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oxo66

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Christmas Issue arrived 11 am this morning fully a week before December even starts:

Bold Street Timeslips
Masefield's 'The Box of Delights' 40 years on from BBC's TV adaptation
The Crinoline Inferno (more bonfire night than christmassy, this one)
Plus witches, ghosts (of course) and Nationwide's Hexham Heads audio.

oxo
 
oxo66 said:
Christmas Issue arrived 11 am this morning fully a week before December even starts:

Bold Street Timeslips
Masefield's 'The Box of Delights' 40 years on from BBC's TV adaptation
The Crinoline Inferno (more bonfire night than christmassy, this one)
Plus witches, ghosts (of course) and Nationwide's Hexham Heads audio.

oxo
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With hindsight there was a particularly poor choice of words from Stu Neville in his Television article where he refers to the narrator of the programme The King of UFO’s, as “Howard Hughes, presumably not the dead one.”
Unfortunately the Narrator, Howard Hughes of the long running Unexplained Podcast, died earlier this month.
 
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With hindsight there was a particularly poor choice of words from Stu Neville in his Television article where he refers to the narrator of the programme The King of UFO’s, as “Howard Hughes, presumably not the dead one.”
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Yeah. With the best will in the world, we wrote and submitted that weeks ago. Had we seen that one coming it'd be somewhat Fortean in its own right.

Pity one of his last narration gigs was such a terrible programme.
 
Tempest63 said:
With hindsight there was a particularly poor choice of words from Stu Neville in his Television article where he refers to the narrator of the programme The King of UFO’s, as “Howard Hughes, presumably not the dead one.”
Unfortunately the Narrator, Howard Hughes of the long running Unexplained Podcast, died earlier this month.
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Yeah. With the best will in the world, we wrote and submitted that weeks ago. Had we seen that one coming it'd be somewhat Fortean in its own right.

Pity one of his last narration gigs was such a terrible programme.
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Definitely an unfortunate choice of words but not a poor one. It was a ruddy awful programme to review! x
 
"The chickens moved in and unleashed hell..."

A plague of angry chickens in rural Norfolk. They're evidently hunting down this Bernard Matthews bloke, for a short meaningful word.
 
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Advert on page 37, LOL! £350 for a lamp you can get at Ikea for twenty quid.
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This firm advertises in the Guardian/Observer, too. (pretty heavily) I suspect they're mistaking FT readers for trendy overpaid young professionals with more disposable income than sense.
 
AgProv said:
This firm advertises in the Guardian/Observer, too. (pretty heavily) I suspect they're mistaking FT readers for trendy overpaid young professionals with more disposable income than sense.
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FT readers are trendy overpaid young professionals with both disposable income and sense!
 
Random thoughts: the movie poster reproduced on page 53 according to the caption is for a German movie, but this is more likely to be from Belgium: the text in the poster is in Dutch/Flemish and repeated in French. (How do the Belgians do movie dubs, with two national languages? There'd be subtitles over two-thirds of the screen!)

Also, the letter from James Finnegan Wakeham, that provoked a long personal response from Bob Rickard. (p67). JFW talks about being age 12 in 1988 and seeing normal programming being suspended by a "hijacking" purporting to be from a time-traveller from the future.
Going by the description in the letter, and also by the selected picture - at no point was the name Max Headroom ever mentioned?

Max Headroom, TV show

Could it be JFW might be conflating a half-remembered TV show from when he was a little bit younger? (Max Headroom ran on British TV between 1985 and 1987; JFW would have been between 9 and 11)

And - interestingly - the Max Headroom character was, around this time, used for pirate broadcasts that exploited existing TV channels:

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AgProv said:
Random thoughts: the movie poster reproduced on page 53 according to the caption is for a German movie, but this is more likely to be from Belgium: the text in the poster is in Dutch/Flemish and repeated in French. (How do the Belgians do movie dubs, with two national languages? There'd be subtitles over two-thirds of the screen!)
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There would have been two versions of the film, one with subtitles in Dutch, one with subtitles in French. Each would be shown in the appropriate geographical area.

AgProv said:
Also, the letter from James Finnegan Wakeham, that provoked a long personal response from Bob Rickard. (p67). JFW talks about being age 12 in 1988 and seeing normal programming being suspended by a "hijacking" purporting to be from a time-traveller from the future.
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What that not the Southern Television broadcast interruption? Although that was 1977
 
Only read 'The Bold Street Timeslips' by Rob Gandy so far and it's great that this presents us with two intriguing cases that haven't been reported before. I was expecting it to feature the perhaps best known incident of the retired policeman and young woman who was revealed in Danny Robins' 'Uncanny' to be called Julie French.

There's are a couple of accompanying, shorter articles by Dr Ann Winsper. Glancing at the sub-headings, I see that these repeat the Versailles, Kersey and Ray Allen cases, but fair enough, there'll be a reader somewhere for whom this is new information.
 
It should be remembered that (if you accept the original story) that there are significant doubts about the woman interviewed on Uncanny.
 
DrPaulLee said:
It should be remembered that (if you accept the original story) that there are significant doubts about the woman interviewed on Uncanny.
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Are there? I wasn't aware. I mean, I take it as read with any account of possibly paranormal events that the primary explanation could be that the person is lying. If I didn't just accept that possibility, I would never read another Fortean article or listen to a spooky podcast!
 
Yes, the ever reliable Tom Slemen has said that the girl looks nothing like the one he interviewed.
 
Another random thought. The photo on page 20 (Alien Zoo) purporting to show a very large owl the size of a child.

Nicely selected for the Christmas mag, as tomorrow (December 5th) is St Nicholas' Eve, when in Germany the Krampus is given free rein to go on his rounds and give the naughty children a little pep-talk prior to Christmas proper.

Now look at that photo again. (unfeasibly large owl next to crouching kid).

That's not an owl. That's Krampus.

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Only read 'The Bold Street Timeslips' by Rob Gandy so far and it's great that this presents us with two intriguing cases that haven't been reported before. I was expecting it to feature the perhaps best known incident of the retired policeman and young woman who was revealed in Danny Robins' 'Uncanny' to be called Julie French.

There's are a couple of accompanying, shorter articles by Dr Ann Winsper. Glancing at the sub-headings, I see that these repeat the Versailles, Kersey and Ray Allen cases, but fair enough, there'll be a reader somewhere for whom this is new information.
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Yes indeed.
Was particularly edifying to read about Bold Street without the phenomenon being spammed by Slemen material for once!
 
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