Machine? Well, if you believe the average prat writing a boxout list at the foot of an...
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Higher Than The Sun - Screamadelica, Foxbase Alpha, Bandwagonesque, Loveless,...
Higher Than The Sun is a book by me about four albums released late in 1991 - Screamadelica by Primal Scream, Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne, Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub and Loveless by My Bloody...
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Higher Than The Sun: My Top Ten Creation/Heavenly Rarities
Originally written for the excellent music blog Sweeping The Nation, here's a list of my favourite rarities, obscurities and downright oddities from the Heavenly Recordings and Creation Records vaults....
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