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Daily Star's 60p Lettuce Liz that lasted longer than Truss immortalised by BFI The lettuce livestream has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive as part of a digital collection featuring 400 significant pieces of British online video content

Very funny - the BFI has acquired the Daily Star's lettuce/Liz Truss video for the national archive, because it is a significant piece of British content that deserves preservation

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Saw this and thought of @kermodemovie.bsky.social

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

Genuinely outstanding news, even if this news story can apparently only report on it by cramming it full of every objection imaginable. People should be able to drink as late as they please. And by 'people' I mean me.
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@simonmayo.bsky.social In terms of the most unbelievable true facts (as you were discussing on Wittertainment), I saw this on X back in February and immediately saved it because I knew it was the most beautiful thing I would ever learn. Especially relevant in these current science-doubting times

Frightening. We know *nothing* about the shooter. "They are at war with us", "we are watching what they say", "rats". Just a desperately sad day on many levels.

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

Pet Shop Boys' Always On My Mind tops cover version vote The Pet Shop Boys' 1987 hit Always On My Mind is voted the top cover version of all time in a BBC Music vote.

Remembering that one time, not so long ago, that the British voting public got it absolutely, incontestably right.

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F1 has become the biggest box office hit of Brad Pitt's entire career. Astonishingly, the film it replaced is World War Z. Had no idea that had done so well

Ozzy Osbourne's legacy is heavy metal music and industrial Birmingham How Black Sabbath’s sound came out of the dark metallic clang and hammer of the UK’s second city

Wrote for @theipaper.com about the death of Ozzy Osbourne and how Black Sabbath turned the sound of industrial Birmingham into a new music genre

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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

I *knew* there was something iffy about that story as to why the Salt Path couple lost their home. No matter how many stories I searched none of it added up. Well done @chloehadj.bsky.social for getting to the truth observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

@simonmayo.bsky.social Courtesy tvrdb.com, can confirm Onibaba was indeed first shown in 1970, on ITV on 20 July

Crystal Palace really does have the most beautiful station

Fifteen years ago today. Never forget 🇺🇸

@simonmayo.bsky.social Actually took my breath away when you started Take 2 talking about Fearless on the pod, what with today's news.

If I can be genuine for a moment, this week has seen my 4th proper column for @theipaper.com and the joy I’m getting from writing for them is hard to express. I hope that you’re enjoying reading and I hope there will be much more to come

We always owe vegans a choice – it's what makes us human I’m going to stick up for my more hardcore animal lovers

Why it’s important to make sure you’ve got food in for your vegan friends - even when the apocalypse happens - by me for @theipaper.com

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That’s no way to talk about Lance Stroll

And in today’s paper, the cutdown

Oh that’s so kind! Thank you!

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard.

I am CRINE.

I am! The very same!

In turn, this has made MY day.

A little samplette

No one does podcasts quite like Kermode and Mayo Twenty years ago, BBC Radio 5live made the film review segment of Simon Mayo's show available as a podcast

So having posted about the 20th anniversary of the 1st @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social podcast, I tried to put into words for @theipaper.com why it is so special - what @simonmayo.bsky.social and @kermodemovie.bsky.social get so right. I'd love it if you'd give it a read

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They mostly talked Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith - it doesn't get the warmest of receptions - but there's also a nice review of a documentary called What The Bleep Do We Know, about humanity's place in the universe.

Happy birthday @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social

Exactly 20 years ago today, the very first download (the BBC would not let them use the word "podcast") of @kermodemovie.bsky.social / @simonmayo.bsky.social's format-defining programme - what we now know as Kermode and Mayo's Take - was made available. It's here:
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iWittr The home of Kermode & Mayo's Witterverse

And the full, 11-minute transcription of the Pirates 3 review

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iWittr The home of Kermode & Mayo's Witterverse

High School Musical 3

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iWittr The home of Kermode & Mayo's Witterverse

The Closer Problem

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iWittr The home of Kermode & Mayo's Witterverse

The origin of the word "Wittertainment"

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