Hannah Cooper
@hannahcooper.bsky.social
Archive TV viewer, writer, pint drinker: time you enjoy wasting is not wasted 🏳️🌈
“general excellent taste”
“incredibly good company”
“very nice”
📺 http://visualmutterings.com
⏪️ https://backintimefortv.co.uk
🐤@MrsSimonTemplar
“general excellent taste”
“incredibly good company”
“very nice”
📺 http://visualmutterings.com
⏪️ https://backintimefortv.co.uk
🐤@MrsSimonTemplar
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Red Knight, White Knight | Callan Review
Callan returns to the Section to meet a new Hunter and an old friend in Red Knight, White Knight, the first episode of Series 2.
visualmutterings.com
New blog. There’s a new series of Callan - and a new Hunter. So what will Callan make of him, and can we trust a Soviet defector?
I take a look at the first episode of series 2 of Callan: Red Knight, White Knight.
visualmutterings.com/callan-red-k...
I take a look at the first episode of series 2 of Callan: Red Knight, White Knight.
visualmutterings.com/callan-red-k...
My favourite local issue is the ways people have proposed splitting up Staffordshire’s councils.
Latest suggestion: divide along oatcake lines.
Latest suggestion: divide along oatcake lines.
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My favourite local issue is the ways people have proposed splitting up Staffordshire’s councils.
Latest suggestion: divide along oatcake lines.
Latest suggestion: divide along oatcake lines.
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Covers to the Big Christmas Double Issues of the Radio / TV Times for 1975. Two very different approaches to the season. I rather like the TVT one. Sooty, keeping everyone afloat with his Rubber Bum Pump.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Covers to the Big Christmas Double Issues of the Radio / TV Times for 1975. Two very different approaches to the season. I rather like the TVT one. Sooty, keeping everyone afloat with his Rubber Bum Pump.
Budget day at last.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Budget day at last.
After years of getting annoyed when people referred to me as a “girl” (I’m not a bloody kid!) at 32 I’m now taken aback at how often someone calls me a “lady” these days (am I really this grownup?!).
a man in a silver jacket is talking to a woman in a black dress .
ALT: a man in a silver jacket is talking to a woman in a black dress .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
After years of getting annoyed when people referred to me as a “girl” (I’m not a bloody kid!) at 32 I’m now taken aback at how often someone calls me a “lady” these days (am I really this grownup?!).
Ooh BBC Christmas line-up. Very happy Mammoth is finally back. Also looking forward to another Ghost Story for Christmas (Joanna Lumley!) and plenty of other nice bits and pieces:
Traitors at the Proms, Gladiators, ever more Call the Midwife, and The Night Manager.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Traitors at the Proms, Gladiators, ever more Call the Midwife, and The Night Manager.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
BBC Christmas 2025 TV and iPlayer line-up offers a whole host of magical moments to entertain all the family over the festive fortnight
The unmissable line-up will bring people together this Christmas in a way that only the BBC can
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Ooh BBC Christmas line-up. Very happy Mammoth is finally back. Also looking forward to another Ghost Story for Christmas (Joanna Lumley!) and plenty of other nice bits and pieces:
Traitors at the Proms, Gladiators, ever more Call the Midwife, and The Night Manager.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Traitors at the Proms, Gladiators, ever more Call the Midwife, and The Night Manager.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Not ready for this Monday.
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Not ready for this Monday.
Using The 1970s Supermarket at Christmas to get ideas of what we should be stockpiling this year.
Someone needs to bring back Watney’s Party Seven. Might have to make do with Double Diamond this year.
Someone needs to bring back Watney’s Party Seven. Might have to make do with Double Diamond this year.
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Using The 1970s Supermarket at Christmas to get ideas of what we should be stockpiling this year.
Someone needs to bring back Watney’s Party Seven. Might have to make do with Double Diamond this year.
Someone needs to bring back Watney’s Party Seven. Might have to make do with Double Diamond this year.
Regular routine: hair cut then around the corner for a chippie, eaten in the car with a podcast.
Today is a small chips and the latest episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social.
Today is a small chips and the latest episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social.
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Regular routine: hair cut then around the corner for a chippie, eaten in the car with a podcast.
Today is a small chips and the latest episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social.
Today is a small chips and the latest episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social.
