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EASTENDERS
WRITTEN BY KIM REVILL
04 March 2018
Start the week with Kim Revill's latest episode of EastEnders on Monday 5th March at 8pm on BBC1. The Carters feel the wrath of Aidan. Phil returns to the square but is less than impressed by what he learns. Billy is intrigued when he discovers something new about Mel.
DINOPAWS: The Thing That Wasn't There
written by James Mason
03 March 2018
Tony and Gwen try to convince Bob that when he closes his eyes things don't disappear. It's on Cbeebies on Thursday 8th March at 6.40am.
DINOPAWS:The Thing That Wanted to be Alone
written by James Mason
02 March 2018
Bob, Gwen and Tony meet a dinopaw called Mabel who tells them how great it is to be alone. Watch James' episode on Monday 5th March 2018 at 6.40am on CBeebies.
MIDSOMER MURDERS: Birds of Prey
written by Michael Russell
02 March 2018
Another chance to see Michael's episode on ITV3 on Saturday 3rd March 2018 @ 5.00pm. The drowning of Julian Shepherd is initially treated as suicide but when another man dies after trying to seal peregrine eggs Barnaby starts asking questions.
ODDBODS: Newt's Lucky Day
written by Lee Pressman
01 March 2018
A cynical Pogo watches in amazement as Newt has an exceptional run of luck after discovering a four leaf clover in Lee's episode airing on Friday 2nd March at 2.50pm on CITV.
LOUIS B MAYER AND THE BOLSHEVIK BEAST
WRITTEN BY STEPHEN SHERIDAN
23 February 2018
Stephen Sheridan's wonderful play, LOUIS B MAYER AND THE BOLSHEVIK BEAST, is repeated on Radio 4 on Tuesday 27th February at 2.15pm. Toby Jones stars in this comic re-imagining of the 1934 campaign in California when socialist writer, Upton Sinclair, stood for election.
ODDBODS: The Amazing Slicko
written by Lee Pressman
21 February 2018
Slick recruits Newt to be his magician's assistant - but will he be willing to share the stage or does he want to hog all the limelight for himself? Find out in Lee's episode airing on Wednesday 28th February 2018 at 2.50pm
ODDBODS: Hypnobod
written by Lee Pressman
20 February 2018
Pogo tries his new hypnosis machine out on Jeff who scoffs at it - that is until he finds himself compelled to act like a dog. Watch Lee's episode on Tuesday 27th February 2018 at 2.30pm on CITV.
EMMERDALE
WRITTEN BY JANE PEARSON
14 February 2018
Tracy arranges to meet Phil at an hotel in Jane's episode this week. Catch it at 7pm on Wednesday 21st February 2018 on ITV.
HALFWAY TO PARADISE: THE LIFE OF BILLY FURY
WRITTEN BY CAROLINE AND DAVID STAFFORD
08 February 2018
Caroline and David Stafford's latest music biography celebrating the life and work of arguably Britain's first rock and roll star, "Halfway To Paradise: The Life of Billy Fury", is published by Omnibus Press in hardback on 19th April. It's available for pre-order from Amazon and all good bookstores. To mark the publication, there's a special Billy Fury event with David and Caroline at British Music Experience, Cunard Building, Liverpool at 7pm on 26th April. "There's only ever been two English rock 'n' roll singers," Ian Dury said, "Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury." Butter adverts have tainted Johnny's status, but Billy's combination of beauty, sex, innocence, talent, charisma and vulnerability has never been matched. The Sound of Fury, his first L.P., is still widely revered as the best British rock'n'roll record ever made. When he first appeared on TV, a generation of teenagers found true love, and his post-rock'n'roll heartbreak ballads were the essential soundtrack to adolescent angst. In 1973, he was brought out of semi-retirement to play Stormy Tempest - to some extent a parody of himself - in the movie That'll Be The Day. The magic rose above the parody. He never knew how not to be magnificent. David and Caroline Stafford guide the reader through Billy's troubled childhood in Liverpool, via gold and silver lame, to his later years as a farming ornithologist, and his comeback cut short by his premature death. Billy Fury was a key figure on that watershed between post-war privations and sixties excess. He knew everybody, auditioned the Beatles to be his backing band, met and outhandsomed Elvis, partied with Keith Moon and hosted acid parties. Yet, throughout the mayhem, he always remained true to himself- diffident and amused. Halfway To Paradise tells the full story with the compassion and affection due to an artist who, decades after his death, still has the power to command admiration and adoration.
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