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Justin Lewis is a Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies… more

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whenisbirths.bsky.social
And lastly for now, Clement Attlee could have heard the first week of Radio 1.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Also, Benjamin Britten could have seen the Sex Pistols swearing at Bill Grundy.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Samuel Beckett could have watched Blackadder Goes Forth and bought Pacific by 808 State.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Sending get well wishes, incidentally, to genuine literacy champion and all-round good egg Dolly.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
I think I probably learned more about the world from TV than from school. Which is not to damn school.
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adamdowling.bsky.social
WEDNESDAY'S SHOW: Bestselling author Peter James chats to me about his new Roy Grace book "The Hawk Is Dead", which features Queen Camilla and saw him working with the Palace for research

Plus actor Alex Lowe chats to me about taking Clinton Baptiste on tour

🔈 LISTEN: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Life's hard enough. Celebrate imagination rather than outright lying.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
How useful/profitable I am to society is a moot point, but I'm not sure that the Bannonesque political discourse of the 'flood it with shit' is terribly useful either, and it certainly isn't very interesting.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
I think deep down some of the grifters we have know this, but it's useful to them to peddle the lie that we all have to do the same thing, and be the same person.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
When I was writing the new book - because tbh, the 80s was a hard decade for me at times - I kept coming back to the inescapable truth that what kept me going was: books, TV, comedy, radio, films sometimes, but above all music. That stuff's not frippery, it's how you become the person you are.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
@outonbluesix.bsky.social!
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Hellish @hellishpod.com · 1h
‘Into the Groove’ by @whenisbirths.bsky.social is full of fascinating 80s pop facts. But one fact you won’t find in there is the truth about Justin’s ‘cameo’ in Elton John’s ‘Nikita’ video - luckily he told us all about it!

Listen podfollow.com/hellish

Get ‘Into the Groove’ tinyurl.com/80sgroove
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hellishpod.com
‘Into the Groove’ by @whenisbirths.bsky.social is full of fascinating 80s pop facts. But one fact you won’t find in there is the truth about Justin’s ‘cameo’ in Elton John’s ‘Nikita’ video - luckily he told us all about it!

Listen podfollow.com/hellish

Get ‘Into the Groove’ tinyurl.com/80sgroove
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Newspaper editors who will all fall behind this 'what's the point of humanities degrees' bunkum when that's exactly what most of them studied in the first place.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Not to overdramatise it, but especially missing the gone people today. A couple are recent, others are from ages back, but you still miss 'em. That's it. Send.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
How do people think musicians and so on get better? Yes, it’s practice but it’s other things too.

by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
All reminds me of how hostile the media used to get about media studies. ‘It’s just watching telly and reading newspapers’ (and also ‘potentially working out what we’re really up to’).
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So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
I can't imagine the stunts were part of the show with Barker in mind.

In case you didn't know by the way: David Nobbs was the script editor who saw the Some Mothers pilot script and thought it showed promise.
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drjamesbailey.bsky.social
The first blurb for my book is in!

I’m so delighted that the brilliant Francesca Wade (whose new Gertrude Stein biography is amazing) had this to say about LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD
MEDIA REVIEWS Bailey's slippery Spark is chaotic, complex, often hilarious, and constantly shapeshifting. His kaleidoscopic portrait illuminates Spark's life and work from every angle, yet - crucially - allows her the freedom she craved to confound and elude those who would try to pin her down. This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer - Francesca Wade, author of SQUARE HAUNTING
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Barker being the original choice for Frank Spencer is mindboggling, you just can't imagine that.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
That kind of playfulness. And switching between comedy and drama. But it did slump towards the end (cast tensions and there was a writers strike in the final year). But it was very adventurous for the time.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
It felt like a big influence on Press Gang, did you see that, S? A lot of fourth wall breaking. I don’t know how that will have aged it now.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
This is what I was wondering. More ‘a bit out of touch’ than outwardly horrible. I remember one of his other Room 101 selections was ‘there’s too much choice’ and sometimes I find myself agreeing these days.

by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
God, that phrase turned up in the Radio Times, didn’t it.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Was Family Channel where all the MTM stuff lived during the 90s. Used to look at that schedule with some envy.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Reminds me of how as a student there was something about Young Conservatives that felt far far worse than the 70-year-old Tories.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
I’ve just remembered the name John Harvey-Jones.
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
Last shown in Britain when there was a short lived ABC channel on Freeview and they only showed some of it. Twenty years ago.
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Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social · 17h
Moonlighting, the beloved 1980s TV series that launched Bruce Willis's career, is available to stream in the UK for the first time ever.

Read more: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/mo...
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by Justin Lewis

whenisbirths.bsky.social
He is literally the same age as Love Plus One by Haircut 100.
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