Soup Safari #77: Potato and Leek at the Gawthorpe Hall Cafe.

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Lunch. £4.50. Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley Road, Padiham, near Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 8UA. 01282771004. Website.

This Coby Grant track totally sounds like Laura Marling's Failure.

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Music Listening to Coby Grant's 2019 album, Small Tits Big Dreams, which for the most part sounds like where Kate Nash would have ende...

You're Joking.

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[The following contains numerous spoilers.] Film   Todd Philips's Joker has been a perplexing success. Well reviewed all round an...

Why Vote?

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Politics So we have another general election on our hands as agreed in the Parliament this evening. Those of us who haven't registere...

Apocrypha Bipedium (Short Trips: Companions)

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Books Extract reconstructed from the fealing shiftless electronodiary recovered from the fragments of the Internet Archive found when the ...

The Ethereal (Short Trips: 2040).

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Books Some short prose's feel self contained and anothers a snapshot of much larger narrative. This is very much the latter which giv...

Thinking Warrior (Short Trips: 2040).

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Books The 2040 anthology featured a group of stories set in 2040. The challenge for these writers is to create stories for various Doctor...

Growing Higher (Short Trips: Zodiac).

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Books "Never cruel or cowardly." The Zodiac anthology is, as the title suggests, twelve stories inspired by signs of the astro...

Salva Mea (Short Trips: Snapshots)

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Prose This is sweet. The theme of this Big Finish anthology is how the Doctor impacts the lives of those he meets, either through memory,...

Linking Material (Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins).

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Books It's going to become increasingly difficult for official calendar publishers to produce tie-ins for Doctor Who. Up until recent...

Ravenous 4.

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Audio  Another series galumphs to the end and although I've enjoyed it more than either Dark Eyes or Doom Coalition, why do I feel like ...

"A bunch of flowers and I slam the door ..."

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Music Boom. It's Graham Norton day and #Sugababes is trending on the Twitters. Here's why: Yes, it's cover version, but ...

Mutya Keisha Siobhan are no more?

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Music Blimey, this is quite a paragraph on the Official Charts website about guests on upcoming episodes of The Graham Norton Show : ...

The Scent of Blood.

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Audio Here a rare oddity. While Big Finish continue to go big with their Eighth Doctor coverage, with a dozen or so episodes this year ac...

I now belong to a club that will have me as a member.

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Politics Busy day. Read half of Nigel Robinson's novelisation of Doctor Who's The Edge of Destruction (or Inside The Spaceship or...

Reading a Book.

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Books Here's some pretty common sense but nevertheless useful to be reminded help on how to read books from Clio and the Contemporary...

Dating a Photograph.

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History The Library of Congress blog has a series of posts about the photographs in their collection and the latest entry is about dating ...

Young and Depressed in America.

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Books Elizabeth Wurtzel 's Prozac Nation is 25 years old and Anne Thériault has written for Long Reads about what the book has meant ...

"A twice-weekly serial set in the exciting world of League Football."

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TV Whilst there's probably lots to say about how lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic are finally beginning to tippex out some of t...

The Washington Monument Re-opens.

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History On the list of things I always wondered, but not enough to check why.  Why does the Washington Monument change colour a third of...