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Simon McLean

@simonmclean.bsky.social

312 followers 307 following 671 posts

Currently on the wireless in various places, occasionally voiceovering

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dave Richmond - a man whose CV contains both Histoire De Melody Nelson AND the theme from Blankety Blank

Dave Richmond in the studio with his Burns Bison

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"It's one louder"

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Your move, Aldrich

Album cover - The 25 Pianos Of Tommy Garrett.

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Major Stuart Benest, also apparently a blurb writer for Victor Gollancz

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The original release cover doesn't suit it either, but in completely the opposite direction

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'd love to know who she was, and how she managed to look so deliriously thrilled about everything

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

True fact about this sketch - the letter about sewing a pocket into the inside of your coat was a real letter to the Dear Miriam page of the TV Times in December 1989

A sensible suggestion from Mrs L M Argent of Surrey Heath

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Choose your fighter

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Southern's clock from 1964-76 appears to be a very stylish off-the-shelf Solari Ciffra 5 from Italy - buy one and you too can be Brian Nissen doing a link into First Report

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Cover of the CD 'Music From The Footage Detectives Volume 1'

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Alan Hawkshaw says hello!

Alan Hawkshaw in his home studio, playing keyboards with one hand and operating the faders with another

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

And here's your answer - the opening credits of the edition broadcast on 13th Dec 1977 has a very brief clip of the sequence in question, so it must have come from a show shortly before that date. I don't know if the whole show exists, but at least there's a bit of evidence!

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

There is only one answer to this:

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hansimania, a 1981 LP by James Last with the best disco version of the Star Wars theme done by anyone

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The source of what I believe to be one of the greatest pictures ever taken

William Roache and a man in a knock-off Bugs Bunny suit feed a giant carrot to a Smash Martian at the opening of an M+W store in the 1980s

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Simon McLean @simonmclean.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Advertise your account with one image

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