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Bob Fischer

13 days

What the hell, who fancies a night of 1984 diary readings at @TheWaitingRoom ? Sun 30 Jun. ROB-E the robot, Deadman's Creek, the Videopac G7000, The Guardian of Goblin Grotto and more. I'll dig a load of photos and drawings out too. Tickets:

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Your regular reminder that Gudrun Ure, who played Supergran, is appropriately indestructible. She was 96 on Saturday.

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5 months

Really sad to hear Wilf Lunn has died. I loved him on TV as a kid, and when I discovered his website in 2010-ish, I sent him an e-mail and asked if he'd fancy doing a phone interview on my old BBC Tees show. He was every bit as charming and funny as you'd expect, and then... 1/7

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1 year

Your annual reminder that Gudrun 'Supergran' Ure is still going strong, still fighting wee scunners, and is 97 today. Happy birthday, Supergran!

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

I'm 50 years old. I have bugger all money. I watched three episodes of Give Us A Clue in bed this morning.

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1 year

I'm 30 years old. And I run a $200M portfolio of businesses. This is my daily routine:

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Your Feelgood Fact for the Day: Gudrun Ure, who played Supergran, is still with us. She's 94 next week.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

When I was with my Dad, found a box of 35mm slides of his time in Malaya in the '50s. "When was the last time you saw these?" I asked. "I never have". He'd had them for 60 years and never seen the actual pics. Got them converted - this is him, aged 19. He's going to flip his lid.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

Michael Staniforth - Rentaghost's Timothy Claypole - would have been 80 today. So once again, here's that extraordinary picture of him looking like a young Burt Reynolds. Gadzooks!

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

After a strong tip-off, I felt duty bound to investigate. And can confirm that the Redcar branch of WH Smith still has the faded 1970s/80s logo and livery above the delivery bay round the back.

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@Bob_Fischer

4 years

I'm 47, and on a summer's night I still sometimes fancy sitting in a field at 1am with a couple of mates, two litres of Merrydown cider and a packet of Silk Cut.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

I'd love #bbc4 to show a complete run of Blue Peter, as they're doing with Top of the Pops. An episode every day. I think the archive is remarkably intact, and what an extraordinary insight into both TV and British social history it would be.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 years

In the car last night - "Wow... I must have heard 'I Am The Walrus' thousands of times, but I'm still finding new bits. Never noticed that posh woman's voice before, it's really buried in the mix". Then I realised it was my GPS, telling me to take the A19 south from Billingham.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Hi-De-Hi was first broadcast in Jan 1980, and set in 1959. If it was made now, it would be set in summer 1999... Ted would be doing smutty gags about Bill Clinton, Spike would want to see the total eclipse, and the soundtrack would be S Club 7, the Vengaboys and Shania Twain.

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@Bob_Fischer

1 year

I know I bang on about the 1970s being a weird decade, but I've just remembered there was a period in the early 2000s when people openly sat in shopping arcades with their feet in water, having dead skin nibbled from their feet by tankfuls of carnivorous fish.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Caroline Munro promotes Bob-A-Job week in 1972.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

How have I never seen this before? Sid James, Peggy Mount and a pre-fame Tom Baker DOING THE MOST TOM BAKER THING EVER.

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@archivetvmus71

2 years

George and the Dragon (3rd February 1968). Tom Baker certainly makes the most of his brief screen time.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

I once saw Anthea Turner say she wouldn't date anyone who wasn't up for a vigorous, long-distance run at 6am. I felt a bit queasy just thinking about that. I wouldn't date anyone who wasn't up for eating a box of Just Brazils in bed at half past two in the afternoon.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Yesterday. Think of this as closure. The original picture in the @Usborne Ghosts book gave me at least six months' worth of childhood nightmares.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Happy 88th birthday to the mighty Tom Baker. Any excuse to post this again...

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 months

Was anybody else in a teenage band that never actually existed? I spent the late 1980s in psychedelic fourpiece The Followers Of The Sun and rootsy rock band Gripwolf Jaundice. Lyrics written, album sleeves designed, track listings decided and that was as far as I got.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 months

As a kid, I wanted to be strong enough to rip the telephone directory in half. After 45 years of hard training, I feel the day may finally have come...

