This tweet, from the always excellent @russty_russ sparked a memory for me. So I thought I’d delve into the newspaper archives and see if I could tell the story through some clippings. It all begins in Aberdeen, on the 6th April 1998. But the news spread as far as Dublin too. It’s fair to say…
For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
