Charles Nove
@charlesnove.bsky.social
Radio presenter, voice-over artist, events host, occasional bus driver.
I’m not sure this messaging is entirely helpful to the brand!
Jenny Eclair in the latest episode of our podcast, out today.
Earworm mysteries. Showaddywaddy’s Hey Mr Christmas appeared in my head yesterday and won’t leave. It’s July. A song I neither love nor loathe. Why??? 🤯
Friend and colleague Alan Dedicoat joins us for the latest podcast episode. shows.acast.com/68a788c373bf...
With guest Alan Dedicoat | Pains Stains & Automobiles
Salt, secretions & Creme de Menthe
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The Pains Stains & Automobiles podcast can always be relied upon for mature and sensible discussion…
Latest episode of the podcast out today, with guest Ian Hislop. Pains Stains & Automobiles, wherever you get your podcasts.
Action woman Anneka Rice reveals her muse in the Pains Stains & Automobiles podcast.
Trump, Starmer and Jimmy Kimmel - are amongst the subjects NOT discussed in the latest episode of our podcast. For a very different Special Relationship …. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Episode 4
Podcast Episode · Pains Stains & Automobiles · 19/09/2025 · 33m
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We’re back for more! Episode 2 of the new podcast emerged, blinking, into the daylight, this morning. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p....
Pains Stains & Automobiles
Personal Journals Podcast · Updated weekly · Is it a sleep aid, a cure for loneliness, or just two friends rambling on? Come into the unpredictable world of Penny Smith and Charles Nove and find out! ...
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New podcast - episode 1 out today! If what’s been missing from your life is two old chums rabbiting on, pine no more. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Pains Stains & Automobiles
Personal Journals Podcast · Updated weekly · Is it a sleep aid, a cure for loneliness, or just two friends rambling on? Come into the unpredictable world of Penny Smith and Charles Nove and find out! ...
podcasts.apple.com
Rode the New York subway today, surrounded by characters who looked like they belonged in The Sopranos. One with sausage fingers, a huge guy with a bald head and stary eyes and one I didn’t dare look at, but he was probably the clean-up guy.
Looks like competition for the services of those declared useless by Musk ….
New episode of my podcast Trash Talk with Count Binface is up now! Wherever you get your podcasts, naturally. With special guest @charlesnove.bsky.social Get it in your ears here! podfollow.com/trash-talk-w...
Amazing who you see making an unannounced visit to London’s West End
These have arrived! - the finished, hardback copies of a little book I've written about the joyfully unpredictable experience of producing Father Ted. Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.
Plans to cut audio drama from BBC Radio 3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves” 👇 www.thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to...
Cuts to Radio 3 drama will end ‘National Theatre of the airwaves’ – unions
The most recent commissioning brief for Radio 3 has removed all ‘radio drama slots’, according to Equity, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors
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Back on concert hosting duty tonight. How anyone gets a reliable tune out of these is a mystery to me!
In London to host a concert. My dressing room is equipped with a piano and a 4 volume encyclopaedia of Opera. If only I could play or sing…..
Amazon’s Christmas Day recommendation for me? Replacement wire for a strimmer. Because nothing says Christmas quite like a strimmer, obviously. 🤷
This card, from friends who had no idea about our current battle to reclaim the loft from meeces, couldn’t have been more appropriate!
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament Hey, I have an idea for a non-viable business too, can I lobby the government to change the laws so I too can rip off other peoples’ hard work?
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
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Spotify tells me I’ve used it to listen to 498 songs this year “and one song over and over and over again”! Sounds a bit judgmental….
A great project - I’m delighted to make a few of these appear during the Screentime section of my breakfast show on Magic Classical.
Our first limited-edition release is the Idents EP, currently on sale here: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402... The sounds of Associated Rediffusion, Tyne Tees, Anglia, Ulster, BBC, Westward, Yorkshire, LWT, ATV, Thames and more...
On awards-show duty in London tonight, and the Christmas grotto feel is all around
Good morning, from the East Midlands branch of Magic Classical! Live on the radio til 10.