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

2/2 ... spare a thought for me first, tear-arsing around Tesco in a blind panic with mask on and breath held, trying to buy food and collect medication for my Dad without bringing back a condition that would undoubtedly kill him? It's been hard enough as it is. Thanks.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

Found this over the weekend. Star Wars transfers. I was a bit free and easy with perspective in 1978, but I was only five.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 years

So saddened to hear that Terrance Dicks has died... not just a brilliant Doctor Who script editor, but his Target books were absolutely my gateway to reading. And writing. I was bought Destiny of the Daleks as a seven-year-old in 1979, and went from there. A humble colossus.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

Alternatively, just enjoy the harmless hobbies that make you happy without worrying what anyone else thinks.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 months

I never met Wilf again, and I wish I had. But I'll always treasure these memories of a bizarre and brilliant evening. Love to all Wilf's friends and family. RIP. 7/7

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

9 months

Honestly thought someone had dropped a cuddly toy on my doorstep today - then it lifted its head and looked at me! Thought it was a baby snake for a while, but apparently it's the caterpillar of an elephant hawk moth. I've put it in the garden to have a crack at the foxgloves.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Jack Charlton visits the Blitz Club and meets Steve Strange and the New Romantics. No, really. Full video:

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

1/2 I am currently a full-time carer for my Dad, who has a serious condition of which respiratory problems are a part. I'm doing this because my Mum, in a rehab centre after a broken hip, has now contracted COVID. If you're excitedly tweeting #WeWillNotComply , would you...

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

Free as a Bird was unveiled on 20th Nov 1995. 9328 days after the Beatles' previous new release on 8th May 1970, the Let It Be LP. But today is 9329 days since 20th Nov 1995, so Free as a Bird is now closer in time to the Beatles' main body of work than it is to the present day.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

It's 47 years today since the pilot episode of Last of the Summer Wine was broadcast. Michael Bates was 52, Bill Owen was 58, and Peter Sallis was 51. #oldpeople @SummerWinos @IllegibleMe

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

6 years

My favourite Halloween tradition is people being adamant that it's a vulgar American invention that nobody in Britain had heard of until 1996 or something. When did that start? Sometime after I was knocking on doors dressed as ghost asking for money, I assume. That was in 1978.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

Sausage, beans and chips.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 years

At first glance, I thought this was a young Burt Reynolds. Turns out it's a young Michael 'Mr Claypole from Rentaghost' Staniforth. What a hunk, eh?

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

I am 48 today, so have now officially outlived Rasputin. #attentionseeking

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Spent my teens writing my own adventure games for the ZX Spectrum. Found a handful of tapes in the loft, and amazingly... one of them works. This is The Adventures Of Humphrey Pendringham, written in 1987 when I was 14. Girls, eh? Who needs 'em?

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 years

Meet Chris Maynard, everyone! In 1977, Chris wrote the @usborne Ghosts book... and I had a fabulous afternoon with him yesterday, discussing much retro spookiness. He's great fun. I'm turning all this into a @forteantimes Halloween feature, and the book is reiussed in October!

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 months

Is there something going round that does a bloody good impersonation of Covid without actually triggering the tests? I've got that. The Yarwood variant.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 months

DINSDALE

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

John Lennon looking like he's doing an NME photo-shoot in about 1997.

Beatles Archive

@BeatlesArchive2

2 years

John Lennon, Spain, 1966 The #Beatles via @Dame_000_Deee

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 years

This is Megan, she's 12, and she's come to live with me! Yesterday was Day 1, and I spent it showing her around the neighbourhood...

