For national potato(e) day:
Simpler, dare I say happier, times...
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You see that sign there? It says 'apple sauce.' Ex-BBC radio, former teacher, Bristolian in exile, loves C20th fiction mainly by female writers, writing, classic TV.
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For national potato(e) day:
Simpler, dare I say happier, times...
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Yeah I didn't hear them say that, oddly...
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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here is a nice pattern
(new album out now loulayorke.bandcamp.com/album/time-is-a-succession-of-such-shapes)
(next gig www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Ste...)
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I’d not thought of it that way. Just sounded like a plug in my torpor!
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Yes! In my Pretentious Years. (1984-1999)
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Access has been similarly restricted to the recordings archive. The bottom line is that this and many other fundamental changes made to other areas of the BBC (Sounds, for instance) is to make money as a direct instruction from the DG. It’s very sad.
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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Why would a BBC sport presenter on Radio 4 say “you can watch the US Open exclusively on Sky Sports”? Why would they do that?
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I’m getting a sense of ‘Malcom McLaren was not like Gary Glitter because he was a situationist artist so that makes it ok.’
