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Justin Lewis
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Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic:
NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW.
Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/ (new eps on Sundays)
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Justin Lewis is a Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the Director of Clwstwr, an Arts and Humanities Research Council and Welsh Government funded Research & Development innovation centre for the Screen and News sectors and Media Cymru, a £50 million, 23 partner consortium, funded by UK Research and Innovation, Cardiff Capital Region and Welsh Government, designed to boost inclusive and sustainable media sector innovation in Wales. He is also Chief Field Editor for Frontiers in Communication, a global Open Access publisher. .. more

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Episode 34: As a big fan of the album Pearlies by Emma Anderson (@emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social), I was delighted that Emma joined me on my music textcast to discuss it, her career in Lush and Sing-Sing, and some favourite recordings. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...
FLA 34: Emma Anderson (23/11/2025)
As a first-year university student, one of the first songs of the 1990s I cherished was ‘De-Luxe’ by the London-based quartet Lush, who were signed to the independent record label 4AD. I was in the…
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
Very miserable at the moment, and I need a holiday, and I can't have one.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
Tense day at home. Sometimes, not everything is one's own fault.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
It's really odd living in a country that you like a lot more than the cardboard patriots seem to. And ironically, the worst thing about the country is the cardboard patriots.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
I don't understand why Hitchens still lives here. He clearly hates everything about it.
pickardje.bsky.social Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 1d
good to see people keeping a sense of perspective

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
Think that was the US title of the one where Marcie made egg soup.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
Do You Remember Eggs, Charlie Brown, For God’s Sake

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
Bigliest.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
Hugely Trumpian.
josiah.writes.news Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d
"I'm hugely impartial" BBC board member and former spinner for Theresa May, Robbie Gibb, tells the DCMS select committee. He has friends across the spectrum, apparently.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
I can see Cummings being on some board one day, and McSweeney too and it really shouldn’t be like that.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
And as for Robbie Gibb… once you’ve been a Director of Communications for a PM, that should immediately block you from being in an influential position in news media. If Ofcom had teeth…

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
‘Robert Dougall’s Ablutions Cast’

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
As for Draylon Fusk, you could make him sob and faint by branding him a twerp.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
Would like Farage to be eaten by tigers in both a hurtful and insulting way.

Reposted by Justin Lewis

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d
"I'm hugely impartial" BBC board member and former spinner for Theresa May, Robbie Gibb, tells the DCMS select committee. He has friends across the spectrum, apparently.

Reposted by Will Jennings, John L. Cotter, Justin Lewis

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 1d
good to see people keeping a sense of perspective

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
It's Christmas Eve in one month. Why not solve at least one of your Christmas present headaches with this fascinating book of mine about 80s pop history?
#IntoTheGroove
whenisbirths.bsky.social Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · Sep 19
It's got everyone in it from Paul Young to Young Marble Giants, and from Salt-N-Pepa to Chas & Dave.

#IntoTheGroove, my new book, the month-by-month story of 1980s pop, out on Thurs 2 Oct from @eandtbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order from everywhere and anywhere, eg: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...
Cover for my new book: INTO THE GROOVE: THE 1980s: THE ULTIMATE DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY by Justin Lewis 'Forensic, forthright and downright unputdownable' IAN WADE

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
ICYMI Productions proudly present. #FirstLastAnything

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
I've been very lucky with social media!

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
Another reason: sometimes either me or the guest is trying to identify something, and we can't quite think of it in the moment. The joy comes later when you can slot it into the conversation. Which is cheating a bit, but also, it really helps the thing along.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
There are lots of reasons, but I'm really a text editor, not a sound editor. That's one quite big reason.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
Don't get me wrong, I still have immense fondness for that period, but they become an extraordinary force later, which I simply could not have anticipated.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
I generally don't, because the point is kind of that they're collaborations and I work on the edit with the guest.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
I've been a bit too online of late. Thanks, TGV.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
Most hits in a single day for #FirstLastAnything in quite some time. Thank you, everyone who spreads its words.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
I keep encountering them. Though I think HMHB's 80s stuff might be their weakest. They're really on a roll from about 1997-2005.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
The likelihood that you and a customer might have been listening to the same radio station earlier that morning... #forgotten80s

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
it's complicated, as they say.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
Del Amitri with one of my greatest moments working in a record shop, March 1990 or so (when it got re-released).
Customer: I heard a record on the radio, it had a banjo on it.
Me: Is it the current Del Amitri single? [Puts it on]
Customer: Yes
#forgotten80s

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
There was a record earlier that I thought was Then Jerico and turned out not to be, but this might be Then Jerico. #forgotten80s

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
I kind of know, but even so...