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This was such fun to do. It's a new departure for us and we hope it will be the first of a new series of films made in association with museums and other history-related institutions. Watch the video and visit the museum if you can, it's an absolute delight!
Check out the new video by Catherine Warr
@HiddenYorkshire
, which was filmed at Craven Museum!
Follow the link below to see our team talking about some of the most important objects in our collection, including a teddy that survived a WWI U-boat! 🧸
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@HiddenYorkshire
It’s a busy life, especially when you have to cram in also knowing more than the leading experts on so many other subjects: virology, immunology, climate, chemtrails…
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As I assemble my travel gear I find I have become the subject of a Private Eye lampoon
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@mrianleslie
It’s not under-discussed because it’s a non-issue and your comparisons with US presidential candidates two decades older are just silly. When Starmer is in his late 70s that might be a time to raise the question
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@UKikaski
Former Yak-52 owner here. There have been armed variants before using rocket pods. Rigging up one with a pair of light machine guns in pods under the wings would not be too difficult
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@RodneyMarshall1
I was fond of it. Laurie Johnson's evolution of his original theme music was fun, time had not touched Steed, and the whole show was entertaining, if not as avant-garde as the original run
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@hugorifkind
But that's because the real target audience isn't the general electorate. It's all aimed at fluffing up the cranks who will select the next Tory leader after they lose the General Election
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Even by Michelle's high standards: oof
Sunrise from Glastonbury Tor, taken this morning.
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@hmtreasury
@wbd
@WBSLeavesden
This is utterly cringeworthy. You're supposed to be a public institution. Try to behave like one
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@HiddenYorkshire
this is an excellent substrate for a few morsels of cheese and I shall not stand to have it disparaged
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"People have once again been making life difficult for Farage and his colleagues by recording things that they say and then broadcasting them. This, Farage has always felt, is cheating."
"We now turn to Liars" - my SKETCH of Nigel Farage's speech accepting this year's Golden Politician award.
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@eugah
@kamilkazani
Somewhere between 30 and 40, some quite old, some modernised, some new-build
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@peterwalker99
@AnotherCinna
Well, he’s said a lot of nice things about the dictators of N Korea, China and Russia. But never about anyone normal
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@nogulagsagain
@BBCBreaking
He had his freedom of speech, and used it. He also has had to take personal responsibility for the consequences of his choices in exercising that free speech
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Weird choice of words. This is not some kind of plague, it's not a natural force moving between innocent victims. It is people making conscious choices of corrupt behaviour to feather their nests.
Senior Tories now seriously concerned the betting scandal will spread to other prominent figures
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Look, if you haven't seen Enemy At The Door, you're missing out on one of the best TV dramas ever, on the subject of living under occupation. Also you're missing a great Alfred Burke performance. Think of it as a police procedural, but with Nazi cops in wartime Guernsey
Tonight at 8pm!
#AlfredBurke
#BernardHorsfall
#AntoniaPemberton
#SimonCadell
star in ENEMY AT THE DOOR (1978) Episode 1
#TPTVsubtitles
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@maphumanintent
@GandalfObiewan
Most people also don't get that, for the trivial cost of the drones, there is very little barrier to the opposition launching swarm attacks, in which the sheer number of incoming targets swamps defensive systems which were designed with a very different attack profile in mind
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Another take is that RBs of yesteryear understood the basic social contract that the nation-state will protect their property rights against the mob if they nod in the direction of the public good and paying taxes, whereas many today think they are bigger than the nation-state
@chaedria
Robber barons of yesteryear understood that their wealth was dependent upon death, destruction, and environmental ruin and sought atonement via philanthropy. Today's billionaires actually believe their work is advancing the cause of human civilization.
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And I bet they had a lot more fun on a day’s shoot with the apple crates and gaffer tape, and rubber monsters, than having everything added digitally in post
#StarTrek
It is a good reminder that, when all is said and done, the slick-looking product on the screen is put together using plywood, apple crates, and gaffe tape -- and the all-star cast is nourished by food served on paper plates.
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If you would like to see this sort of thing in 16:9 as a half-hour broadcast TV show on the history and workings of Big and Important Things, keep your fingers crossed because by hook or by crook we intend to make one
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@PeopleofLeeds
A few weeks ago
@hiddenyorkshire
’s mum found out it was my birthday and made me an absolutely beautiful birthday cake based on some of our fave characters from our 2023 filming
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@tempest_books
It was better served building a fighter from a different experimental research aircraft, as it did
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@Carpervert
*lights cigarette
*takes off sunglasses
"ISDN Codec, you say. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time"
*spits reflectively
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It’s mixing. Modern audio mixing has gone down a terrible rabbit hole. You can prove it’s by watching an old 1960s to 1990s movie or TV show and finding that you can hear all the dialogue with clarity, without having to turn the volume up and down all the time
@DougRussell
Don’t know if it’s modern TVs or modern mixing practices but the levels between dialogue and music and sound fx are always way off. I used to never be a subtitles guy and now I feel like I need them all the time (and I don’t have any hearing issues….i checked lol)
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I appreciate 1823 was a world ago but seriously, I’d be giving the credit to the donkey, not to the man
A tourist on a donkey has become the first man (and second person) to ascend Helvellyn, England's third highest peak, other than on foot. The Westmorland Gazette says this was thought impossible until recently, and left the man's friends accompanying him astonished. [2005 photo]
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No, YOU'VE just run around the room making whooshy cold-war jet noises
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@HiddenYorkshire
I forgot mobile phone networks. How could I forget the mobile phone networks discourse
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@ChristianJMay
If you had any respect for reality you would wait to see what he says rather than making it up in advance
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@clark_aviation
Not Egyptian but Iranian air force, and post-war. They had 18 IIc delivered in 1946 of which two were two-seaters: this is one of those two
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Why do they do this. WHY
The BBC now have a royal correspondent outside a palace where the king isn’t and a medical correspondent outside a clinic where the king also isn’t.
