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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10h

Most TV is just this now.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 4h

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Scarred For Life Unplanned show at Burnley Library last night! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social had a great time listening to your scars and spooky stories. And it was lovely to meet the organisers, David and Holly from Northern Folklore Archive!

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fresh on the Haunted Generation site... my @electronicsound.bsky.social chat with Alan Gubby of @btlabel.bsky.social and Revbjelde. Includes Sky, The Shout, Kelvedon Hatch nuclear bunker, the lost village of Imber, The Delaware Road, green-faced mummers... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/09/28/a...

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Alan Gubby and Buried Treasure

For over a decade, the Buried Treasure label has unearthed lost soundtracks as well as providing a home for the multi-media Delaware Road project. It all derives from the passions of founder Alan Gubb...

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I watched this over the weekend and enjoyed it enormously. New ambition: to run a pontoon on Cod Beck Reservoir dressed in a full border collie suit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miw0...

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☀️SUNLIGHT directed by Nina Conti in UK cinemas from 17 October

YouTube video by Nina Conti

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New and exclusive on the Haunted Generation site... a long chat with the charming @willmac23.bsky.social about his excellent new supernatural novel Solace House. Also: 1990s weirdness, The Shamen, Student Grant, blobs in Chislehurst Caves, Broken Veil etc... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/09/25/w...

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Will Maclean and Solace House

Writer Will Maclean discusses his new supernatural thriller Solace House and the evolving nature of 1990s nostalgia - from The Shamen to Student Grant.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love the Twlight Zone, so was delighted to find this clip on Youtube this week - Rod Serling being incredibly open on the Dick Cavett Show in 1972. But what really intrigued me was the phantom British TV broadcast that Cavett describes from 5m 53s... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqBJ...

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Rod Serling EXPOSES The Truth Behind Night Gallery & Depression Rumors | The Dick Cavett Show

YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: the story of Jonah and the Whale was re-enacted, with two enormous blue gym mats used to represent the whale's chomping mouth, both operated by a visibly wilting Andrew Booton. My friend Paul Frank and I played "muggers".

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fresh on the Haunted Generation site... my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of the new BFI Children's Film Foundation box set. Magic marbles, escaped lions, scary Michael Elphick and PC Gareth Thomas on a steam engine. Salut @vicpratt.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/09/21/t...

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The Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Volume 6

Bob Fischer reviews the BFI's Children's Film Foundation Vol 6 DVD for Fortean Times

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Needed conkers. Found conkers. Got mugged by a horse chestnut tree.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tonight! Just ironing my vintage Boro scarf.

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Neil Perryman @neilperryman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you are a regional production company based in Wales who can knock up a proposal in two weeks, the job's in the bag. www.bbc.co.uk/commissionin...

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New opportunity: Doctor Who invitation to tender

Deadline for initial submissions: 2 October

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

Text on a computer screen from the final scene of the film 'Stand By Me'. "I never had any friends later on the like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MIDLANDS WEIRDIES! The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is rolling into Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday 28th October! Join me and @bobfischer.bsky.social for a fun evening full of rural nightmares and ancient gods. Goat masks optional. Box office: bit.ly/3P5MT36

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whitby this Friday night, anyone? Regular haunto/folklore night At The Back of The North Wind returns, and I'm performing my psychedelic shaggy dog story Dreams Of Freeborough Hill. It features King Arthur, Comet Hale Bopp and the 1997 Boro team. Pay what you fancy!

A poster advertising At The Back of the North Wind. Rewild Your Mind at Flowergate Hall, Whitby, Friday 18th September from 7pm.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a little bit of context of the passage of time in #70Up / #UpSeries, here's an overview of some of the television programmes that were around the time each one was broadcast. Seven Up! (5/5/64) was shown in the week of the penultimate ep of #DoctorWho's Keys of Marinus: Sentence of Death.

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Clay Pipe Music @claypipemusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't want to brag, but you need to read @bobfischer.bsky.social review of Gilroy Mere's 'Furlongs' in @electronicsound.bsky.social Bob is a poet and the way he has written about the record is absolutely beautiful! www.electronicsound.co.uk/reviews/gilr...

