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Won't be of interest other than those you listen to cricket on the radio. Talksport has acquired the rights to the overseas broadcasting rights to England's upcoming tours of Sri Lanka and West Indies replacing the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43807117

 

It won't please many listeners, to them it's as big as when Channel 4 got Bake Off from the BBC.

 

The trouble is that Talksport is a commercial broadcaster so their coverage will include lots of adverts whereas one of the pluses for the BBC listeners has been the chitchat between the commentators which is often the most entertaining part - that chitchat could well go.

 

El Loro
~Sweet Pancakes~ posted:

Lol Moonie, where have you been during this “missing” month then!  

I can’t tell you Sweet but....... 

Definitely not on Mars that’s for sure  

 

El Loro posted:

Good morning everyone

 

Cloudy here at present, forecast to become sunny and warm though low 20s rather than mid 20s.

 

I reckon Moonie is in a parallel universe to the rest of us where the month of April doesn't exist. He gets an extra day this month to us

 

I hope everyone has a good day

Mebee El  

Moonie

Velvet, I always prefer the commentary when it's from BBC radio rather than TalkSport.

I wonder if TalkSport will start giving betting odds on the cricket in the way they do for football. If they do, that's not going to go down well considering the betting scandals which have been linked with cricket (overseas cricket rather than English cricket).

El Loro

Watched a British film made in 1962 called The Boys. Moderately interesting courtroom drama of the trial of 4 Teddy Boys on a murder trial.

 

Lots of recognisable British actors in it, some well known at the time, some younger actors who would become better known.
Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Felix Aymer, Allan Cuthbertson, Colin Gordon, Patrick Magee, Wilfrid Brambell, Roy Kinnear, Dudley Sutton and Ronald Lacey.

 

Also in it was Tony Garnett who later an important producer of films such as Kes and television dramas such as Cathy Come Home. Cathy White was also in the film and is most notable  as Cathy in Cathy Come Home.

El Loro

Velvet, as you say the film The Boys seems to get shown from time to time on the Talking Pictures channel. The film is rather dated and doesn't match up to the likes of 12 Angry Men and To Kill a Mockingbird. I did wonder if the director of The Boys Sidney Furie was chose to direct the film in the hope that people might think it was Sidney Lumet, the director of 12 Angry Men, made a few years earlier.

 

Lovely video and picture, Squiggle

 

Summer, the blue sky has finally broken through here

El Loro
Rocking Ros posted:
~Sweet Pancakes~ posted:
El Loro posted:

So which of you, Squiggle, Yogi, Summer and Ros, will be the first person to set foot of Mars
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-43724105

I nominate yogi! 

 

Afternoon all

The erratic WiFi has let me sign in and post

Glad to hear you are all enjoying good weather too. You do realise the rain will return as soon as my plane lands next week 

Hope you are all well, will pop in when I can

Yogi19

Good morning everyone

 

Sunny here though a bit hazy. The last really warm day of this spell. May get some rain, possbly some thunder, later in the day and by tomorrow temperatures lower at normal levels for the time of year (still a bit above normal for Moonie given that he's still in March )

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

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