Well-well-well.

LBC should release a statement about Sangita Myska.

#FriendsOfSangita

Lovely Tony Hart. He gave millions of children a huge love of art. What a legend.

Mike Parry doing what he does best; being a rent-a-gobshite. This bigot (alongside many others) is regularly platformed by Channel 5's Jeremy Vine show and he's rarely corrected when he spews misinformation.

The right wingification of mainstream daytime TV is beyond depressing.

🚨Update on Sangita Myska & LBC 📻:

I’ve received a message from some who I’ll keep anonymous. They say after Sangita disappeared from the LBC schedule, producers were told “no one will notice” she’s gone, but if people are to ring in to say “she’s fine”.

If this is true it’s…

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Wait - wut?!?
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Such an excellent GIF. It gets funnier the more you watch it.

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Somewhat buried in the anecdote, Paul Whitehouse mentions that he was fishing in Iceland.
If you haven't seen Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, hit iPlayer. Ostentatiously about fishing with Bob Mortimer, it's actually a charming bromantic series about life and love.

What a classic. What a voice. Yet to hear a bad version of this Ann Peebles classic. It's that good.

NEWS: Netflix are working with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment on the film adaptation of Richard Osman's bestselling novel The Thursday Murder Club.

Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley will all star – with Christopher Columbus (Home Alone, Harry Potter) set to…

When will LBC explain Sangita Myska's absence?
I have complained about anti-Blackness aimed at Meghan, Duchess of Sussex from some white LBC presenters and most of the time, the response was a form letter.
If Sangita's sanctioned, I note the disparity. metro.co.uk/2024/04/25/lbc…

Oh gosh. Hope Rageh Omaar is OK.

Labour of love putting this together finding out more about the Black British music that became part of the fabric of our nation

British Library

Curator Dr Mykaell Riley
Artist Nia Archives

Producer Maya Elese
Cam: Matt
Editor: Manos
Online: Samantha

Full report at weekend

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's Bafta award-winning #InsideNo9 returns in May for the last time.
Guests include: Happy Valley's Siobhan Finneran and Katherine Kelly; Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer; Catastrophe's Mark Bonnar plus Stars In Their Eyes' Matthew Kelly. Yes!

Our culture sector is in crisis. TV production had its worst year ever, comedians can barely afford to do Edinburgh Fringe, and successful bands lose money on tour

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

The Drax's were compensated in 1833 to the sum of £4K+ (£3 mil in today's money). Interestingly, the compensation was for the loss of the use of enslaved Africans & not the land? But how did the Drax's acquire this land? Is there a receipt or legal title?
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Can't believe a fourth Bridget Jones movie is on its way. Renée Zellweger is perfect as Bridget and I've always loved Hugh Grant, but no Colin Firth as Mark Darcy? It's a no from me.

James I worked with you back in 1982, you were a great wind up merchant and even 42 years later you can still do it. Over the years I always admired your 100% commitment to doing zero research on any and every subject , glad to see nothing has changed in the intervening years . A…

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Same. I find myself returning to - and sharing - Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s advice here over and over again.

Omar!
Memories of the very early 1990s when dance music really started to dominate Top of The Pops.
Part of BBC2's DEF II strand and presented by Normski, Dance Energy did what it said on the tin, which is why some of the studio audience are dancing like the Duracell bunny.