www.theguardian.com/culture/2024... rather brilliant about Leonard Rossiter.

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter

Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, s...

I always found a discussion of the weak anthropic principle made them think I was too crazy to save.

I've reduced the price of my bro-in-law's travel memoir of Afghanistan in 1988 by selling direct through @BlurbBooks: blurb.co.uk/b/7204012-goin… There's a 15% discount code as well at the moment! Preview available.

Going Inside

Rahmatullah Safi was a general in a mujahideen group fighting the Russians. John England was deputy head teacher of a primary school in England. They were neighbours in the UK and in 1988 Safi invited...

I once spent a few hours researching at their archive (RV Jones collection). Had to leave early because people were coming to gaze upon Margaret Thatcher’s handbag!

I remember them from my youth and wondering how easy it would be to get electrocuted.

I thought you might. I quite liked the notion of making it look like a real 90 volt battery.

Google finds this … www.dos4ever.com/battery/batt...

One for the teenagers.

I suspect you’ll have to bake that Ampex reel.

Forty-eight years ago this evening, BBC2 broadcast Episode One of Jack Pulman’s magnificent adaptation of Robert Graves’ I, CLAUDIUS. Directed by Herbert Wise and featuring a truly astonishing cast, it remains, arguably, the greatest drama serial ever televised. #Classics#Reception