The Wilder Way - Patrick Wymark Boardroom

Out now: THE WILDER WAY: The Power Game of The Plane Makers. Episode Guide. Making of. You too can follow in the footsteps of Sir John Wilder wymark.org.uk/wilderway.html

R.I.P. Cleo Laine What Jazz joy you brought to us all. And even doing a Sondheim album. You’ll be sorely missed but thank goodness for all the ‘gifts’ you left us….. (Sorry about the delay, been travelling) usatoday.com/story/entertai…

TV📺25/7/81 BBC1 10.45:Grandstand 5.10:Alias Smith and Jones 6.0:News 6.15:Pop Quiz 6.45:Film - Carry On Follow That Camel 8.20:Summertime Special 9.5:News 9.20:Royal International Horse Show 10.30:Roots - The Next Generation 12.0:House Calls

Happy birthday Ian Mackintosh (26 July 1940) 💙 Creator of Warship, Sandbaggers, Wilde Alliance, Thundercloud, and some bonkers crime novels.

Happy birthday to the great English actress Helen Mirren (Ilyena Mironov) who was born on this day in 1945. #HelenMirren #TheQueen #PrimeSuspect #ElizabethI #TheMadnessOfKingGeorge #GosfordPark #TheLastStation #Hitchcock #PhilSpector #CalenderGirls #Trumbo #TheLongGoodFriday

With the 60s over, LWT goes full dystopian with a long-forgotten series The Guardians. A puppet PM who suggests "democracy is a form of group suicide", rule enforced by the paramilitary Guardians of the realm. The series was considered by the ITA unsuitable for NI transmission.

NatWest shareholders get another £1.5bn, weeks after the govt sold its stake. Govt bailed it out for £45bn. After rescue, sold shares at £10.5bn loss. Bonanza for shareholders. City always wins. People get benefit and public service cuts, higher taxes. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Nationwide CEO £7m pay package declared ‘obscenity’ during AGM. Members still approved it, probably by erroneously handing proxy votes to chairman. Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary; do nothing to control exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

The fabulous Cleo Laine has died aged 97. She appeared alongside her late husband Johnny Dankworth in @hammerfilms' jazz short Parade of the Bands in 1955 (distributed by Exclusive Films). theguardian.com/music/2025/jul…

#RIP Dame Cleo Laine - a true jazz great and so much wonderful music and memories. Here she is back in 1995 with John, the band and a Duke Ellington classic...

momentarily forgot that time horrible histories did a sketch about verity lambert and even managed to sneak in a web planet critique 🥰🤣 #DoctorWho #HorribleHistories

For the anecdote, French voice of Gene Barry in The Adventurer and the 90s Burke's Law.

Lloyds boss warns Reeves against hiking taxes on banks as profits rise 17%. Banks bailed out, given £895bn QE, sell dud products, rarely prosecuted, closing branches, making mega profits but resent paying taxes. No one voted to be ruled by banks. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Remembering the English actress Valerie Van Ost who was born on this day in 1944. She died in 2019. #ValerieVanOst #CarryOnDoctor #CarryOnCabby #DontLoseYourHead #CarryOnAgainDoctor #TheAvengers #TheSatanicRitesOfDracula #CasinoRoyale #MisterTenPerCent #IncenseForTheDamned

#NowWatching The Shadow (1994) Do modern comic book movies have the bonus of the hero sport a comedy oversized nose? I think not.

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#NoelCoward preferred the #LynneRedgrave TV version of PRETTY POLLY to the subsequent film (1967) starring #HayleyMills. "Hayley, poor child, did her best, but there was no hope with that script and that director."

"We don't know very much about the #Mysterons - but something tells me they're with us all the time..."

Not in Leeds it didn’t WYP made right arses of themselves by interrupting peaceful silent protest to brutalise a man carrying this Private Eye graphic. They wouldn’t listen to reason & dragged him off - only to call him on Monday to say no further action would be taken.

The curious case of the Reform Ltd councillor who refuses to pay his council tax… (Private Eye)

This story is so dystopian, using anti-terror legislation to arrest a man for holding up a cartoon from a beloved national magazine at a peaceful demo. I really lost it though when the police got the suspect's name after finding his "senior bus pass" theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…