@dicksonian.bsky.social
Music, pop culture and common-sense fan. My heroes include Pete De Freitas, Helen Joyce and Frank Muir. https://dicksonianinstitute.substack.com/ 'All important rubbish made to publish made to last.'
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Saddened to belatedly learn of Patrick Murray's death in September. Here he is in ITV Playhouse's 'Last Summer'*, with a brilliant cast that includes Richard Mottau and Richard Beckinsale.
(*Based on a story by Jeremy Sandford.)
Damn all those women who want to protect their sex-based rights and single-sex spaces.
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Goosebump-inducing version of Mad as Snow, sung by David McAlmont, with two thirds of Kitchens of Distinction and Semay Wu.
In an ideal world, David McAlmont would be headlining the Albert Hall and the 02. Britain's greatest male singer (imho).
'Anti trans person'. 'Bigot'. 🙄
12.12.2025 09:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(Artwork tweaking by Mole at the Counter.)
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Another reverie cast. #AzitaYoussefi
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🌥️ "Effective forecasting is as much about inner peace as meteorological accuracy." 🌨️
My #NicholasCraig binge continues...
Haven’t seen this for a while!! It was brilliant to have the whole thing taken so seriously by BBC. Hilarious
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Beam me back to 1991!
10.12.2025 20:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wonderful. I wish BBC Four was still being funded as a channel for new programmes, like it used to be. All the interesting and adventurous shows like your one were commissioned there. Many thanks for the 41 years* of laughs you've given me throughout my life, Nigel. 🙏
(*and counting)
I hope A Three Thing Day is a two year thing, cos I've so far missed seeing a performance of it!
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Overjoyed to discover that @nigelplaner1.bsky.social has 'Nicholas Craig - The Mark Lawson Interview' uploaded to his youtube channel.
I remember this being a masterpiece, with Lawson doing some superb straight acting. (I wonder if he corpsed at any point!)
How have I previously missed 'The Omega Factor', an occult thriller set in Edinburgh, with @louisejameson.bsky.social in it?!
Ep 1, which scared the hell out of me last night, is currently on TPTVEncore tptvencore.co.uk/product/tppr...
Ep 2 will be on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 9pm, Friday.
"This is satire with its fingers in its ears, and its hands over its eyes and its mouth. Ian Hislop is all three monkeys rolled into one."
07.12.2025 00:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes! ....And Beyond the Valley of the Dull.
02.12.2025 22:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes! I love the subversion of New Rose's opening line too. 😆
Décharné really is the funniest and smartest lyricist I've come across.
Two Fridays ago in the West End...
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"If Ben Goldacre had challenged the climate cult, if Jon Ronson had questioned race mania, if Adam Buxton had laughed at trans activism, The Rubbish could have been exposed and discarded. But they did not, because they were terrified (and still are, and justifiably)." ~ Gareth Roberts.
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'Roland Penrose
Where you been?
Been outside
Where the trees are green
When they turn blue
Take a photograph
Paint a picture
Saw it in half'
www.discogs.com/sell/release... #MaxDécharné
'Credit' by the brilliant children's poet, Rachel Rooney; reposted by kind permission of the author.
("I’ve only written one *actual* poem since my public ‘ cancellation’ and I placed it as the final one in my collection Hey, Girl! knowing it’d be my last.")
> www.hive.co.uk/.../Rache......
"I never know exactly where a song is headed...Everything has a starting point, a trigger or an inspiration, but the good ones go their own way and don’t come with a guide book."
Max Décharné answers #15Questions.
> www.15questions.net/interview/ma...
Blimey. Had no idea they'd collaborated! Cheers for this, Simon.
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11.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SFT cathedral of sound.
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