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Count Dracula / Count Tesla

BBC2 reminding you to adjust the time on your Teasmade with the hour change

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Waking up after the clocks change, I feel like Buck Rogers.

#NowPlaying Jazz harp, vibraphone, guitar and flute is the heavenly sound of Sunday morning.

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Current mood...

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. Oops I Did It Again In My Pants

DO WHAT FEAR YOU MOST The History the Of Velvet Under Ground I can hear the gnashing of @adriandoran.bsky.social’s teeth from here.

Czech poster for THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964) Written and directed by Jacques Demy Starring Catherine Deneuve - BOTD in 1943

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#NowPlaying From Two Piers, my favourite kind of compilation - a scattered mix of genres and styles, bound by a concept—here, a train journey from dusk to dawn.

I reckon it would have built more of an audience if they’d called it something like Radio 7 Drama or Theatre. Radio 4 Extra just sounds like additional wibbling by cagey politicians and gnashing journos.

Roger Livesey never set foot in Scotland when filming I Know Where I’m Going!

#NowPlaying #JazzSky More immaculate jazz nocturnes.

#NowPlaying #JazzSky Definitive evening music.

Two movies nobody would believe are by the same director:

Brighton-set procedural in which Val Guest revisits the Hell Is a City template, though Jack Warner is rather cuddlier than Stanley Baker. Great location shooting. Feels like the template for Gideon’s Way.

See No Evil is an inventive Brian Clemens-scripted thriller that plays like a big-screen episode of Thriller. It has quite a giallo feel, though red cowboy boots stand in for black gloves. Mia Farrow’s character really gets put through the ringer. Berkshire looks lovely in autumn.

#NowPlaying The Two Piers label provides the ideal soundtrack for that intergalactic trip in your 1970s spacecraft.

#NowPlaying Lou Donaldson in October mode.

#NowPlaying Includes Autumn Nocturne, so it presented itself, really.

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Great list. Some great opening scenes I’d offer: Citizen Kane (silent title card, then “No Trespassing”) A Matter of Life and Death (“This is the universe. Big, isn’t it?”) Kiss Me Deadly (bare feet running on the highway) La Dolce Vita (Jesus over Rome) The Spy Who Loved Me (Union flag parachute)

London Transport - Fall of the Leaf, by Walter E. Spradbery, 1933.

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