John in London 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🍕 🎶

@UKBackintheDay2 Fantastic song and Sam kicks the guts right out of it. Such a strong, clean voice. Her strongest ever song was “The great gig in the sky” on the Pink Floyd live album “Pulse” together with Durga McBroom and Claudia Fontaine. Saw her do this live. Incredible!

38 years ago, Sam Brown released "Stop!"

@UKBackintheDay2 Such a joy to hear this again after far too many years. Thanks for posting it.

39 years later… the irony of this song still isn’t lost.

@JamesAHogg2 Brings back warm memories. Back home, after school with this on TV. The puppets like Merlin (in this example) with just the fluffy hair and a nose were genius. Also, loved the flea circus and other sketches with the appearing footprints. Bentine was a genius and so good for kids

I was watching a few episodes of Michael Bentine's Potty Time over the weekend, and my favourite was this one about King Arthur. It features a French knight riding a dog, a very Welsh wizard, simese twins with several screws loose, and a dragon that doesn't like rain. Good morning.

@arealmofwonder Oh, that wonderful voice! Vocal chords cleaned every morning with emery boards.

Richard Burton reciting this piece from Hamlet ("I have of late but wherefore I know not...") is definitely worth your attention.

@Mike_Batt I have to confess that I don’t know the works of Walter Piston, but I did meet Leonard Bernstein and sit next to him for a whole evening. So, I think that for now that balances things out. [Exits in the direction of Apple Music murmuring “Walter Piston, Walter Piston…”]

I was just listening to Walter Piston’s 2nd symphony- and I thought, “hang on, there are quite a lot of shared qualities with Bartok’s Concerto For Orchestra here” . I looked them up- and found out they both happened in 1943 within months of each other. (Incidentally, Piston was a mentor/teacher of Leonard Bernstein, and wrote an excellent book on orchestration)

@East_Cheam_Lad That’s gonna be a good thing to watch. It’s hard to beat “The Last of the McHancocks” or “The Unexploded Bomb” (‘Press the plunger, Plunger.)

We're back tomorrow (Saturday) with an interview special of the official Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful. Our guest is audio restorer Ted Kendall who has done so much to bring us the Hancock's Half Hours radio shows we enjoy. We asked Ted what was his favourite HHH....

@SaqibBanbh90290 2

How many legs 🤔 0.0001% will be succeed

@rcpwells @AlexTaylorNews @AbhorBrexit You’re right, it is. Damn those sloppy French flag-flying menaces. We shall have war by teatime!

@AlexTaylorNews @AbhorBrexit The Union Flag appears to be flown upside down.

🇬🇧 FOR 10 LONG YEARS 🤡 "We don't want to be in the EU! We don't want to be in its Single Market! We don't want to be in its Customs Union!" 🇬🇧Today (apparently)👇 "Why oh why aren't we being treated like countries in the EU, its Single Market and Customs Union ?" I mean ? 🤡

@AlexTaylorNews Blimey, they need to get her out into those Finnish woodlands. At her speeds, she can cut an entire hectare before lunch!

oh and btw I'm calling Finland winning Eurovision this year hands down 👇 - "Liekinheitin" by a duo whose violinist, Linda Brava, is 56 ! 💪❤️🇫🇮

@AlexTaylorNews The guy casually going back and forth with his paperback novel and towel must be looking forward to a nice quiet shower whilst she’s outside avoiding the men in white coats with the big net.

Paula White, Trump's spiritual adviser, is doing the X rounds today with her "strike, strike, strike !" video - (which I here👇(attempted to😀) translate into🇫🇷 (+ comments) in 2020 To be fair to Paula, it's 6yrs old, not about Iran, but yep - Paula's been a nutcase for years🤡

@BBCSteveR @RTS_media Dear Steve, Many congratulations on receiving such a prestigious award. There are times when I sit on my sofa watching one of your reports, wringing my hands and praying that you keep safe. Please keep up the brilliant work with your excellent team in Moscow. Piano’s good too!

I’m deeply honoured to receive the Royal Television Society 2026 Special Award. Thank you RTS and many thanks to the great BBC team in Moscow. @RTS_media

@its_The_Dr This is a triumph of ‘good technique’ pursued over many years that leaves a voice in such beautiful condition. What a treasure!

I bet none of you remember this song! Johnny Mathis , I think this says he was 90 years old Performing this. If so that the best Performance by a 90 year old I have ever seen.

@EmilySm43 Not if you paid me and gave me all the free merchandise I could carry, a fresh glass of chilled champagne for each song, soft squishy cushions and noise-cancelling headphones for when it all becomes too much. If you paid me what she gets per gig, I’m there!!!

Be Honest If someone gave you front row tickets to a Taylor Swift concert. Would you go?

@lady_valor_07 Yummy!

What word comes to mind when you see this?

@oelma__ 19 (plus however many are in the tree!)

It's not 9, how many birds are there then..

@JeremyVineOn5 It doesn’t matter what we reply as you’ll change it all around until it meets your right-wing criteria and then you can trumpet it loudly as if it’s your own thoughts.

Should Sir Keir Starmer be praised for standing up to Donald Trump? The PM has stood by his decision not to involve Britain in strikes on Iran, but he's been branded "weak" by the Americans and opposition parties. Do you think he's stepped up to protect British interests?

@AdamJSchwarz He doesn’t even know where his father came from. Fred Trump was born in the Bronx in New York City to German immigrant parents. So, not in the U.K. then Mr Idiot?

Trump lashes out at the United Kingdom: "The UK has been very uncooperative... They've ruined relationships... They got windmills all over the place that are ruining the country, ruining the landscapes, ruining the beautiful fields... You have Sharia courts adjudicating law."

@Old_But_Gold50s I was lucky enough to see Bernstein at the Albert Hall conducting this piece. Magical!

The fourth movement of Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler opens with the Adagietto, often considered his most famous music. Frequently performed on its own, it was notably conducted by Leonard Bernstein at Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral in 1968. Yet according to conductor Willem Mengelberg, Mahler intended it not as a lament, but as a love letter to Alma. The luminous movement features only strings and harp, creating an intimate, deeply expressive atmosphere.

@LangmanVince Hu-Cha

Could you please tell me the name of this martial art?

@Rainmaker1973 Donald Trump’s alive!

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