Mark Braxton
Deputy chief Sub-Editor and Writer at Radio Times
Radio Times journalist & fan of funny. Classic TV, music and pop-docs. Editor of Dad's Army at 50, and Monty Python at 50. Writer: RT Doctor Who Story Guide.
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1 month ago |
radiotimes.com | Mark Braxton
Yvonne Innes tells Radio Times of the time her husband was hired for the gig…“One day Eric phoned up and said, ‘Neil, could you come [to TV Centre], our warm-up man’s not turned up?’ Neil said, ‘I don’t do warm-ups.’ Eric said, ‘There’s 25 quid in it’ and Neil said, ‘Done!’”Of course, Neil’s role would be more substantial, playing all the Marx Brothers one week, looking and sounding like Johnny Cash or Elton John the next. “Neil liked nothing more than being stretched,” says Yvonne.
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2 months ago |
radiotimes.com | Mark Braxton
Richard Briers was that suburban revolutionary, Tom Good, and Felicity Kendal, who played his supportive and cheerful wife Barbara, recalls how she landed the role: “I was in a play called The Norman Conquests in the West End, Richard was in the audience and after the show he came round and said he thought it was great, which was really nice because he was a very famous, wonderful actor that I didn’t know at all but I knew about.
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Oct 21, 2024 |
radiotimes.com | Mark Braxton
“They were phenomenally important. They moved the dial,” says Benjamin Field, the award-winning director and producer behind the project. “There were no colour horror movies pre-Hammer.
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Feb 5, 2024 |
radiotimes.com | Mark Braxton
His influence stretches far and wide. In 1999, Bagpuss came top of a poll to find the nation's favourite BBC children's programme (and in 2001, he was fourth out of 100 greatest kids' shows in a Channel 4 countdown). He has appeared on postage stamps, he was referenced in the sitcom Spaced and was the title of the first episode of comedy drama Man like Mobeen, and Lady Di was seen to be watching the show in royal drama The Crown.
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Feb 4, 2024 |
networthynews.com | Mark Braxton
By Mark Braxton, as informed to Kendall MorganIn 1996, I found a little white area on my thumb. It itched. I believed it was a scab or something. I didn’t believe excessive about it. I began discovering other little white areas. They were spreading out. The very first skin doctor I went to took a look at me and strolled right revoke the space. He returned in with a handout and stated, “This is what you have: vitiligo.” At that time, there wasn’t a great deal of details.
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Celebrating David Byrne's birthday with one of Talking Heads' best songs – the infectious, topsy-turvy Nothing But Flowers – and one of their best videos, co-directed by Byrne and featuring the band's extended line-up for the song: https://t.co/5MzM0zLLtg 🎂 https://t.co/AO0ExpcZwF
Two of a kind... Eric Morecambe, born #OTD in 1926, photographed with comedy partner and pal Ernie Wise in 1977, by Dmitri Kasterine for the @RadioTimes Christmas issue. They were dressed as two of their comedy heroes, Abbott and Costello. https://t.co/AMtAH7jXO3
