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Hannah Howe

@hannahhowe.bsky.social

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Mother, Welsh, European. Author of bestselling novels. Interests include vintage films & music, genealogy, social history & the Special Operations Executive. Chess addict. Anti-fascist. Sorry, I don’t reply to DMs on social media. https://hannah-howe.com

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · Aug 4

Available this autumn, The Tourney, book one in my Adventures of Maid Marian series. Formats: print, eBook, audiobook and translations.

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 10m

Armchair Theatre was an interesting concept. With most television series you know what you are going to get each week. With this I suppose the idea was to cover a variety of themes and storylines.

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 17m

The art of the opening titles. Two examples of perfection are The Adventures of Robin Hood and Thunderbirds. They remain iconic.

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 27m

We tend to take performers for granted, don’t always appreciate the traumas they go through. This week in 1963 the newspapers were full of Jet Harris. He found success, but was obviously suffering. Success on an exaggerated scale is not natural. Few people know how to deal with it, and live normally

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 33m

That’s very sad 😔

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 47m

Lady P looks more carefree in these strips. More of an adventuress than an aristocrat.

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 52m

That’s probably the best depiction of Parker I’ve seen.

Lady P’s hairdo reminds me of Dusty Springfield.

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 54m

Thanks!

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 55m

Obviously big names, did well for themselves.

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 57m

Can you point me to the link. I still haven’t worked out how to find things on Bluesky 🤷‍♀️

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 1h

Will study more closely in a moment.

Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 2h

I’m following the running orders you created, currently watching series one and series three.

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 2h

I thought that after posting 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 2h

I see what you mean. All are well cast.

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 2h

In series three, I’m seriously wondering if we can determine the running order by the Sheriff of Nottingham’s haircut.

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 2h

Melting ICE

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Fear not, 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 will defeat fascism, because fascists can’t cope with humour.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine being this lame

The Telegraph saying that an activist dancing dressed as a frog is a terrorist (in coward quotes), and for some reason they’ve added that the person is non-binary

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 2h

My Mastodon Favourite Television Programme of the 1960s and 1970s Top Ten Chart Poll

Qualifiers to Date
The Monkees
Star Trek
Columbo
Life on Earth
Monty Python’s Flying Circus

To be joined by the winners of the Drama and Children’s Programmes categories, plus three from the repechage.