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@AskAManager
Someone once brilliantly described a fox as “a dog running cat software” and it’s never seemed more appropriate
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Don't know about the US, but in the UK the Apple TV paying clientele is pretty small
I cannot believe more people aren’t talking about one of the best shows on television.
#SlowHorses
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not to go all boomer-nostalgia but it was fun when cars looked different from each other and came in colours other than black, white and 20 shades of grey
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ban this disinfo, it's quite clearly a giraffe-flap
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@KyivIndependent
Would be funny if Finland decided to retake some of their old turf, that Russia took in the Winter War
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@JCAP201
@EmiliaRxse
Yeah sure, the way some 60 year old dude who's been commuting in a Toyota Camry for the last few decades should have been telling Danica Patrick how to take the banked turns at Daytona
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this is going to be a rare three-hander, and our first multi-national production
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@tomr515
@FredWoodard19
@lawofruby
His PAC is paying these lawyers, so it's the rubes who think they are contributing to his election campaign
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What a grumpy observer. If I were the pigeon I'd poop on his head
Illustration of a US Army pilot releasing a pigeon to relay information back to the ground, Aug. 1930 (courtesy of Popular Science)
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@WW2TV
They're not doing it for the general public, though, they're doing it for themselves, and for the collective vibe at the event. If they didn't have fun they wouldn't do it at all. Personally I think all the 45 year-olds in '60s Hollywood war movies are a bigger problem
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@Variety
Danny McBride may not be able to put a cork in it for a couple of hours but that's no reason for the rest of us to be denied a couple of drinks with a movie
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I am supposed to be curing myself of old cars but this would be a lottery win
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There's never an abandoned gasworks around when you need one. We could use a bit of post-industrial squalor for a shoot in January so if you know of one within a couple of hours drive of Leeds lmk
The abandoned Becton Gas Works, a location used by so many in the 70s and 80s: John Wayne, 007, Kubrick, 1984, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Blake's 7, numerous pop videos. Post-industrial cityscape or dystopia, it clearly had a magnetic pull for filmmakers.
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"No regrets, Coyote". Except that I cannot actually be here on this room in 1975 witnessing magic emerge and knowing the moment will live forever
Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and friends at Gordon Lightfoot's home in Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood in 1975.
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What Timpson evidently appreciates is that he’s building more than a here-today-gone-tomorrow business. He’s built an institution, with observable values which are lived out in the operational units
James Timpson has this real old-fashioned paternalist attitude to business, something we've not seen since the Victorian philanthro-capitalists like Titus Salt, George Cadbury, and Andrew Carnegie; an economic noblesse oblige which shames the past forty years of wanton excess
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@TrentTelenko
This means nothing, Trent. It applies only to an obsolete car of which fewer than 2500 were built 2008-12. It has no bearing on Tesla's policies in relation to its mainstream cars sold in serious numbers
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Big packet of chicken soss on yellow sticker for 87p, get in…
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The Mel Gibson feature remake is a pale shadow of this genuinely deep and engrossing drama. And I'm not just saying that because the protagonist is called Craven and a lot of it was shot in and around my home town. For me, this was the TV drama that made me want to write TV
The first episode of Edge of Darkness was BOTD 1985 on BBC 2. Radio Times: "A detective's search for his daughter’s murderer takes him to the heart of the nuclear state." Its critical & ratings success soon earned it a BBC 1 repeat showing. One of Auntie's best ever dramas IMO.
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Can't wait to have my wild strawberry patch full of cheeky little fledgling blackbirds again. They are so cute and so incompetent, hiding in the undergrowth via the medium of crashing about as noisily as possible while shouting "I'm not here, I'm not here"
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@ILuvMilqueToast
@TheDeadDistrict
As a former Yak-52 pilot, J can tell you the Yak-52 is much more suitable for the job. And plentiful / inexpensive in Easter Europe
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The full film is about 19 minutes and packed with ACTION and EXCITEMENT and HISTORICAL THINGS, so make it a date with your chippy tea and a suitable refreshment. 7pm tomorrow at , and why not check out some back numbers while you wait?
IT'S TEASER TRAILER TIME
COMING FRIDAY (16th) 7PM
As usual, we've done everything ourselves to bring you a fascinating and engaging story about sportswashing, Nazis, and thrilling pre-war racing.
This is Racing Hitler: The Donington Grand Prix.
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