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Gilroy Mere ‘Furlongs’ (Clay Pipe) – Electronic Sound

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The Twelve Hour Foundation @12hrfoundation.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're thrilled to be appearing at Switched On 2026. Initial cracking lineup announced inc. @horrordwarf.bsky.social @eqp.bsky.social @scholarspeak.bsky.social and #Howlround M.C. @bobfischer.bsky.social ... with more acts to follow. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...

Switched On Electronic Music Festival 2026. November 6th, 7th and 8th, Flowergate Hall Whitby.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

NEW SEASON! If you're dreading your commute this morning, don't despair - here's @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social to take you through all the highlights you can look forward to on your TV this autumn. But where is The Kraken?? timworthington.org/2026/09/07/l...

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Looks Unfamiliar’s New Season – Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – The Kraken’s Big Night In

Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are back for a chat about the NEW SEASON and all the exciting shows coming to your TV this autumn. But where is The Kraken??

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the new Radio Times... Screening 9 September on BBC Four.

DRAMA
Penda’s Fen 10.15pm BBC Four Catch up via iPlayer
In his last summer before adulthood, the priggish
son of a village parson has his certainties on faith,
politics and sexuality disturbed by homoerotic
visions, as well as by supernatural apparitions that
include pagan king Penda and even Edward Elgar.
A pastoral chiller suffused with eerie imagery
and Elgar’s music, this BBC Play for Today from 1974
was filmed on the composer’s home turf near
the Malvern Hills. Written by David Rudkin
and directed by the great Alan Clarke,
Penda’s Fen soon became a cult classic
and has been hailed as a masterpiece.
It has warranted sporadic repeats,
cinema screenings, a Blu-ray release
by the BFI and, last year, a scene-byscene analysis from Ten Acre Books.
Spencer Banks, who played troubled
teen Stephen and was then best known
for the ITV kids’ drama Timeslip,
introduces tonight’s revisit at
10.00pm. PATRICK MULKERN

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Myself and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Unplanned show to Burnley Library in September, and it's FREE! Bring your stories, memories and scars along to a lovely, big, unscripted group chat. Book in advance: bit.ly/4xAGTQg

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

NEW ON PATREON! A 28 page essay about the hauntology of Programmes for Schools and Colleges: the design aesthetic, the music, and more! And @richardlittler.bsky.social, @seanreynard.bsky.social and @bobfischer.bsky.social told me how these programmes influenced their work! Patreon link in bio.

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Keith Seatman @keithseatman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Catching up with Clopper Episode 3, Through the Brown Window. Absolutely spot on👍👍 superb. “Fishermans acquaintance” @bobfischer.bsky.social @seanreynard.bsky.social @soullessparty.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

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Clopper Episode 3!

Podcast Episode · Listen Through the Brown Window · 19 August · 24min

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW ON PATREON! A 28 page essay about the hauntology of Programmes for Schools and Colleges: the design aesthetic, the music, and more! I had help with this one: @richardlittler.bsky.social, @seanreynard.bsky.social and @bobfischer.bsky.social told me how these programmes influenced their work (1/2)

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Buried Treasure @btlabel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thanks @electronicsound.bsky.social @velomatic.bsky.social @bobfischer.bsky.social for including Revbjelde in their feature on 30 current tape manglers - what an honour! It's a fab new issue covering the evolution of tape looping with a Steve Reich cd + Laptop flexi disc inside subscriber copies

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NEW SHOW! Myself and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Unplanned show to Burnley Library in September, and it's FREE! Bring your anecdotes, memories and scars for an unscripted group chat with the Scarred For Life support group! Book here: bit.ly/4xAGTQg

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to the Strange Days Festival of Forteana on Saturday 5 September! No tickets on sale specifically for our show, I'm afraid, but if you're at the festival, we'll see you there!

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Currently fascinated by the Stones' Satanic Majesties period, and how you can judge by their expressions on the cover which of the band had already seen enough of the psyche-fuckin-delic revolution to last them a bloody lifetime. In order of make it stop-ness: Wyman, Richards, Watts, Jagger, Jones.

The Rolling Stones on the sleeve of Their Satanic Majesties Request.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trendy indie kids! I'm told this is dangerously close to selling out... Cud, The Wedding Present, The Primitives, Young Knives, Bis, Slime City and Mt Misery all playing an October weekender in Whitby. I'm MC-ing, but don't let that put you off. www.seetickets.com/event/only-a...

