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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Louis CK announced to play Captain Mainwaring in forthcoming Dad's Army reboot

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

4 September 1962 The Beatles fly from Speke Airport to London to record Love Me Do at Abbey Road with newly added drummer Ringo. George has a black eye from an encounter with Denny Flynn when the band had been filmed at the Cavern Club on 22 August

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Is that pavlova or a meringue?" "No, you're not wrong. It is pavlova."

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This though surely is the classic Man About the House apron. And still available online apparently!

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

29:25 into the YouTube vid Liverpool Trams - Green Goddesses Remembered. Who do you think that is at the back? The boy and his mother are literally in this dark shadowy shot for about 2 seconds www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbMP...

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Beatles Books Podcast @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New Podcast! I’m joined by Steve Taylor to talk about his book ‘Across The Universe’. Steve’s book looks at psychological, cultural, and spiritual forces behind the Beatles’ genius - how much of their success was pre ordained? What made them stand out from their peers?

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is a lot to take in in one sitting... #Tolstoy #WarAndPeace #books #bookworms #diningout Unpublished #cartoon

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thank you, Tyler, for my second mention on the pod in as many weeks. I looked up online to try and find a picture of Maurice Wiltshire and this is what came up. So this is definitely him

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Duck food available from Cosmic News. Presumably to try and stave off an invasion of cosmic ducks

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

pca.st/episode/771a.... Fantastic interview on always great pod. Listen to the end. Jimi Hendrix was a Goons fan! And of course his drummer, when he was a child actor, was quoted in one of the interviews in the first Goon Show Scripts book @goonpod.bsky.social

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Maureen O'Grady - RAVE magazine September 1965

RAVE journalist Maureen O'Grady discusses the September 1965 issue of the magazine - along with a million wonderful anecdotes. Hosted by Chris Shaw. To read along with Maureen and Chris click…

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

29 August 1966 The Beatles at Candlestick Park - their final live show in front of a paying audience. Seven years to the day after they began playing at the Casbah Club, West Derby, Liverpool. Their final song was Long Tall Sally - one of the songs Paul had played on 6 July 1957, the day he met John

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

29 August 1959 the day after John was sacked from his summer job and bought his Hofner Club 40 guitar from Frank Hessy's, The Quarrymen made their debut at the opening night of The Casbah Club - a club run by future Beatles drummer Pete Best's mum Mona in the basement of the Best family home

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mill Brow Water Treatment Centre ion Southport Road, Scarisbrick near Ormskirk where John Lennon worked in the summer of 1959 raising the money to buy his Hofner Club 40 guitar at Frank Hessy's shop in Liverpool only to be sacked from the job the same day he put down his deposit

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

28 August 1959 John Lennon purchased his Hofner Club 40 guitar from Frank Hessy's Music Centre on Stanley Street, Liverpool - £17 down then 5 shillings (25p) a week for the next 53 weeks. That day was the 752nd anniversary of King John's charter in 1207 creating Liverpool as a town or borough!

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Inestimable" will henceforth be my billing matter! Thank you, the significantly more inestimable Steven Cockcroft

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly appears to be the only person in heaven still to have legs

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The 1963 Royal Variety Performance was broadcast by Lew Grade's ATV - less than 6 years later ATV gained control of Northern Songs

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Two of my favourite podcasts of all time combined - Goon Pod and Nothing Is Real. Thanks so much to Tyler and Steven for the mention early on in this episode. Beatles walking and car tours, Liverpool history tours and more available via www.liverpoolfamouswalkingtours.com

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Liverpool Famous Guided Walking Tours

Liverpool Famous Walking Tours offers fabulous, informative & entertaining guided tours. Experienced guides -Liverpool born & bred are passionate about sharing their knowledge of this fantastic city. ...

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You'll have to trust me on this one. I took this picture in Morrisons 3 weeks ago and if I'd posted it then it would have been absolutely incredible. But now it's 23 August so who cares!

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'd just been to see Flaming Lips so I said I wanted to sing in between a pair of enormous badgers

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I said I wanted to perform on two enormous blocks

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

23 August 1962 John Lennon and Cynthia Powell get married at Liverpool Register Office on Mount Pleasant. Brian Epstein is best man. Paul, George and Cynthia's brother and sister in law are there and a man who looked like Noddy Holder from Slade was using a pneumatic drill just outside the window

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EggPod Express @eggpod.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

New EggPod Express online! Available anywhere you pod! This, then, is Maureen O’Grady discussing her time at Boyfriend magazine in the 1960s; her friendship with The Beatles; and more…

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Speaking of #gardening here's a Spectator #cartoon (You won't be surprised to learn that I despise #ArtificialLawns)

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Passport to Pimlico? Whisky Galore? Kind Hearts and Coronets? Hard Day's Night? Keith Lemon The Film?

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Alan Rothwell (mentioned in Spencer's Echo article) played Ken Barlow's younger brother David in Coronation Street who married Stan and Hilda Ogden's daughter Irma and left the show to go to Australia in 1968 only to be killed off off-screen in a car crash in 1970 (Irma then returned to the show)!

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Spencer's piece in the Liverpool Echo today re Brian Epstein's NEMS shop plaque that was unveiled by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram yesterday

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Nothing Is Real Podcast @beatlespod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tomorrow's the day - August 23rd! Get listening… shows.acast.com/nothing-is-re...

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

At the unveiling of the Liverpool Music Heritage trail plaque for the site of Brian Epstein's NEMS shop on Whitechapel, Liverpool with legendary Beatles Fan Club secretary Freda Kelly, Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and the great Spencer Leigh

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A film I did not get to see in 1974 but remember the tie in paperback (which I did not buy) in W H Smith's. Jenny Hanley from Soft Beds Hard Battles started as a presenter of Magpie later in 1974. I saw that

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New! SOFT BEDS, HARD BATTLES (1974) With @paullitchfield.bsky.social & @jlimb.bsky.social Peter Sellers got to cosplay as Hitler & 5 other characters in this ill-judged wartime comedy. Stand by for farting Nazis, himself in yellowface & a whirlwind romance with Liza Minnelli! pod.link/1569929507

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

shows.acast.com/word-in-your... Liked story in the Word pod of Brian Epstein taking The Beatles to see The Shadows at the Liverpool Empire in 1962 to show them a proper professional group but Bruce Welch was replaced by Peter Carter of the Checkmates and Jet Harris and Tony Meehan had left the band

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

18 August 1962 first appearance of The Beatles with their new official line up including Ringo for the local Horticultural Society at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight. Paul was always keen on horticulture

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Is it The Beatles? No, it's Bad Finger

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Beatles 17 August 1960. The day they arrived for their first stint playing in the clubs of Hamburg. Pete Best had only joined the band a few days earlier and had not received the memo re the colour of jacket required

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

An album that seemed to stay sitting in the racks of the record department of W H Smith Birkenhead forever. Released the same year as Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New! THE SILENT BUGLER With Chas Early pod.link/1569929507 A Cold War thriller, Goon Show style. So, not a thriller at all. There's a Russian time machine involved, so could it be Cold War sci-fi? No, not really. We look at two versions of the show plus reveal how Ray Ellington was a hero motorist!

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Re the story of Ray Ellington saving David Ormsby Gore following a car crash - Beatles/Goons connections alert. It is at Ormsby Gore's party as ambassador to the USA in February 1964 that Ringo had a lock of his hair cut off (without his prior approval) much to his and his bandmates' disgust

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

31 July 1957 Ringo makes his debut at the Cavern Club one week before The Quarrymen (from Spencer Leigh's book The Cavern Club)

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Possibly not the greatest book ever written about The Beatles - but a very interesting sidelight on George's clear love of the ukulele! He was never happier than when playing his Ludwig banjo uke in someone's back yard!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Jenrick is an idiot sandwich. Read all about it. iandunt.substack.com/p/jenrick-is...

At any given moment you could ask yourself: What’s the most cynical, self-interested, irresponsible and yet also incredibly basic thing you could do now, and that’s precisely what he’ll do - whether it’s making anti-immigration videos or joining Reform. And yet, despite the obviousness of the action itself, he will always pursue it with this look of deep seriousness, as if he were Napoleon devising the Italian campaign.

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

George looks so incredibly happy in these photos! Jimmy Nail turned up as well but hardly gets mentioned in the Oswestry Life article!

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just read this. Surely a contender for @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social one day! If the author didn't get sponsorship from Ronseal Fence Treatment he missed a trick

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