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breaking waves on a shingle beach. on Wednesday. at lunchtime.

NEW! Hot off the press. Recorded just two days ago in one of our favourite spots in Dorset. This is a return to the wonder that is Chesil Beach.

Episode 285 - Late October on Chesil Beach (sleep safe)

32 minutes. Just the sound of the waves and the pebbles. No one else around.

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Well, that’s brought a tear to the eye 😢. What a beautiful tribute.

Quick, the ghosts are coming - everyone act supernatural!

😳 would love to know the story behind this…?

Yes please.

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Map with a load of pins on it

And as the media dreams up every place Virgin Trains is going to theoretically run, here's my #CrossChannelRail map - lines and stations. Click each station for details how/if it could be served.

For a start: CDG is a ❌

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David Bowie’s Final Decade To Be Celebrated In Documentary Feature From Channel 4, Rogan & Dogwoof A David Bowie Channel 4 documentary about his final decade is coming from Rogan Productions, Dogwoof and Emmy winner Dan Hall.

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Are all these films viewable through the BTF archive or the BFI archive. Or do you have to be a member?

I’m still planning my spring trip to take the rail ferry 😊👍🏻🇮🇹

Random fact. My sister-in-law works on that boat. 🤷🏻‍♂️🇨🇭

“If either Ebbsfleet International or Ashford International station are reopened in Kent, then Virgin will stop there, and it is working with Kent County Council and other local stakeholders to explore how to make this happen.” Not quite a commitment but something.

ORR grants Virgin Trains access to Temple Mills: the low risk option - Jon Worth The UK’s Office of Rail and Road has today decided that Virgin Trains should have access to the Temple Mills depot in east London to maintain its future Channel Tunnel fleet, and has rejected applicat...

My first analysis of ORR granting Virgin Trains access to Temple Mills (and rejecting applications from Gemini, Trenitalia, Evolyn)

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#CrossChannelRail

Fair.

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Sure. Also just read in the report that expected rollout of the service is 2030. Five years seems a weirdly long time to add a service to existing lines.

Wow. Is this a real game-changer for cross channel passenger services? Feels like it might be.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest Andy Marshall is documenting his travels in his time-travelling camper van 🚐📸🏛

✨It's a niche thing, but if you feel rooted by our historic places like Brookland, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free here: digest.andymarshall.co

Actually, yes …

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Springsteen: Deliver Me ... Jeremy Allen White captures some of Springsteen’s electrifying energy in an otherwise inert, uninventive biopic

"Love+War is a gripping documentary about the Pulitzer prize-winning conflict photographer Lynsey Addario."

Wendy Ide selects Love+War as one of her film picks of the week in @theobserveruk.bsky.social ⬇️
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TS Eliot, describing himself, also foretold a particular kind of online commenter: "the braggadocio of the mild-mannered man safely entrenched behind his typewriter"

Top story to start the week 🤣🤣

Still, at least he enjoyed the cricket…😏

I made this... and there's more on the way...

BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Yep 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

I would purchase this book on that information alone.

And here’s a short video we made about the tour …

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Non-League Adventures: Folkestone Invicta Folkestone is perhaps best known for the Eurotunnel, and, on a clear day, you can see France while seagulls swoop on your chips. It’s also home to a great non-league away day: Folkestone Invicta.

NEW POST 🗞️

Last weekend, I visited my 60th ground in England, Folkestone Invicta’s Alcaline Stadium.

Here are my tips for groundhoppers, and huge thanks to @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social for the lowdown on the club and the town.

Read on… #nonleague #FIFC

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🎬 Folkestone Documentary Festival returns for five-day celebration of storytelling Plus: Appeal for information after woman's death, and views of local independent businesses sought ahead of Budget

In this week's Dispatch we speak to the co-founder of the Folkestone Documentary Festival - which returns to @folkestonecinema.com this week