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A huge day for On This Day In History types:
Franco’s death
Jeremy Thorpe being accused of plotting to murder Norman Scott
Thatcher failing to win the leadership election
Duchess of Hearts, HRH Sir Diana Spencer admitting adultery on that Panorama interview
Franco’s death
Jeremy Thorpe being accused of plotting to murder Norman Scott
Thatcher failing to win the leadership election
Duchess of Hearts, HRH Sir Diana Spencer admitting adultery on that Panorama interview
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A huge day for On This Day In History types:
Franco’s death
Jeremy Thorpe being accused of plotting to murder Norman Scott
Thatcher failing to win the leadership election
Duchess of Hearts, HRH Sir Diana Spencer admitting adultery on that Panorama interview
Franco’s death
Jeremy Thorpe being accused of plotting to murder Norman Scott
Thatcher failing to win the leadership election
Duchess of Hearts, HRH Sir Diana Spencer admitting adultery on that Panorama interview
Enjoyable afternoon being spooked in the Square Eyes TV Festival’s ghost stories session in Birmingham yesterday.
A 1975 Centre Play, The Imp of the Perverse, followed by 2005’s A View From a Hill.
Nice contextual intros from Jon Dear and an interesting chat with writer Peter Harness afterwards.
A 1975 Centre Play, The Imp of the Perverse, followed by 2005’s A View From a Hill.
Nice contextual intros from Jon Dear and an interesting chat with writer Peter Harness afterwards.
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Enjoyable afternoon being spooked in the Square Eyes TV Festival’s ghost stories session in Birmingham yesterday.
A 1975 Centre Play, The Imp of the Perverse, followed by 2005’s A View From a Hill.
Nice contextual intros from Jon Dear and an interesting chat with writer Peter Harness afterwards.
A 1975 Centre Play, The Imp of the Perverse, followed by 2005’s A View From a Hill.
Nice contextual intros from Jon Dear and an interesting chat with writer Peter Harness afterwards.
I was already a tad tempted but these guys have sold me!
On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast @dhollingsworth.bsky.social, @melvinpena.bsky.social & @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social look at the first two volumes of The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures:
Itunes: tinyurl.com/mpabxs5p
Spotify: tinyurl.com/rm3hs9we
Podbean: tinyurl.com/4u8mv2nr
Itunes: tinyurl.com/mpabxs5p
Spotify: tinyurl.com/rm3hs9we
Podbean: tinyurl.com/4u8mv2nr
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I was already a tad tempted but these guys have sold me!
What fictional creature/villain traumatised you as a child?
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What fictional creature/villain traumatised you as a child?
Took the day off to go on a pub crawl* of Birmingham with a bunch of real ale mates.
Highly recommend spending a damp afternoon in nice pubs while most people are at work. Supplemented by Greggs and KFC.
*(Colmore, Wellington, Good Intent, Queen’s Head, Head of Steam)
Highly recommend spending a damp afternoon in nice pubs while most people are at work. Supplemented by Greggs and KFC.
*(Colmore, Wellington, Good Intent, Queen’s Head, Head of Steam)
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Took the day off to go on a pub crawl* of Birmingham with a bunch of real ale mates.
Highly recommend spending a damp afternoon in nice pubs while most people are at work. Supplemented by Greggs and KFC.
*(Colmore, Wellington, Good Intent, Queen’s Head, Head of Steam)
Highly recommend spending a damp afternoon in nice pubs while most people are at work. Supplemented by Greggs and KFC.
*(Colmore, Wellington, Good Intent, Queen’s Head, Head of Steam)
I now seem incapable of travelling to Birmingham by train without finding myself drawn to the Gangsters soundtrack.
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I now seem incapable of travelling to Birmingham by train without finding myself drawn to the Gangsters soundtrack.
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Hoping to see a few of you on Sunday. Please do come and say hello. Rare chance to meet Peter Harness, with bonus Rob Shearman and, hopefully Toby Hadoke.
Next Sunday. Screening an ultra rare BBC Christmas ghost story and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the superb A View from a Hill, plus a chat with its writer, Peter Harness.
Details and tickets:
Details and tickets:
A Birmingham Ghost Story + Peter Harness Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre
The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology
macbirmingham.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hoping to see a few of you on Sunday. Please do come and say hello. Rare chance to meet Peter Harness, with bonus Rob Shearman and, hopefully Toby Hadoke.
