Oliver Wake

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain creates free guide for authors working with factual material

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has created a free online guide for non-fiction authors working with factual material, covering themes such as copyright, defamation and ensuring good relationships with interviewees 👇 #BookSky

Catching up on Monday's Only Connect and I got a question right that neither team could answer. I think my life may have just peaked. The answer related to ...... SPOILER FOLLOWS...
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Drunkenness.
That fits.

I'd expect the whole Liberator for £3.8m. Or less if they throw Scorpio in too.

A sculpture which looks a bit like an egg with a quarter cut out. Text says it's being bought for £3.8m. That's a lot of egg.

I thought it was the space capsule prop from Blake's 7.

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*events* plural. Obviously. I know nobody cares but I hate making typos - it's not as if I don't read these things back before posting.

I was looking for a happier ending to be honest...

I wonder what happened to the part-cyber-converted workers at the International Electromatics factory after the event of The Invasion. Perhaps they went on to be professional strong men.

Fascinating thread! Brilliant detective work from Tim.

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If only there had been a way to tell the two of them apart.

I was thinking more formally rather than gracious authors acknowledging them.

Is that why editors don't normally get credited in novels?

I can't get my head around the logic of that. Surely Reagan didn't actually stop being president, he just temporarily delegated the role's duties and authority. Maybe it's a matter of semantics, ie who was fulfilling the president role as opposed to who *was* president.

A terrific interview with Mike Mungarvan, who played journalist Howard Harvey in the first Doomlord photo story in Eagle.
The breaking Doomlord news, the story will get a reprint next year. This is almost unreasonably exciting.
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NEW PHOTOS!!!! - Taken by The Surrey Herald around 1964/65 - Carole Ann Ford (Susan) is accompanied by some Daleks not long after The Dalek Invasion of Earth was filmed to Woking for a publicity visit. There's about 17 photos from this visit. More in the reply.

A short silent movie, made by Edison Studios, has been found in a brick outhouse in the north of England. More remarkable is the fact that the film has spent the last sixty years in this dank haven.

It is: 'The Actress' (1913)

Could you do this for the whole series please?

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I have just finished reading Mike Stack’s Black Archive book on The Happiness Patrol. It’s very good. I recommend giving it a go.

Oh my giddy aunt!

Catching up on some 1998 TOTP repeats. I always like it when the wide shot includes a camera operator moving in to line up the next shot, which then appears. It's like the programme showing its working.

Is anyone here particularly knowledgable about TV writer Roy Clarke? Did he ever go by Thomas or Tom Clarke?

Was it not dangerous for private collectors to store old nitrate prints? Or has their flammability been exaggerated?

I met her a few years before that, only to escort her to a green room. She was very amusing, insisting BBC security guards were the Stasi. I wasn't sure whether to be pleased or sad when she popped up in Dr Who when she did.

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Thanks. I didn't know OS included police boxes.

Ah, I see. But whose maps were they originally? Police?

What's the source of these newly published maps, Paul? The Met Police?

An old Ordnance Survey map, with PCB marking the police box location.

A satellite overlay over an old Ordnance Survey map, with PCB marking the police box location.

A faded colour photo of a police box painted red, standing beside a wall on a traffic island beside a dual carriageway.

A faded colour photo of a police box painted red, standing beside a wall on a traffic island beside a dual carriageway.

A map surveyed in the 1950s shows it in a different location, the one in which it remained until 1979, by which time the London Fire Brigade had assumed ownership and painted the box red.