Ian Jones
@ian-jones.bsky.social
Potential line-up for a mid-1970s Celebrity Traitors.
10 men & nine women, as per this year:
John Le Mesurier
Joyce Grenfell
Terry Wogan
Gabrielle Drake
Kenneth Williams (if unavailable, Larry Grayson)
Yootha Joyce
Roy Castle
Diana Dors
Jonathan Miller
Linda Thorson
John Conteh
Ann Haydon-Jones...
10 men & nine women, as per this year:
John Le Mesurier
Joyce Grenfell
Terry Wogan
Gabrielle Drake
Kenneth Williams (if unavailable, Larry Grayson)
Yootha Joyce
Roy Castle
Diana Dors
Jonathan Miller
Linda Thorson
John Conteh
Ann Haydon-Jones...
October 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Potential line-up for a mid-1970s Celebrity Traitors.
10 men & nine women, as per this year:
John Le Mesurier
Joyce Grenfell
Terry Wogan
Gabrielle Drake
Kenneth Williams (if unavailable, Larry Grayson)
Yootha Joyce
Roy Castle
Diana Dors
Jonathan Miller
Linda Thorson
John Conteh
Ann Haydon-Jones...
10 men & nine women, as per this year:
John Le Mesurier
Joyce Grenfell
Terry Wogan
Gabrielle Drake
Kenneth Williams (if unavailable, Larry Grayson)
Yootha Joyce
Roy Castle
Diana Dors
Jonathan Miller
Linda Thorson
John Conteh
Ann Haydon-Jones...
Good to see the celebrities maintaining the round table traditions of spelling each other's names wrong and addressing each other as "yourself". #CelebrityTraitors
October 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Good to see the celebrities maintaining the round table traditions of spelling each other's names wrong and addressing each other as "yourself". #CelebrityTraitors
Imagine if ITV had chosen to mark its 70th anniversary by giving over half an hour of this evening's schedule to a new performance of those exact same scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest, Baker’s Dozen and Private Lives.
No, I can't either.
No, I can't either.
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Imagine if ITV had chosen to mark its 70th anniversary by giving over half an hour of this evening's schedule to a new performance of those exact same scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest, Baker’s Dozen and Private Lives.
No, I can't either.
No, I can't either.
I remember Simon Mayo being so smitten with Vindaloo that he played it on air twice in a row.
September 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I remember Simon Mayo being so smitten with Vindaloo that he played it on air twice in a row.
John Cleese moaning (again) in an undignified way about the BBC reminds me of the way Terry Wogan moaned (again and again) in an undignified way about the BBC for about 15 years.
With Wogan it was worse, however, as he moaned about the BBC while at the same time taking money for working at the BBC.
With Wogan it was worse, however, as he moaned about the BBC while at the same time taking money for working at the BBC.
September 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
John Cleese moaning (again) in an undignified way about the BBC reminds me of the way Terry Wogan moaned (again and again) in an undignified way about the BBC for about 15 years.
With Wogan it was worse, however, as he moaned about the BBC while at the same time taking money for working at the BBC.
With Wogan it was worse, however, as he moaned about the BBC while at the same time taking money for working at the BBC.
It's October 1987 and Q magazine has categorised helpfully the celebrities du jour.
There's good news for Ben Curiosity, Bill Wyman and Lindas Davidson and Lusardi; less good news for Chris Quentin, Belouis Some and "sundry" Curiosities.
First reserves include Nino Firetto and Gary Glitter.
There's good news for Ben Curiosity, Bill Wyman and Lindas Davidson and Lusardi; less good news for Chris Quentin, Belouis Some and "sundry" Curiosities.
First reserves include Nino Firetto and Gary Glitter.
September 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's October 1987 and Q magazine has categorised helpfully the celebrities du jour.
There's good news for Ben Curiosity, Bill Wyman and Lindas Davidson and Lusardi; less good news for Chris Quentin, Belouis Some and "sundry" Curiosities.
First reserves include Nino Firetto and Gary Glitter.
There's good news for Ben Curiosity, Bill Wyman and Lindas Davidson and Lusardi; less good news for Chris Quentin, Belouis Some and "sundry" Curiosities.
First reserves include Nino Firetto and Gary Glitter.
While we're celebrating 40 years of Howards' Way, let's also commemorate the faltering evolution of the typeface used during the opening titles, which progressed series by series from slap-this-on-anything to bespoke-ritzy.
September 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
While we're celebrating 40 years of Howards' Way, let's also commemorate the faltering evolution of the typeface used during the opening titles, which progressed series by series from slap-this-on-anything to bespoke-ritzy.
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40 years ago today, #HOWARDSWAY was first broadcast. This drama of ambition, love and shoulder pads was often dubbed 'Dallas-on-Sea' for its glamorous portrayal of the wealthy yachting and business elite in the fictional coastal town of Tarrant.
