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MORE REALISTIC GOALS @morerealisticgoals.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Join me for a skeetalong-a- #PendasFen this Wednesday night when BBC4 reruns it from 10.15pm. Behind the scenes stories, pics and things to spot. If you've seen the play before, then follow live. If it's new to you, give it proper attention and then join the # on catch up. Link in bio to the book.

Title screen for Play for Today: Penda's Fen (1974)

Close up on Dictionary of Place Names reading "Penda's fen" with Penda in italics.

Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene (Ten Acre Books 2025)

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Top of the Pops (17th February 1983). Fun Boy Three enter The Tunnel of Love.

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

NEW RELEASE Oh Joyous Diner were once described as "cheery bedroom electronica". This time, maybe not so much cheery as reflective and determined. Three new tracks on the need to build hope for the future. FREE as always. www.learntoswimrecordings.co.uk/ohjoyousdine...

Oh Joyous Diner Building Hope. Sunny yellows and comfortable brown. Like the accompanying materials from an Open University course in 1981.

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Mark Lewisohn @marklewisohn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Today I become a film star. Well, hardly, but the documentary based on my 2022 London theatre presentation Beatles/Evolver:62 is available from Amazon Prime, 108 minutes of surprising and engaging cultural history for the price of a coffee. In the UK the URL is www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

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Watch Evolver 62 | Prime Video

Globally-renowned historian Mark Lewisohn weaves an array of short sharp stories into a savvy and surprising reveal of a band that's stayed both cutting-edge and massively popular, The Beatles.

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Mark Lewisohn @marklewisohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Sir George Martin was born 100 years ago today. He and the Beatles lucked into their glorious partnership and humankind is the lasting recipient. I was privileged to work with George and hoped to mark the centenary by touring a theatre show about his life & work – but I must stay focused on writing.

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Producing The Beatles @ptbeatles.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Thinking of George today, I made a mix of Beware of Darkness highlighting with just strings and vocals (and a bit of Hammond organ) youtu.be/BI_k6x2lY64

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George Harrison - Beware of Darkness (strings and vocal mix)

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

New from Lankum, an epic cover of The Specials' Ghost Town youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY

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Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

#NEWRELEASE "Places Without Expectation" is a new album from the members of Learn to Swim. Forgotten fragments borne of lost inspiration and underwhelm. Available for free here www.learntoswimrecordings.co.uk/index.html

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The new pope's spokesperson will therefore be the Leo Sayer.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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MORE REALISTIC GOALS @morerealisticgoals.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Morning, Happy Sunday! Lots of crap about so listen to MORE REALISTIC GOALS at 6pm tonight on Reform Radio and it might be OK (for a bit). We've got a wonderful guest mix from @necrosferatul.bsky.social, and a full show pulled together by @spennyt.bsky.social Enjoy x

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just donated to @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social Big Give campaign to deliver their 2025 electronic music education initiative. Every donation made via Big Give up to midday on Tues 25 March will be doubled. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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DD Day 2025 electronic music education initiative – Big Give

Help us nurture future electronic music talent like Delia Derbyshire in our 10th year. We inspire and empower via the …

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thank you! You've helped us raise over £3000, we're 80% towards our £4000 Big Give target. Can you give or spread the word to help us get there? With thanks, we endeavour together ♥️ music by Levenshulme High students donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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DD Day 2025 electronic music education initiative – Big Give

Help us nurture future electronic music talent like Delia Derbyshire in our 10th year. We inspire and empower via the …

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MORE REALISTIC GOALS @morerealisticgoals.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Listen again to MORE REALISTIC GOALS #24 via Mixcloud, and read @spennyt.bsky.social's mini-reviews of what we played over on the blog. Everything is here - medium.com/more-realist... Take care out there x

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MORE REALISTIC GOALS @morerealisticgoals.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

You've just heard the STUNNING Sifting Stones by Acid Wilheim on @thelearntoswim.bsky.social Before - Crouch by Martha MacLaren and Wilbur MacLaren, and Great Northern, 34428 by @oliviablock.bsky.social Last tonight - Echo by Mike Majkowski @spennyt.bsky.social #MOREREALISTICGOALS Thank you x

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MORE REALISTIC GOALS @morerealisticgoals.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is the brilliant @k8carr.bsky.social and her new album on @flamingpines.bsky.social Before that you heard The Ridgepole by Acid Wilheim on @thelearntoswim.bsky.social, and Garmonbozia by Flying Lotus Next a bit of clare rousey... #MOREREALISTICGOALS w/ @spennyt.bsky.social reformradio.co.uk

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#NEWRELEASE Acid Wilhelm "Any direction is better than where you now stand". A soundscape of egomania, dread and inescapable background noise www.learntoswimrecordings.co.uk/acidwilhelm....

Any direction is better than where you now stand. Dark brown. Paler lines which could be noise or static stretching outwards. They could be the points of a star, trails of a rocket or the first moments of an explosion.

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Stacy @stacy31.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no, not again."

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is a beautiful tribute.

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

#NEWRELEASE The original stars of Learn to Swim return. And they're not hiding from the fact that they have been around a very long time. 3 tracks. FREE as always. www.learntoswimrecordings.co.uk/hairbyroger.html

Learn to Swim presents Ageing by Hair by Roger. A sky blue background and a yellow block containing the text. Because those are always the colours.

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The Learn to Swim @thelearntoswim.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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