Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 33m

THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT!

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1h

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat": the Major spots the offending creature in the bar.

1 2

Reposted by John Williams

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1h

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

2 12 30

Reposted by John Williams

Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 22h

Goon Pod talked to Jonathan Coe.

He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen:

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

6 14

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 22h

Another fascinating addition to the British Newspaper Archive. blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We welcome iconic best-selling teen magazine Jackie to The Archive. Browse every single edition of the weekly magazine for girls, from 1964 through to 1993.

blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

2

Reposted by John Williams

Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 1d

Doomwatch series 2 episode 1

An old, sepia-toned picture of a man in a chicken suit. It's really very detailed and well made, the illusion is only shattered by his regular human face sticking out. No beak or anything.

3 6 13

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to podcasting, I now have a Clannad earworm.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 1d

Actual big laughs here in Whitley Bay.

3

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 1d

None shall pass.

An implacable brown and tan rabbit guards a door.

3 7

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

The Cotswolds are disgraceful.

1 1

Reposted by John Williams

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 3d

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

18 62 230

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

A friend has just sent me the Sounds Readers' Poll from the end of 1985. It's a dense text. I think you might like this @whenisbirths.bsky.social

An image of the Sounds Readers' Poll from the end of 1985.

ALBUM
1 MISPLACED CHILDHOOD Marillion
2 LIVE AFTER DEATH Iron Maiden
3 HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush
4 POWER WINDOWS Rush
5 PSYCHOCANDY The Jesus And Mary Chain
6 LOVE The Cult
7 THE JEWEL Pendragon
8 FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS Sisters Of Mercy
9 THE WAKE IQ
10 PHANTASMAGORIA The Damned
11 BROTHERS IN ARMS Dire Straits
12 WORLD SERVICE Spear Of Destiny
13 LOW-LIFE New Order
14 ONCE UPON A TIME Simple Minds
15 NO REST FOR THE WICKED New Model Army
16 HEAD ON THE DOOR The Cure
17 BAUHAUS 79-83 Bauhaus
18 CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK SWORD Hawkwind
19 STRENGTH The Alarm
20 MEAT IS MURDER The Smiths

3 2

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

I vomited throughout the day. Terrible case of food poisoning meant I literally spent the whole ceremony throwing up into a bucket. The tremendous puking only died down around the time Saturday Night Fever aired on ITV.

3 3

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

A scene from the film Mr Deeds Goes to Town. A man in a three-piece suit is addressing an audience and points at a large graph which displays the labels Abnormal, Sane or Normal, and Subnormal.

8

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 3d

Help Neil to celebrate his birthday!

Neil Perryman @neilperryman.bsky.social · 4d

Please celebrate my birthday today by watching my latest podcast. It would the best present ever. youtu.be/nmEqFSk2qzU?...

World of Telly Episode 12: The Strange World of Gurney Slade

YouTube video by World of Telly

youtu.be

1 1 8

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

BBC4 is showing an episode of Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan featuring a quite intense and slightly spiky interview with Dilip Kumar. It’s fascinating but I wish they’d also show a more run-of-the-mill episode from the mid-70s for the real “Sunday morning when I was eight“ nostalgia rush.

1 1 9

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

“If wig you see, Brian Murphy out of character be.”

4

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

Is the right to protest in the UK “ancient”? Feels like a relatively recent hard-won right.

2

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

1

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 4d

Believe. @neilperryman.bsky.social @radiofreeskaro.bsky.social

Milo Clancy from Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

2 5

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight I watched Doctor Who: The Beast Below which I remember being poor, but I really enjoyed it, and now I’m reading Vineland which I remember being disappointingly poor *35 years ago* but I’m really enjoying it. Maybe past me was an even bigger idiot than present me.

5

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5d

I love this series of articles by Simon and more than happy to contribute some cash to keep them going. I particularly like the references to the physical nature of the books. The Three Doctors was indeed a chonky unit.

Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 6d

OMG Omega!, and other learned thoughts on the novelisation Doctor Who - The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct...

Doctor Who — The Three Doctors, by Terrance Dicks

0tralala.blogspot.com

6

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5d

If you‘d like some archive TV goodness then I strongly recommend Evan Marshall’s Sixties NI. It‘s on ITVX and YouTube. youtu.be/s_8vErMp4YM?...

Episode 1 of Sixties NI

YouTube video by ITV News In Full

youtu.be

1

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! I know if I listen to Andrew’s podcast I’ll become obsessed with it and I just don’t have the time at the moment. A pleasure deferred.

1 2

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5d

I've just realised you can just see @whenisbirths.bsky.social's new book on the right of the photo underneath the remote control.

1 1 1

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5d

I only visited Cockfosters once for the same reason only on the Tube. It was snowing then as well, but I had no Who location consolation.

1