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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 9h

If Celebrity The Traitors was made in 1978 it would involve Frank Muir, Roy Kinnear and Angharad Rees in boiler suits sitting round a big beige hexagonal table in TC7, and would be all over in 27 minutes.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 15h

Incredible scenes in The Cricket where Australia W recovered from 76/7 and now look like beating Pakistan out of sight.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 1d

Let’s do the fucking news

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 2d

Hugh Jardon, we won’t forget your best bowling figures

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 2d

I read in 2011 that Jilly Cooper was a life-long member of the National Union of Journalists.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 3d

About Peacehaven: it was a new estate named as such in 1917 to capitalise on people’s hope that the war might end.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 5d

"I've just had my TV mended. Well I say mended.. a shifty looking youth in plimsolls came and waggled my aerial and wolfed my gypsy creams... but that's the comprehensive system for you"

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 5d

I watched this performance of hers whenever I needed cheering up during various Covid lockdowns. It's absolutely flawless. What an actress. youtu.be/UKTviQNM6KA...

(Official) Dame Patricia Routledge - "I Went to a Marvellous Party" by Noël Coward

YouTube video by Noël Coward

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 5d

PA: Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, best known for TV show Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96, her agent said.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 7d

I didn’t write it or produce it.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 7d

“Reality often wears a Greggs apron”. This is terrific and very funny about the reality of professional sport by Surrey’s Cameron Steel.

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The Great British Service Station: County Cricket's Great Equaliser

A roadside hymn to the County Grind

substack.com

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 7d

If you’re going to have three equal age strata, then the middle one begins at 28 on that basis.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 7d

Every script or brief I’ve ever written about devolved policy has contained three places with alliterative names in different countries of the UK. “But minister, that’s all very well in Bournemouth, but in Belfast or Blaenau Gwent…”

Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 7d

“We love to squeeze bananas,
we love to squeeze ripe plums,
And when they are feeling sad
We love to squeeze our mums.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Force of nature' Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies aged 79

Brian Patten rose to prominence as one of the Liverpool Poets behind The Mersey Sound anthology.

www.bbc.com

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 10d

It’s the proprietary app on my Freesat box (I am one of the last five people in the UK with a Freesat box) so don’t have a choice.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 10d

Trying to watch Hack on ITVX but it crashes after the first ad break. #itv70

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 10d

Confess I’ve only heard of him because of the Half Man Half Biscuit song

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 11d

This is cracking from @nickgarnett.bsky.social who is my ex colleague and very much the opposite of a media wanker. open.substack.com/pub/garnett/...

Who's Who in Radio and TV

What's the best job and the worst in the world of broadcasting and which ones are the biggest non-jobs? This is my rundown of what everyone does in front of and behind the microphone.

open.substack.com

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 11d

The correct way to enjoy dark chocolate is to eat up to one (1) packet of dark chocolate Hob Nobs.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 11d

They failed.

Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 11d

Sport at its nihilistic best — Hampshire trying not to lose a wicket against Surrey — on 5Live Sports Extra right now.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 12d

I once sat next to Ming Campbell as we both watched prime minister’s questions on TV my office. He was waiting to go on the show I was a producer on. He joined in with all the, shouting out, moaning, and yeahyeahyeah-ing as if he were in the Commons chamber. It was great fun.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 13d

26 September 1945:
The death of Bela Bartok.
The birth of Bryan Ferry.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 12d

The prospect of an independent review of the work of the police watchdog raises the question: do we need an Independent Office of Independent Office of Police Conduct Conduct? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nottingham attacks: IOPC staff 'removed from investigation' into police contact

An investigation by the watchdog into Leicestershire Police officers was reopened in March.

www.bbc.com

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13d

One of the great phrases in football was used by Keegan that day: “They still have to go to Middlesbrough and get something”.

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