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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.
EMMERDALE
WRITTEN BY JANE PEARSON
31 January 2018
Hot on the heels of EMMERDALE'S recent well-deserved NTA win, Jane Pearson's latest episode goes out on Wednesday 7th Februrary at 7pm on ITV.
BIGGLETON: Hattrick
WRITTEN BY DARREN JONES
31 January 2018
No less than three new episodes by Darren Jones of CBeebies new live action show, Biggleton, next week. ‘New Rules’ is on Monday 5th, ‘New Visitor’ on Weds 7th, and ‘Up In The Air’ on Thurs 8th February all at 5.35pm and available on BBC iPlayer too.
DINOPAWS: The Thing That Was Cold
written by James Mason
16 January 2018
Bob gets cold playing in the snow and freezes solid - how will Gwen and Tony warm him up? Find out in James Mason's episode on Monday 29th January at 6.35am on CBeebies.
PETER RABBIT: Go Kart Getaway
written by Darren Jones
15 January 2018
Sammy Whiskers and Tommy Brock steal the rabbits' go kart while Cotton-Tail is on board in Darren's episode airing on CBeebies on Thursday 25th January at 16.50pm
THE DUMPING GROUND
PRODUCER: GERT THOMAS
13 January 2018
Flagship CBBC show, THE DUMPING GROUND, continues its premiere run on Friday 19th January at 5pm. Gert Thomas is Producer of the show which is Radio Times "Children's Choice" of the day.
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