Aw that’s a huge shame. Very funny and a great voice artist. RIP Nigel Lambert. Write that down in your copybooks now. 😢
If it weren't for undermining the seriousness if I lost him in a park, I would love to get a dog and name him Sir.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. Candid, funny, enraging and moving. A must for any self-respecting telly fan.
Of course, we should forgive our antagonism towards each other. We're all processing the loss of Maggie Smith in our own way.
ENTITLED AMERICAN BASKER AS I PASS HIM ON A NARROW STREET: [sarcastically] Oh my god, amplified music, I'm gonna walk right past it. ME: [in my head] Tell you what mate, learn to sing a bit better and they might let you perform in a room.
The thing about Ceefax is that journalists had to learn to write an entire story in four paragraphs. This was carried over when the website came along, where ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE to Ceefaxify online stories. Telling the story in four pars is still the gold standard. www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthe...
Ceefax went live fifty years ago. BBC journalist and former Ceefax sports editor Ian Westbrook recalls the years when teletext ruled the airwaves.
There was an extended period of time last year when I thought milk and houmous were going off faster due to supply chain issues in the wake of Brexit and it turned out I needed a new fridge.
The BBC has made its sound effects archive openly available online! The descriptions are pretty great, although I'd love to be able to browse/filter by program as well sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk 📚📜
BBC Sound Effects
I could suddenly taste jam sandwiches just now. Raspberry. Does this mean anything? Am I ill? Don't tell me to google it, I don't google.
Anyway if this place were actually an echo chamber we'd all be spelling it echo chamber... amber... amber...