Underbelly seemed like a good fit for the Boulevard but apparently not! The venue is really good but I can't imagine what would work there.

Underbelly Boulevard Soho announces closure

The last performance at the venue will take place in January

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Great BFI blog post by friend of the show, Jo Botting, about the shenanigans surrounding a little known "Soho" film. Definitely one for a future episode. 📽️

Three weeks, two lovers, one shelved film: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s forgotten blackmail drama 21 Days

Made just before Vivien Leigh took the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, and as her affair with Laurence Olivier was blooming, 21 Days captures the pair falling in love and on the cusp of...

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Always a delight when a new episode of @sohobitespodcast.com lands. This time with added @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social goodness.

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Episode 53 landed today - we talk to the mighty Noel Cronin from @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social about “A Taste of Money” (1960) at the @southendonsea.bsky.social Film Festival & hear about the life of one of its stars, #DickEmery, from his son, Nick Emery 📽️

Episode 53 landed today - we talk to the mighty Noel Cronin from @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social about “A Taste of Money” (1960) at the @southendonsea.bsky.social Film Festival & hear about the life of one of its stars, #DickEmery, from his son, Nick Emery 📽️

Soho Bites 53: A Taste of Money (1960) - Soho Bites Podcast

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.For this episode, we braved the British railway system and went out to the Southend-on-Sea Film Festival to watch ...

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"When he comes home at night and I hear his key in the lock, I say to myself, 'Oh good! The party's about to begin.'" Anne Bancroft on husband Mel Brooks. #Happy100thMel xxx

I now have a fan in my "work station"! Still really hot though...

This weather takes me back to episode 26 📽️ sohobitespodcast.com/episode/26 📽️ #jaynemansfield 📽️ #soho 📽️ #burlesque 📽️

Jayne Mansfield performs "Too Hot to Handle"

YouTube video by Rupert Pennefather

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I'll be having a swift half at the #Ship&Shovell later today, which is good excuse to dredge up this old episode of one of the Soho Bites spin-off shows www.muralmorsels.art/episode/clou...

Mural Morsels episode 08 - Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Mural Morsels

A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom talks...

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A rare treat on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, June 22nd at 11:30pm - a Soho based German Krimi film from the pen of *Brian* Edgar Wallace, Das Phantom von Soho (1964). I talked about it (in the Edgar Wallace pub!) with Daniel Reifferscheid back in ep 12 📽️ #krimi sohobitespodcast.com/episode/12

I see @channel4.bsky.social are way behind Soho Bites again - this time doing a programme about London's green parakeets three years after we first talked about them back in episode 41 with @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social

Soho Bites 41: The Green Cockatoo (1937) - Soho Bites Podcast

Nigel Smith joins us to talk about the Graham Greene Soho noir, The Green Cockatoo (1937) starring John Mills and Nick Hunt talks actual London parakeets

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Ok so SOMEBODY convinced me to make this and it took me absolutely ages when I was supposed to be doing something else so enjoy it! sgtp.lovable.app

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Who is still alive on the Sgt Pepper album cover?

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I met a couple of listeners at the BFI earlier this week (thank you for the pint @mrrobertsharp.bsky.social) who said they couldn't think of any films that are set in Birmingham. I've found one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjJw...

Take Me High (1973) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers

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Facebook removed a post about the latest ep citing "nudity & sexual content". There are adult discussions in the ep due to the nature of the film but I can confirm that all participants were fully clad during recordings. I'd be grateful if you could share this to compensate for Facebook's decision.

Soho Bites 52: Irina Palm (2007) - Soho Bites Podcast

We discuss the Marianne Faithfull film Irina Palm with author Estella Tincknell & hear about the English Collective of Prostitutes from Laura Watson

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According to my calendar, this weekend marked 33 years since I moved to London. Here's some rarely seen actual footage of actual me, actually arriving on that actual day. 📽️

The latest episode of Soho Bites came out late this month because I was working on this series about Reform UK - a coproduction between @theobserveruk.bsky.social & @therestpolitics.bsky.social, reported by @catneilan.bsky.social & produced by @poppybullard.bsky.social. Well worth a listen.

The Missing Millions | Who Funds Reform?

YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics

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In episode 52, out today, author Estella Tincknell talks about "Irina Palm" (2007) which stars #MarianneFaithfull as a grandmother who turns to sex work & Laura Watson tells us about the work of the English Collective of Prostitutes #ECP. This episode is NSFW! 📽️ sohobitespodcast.com/episode/52

Another great Soho article by @mikepress.bsky.social & Jackie Hopfinger on the "Walk on the Wild Side" Substack.

The Jewish Sound of Soho - Part One

From Yiddisher Jazz to British Pop: How Jewish London changed the sound of Britain

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Sorry for the slight delay this month - my guests are busy people & finding time can be tricky! The next ep will be out next week and is about a film described by @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social as "A gobsmackingly awful British film - awful in the way that somehow only British films can be". Harsh! 📽️

Great little doc from 1955 about Soho on the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social streaming site, TPTVEncore - "Where Strangers Meet"

A cutting from the Jan/Feb 1977 edition of the #SohoClarion. Presumably, the "famous British artist" in question is @francisbacon.bsky.social

The next episode of Soho Bites is about a film which stars #MarianneFaithfull, so obviously I'm listening to my recent charity shop purchase 📽️ #IrinaPalm

I cannot wait to read this! I love a bit of Chaplin and Jackie was a fascinating guest on #MuralMorsels back in the day talking about Hogarth.

Jacqueline Riding@jacriding.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#OTD 1889 #CharlieChaplin born in Walworth, Southwark. Want to know about the early life of this cinema icon? Good news! Buy #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social online or signed copies @hatchards.bsky.social & @Waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly + fab indy #MoroccoBound SE1 www.moroccobound.co.uk

Well it only took five years but I've finally set up a Soho Bites Facebook page. It's only one hour old so still pretty quiet! Come and say hello www.facebook.com/share/1FNVFM...

Pages scanned from a 1944 scrapbook I bought on Ebay - Two Thousand Women #filmstarscrapbook #vintageukfilm #1940sfilm #classiccinema #PhyllisCalvert #FloraRobson 📽️📽️📽️

"King of the Underworld", the film @vicpratt.bsky.social discusses in this month's show, is actually 3 episodes of an old TV series “Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard” stitched together. Each story ends abruptly. This is the end scene from story 1, cut out when the film was put together 📽️ 1/3

Soho Bites episode 51 landed today - @vicpratt.bsky.social from the #BFI discusses a clunky old crime drama, “King of the Underworld” (1952) starring #TodSlaughter and Aidan McManus from @portobelloradio.com talks about a real life king of the underworld, #BernieSilver 📽️

Soho Bites 51: King of the Underworld (1952) - Soho Bites Podcast

Not a Humphry Bogart film.King of the Underworld (1952) stars Tod Slaughter as Terence Reilly - a master criminal who is always one step ahead of his ar...

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