The centenary of Henry Mancini, winner of four Oscars, composer of one of the few flawless songs (Moon River), the Pink Panther theme, and of the wonderfully spooky auto harp motif for Blake Edwards’ Experiment in Terror in 1962.

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Lovely light in this khazi.

Oenologists of E Sussex! I’m scheduled to be bibulous and anecdotal at the Court Garden Vineyard at Ditchling for the The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity on Tuesday May 14th at 7pm!

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7.40 tonight folks! C4!

The new Vicar of St Mary’s Eastbourne grew up in a lighthouse.

“Come watch me make a pudding Joe and I’ll show you what a heart stopper really looks like”. Stand Up To Cancer UK on the #GBBO tonight 7.40 Channel 4.

Northamptonshire is known as the Rose of the Shires, but this will mean rows of HGVs clogging up already failing infrastructure and yet more blight on a precious landscape (to spin this as good news for the environment deserves an award for ambition).

Now Pong is blind he comes and sits under the piano when I’m playing.

Been thinking about Toppy Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, who wanted his ping pong uniform to be green so he had it covered with emeralds.

It’s #BakeOff lineup time!

This week, it’s sara cox💙, Joe Locke, adamhills and Richard Coles taking on the Tent! But whose bake will rise to the occasion, and whose will take the biscuit?

Find out tomorrow night - 7:40pm on Channel 4 📺

The matchless joy of the number twelve bus.

“I’m loving it. I’m not very good at it, but that’s okay.” Real talk from Richard Coles this Sunday. Tune in as he puts his baking skills to the test #GBBO #StandUpToCancer

I have spent fifty years thinking Chopin’s 1st Ballade would be my Desert Island Ballade but in my sixties I realise it’s the 4th.

I’m baking-off this Sunday, 7.40pm Channel 4! The final episode for Stand Up To Cancer UK! I’ve seen cleaner pinnies in Victorian operating theatres.

SIGNED BOOK NEWS!

SIGNED copies of 'Murder at the Monastery', the brand new Canon Clement Mystery by Rev Richard Coles Richard Coles are now available to order from us!

Published on June 6th.

Pre-order your copy HERE.

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Coming up in June, folks!

When someone gets a ticker tape welcome in New York (do they still do that?) where do they go? Gracie Mansion?

One of the great discoveries of my sixties.

Ooh the brilliant Dr Sophie Hay is on #Today right now talking about the discovery at Pompeii! She showed us round when we were there last year!

New episode of #RabbitholeDetectives out today! Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 is on dodgy Trojan, Herr Schliemann, Charles Spencer is UFO spotting, and I’m on the assassination of the first Duke of Buckingham, the hottest man in Jacobean England podfollow.com/1671879772/view