Doug Morris

Kent has a new fleet of gritting lorries. One of them is called See It, Say It, Salt It.

Ćalciland this morning. That's the former goon squad camp in front of the National Assembly in Belgrade. Masked men in black arrived at 7.30pm last night - then legged it when Vučić conceded. The Student List supporters cleared out the camp. For the first time in 18 months, it's safe to walk here.

Love This City Is Ours, or as I call it, Crookside

Ah man.

This week's MBRS (Late Show With Mickey Bradley) is tonight at 10.04pm on BBC Radio Ulster and includes Micko & The Mellotronics, Hello, Mooches, The Selecter, Judy Clay & William Bell, Life Without Buildings and a lot more. Listen on BBC Sounds and join the chat at: @mickeyundertone.bsky.social

Also, the stuff on Radio4 Extra will NOT remain on Sounds when the service is scrapped. A repeat of my audio drama on the station remained for just 30 days on Sounds, as it had when broadcast on R4. It's not available anywhere now cough. www.mixcloud.com/espeee/the-h...

Re: BBC 4Xtra / Sounds. Any archive service has to pay creators. The BBC can’t have an infinite database of content paid for via a fixed pool of money from the licence fee. Unless of course they work out the clever method Spotify did (just steal it all with menaces and don’t pay the suppliers).

I’ve just finished listening to a glorious celebration of J B Priestley by @stuartmaconie.bsky.social on 4 Extra. I stumbled across it, pure serendipity, I would never seek it out on an app. That’s how radio works and what a significant linear audience is going to lose.

The death of Radio 4 Extra is a very, very sad day. I am genuinely upset by this decison.

For people wondering why The Canary has come to grief, I have an example. In April, I was due to cover the trial of the men eventually convicted of arson offences against then-PM Sir Keir Starmer. The trial was listed to start on April 27. But it started with two days' jury selection and legal stuff

Morning people! My lovely “better half” @gailmyerscough.co.uk is having a bit of a slow old week in her amazing online shop - as you may know her designs are stunning. Why not pop along to her online shop and have a look around? www.gailmyerscough.co.uk?srsltid=AU7g... - please share this, cheers 👍👍

A cultural artefact. No finer EP was ever produced. Boredom, b'dum b'dum, now on the MB Record Show. We shall never be bored by songs about boredom. Not round here, anyway. buff.ly/nsm1pDZ

Hancock's Half Hour (16th October 1959). "Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?"

The only flying car I'm interested in

Six weeks working for the gardens department of Gravesham council. I got to be a park keeper, rode the ride on mower and got told to weed more slowly. Glory days. Then I had to go back to uni…

Perv #totp

80s funk opening with a prime banger of the genre. Gan on, George. #TOTP

To think people are watching #celebritytraitors when on #totp they’ve just missed the great Michael Palin introducing Adam and the Ants…

There will never be another headline as good as this. We might as well all give up. We’ve completed the news.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Today's Modculture film club instalment. Almost 60 years since it first appeared on the big screen, Fahrenheit 451 is perhaps more relevant today than at any other time in its history. And it's a great looking movie too. bit.ly/4AYsaB0

Anonymous sources are bad, says an anonymous source.

Did he fly in?

RAJAN OUT RAJAN OUT RAJAN OUT #CelebrityTraitors

Who me? Yes you. Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599, from the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. By the great Caravaggio, whose day is today.

The modern world in old Ladybird books. ‘The Sports Reporter’ The Story of Newspapers (1969) Artist: Ron Embleton

This picture briefly made me think Kim Jong Un was doing a spot of cricket scoring.

69 today. Happy birthday Nick Cave.

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

ROYAL FACTS: the venue that Prince William visited in west London today used to be the swimming pool where this was filmed. youtu.be/ob1rYlCpOnM?...

Happy birthday to Toni Basil. Here's a clip of Bruce Conner's very cool 1966 film of her dancing to her song Breakaway, which became a collectable Northern Soul single. Watch a short documentary about the making of the video at youtu.be/5CHtEASlzG8 (THREAD)

A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂

The Eighteen Ronnies

Ochre Home and Colonial

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

#FallFriday As the Premier League season starts today, here's Mark E Smith reading the football results 21 years ago youtu.be/EBUiPs1PxKo

You’ll never guess

Today I STRONGLY RECOMMEND the new album by The Womack Sisters - daughters of Cecil & Linda Womack and granddaughters of Sam Cooke. Get a load of this youtu.be/FhFBYQG8Xg4?...

Remembering Ronnie Spector on her birthday youtu.be/_3QA2ATgIb0

Good grief. The sacred Radio 4 1800 has the bongs *and* stray pips. End of days stuff. youtu.be/BDKQliH1awY?...

Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.

all happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article...

Graeme Garden is going to talk about his friend Bill Oddie on tonight's BBC Front Row.

Peak 1964! The Stones joined on stage by Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer, Lesley Gore, Jan and Dean etc. The complete T.A.M.I. Show is on YouTube - and it’s *SO GOOD*