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. Also on @braxtm.bsky.social
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1 week ago |
radiotimes.com | Mark Braxton
Each year thousands of homeowners access tax-free cash that's tied up in their property, and one of the best parts - you don’t need to sell your home to get it!
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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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Mar 17, 2025 |
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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"Step in that sandbox again To turn on the summer and then You'll ride sunset down to the sea There's thousands more down there like me And we know that's where you wanna be" Dear Brian, a 1978 tribute to #BrianWilson by "one-man-Beach-Boys" Chris Rainbow: https://t.co/EAUz2DuN4b https://t.co/FDwpzMWGpS
A true musical visionary. Love and mercy, Brian Wilson. https://t.co/Eqf46Z7vVI
RT @PaintingsLondon: 'House with a red door, Crouch End' (2024) https://t.co/1RHImfYfvY https://t.co/EiFR4vGPLE