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Been listening to a lot of R.E.M. recently. This is lovely, but I can't hear the refrain without imagining Jim Bowen at the end of Bullseye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHB...

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R.E.M. - Country Feedback (Official Music Video) [This Film Is On Video Version]

YouTube video by remhq

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Don't suppose anyone has a physical copy of the Christmas Radio Times from 2001 and could send over a pic of one of the features, please? Asking for a friend.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I wake up today to find scientists are using sentient software to invent new viruses, and maverick tycoons are crashing rockets into the moon. The entire world has turned into Pertwee-era Doctor Who. I'm just waiting for that bloody spider to come out of the bathroom before I regenerate.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

THE OLDEST WINGER IN TOWN. Come on headline writers, do I have to do ALL your work for you? I'm here for all your Fred Wedlock-related needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Gloucestershire woman, 97, breaks record for oldest wingwalker

She has carried out six charity wing walks over the past decade.

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New issue on sale now! Blackpool's Gypsy queens; art of the Golden Dawn; golden age of flying saucer movies; Andy Burnham’s Holy Hand; Hackney goat sacrifice; when GPS goes bad; BuzzBallz booze bird; wheelie bin mysteries; Chillingham Castle; science of farts; Adolf the Swedish Dwarf and much more!

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Polypores @polypores.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’ve been making music with synthesizers for ten years, but next month I’m putting out an album with no synthesizers on it whatsoever. Wildlife is out on 7th August via @auralcanyon.bsky.social , on cassette tape and digital.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Found a spider in the bathroom last night, the size of my palm with legs like tree branches. Tried to capture it under a pint glass but it escaped into a previously-unseen hole in the skirting board that I assume it bored out itself. I'm now having every wee wearing Elton John-style platform boots.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I hope Christian Karembeu makes a sentimenal return to the Eaglescliffe Tesco, where he was frequently spotted in the early 2000s. I also once saw Alen Boksic in there, wearing double denim and buying a bunch of bananas.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sad to hear that Raleigh is in trouble. Here's my Chopper, pictured in 1984. I bought it from my best mate Doug for £15 (he'd just got a BMX) and painted it dark blue, ruining most of my mum's best towels in the process. Dog: model's own.

A rough collie dog looking bemused beside a freshly-painted Raleigh Chopper bike. In 1984.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This! Fabulous time on the road.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

18 tickets left for the Norfolk show on Friday...

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bill Oddie. Yes, he was a Goodie, how I first encountered him as a kid. But he's also the man behind this wonderfully atmospheric beat ballad I stumbled upon on 7" in 1990. For fans of Bowie's first album on Dream, or Scott Walker, or Dusty Springfield's Where Am I Going. youtu.be/SfSG8dP4Yzo?...

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Bill Oddie - I Can't Get Through - Parlophone : R 5433 DJ (45s)

YouTube video by John Manship

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One week to go until the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show comes to Fisher Theatre, Bungay, as part of the Black Shuck Festival! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social couldn't be more excited to come down south at long last! Tickets: bit.ly/4oakXI4

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What he said - Ste and me are live on BBC Essex just after 2pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Essex - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Essex on BBC Sounds

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Always a pleasure to interview @marghjenkin.bsky.social ... grab the new @electronicsound.bsky.social for our chat about his synth soundtracks and the formative experience of listening to the Inspiral Carpets live at G-Mex on Radio 1 in 1990. Check out his new film Rose of Nevada too, it's ace.

'The Analogue Auteur'... feature in the new issue of Electronic Sound magazine about the synth soundtracks of film-maker Mark Jenkin.

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's been 42 years, and it's only just struck me that 'The Magnificent Evans' is a pun on 'The Magnificent Seven'.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Scarred For Life Folk Horror Show 2026 tour is underway! Two weeks from today me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be in Colchester Arts Centre, followed by Bungay's Black Shuck Festival on the Friday (this one's heading for a sell-out)! Colchester: bit.ly/47E8zsY Bungay: bit.ly/4oakXI4

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I feel duty bound to point out there are only 30 tickets left for the Black Shuck Bungay show, and they're selling at a fair old pace.

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