Reposted by Hannah Cooper
I was asked to contribute to an article about heartbreaking TV moments so I wrote about Sue Johnston and Liz Smith in The Royle Family www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/mos...
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I was asked to contribute to an article about heartbreaking TV moments so I wrote about Sue Johnston and Liz Smith in The Royle Family www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/mos...
Great admiration for the bloke I just passed in a full grown Pudsey onesie, trying to run a charity car wash outside a funeral directors in pissing rain and howling wind.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Great admiration for the bloke I just passed in a full grown Pudsey onesie, trying to run a charity car wash outside a funeral directors in pissing rain and howling wind.
WANT
Fresh meat was as precious as gold bullion back in the 70s. According, that is, to Letraset's dizzyingly exciting THE SWEENEY Super Action Transfers, which allowed kids to create violent scenes based on the classic post-watershed cop show. This meat blag is *carnage*, guv!
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
WANT
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Ep 3 of Through the Square Window is available wherever you get your podcasts. @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social discuss Bob's Full House, Ray Davies' Return to Waterloo, Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch and, in the company of Richard Marson, the last-ever episode of Rentaghost.
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Ep 3 of Through the Square Window is available wherever you get your podcasts. @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social discuss Bob's Full House, Ray Davies' Return to Waterloo, Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch and, in the company of Richard Marson, the last-ever episode of Rentaghost.
Reposted by Hannah Cooper
Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
NHS staff who care for patients in their own homes fear some areas have become “no-go zones” for them because of the presence of St George’s flags, health leaders have said.
Black and Asian staff have been left feeling “deliberately intimidated” as a result of the flags that were put up in many parts of England during the summer, according to the chief executive of one NHS trust in England, who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
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Opening on this day in 1971, Birmingham's Pebble Mill studios was officially inaugurated by Princess Anne. artandhue.com/studios
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Opening on this day in 1971, Birmingham's Pebble Mill studios was officially inaugurated by Princess Anne. artandhue.com/studios
Monday. But I’ve got a 4-day week and managed to snag a great spot* on the car park.
*near to entrance, no trees to drop debris, well-lit when I’m leaving in the dark, no dickhead parking either side
*near to entrance, no trees to drop debris, well-lit when I’m leaving in the dark, no dickhead parking either side
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Monday. But I’ve got a 4-day week and managed to snag a great spot* on the car park.
*near to entrance, no trees to drop debris, well-lit when I’m leaving in the dark, no dickhead parking either side
*near to entrance, no trees to drop debris, well-lit when I’m leaving in the dark, no dickhead parking either side
At my university there was a similar chap I nicknamed 1940s Man/Gary Sparrow, who I regularly spotted in the History and WWII section of the library. I hope he’s also still out there in his 40s gear.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
At my university there was a similar chap I nicknamed 1940s Man/Gary Sparrow, who I regularly spotted in the History and WWII section of the library. I hope he’s also still out there in his 40s gear.
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
My weekend:
Saturday: London
🚀 Blake’s 7 Series B bluray screening
🎙️ Podcast-at-BFI recording
🍻 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
Sunday: Brum
❤️ The Life of Ian Marter documentary screening
📺 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
🏏 Black Orchid
👱🏻♂️ An Audience with Peter Davison
🍺 More TV chat in a bar
Saturday: London
🚀 Blake’s 7 Series B bluray screening
🎙️ Podcast-at-BFI recording
🍻 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
Sunday: Brum
❤️ The Life of Ian Marter documentary screening
📺 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
🏏 Black Orchid
👱🏻♂️ An Audience with Peter Davison
🍺 More TV chat in a bar
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My weekend:
Saturday: London
🚀 Blake’s 7 Series B bluray screening
🎙️ Podcast-at-BFI recording
🍻 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
Sunday: Brum
❤️ The Life of Ian Marter documentary screening
📺 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
🏏 Black Orchid
👱🏻♂️ An Audience with Peter Davison
🍺 More TV chat in a bar
Saturday: London
🚀 Blake’s 7 Series B bluray screening
🎙️ Podcast-at-BFI recording
🍻 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
Sunday: Brum
❤️ The Life of Ian Marter documentary screening
📺 Hours chatting about TV in a bar
🏏 Black Orchid
👱🏻♂️ An Audience with Peter Davison
🍺 More TV chat in a bar