"Honest & illuminating about the practice of comedy" John Fisher reviews Freddie Davies's autobiography Funny Bones:

@oakroyd If that's them then who are these?

RT @dionnewarwick: Thank you, baby. 🥰

RT @MrNeilScott: Motherwell shopping parade concrete by Charles Anderson cc @nebopeklo

@sabatonfan69 This line from Rocket Man has always annoyed me: "And there's no one there to raise them if you did" - if you did what? And in Have Mercy on the Criminal how can you be "blind" to "the winds of change"?

RT @Radiojottings: Latest blog post on a natural history radio quiz it's likely you've never heard of, Give Us A Conch (1985-87) chaired by…

RT @AlwynTurner: The gilded age: how music hall went ‘woke’.

RT @PontWorld: To @WatermillTh for the opening night of #TheAutobiographyOfACad...here's #PONT on the theatre from 18 November 1936: THE BR…

@MichaelRosenYes Surprised they didn't see it, say it, salve it.

@sgtsheartsband The eggman was Paul - I knew it!!!

@SgtPepper1710 Paul is a concept by which we measure our ice-cream pain ... I'll say it again, if you insist.

@74frankfurt World's shortest books: Lessons in Drumming Technique by Dave Clark and My Memories of Scotland by Elvis Presley. (Melody Maker)

@GerryAndersonTV He tries to cast the thought aside each time, and has never shared it with his brothers or father, but I'd suggest it's a presentiment of his own death, knowing that each mission is fraught with danger and that his final resting place will scarcely be wider.

RT @GerryAndersonTV: What's going through Virgil's head as he goes down the launch ramp to Thunderbird 2?

@oakroyd They must have been American imports - a treasure trove including the Medallions' The Letter.

RT @Classicbritcom: Remembering the late Actress, Fanny Carby (2 February 1925 – 20 September 2002)

@Classicbritcom @deedeesadler Great support in No Place Like Home.

@GerryAndersonTV Good points about Supercar. It was the first Gerry Anderson series I recall seeing and the launching of Supercar remains the most exciting of all launch rituals for me.

RT @GerryAndersonTV: Everyone has their own story about how they got into each Anderson show - how did you first discover Supercar? https…

@Irmanta08466759 And in Kes and Blue Remembered Hills (linked by Colin Welland) we see the (genuine) Dandy's Desperate Dan knocking someone "into the middle of next week". I can recall a strip with Dan retaliating in this manner sometime in the 60s but I don't know whether it was a one-off. 2/2