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September 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
40 years ago today, #HOWARDSWAY was first broadcast. This drama of ambition, love and shoulder pads was often dubbed 'Dallas-on-Sea' for its glamorous portrayal of the wealthy yachting and business elite in the fictional coastal town of Tarrant.
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40 years ago today, I began keeping a daily diary. The first entries are rather prosaic, but a) I was only nine and b) at the time I didn't know I'd carry on. But I did - and I never stopped. (The names of the days are in Cornish; they were printed in a different language each week. Very recherché).
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
40 years ago today, I began keeping a daily diary. The first entries are rather prosaic, but a) I was only nine and b) at the time I didn't know I'd carry on. But I did - and I never stopped. (The names of the days are in Cornish; they were printed in a different language each week. Very recherché).
Saw the first few minutes of At Bertram's Hotel on BBC4 - one of the most visually exciting openings of any of the BBC adaptations - and was struck by how pristine the remastered print looked. Then I checked and saw no Blu-rays are available in the UK *purses lips like Joan Hickson*.
August 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Saw the first few minutes of At Bertram's Hotel on BBC4 - one of the most visually exciting openings of any of the BBC adaptations - and was struck by how pristine the remastered print looked. Then I checked and saw no Blu-rays are available in the UK *purses lips like Joan Hickson*.
Has it ever been definitely established who The Firm are depicting in their big budget #totp performance of Arthur Daley E's Alright? At times it seems they're meant to be Arthur and Terry - but then why is "Terry" is dressed like a city gent and "Arthur" like Jay Gatsby?
August 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Has it ever been definitely established who The Firm are depicting in their big budget #totp performance of Arthur Daley E's Alright? At times it seems they're meant to be Arthur and Terry - but then why is "Terry" is dressed like a city gent and "Arthur" like Jay Gatsby?
It was in this week 40 years ago that I went to the Curzon cinema in Loughborough to watch A View to a Kill: my very first James Bond film. I went largely on the recommendation of Jimmy Greaves, who had reviewed it on TV-am and shown a clip of what he hailed as "the best car chase I have EVER seen!"
July 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It was in this week 40 years ago that I went to the Curzon cinema in Loughborough to watch A View to a Kill: my very first James Bond film. I went largely on the recommendation of Jimmy Greaves, who had reviewed it on TV-am and shown a clip of what he hailed as "the best car chase I have EVER seen!"
40 years ago today, my hometown does its bit for Live Aid. Sally should probably have checked Radio Times.
July 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
40 years ago today, my hometown does its bit for Live Aid. Sally should probably have checked Radio Times.
I hope they found whoever pulled the plug on The Who’s set… and gave them a medal. #HereAllWeek #LiveAid
July 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I hope they found whoever pulled the plug on The Who’s set… and gave them a medal. #HereAllWeek #LiveAid
*checks weather forecast* Looks like I might be able to use my oven on Tuesday, the first time this month! After that - who knows? Maybe I can risk heating a sausage in August.
July 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
*checks weather forecast* Looks like I might be able to use my oven on Tuesday, the first time this month! After that - who knows? Maybe I can risk heating a sausage in August.
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Glad we don't have to do THAT any more! Anyway, here's that first listing in @radiotimes.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Glad we don't have to do THAT any more! Anyway, here's that first listing in @radiotimes.bsky.social
60 years ago this evening, a TV programme created by my great uncle Glyn was launched on BBC1.
Its name was coined by Glyn's wife, Daphne, when someone from Radio Times rang them at home in a flap, desperate to know how to bill the show in the next issue: "Tell them to call it Tomorrow's World."
Its name was coined by Glyn's wife, Daphne, when someone from Radio Times rang them at home in a flap, desperate to know how to bill the show in the next issue: "Tell them to call it Tomorrow's World."
July 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
60 years ago this evening, a TV programme created by my great uncle Glyn was launched on BBC1.
Its name was coined by Glyn's wife, Daphne, when someone from Radio Times rang them at home in a flap, desperate to know how to bill the show in the next issue: "Tell them to call it Tomorrow's World."
Its name was coined by Glyn's wife, Daphne, when someone from Radio Times rang them at home in a flap, desperate to know how to bill the show in the next issue: "Tell them to call it Tomorrow's World."
These "secret sets" by musicians at Glastonbury don't seem very secret to me. I'm reading about them everywhere.
June 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
These "secret sets" by musicians at Glastonbury don't seem very secret to me. I'm reading about them everywhere.
This episode of All Creatures Great & Small has thoroughly scrambled my already over-heated brain.
June 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This episode of All Creatures Great & Small has thoroughly scrambled my already over-heated brain.
May 1993: a time when Alan Yentob was almost as well-known as Noel Edmonds (though neither were as well-known as Mr Blobby).
May 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
May 1993: a time when Alan Yentob was almost as well-known as Noel Edmonds (though neither were as well-known as Mr Blobby).
Ah yes, of course: the thing that caused the world the most distress and hardship in 2020 was the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest.
May 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Ah yes, of course: the thing that caused the world the most distress and hardship in 2020 was the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest.