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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 6h
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.335/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.334/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.333/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.332/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.331/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.330/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.329/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.328/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.327/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.326/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.325/365 The final countdown!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Having a night in with Dolly! What a talent she was! Her music lives forever!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I've seen 2 different adverts where children put stickers on adults' faces. Is this something I should be aware of as I have delicate skin?
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"As a person of a certain age, I've been thinking a lot about retiring early. I've decided on 8:30pm." @revrachelmann.bsky.social
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
During the drinks breaks at the World Cup, we're playing who is your favourite Wesley? Wes Streeting? Wesley Snipes? Wesley from Star Trek? Wesley Sneijder? Second half drinks break: who is your favourite Keir?
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Is Pep off to do some Trivago adverts?
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Listening to Paul Temple makes me think that Bob Mortimer would be proud to name all the characters. #BBC4Extra
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
That's one hour 40 minutes that I will never get back. #Snooker #ComeOnRef
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
When the Levellers is the sound track to Beyond Paradise and you are living the dream.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
When Richard Madeley is your champion and calls out Reform live on #GoodMorningBritain That!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What a week on ITV 4! Morecambe and Wise in the Sweeney and now Bruce Forsyth in Magnum PI. I should cut down on the coffee.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Send medicine! I'm having another fever dream. I've just spotted Morecambe and Wise in an episode of The Sweeney! It reminds me of the day I spotted Robin Askwith and Paul Chuckle in an episode of Madame Blanc.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#DetectivesInOtherSeries Anthony Howell (Paul Milner in Foyles War) lwas ast night in Grace as Fergus Doyle. Seems like he never got away from Brighton in 1945 when he let down Sam.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I fear that I am afflicted by a bad base case of James Mason. I can't help but say the name of James Mason in the voice of James Mason.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This week, I saw Alan Bennett driving a Tesco van!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Steven Robertson (Sandy in Shetland) played Tom Naresby in Vera. #DetectivesInOtherSeries
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
DI Mervin Hughes (Don Gilet) appeared in Series 1 of Father Brown as Douglas Brown #DetectivesInOtherSeries
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I have absolutely adored Junior Bake Off. I rarely watch Bake Off. @channel4.bsky.social / @channel4tv.bsky.social are missing so many tricks with the adult version. "Nice to see um, it's Rav and Liam."
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We've got to that stage in life when we are comparing funeral / cremation service ads on TV. List of shame? 1. Co-op (Respecting the choices of the deceased) 2. Pure Cremation (Man in bath) 3. Simplicity Cremations (Those folk singers. What are they doing?) If you have your favourite, let us know.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Looking forward to my trip to the Festival Hall later to introduce the TS Eliot Prize readings. I’d better polish up my gags and aphorisms!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
#DetectivesInOtherSeries Ralf Little Sergeant Pickford - A Pocket Full of Rye and Neville Parker - Death in Paradise
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Neil Mullarkey @neilmullarkey.com · 10/01/2026
Go see!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Recently, I've got very emotional over Beyond Paradise and now Father brown. If only I could be a real boy, one day.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Agatha's Christmas concludes tonight. Currently watching Nemesis & will finish with Kenny B's Murder on The Orient Express. 5 Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 1 Branagh Poirot, 4 Suchet Poirots, 7 ITV Maples, 4 other Christie stories & 2 Christie radio plays. #AgathasChristmas
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Cadfael: The Sanctuary Sparrow. Before they were famous. Natascha McElhone, Hugh Bonneville, Toby Jones and Steven Macintosh.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Tonight @neilmullarkey.com retires from the Comedy Store Players. I want to wish him all the best with all his other endeavours but mostly say thank you for all of the laughs over so many years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUFb7rp6Hc
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Neil Mullarkey Check Up Scene
YouTube video by Neil Mullarkey
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Agatha's Christmas: Still can't find Kenny B's Moustache? Currently at 5 John Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 6 ITV Maples, 4 other Christie stories, 4 Suchet Poirots and 1 other Christie radio play. #AgathasChristmas
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Agatha's Christmas: Where is Kenny B's Moustache? Currently at 3 John Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 5 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 other Christie radio play. #AgathasChristmas
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
#DetectivesInOtherSeries Sally Lindsay (Jean White in Madame Blanch Mysteries) is tonight in Midsomer.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Just been watching a fascinating documentary on the BBC about the fall of American civilization.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Agatha's Christmas: I'm currently at 2 John Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 3 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 other Christie radio play. Still holding out for Kenny B's moustache. #AgathasChristmas
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Agatha's Christmas: I'm currently at 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 2 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 Christie radio play. But where is Kenny B and that moustache? #AgathasChristmas
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Polite request. Can all those middle-aged men who keep banging on my door with a handful of queue cards please stop? Kiera Knightley lives next door and, if I'm honest, your pathetic cries for attention lack originality and beware she sends her elderly grandmother to answer the door. Happy new year!
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Agatha's Christmas: I'm currently at 1 Ustinov Poirot, 1 Finney Poirot, 2 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 Christie radio play. #AgathasChristmas
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Alexander Armstrong, Abigail Cruttenden, Julian Fellowes and Adam James. Before they were household names, they appeared in one episode of Sharpe.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
#DetectivesInOtherSeries David Burke (Dr Watson) in practically every other detective series since. (Twice in Midsomer, Poirot, Inspector Lynley & Dalziel and Pascoe)
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Just checked the listings. BBC2 4 all. 15:10 25th Dec Evil Under The Sun 15:25 28th Dec Murder on the Orient Express 15:45 29th Dec Death on the Nile Agatha's Christmas. I'm currently at 1 Maple, 3 other Christie stories, 2 Suchet Poirots and 1 Christie radio play. Ustinov and Finney in waiting.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Agatha's Christmas. I'm currently at 1 Maple, 3 other Christie stories and just starting a Suchet Poirot. Not a sight of Ustinov or Finney yet.
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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I can tell that we are in the season of joy as I mostly spent yesterday vacuuming out a blocked dishwasher. (It was a wet/dry vacuum for those who are concerned about my behaviour).
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenterIn a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B
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