Remembering the great Louis Armstrong, born 125 years ago today, with this joyous portrait taken in the mid-60s by jazz fan Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
Patrick Mulkern
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Radio Times & Doctor Who Story Guide scribe (all views my own). Blue skies, sea, books, cinema, comedy, Jack Daniel's, time travel, my dog... all float my boat. http://www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-episode-guide
Loads of merch with Stuart Manning’s lovely cover design for the book #YouAreNotAlone #DoctorWho www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1805...
One reason to look forward to autumn/winter. You can’t beat a decent retrospective at the BFI.
"It is always genuinely flattering when members of the public say, 'I grew up with you lot!'" So sad to hear of Bill Oddie leaving the stage, but I was thrilled to seek his input when celebrating The Goodies a few years ago... www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/go...
For those following the impressive early #ZCars on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, tonight's poignant episode was celebrated as the 100th @radiotimes.bsky.social in 1964. Here's the original article and an alternative shot taken by Don Smith on 5 Feb 62. Plus a shot from location filming 10 Feb 64.
I’m always wary when a film I loved is turned into musical theatre but the @nationaltheatre.org.uk excels with its production of #Pride. Energetic, funny and sorrowful numbers with a superb cast, faithful to the original movie and the real people.
You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who by @patrickmulkern.bsky.social, published by @tenacrebooks.bsky.social. A fascinating and illuminating book that chronicles the history of our favourite show against the social context of LGBTQ+ liberation, detailing so many biographies of... 1/3
Systematic robberies are occurring - everything from suits to TV sets... Premiere Episode! Z-CARS (1964) 7pm #KateAllit #BrianBlessed #JosephBrady star in 'A Question of Storage' #TPTVsubtitles
It was an absolute pleasure to interview Marin Alsop in the run-up to the BBC Proms. What a great human being! Our complete guide to the 2026 Proms season is in the current @radiotimes.bsky.social www.radiotimes.com/audio/marin-...
Inspirational conductor Marin Alsop returns to the BBC Proms: "We need activists for music"
One of the world’s most respected conductors, Marin Alsop is striving for equality for women in classical music and nurturing the next generation.
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It was an absolute pleasure to interview Marin Alsop in the run-up to the BBC Proms. What a great human being! Our complete guide to the 2026 Proms season is in the current @radiotimes.bsky.social www.radiotimes.com/audio/marin-...
Inspirational conductor Marin Alsop returns to the BBC Proms: "We need activists for music"
One of the world’s most respected conductors, Marin Alsop is striving for equality for women in classical music and nurturing the next generation.
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Happy sunny Pertday! Here's an RT tribute I put together for his centenary in 2019. #JonPertwee #DoctorWho www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...
Celebrating Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee's centenary with rare photos and extracts from the Radio Times archive
Not only would Pertwee have been 100 this year, 2019 also marks 50 years since he was cast as the Third Doctor
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Win two tickets to the Last Night of the Proms in the @radiotimes.bsky.social prize draw! radiotimes.com/win/proms202...
Win tickets to the Last Night of the Proms
Join the spirited finale on Saturday 12 September as Sakari Oramo conducts the Last Night of the Proms, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with star soloists, tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Yuja W...
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Win two tickets to the American Classics Prom with the brilliant conductor Marin Alsop in the @radiotimes.bsky.social prize draw! radiotimes.com/win/proms202...
Win tickets for a family of four to the Horrible Science Big Bang Prom in the @radiotimes.bsky.social prize draw! radiotimes.com/win/proms202...
Win Horrible Science - The Big Bang Proms Experiment tickets
Enjoy all the fun of the CBBC show live. We're offering one family a set of four tickets to the Horrible Science: Big Bang Prom on Saturday 25 July at 2.00pm.
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That most thrilling of things, a summer repeat of a #DoctorWho story, began #OTD 50 years ago, so @radiotimes.bsky.social commissioned a brand-new illustration by the great Frank Bellamy – sadly, it was his last. Planet of Evil was that story, by Louis Marks: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...
Planet of Evil ★★★★
Flesh-tingling anti-matter terrors await on Zeta Minor, in Elisabeth Sladen's favourite story
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Finished this yesterday. Absolutely turn pager of a read And a fascinating history of the connections between Doctor Who and the journey of gay people of the time period of the show. Anyone else read it ? @patrickmulkern.bsky.social #DoctorWho
After a long imprisonment... the hunt for the real killer and the truth! #WillamHartnell MURDER IN REVERSE? (1945) 8:35am #ChiliBouchier #JimmyHanley thriller #TPTVsubtitles
Waris Hussein – a man of great warmth and wit, a much-admired director, a founding father of #DoctorWho and my darling friend – features extensively in #YouAreNotAlone. A few pics of WH across the decades. #PrideMonth🌈 Book available via: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
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Had great fun hanging out with the This Morning teams for this week's Radio Times behind-the-scenes feature. (And have been whistling that bloody theme tune ever since.)
Artist, writer, music-hall chairman and highly distinctive actor Maurice Browning features in #YouAreNotAlone. Best known to #DoctorWho fans as conniving Karlton in The Daleks' Master Plan. Here's his self-portrait sketch printed 80 yrs ago today. Book via: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
More and more intruguing stuff as you've launched this; my copy's on the way. Looking forward it, and to meeting the Radiophonic chaps at Whooverville!
A major hero for #PrideMonth🌈, a bona fide #DoctorWho and Radiophonic Workshop legend – Brian Hodgson talks about his life, loves and career across nine decades in my book #YouAreNotAlone. Some unusual pictures he's shared... Book available via: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
Just after #DoctorWho in 1973 Katy @manningofficial.bsky.social starred in groundbreaking lesbian-themed drama The Golden Road. Director Douglas Camfield fought for her to play Anna & struck gold. KM discusses this key work in #YouAreNotAlone #PrideMonth tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
Chuffed to add the 1959 pulpy paperback of West End People to my collection of Peter Wildeblood 50s classics. Fascinating writer. The appalling “Montagu trial” witch-hunt in 1954 led to his first book Against the Law, then the Wolfenden Report and ultimately law reform in 1967. #PrideMonth2026
This clip from Late Night Line-Up in 1970 really is extraordinary. Actor John Breslin explaining what it's like to be gay. 1970 - Before the GLF or first Pride march in London
Patrick Mulkern@patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhile I was writing #YouAreNotAlone, actor John Breslin emerged as a bona fide queer hero. Wish he'd appeared in more than one (great) #DoctorWho story but the same year – 56 yrs ago! – he was vocal on TV about improving gay representation. #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
