Tim Hall
@topicaltim.bsky.social
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Reposted by Tim Hall
Yesterday saw me making a journey which would have been much easier if this rail service existed, and wondering - not for the first time - why there has been absolute silence about when it might actually start (the answer is, of course, late stage capitalism)
Oxfordshire’s weekly news update with all the stories we’ve broken this week:
✅ 10,000-home new town in North Oxfordshire
✅ Why Oxford–Milton Keynes trains haven’t started
✅ The new café run by monks
❌ Cotswold celebrities and Emma Watson
Read it online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
✅ 10,000-home new town in North Oxfordshire
✅ Why Oxford–Milton Keynes trains haven’t started
✅ The new café run by monks
❌ Cotswold celebrities and Emma Watson
Read it online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Clarion Weekly, 5 September 2025
Kids are back at school, traffic is back… and the news never went away. We bring you a smorgasbord of exclusives, events and some dodgy monastic puns. Trigger warning: there is a picture of a spider i...
oxfordclarion.uk
September 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Yesterday saw me making a journey which would have been much easier if this rail service existed, and wondering - not for the first time - why there has been absolute silence about when it might actually start (the answer is, of course, late stage capitalism)
Because I am miles behind on my podcast listening, I have just caught the @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social episode which majors on The Salt Path, and I am reminded that one should always be prepared to revisit one's opinions...
July 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Because I am miles behind on my podcast listening, I have just caught the @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social episode which majors on The Salt Path, and I am reminded that one should always be prepared to revisit one's opinions...
Looking at a list of Oscar winning directors and I can't believe it took me this long to realise that Frank Capra should be easy to remember because he's the GOAT.
June 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Looking at a list of Oscar winning directors and I can't believe it took me this long to realise that Frank Capra should be easy to remember because he's the GOAT.
Watching the excellent John Williams as the Scotland Yard inspector in Dial M for Murder, it struck me that he regularly wears a raincoat, and at one point turns back to ask Ray Milland "just one more thing", so basically Alfred Hitchcock invented Columbo...
January 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Watching the excellent John Williams as the Scotland Yard inspector in Dial M for Murder, it struck me that he regularly wears a raincoat, and at one point turns back to ask Ray Milland "just one more thing", so basically Alfred Hitchcock invented Columbo...
It's the moment of truth. Competitive quizzing at its most gladiatorial. An excited audience awaits. The stakes could not be higher. Four men enter and, well, four men leave, but one of them has a nice trophy. Still one of the most reliably good things on the radio.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Brain of Britain, The 2024 Final
Russell Davies hosts the final in the 2024 season of the classic general knowledge quiz.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 1:02 PM
It's the moment of truth. Competitive quizzing at its most gladiatorial. An excited audience awaits. The stakes could not be higher. Four men enter and, well, four men leave, but one of them has a nice trophy. Still one of the most reliably good things on the radio.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Fascinating piece which will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the most capricious pub company in existence...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Fascinating piece which will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the most capricious pub company in existence...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Poor old Amol's voice suggests this one was recorded at the end of a big block of episodes...will it hold up as we reach the final five minutes?
November 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Poor old Amol's voice suggests this one was recorded at the end of a big block of episodes...will it hold up as we reach the final five minutes?
Hark at him who's only been here five minutes blowing his own trumpet because he's on the radio www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Brain of Britain, Heat 12, 2024
Russell Davies chairs the classic general knowledge quiz.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Hark at him who's only been here five minutes blowing his own trumpet because he's on the radio www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...