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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Getting home has proved more difficult than usual but the moquette on this bus is fancier than average.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 24/09/2026

A tumbleweed is rolling through my online shop today. I create colourful prints, cards, homewares and T-shirts inspired by architecture, music and mid-century design. Please have a look at my shop and repost to help spread the word. Thanks! gailmyerscough.co.uk

A pile of colourful prints featuring illustrations inspired by music, mid-century design and architecture.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not convinced this was a positive step, and I'm not at all sure it was really any business of the ITA forcing this upon the companies. It's mildly interesting that the advertisement refers to the new magazine as 'TV Times' whereas from the beginning, in the mag itself, it was always 'TVTimes'.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm guessing that most of you having a good laugh and ridiculing the emergency alert don't live in the West Midlands and Staffordshire.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's bizarre that Jones Clocks don't do the happy face thing on their analogue clocks but do set the right time on their Visor LED Alarm Clock packaging, even though those displays are digital.

A variety of clocks, digital and analogue, in a Tesco Extra. None of the clocks are in operation. The four analogue faces are set to 12:00, 3:09, 11:58 and 12:00. On the boxes containing an alarm clock with a digital display, a picture shows the clock with the time 13:52.

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Lew Stringer @lewstringer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The strip that inspired me as a kid. THE COLLECTED CLOAK is available to order now from your nearest comic shop! All of Mike Higgs' brilliant 1960s Cloak strips in one big hardback, plus extras. Over 230 pages. Give your comic shop the code AUG262180 so they'll know to order it.

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Jon Dies At The End @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Insanely excited to tell you that @worldoftelly.bsky.social and I will be hosting a 50th anniversary celebration of one of TV’s most unique dramas, Philip Martin’s Gangsters, on 8 November with some amazing guests. Part of this year’s Square Eyes TV Festival in (where else?) Birmingham. Do come!

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50 Years Of Gangsters + Q&A | Mac Birmingham

Gangsters was a TV drama like no other. Burrowing into the dark underbelly of the Birmingham crime scene, it mixed Shakespearian soliloquy with comic strip

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

(HANCOCK emerges from shop) HANCOCK: There, that told 'em. I won't stand for this sort of indignity! BILL: They're gonna stop using your book to prop open the window? HANCOCK: No, but they're going to turn it the right way up.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well, a proof copy exists now. Can't wait to see the real thing. #thecollectedcloak

A badly framed photo of artist Mike Higgs holding a proof copy of The Collected Cloak.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If you see this post an archer.

Emeric Pressburger, one of The Archers, alongside Michael Powell.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?! 💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

'Terrifying Children?' menu with title cards from the shows

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We challenged ourselves to give a taste of three espionage shows in about an hour, and it was a blast! As a complete newbie there was so much to take in. Head to @cathoderays.bsky.social ...but watch your back 🥷

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 30/05/2026

Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, T-shirts and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of nine images featuring music prints, a mixtape T-shirt, a phone case, a cassette mug, a National Theatre T-shirt, a Forton print and Toast Rack print.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We're entering a suspicious world for our next episode... Here's what's coming up on Ray's specials board this week!

Ray's Cafe. This week's specials: Plotters, Pen Pushers & Pensions. The Sandbaggers, Death is a Good Living, and Espionage. A HPTV Production from the Midlands.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 16/05/2026

Independent creative businesses are quietly having a tough time right now. So if there’s a maker, illustrator or designer whose work you love, this is a good time to tell people about them. Buy something if you can. Share their work if you can’t. This is me www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Bold illustrated wall art, greeting cards and homewares designed in Manchester. Inspired by architecture, music and mid century design. Made in the UK.

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Had enough of this malarkey? Need a fresh start? Dive with us into 70s suburban rebirth, twisted 80s academia and 40s/90s blitz hopping! via #ReginaldPerrin #AVeryPeculiarPractice & #GoodnightSweetheart 🥸 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8 🩺 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn 💣 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y

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Cathode Ray's Podcast @cathoderays.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This coming week we're looking at characters who have all decided on a fresh start, somewhere else, perhaps as someone else... Here's what's on the Cathode Ray's specials board.

Ray's Cafe specials board for My Strange New Life with title sequence screenshots for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Goodnight Sweetheart, and A Very Peculiar Practice.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Hannah's a friend, so I may be biased, but I really did enjoy listening to the chat, over on the next table, about three series with which I'm not especially familiar. Looking forward to another visit soon.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 15/04/2026

Sometimes being a one woman creative business isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Today has been one of those days where I haven’t sold anything in my online shop. Have a look at my shop and please repost to spread the word. Thanks. gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Yay Nancy Banks-Smith. 97 and still with us. The greatest TV critic who ever lived. Turned down an OBE. Both Guardian anthologies of her writing are shamefully out of print. Every sentence she wrote was the very opposite of me me me showy clickbait. Genius with a pen.

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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Who among us can forget when Frank Spencer unilaterally rejected the Good Friday Agreement and masterminded a series of paramilitary attacks alongside both the Continuity and Real IRA?

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Perhaps you can take the key changes as indications of time passing. Meanwhile: what kind of shit place is Clarksville, if the last train of the day gets you there by 4.30.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I’m going to make prints of this one soon. The Signalman.

A black pen (in a crosshatch technique) and black printing ink (applied with a roller) illustration on off white paper of a Signalman and his box. The man stands at the foot of the stairs to his signalbox which is situated at the bottom of a rocky and wooded ravine. The box is illuminated from within, its light casts shadows of the man onto a railway track, the track runs into a dark and damp tunnel. Outside of the mouth of the tunnel stands a ghostly figure waving its arms, one across its face the other in the air. A gloomy and atmospheric scene.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A thread that's well worth reading...

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 28/02/2026

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see. He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work. Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work. www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer | Speech Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My god, I hadn't spotted it either. That's really lovely.

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Paul Thompson @jakethackrayfan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This the new Jake Thackray CD I mentioned on @backlisted.bsky.social. More than two hours of previously unreleased material which offers proof of his genius as a writer and live performer. youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

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Jake Thackray - The Lost Archives 1966-1996

YouTube video by Jake Thackray fan

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A darling of a human being.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 gigs you've seen. Half Man Half Biscuit The K Foundation Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 10cc George Melly and the Feetwarmers

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.

The cover of 'Who Killed The JAMs?' by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I often get leaflets and cards for takeaways, gardening services, guttering and roofing, estate agents, taxis etc pushed through my letterbox. I've never had anything quite like this before.

A multi-coloured card offering a service which can remove the effects of black magic, bad luck, witchcraft and the like.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A pint of Batham's bitter and, soon, the company of @hannahcooper.bsky.social. Life is good.

Batham's bitter albeit somewhat disguised as pint of Holden's.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

One of my favourite sitcoms. 44 years old! Where does the bloody time go.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The only one I don't remember noticing was Dora Bryan. Who was doing her? #WhoDoYouDo

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

MUST READ! In the latest CST blog about the damaging changes going on at the BBC Written Archives Centre, @marklewisohn.bsky.social delivers his cri de cœur squarely at those who came up with or are signing-off on this policy shift. Please read and share widely. cstonline.net/defending-th...

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DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED

I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Stick with this superb thread. It might seem tenuous, but it's really not.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I have a new book out this week, #IntoTheGroove, a month-by-month guide to 1980s pop and I shall be liveposting to this #totp from 1981 with some related thoughts.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Right, let's cheer things up. Post a happy TV theme that you like. Or post several! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhps...

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Keith Mansfield - "Teenage Carnival" (KPM 1000 LP Series 1982)

YouTube video by KPM Music

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

#totp "LeAnn Rimes with How Do I Live?" No it doesn't.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Jonny Lee Miller, best known for playing 'Boy with dog' in Jemima Shore Investigates.

A young Jonny Lee Miller, wearing a school cap, with Patricia Hodge (as Jemima Shore).

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