Paul Hayes

A flat, black, scuffed, slip-on type shoe, left discarded on top of a low brick wall.

Budget Cinderella.

I'm guessing as they have wickets first, these are Australian graphics - so perhaps they're like the Americans, and treat sports teams as singular rather than plural as we tend to do?

A BBC / Netflix drama series adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novels of a Dane-raised Saxon warrior in the days of King Alfred. Jason Flemyng plays Edward full of religious fervour and conviction God will save him. When the Danes put this to the test with the arrows it does not turn out well for him

He didn't look as if he was enjoying it quite so much when they did it on The Last Kingdom!

Reminds me of the arrogant bus from Thomas the Tank Engine who was humiliatingly relegated to being a henhouse.

I hope Craig Gordon makes their squad, purely to squeeze out one more World Cup with a player in it older than I am.

This always had drama written all over it, I thought, although I did expect it to be heartbreaking for Scotland, I must confess. Nice to see the Mayor of Norwich pop up with a goal at the end!

I remain pretty happy with my choice of which neighbour's fence to poke my nose over this evening!

The Scotland one definitely has the feeling of being a fun one to watch for the neutrals tonight. I can imagine it going up and down with a fair bit of drama.

Now that one *is* a kettle.

Who was listed as a "consultant" (gag writer?) on the 1990s $64,000 Question...
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They must have been gutted when the Apollo 12 astronauts almost instantly destroyed the camera!

YouTube video by barbara anne cortina monday evening continuity, 17 november 1969

Eight minutes of BBC1 continuity from Mon 17 Nov 1969 (the third day of BBC1 in colour, I love the way they keep saying IN COLOUR). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyl...

It's a teapot, isn't it?

When the 50s version started, it was 64,000 sixpences, but then they doubled it to 64,000 shillings.

To complete the gag / tortured analogy, I am pleased to report that I did not bend Radio Cambridgeshire's precious aeroplane.

Nice to be back producing again today - for one day only!

I look forward to reading it!

He claims in the Wogan int it was during his first series, if that's any help.

Just had a quick search of the BBC archive for "my cardigan", and Bob tells it (pink, in this instance) on a March 1984 Wogan.

All of those are bollocks, by the looks of it - "Name a member of The Beatles"!?

A screen grab of Corinne Conley as the stewardess asking James Doohan as passenger George Spencer if he could come up to the cockpit for a moment, in the 1956 Canadian television play Flight into Danger.

"Excuse me, Sir... All the producers in Cambridge this weekend have had the fish. We understand you used to produce live radio shows some time ago... Is there any chance you could join us in the ops room tomorrow...?"

One of the main issues, with the UK versions available on the Network discs anyway, seems to be that aside from the convoluted format, there didn't appear to be any chat at all with the contestants outside of giving their answers, so it all felt very sterile and flat.

Is he able to explain how the hell For Love or Money was supposed to work? Having watched it on Network's ABC Nights In releases, I still don't have a clue.

A copyvofcthe book Box of Delights, by Richard Marson.

A pleasant surprise awaiting me when I got home this evening!

Crikey, you can tell Reith had gone by this point from those pin-ups!

And the OB truck providing shots of two howitzers out in the park!

A Saturday in November 1950 The blog of writer and radio producer Paul Hayes.

Six-and-a-half years ago, I came across a fact in the files at Caversham which I thought was quite interesting. Today I was finally able to turn it into a nice little radio piece and a News Online story.

Here is the story of that story...

Thanks John! They were very helpful to me in providing some archive photos, one of which of the ground I'm glad I was able to use in the piece.

A Saturday in November 1950 The blog of writer and radio producer Paul Hayes.

The Caversham aspect may be of interest to @illuminations.bsky.social, and the niche TV football history angle to @skillagesteve.bsky.social... So here is the story behind the story...

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