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The House Of Splain @thehouseofsplain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🏮NEW EPISODE🏮 For the 50 years of Swap Shop celebrations we're looking at the 1980 Multicoloured Noel Edmonds Annual! YOU WILL LEARN: Who has juicy eyes? The best way to make hot cheese fluffs! How many latterly disgraced sex offenders are featured within Why Noel is so GRATE! youtu.be/gef6LUf8rmY

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Is this the worst annual ever printed?

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the greatest spreads ever to appear in Viz. I used to have this framed on my wall.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you know he's uncle to one of our mutual friends?

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Explaincars Drama: we believe this to be the first time in recorded history that a bowel movement has been assigned an ICAO threat level

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After tasting this year's editions of five out of the six Oktoberfest beers, I'm calling it: Augustiner is best. And one of the greatest beers in the world.

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Tony Blackburn OBE @tonyblackburndj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting News !!!

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Think I ended up expressing Heineken quite forcefully after one or two teenage drinking sessions.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This looks like the greatest advance in drinks technology since Cynthia's Cyberbar.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It didn't help that a boy from our school had been blown apart by the IRA in the Royal Marines School of Music bomb, the year before.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nutters in the RE department invited a reformed IRA terrorist to give an assembly. He raved about how he gave it all up after finding God, before illustrating his former life by asking one kid to look under their seat - where he'd put a fake bomb. Parents went apeshit. Think it made the local paper.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is absolutely nothing you can do to turkey to make the damn thing worth eating. It is not an edible creature.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't think we included it in our itinerary. Then again, I'm hazy on a few episodes myself.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Almost certainly the greatest BBC costume drama to inspire a themed restaurant in Ghent.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Liked his first album a lot. And when it was pointed out that one riff on Ever Since New York seemed to be owe a lot to Badfinger, he said yup, our bad. So if you look on ASCAP, Peter William Ham has a songwriting credit on the LP.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tighter than - Ingemar Stenmark's racing line? - the manufacturing tolerances on a Volvo 240? - Agnetha's hotpants?

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If I were PM, I'd force every one of the people - I use the term loosely - who attack the RNLI to watch this astonishing BBC film about the Penlee Lifeboat disaster. I'd then have them shoved off the end of a pier, so it's just as well I'm only a freelance writer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIX...

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penlee lifeboat diaster - cruel sea

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 12/09/2026

"How do you make so much money?" "I give millions away and ask for absolutely nothing in return."

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Colourful Test Card Party

The girl and the clown from Test Card F from the bbc. With bright colours, squiggles, loops, yellow, patterns

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 12/09/2026

The Yorkshire ident is a jump scare for sure. I wasn’t too fond of Granada, either. Make some noise, you ominous bastard.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They called her Sonia because she gets Sonia nerves. #totp

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Only band ever to appear on #totp with a one-armed guitarist.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We were massively overstaffed so I got an early cut. Back to Franklins in East Dulwich to drink Grolsch and talk bollocks. A quarter of a century ago.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was a features sub. The asst night editor said: "We've chucked all the features out of the edition. Can you sub news?" He passed me and a few other casuals over to news, who showed us the style: cap up the first word, no drop caps, cut from the foot of the story.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was hearing various bits from other subs across London: people were bricking it in the Canary Wharf tower, with rumours of an evacuation. I got released early to go to the Express at Blackfriars, which was buzzing. Lots of subs had seen the news and come in on their day off.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gradually, websites got overloaded and fell over, except for the PB board. I yelled "Christ, another plane has hit the second tower." The digital editor shouted: "That's just Popbitch bollocks." Then someone switched a TV on. Not much work done at EMAP after that.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At FHM I got an SMS on my old Nokia lump from a friend subbing on a news shift at the Guardian: "A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center". I imagined something like a King Kong biplane. I opened the Popbitch message board. That was when it registered.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Twenty-five years ago, I was part of the army of freelance sub-editors schlepping between newspapers and mags in London. Diary for 11 Sep was a double-booking: a day shift at FHM and an evening at the Daily Express.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Let's drop this acid and watch Penda's Fen," said absolutely no one, ever.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I used to write a (very bad) column for an East London newspaper, the subs swapped my byline pic for this photograph once.

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fantastic article about the Nottingham beer scene by Pete Blackburn in @pelliclemag.com today. I spent a couple of days there last month taking the photos which included getting out to some suburbs (inc the fantastic Abdication micropub) and loved every minute. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/9/...

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We've Got To Live — Nottingham's Thriving, Defiant Beer Scene — Pellicle

Just a few decades ago, Nottingham’s skyline was punctuated by iconic brewery buildings producing beers that were part of the city’s DNA. The famous Shipstone’s star, and the Robin Hood silhouette of ...

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeah, you do get the sense he'd have preferred not to cover anything later than the early 60s.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Picked this up yesterday for two quid in a charity shop. The errors (Steptoe was a "dustman" and Life of Brian was "a cruel parody of the life of Christ", for example) aren't even the worst bit. Some of his judgements are utterly bizarre.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since it's not explained in the theme song, the show title must have been completely mystifying for viewers of the first series. It's not a well-known expression even in South East London, is it?

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The post-break sting on Rising Damp is one that always disturbed me as a kid. What is that final (dis)chord?

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

RIP Richard O'Sullivan, who annoyed my junior-school headmaster to a mystifying degree: "Some of you may watch that programme about Dick Turpin. You should understand that the real Dick Turpin was a BAD LOT."

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Pete Prodge @peteprodge.com · 04/09/2026

RIP, IP, IP, P-P-P-P-P, RIP, RIP, RIP, IP, IP

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

She's fantastic. Hugely well deserved. (And didn't she agree to a saucy role in your year's sixth-form panto?)

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Will be catching up today on - er - catch-up. Hoping the poll yielded THE RIGHT RESULTS.

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William Ham Bevan @hambevan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Arthur Llewellyn Jenkins is and always will be the best Pacman ghost

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