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

You can all relax, I've found the most 1990s photo ever.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

Bought a beautiful vintage bookcase for next to nothing, so for the first time in decades my Target books are out in the wild rather than being stuck in a box in the loft. Putting them all in order last night made me extraordinarily happy.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Good grief, this seems to be new online today. The BBC Motion Graphics Archive - thousands and thousands of archived title sequences, stings and idents. I may be gone for some time. #coldshower

BBC Motion Graphics Archive

www.ravensbourne.ac.uk

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

I've done this before, but in trying times everyone needs a picture of Michael "Mr Claypole" Staniforth from Rentaghost looking a bit like Burt Reynolds.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

I am 49 today. I'm too old and raddled to put up a current birthday portrait, so instead here's a picture of me on my 23rd birthday, looking like the bassist with a crap indie band from New York.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Went to an antiques fair yesterday and found a box of old badges for 10p each. Asked the lady how much she'd want for the whole box, and she said £4! Deal. I'm going to tweet them, one by one, from the @hauntedgen account. Bob's Badge of the Week.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Tesco don't do veggie sausages any more, they do "Herby Bangers". My favourite 1960s jazz trumpeter.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

All-time musical hero spoken with, and he was fabulous. A gentleman beyond words.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Fabulous first-ever visit to the legendary Barter Books in Alnwick, one of the biggest used bookshops in the UK. Not only did I pick up a pile of classic Musty Books, but I was allowed to take Megan in as well. Here she is, looking for vintage copies of Dog Weekly.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

When I started the whole Haunted Generation thing in 2019, I didn't expect to end up introducing a night of Public Information Films at London's @BFI Southbank. But here we are... Fri 2nd Dec, and I'm honoured. @raghard in there as well! Tickets here...

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 months

Happy 90th birthday, Tom Baker. I'll never tire of sharing this picture. The day he told an extraordinary story about working with Pier Paolo Pasolini that included the phrase "getting a throbber on".

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Swedish 7" single. A space and an apostrophe would have helped a lot, I think.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

No, YOU spent weeks on end making an elaborate map of the ZX Spectrum 'Lord of the Rings' adventure game when you were 13. #branduininelventongue

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

I think this might be the most 1970s photo I've ever seen. That's my Gran on the left. Not sure where it was taken... it could be anywhere between Scarborough and Majorca.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

It's been a blast, and I will be back on @BBCTees , I promise. You are all utterly lovely. Stay in touch! #LockdownHair

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

After a lot of thought... I've decided to step back from radio presenting for @BBCTees for the time being. I'm absolutely fine, but it's been a bit of a stressful year, and I felt like I needed some time out to relax a bit... and to do some writing! 1/2

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 months

Forty years ago today. An era when 11-year-old boys would happily spend a snowy January morning watching an Arthur Askey film.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

Happy Christmas, everyone. Peace and love.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 months

...clanking into life and occasionally exploding. I filmed a couple of clips of it on my ancient camera. Here's the "Hen Grenade" going up in smoke... 4/7

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

I can't tell you how much this book fired the imagination of my 11-year-old self. Every overgrown path in the woods around my house became a journey into tangled folklore and delicious weirdness. There were suddenly goblins and wizards around every corner.

Fighting Fantasy

@fightingfantasy

1 year

The Forest of Doom - published 40 years ago!

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

9 months

Head-clearing ramble to The Wainstones. The North York Moors are very good for making you feel like you've been stood up by Gandalf and now have to make it to Rivendell under your own steam.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

I know the 1980s suddenly feels like quite a long time ago, but even I was shocked to discover that Toni "Hey Mickey" Basil is now 77.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Tonight's tea. Excelled myself.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

I hadn't been back to @BBCTees since my final show three years ago. The funniest thing about returning - my old locker was still there, with my name on! And filled with post from June, July and August 2020. Apologies if I never got round to playing your CD...

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

"I hit it as hard as I could and thankfully it went in". Proper footballer's interview from Josh Coburn. This is the stuff. I ask nothing more from my Boro players.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

Nothing like a journey on @WorthValley steam railway for making you feel like you're the main character in a 1960s children's book, arriving at Druid's Hole to spend Christmas with your mysterious Aunt Esmerelda.

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@Bob_Fischer

2 years

"Nice constituency you got here, guv'nor. Shame if anyfin should... 'appen to it"

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

In adversity, there can be utterly lovelines. With my Mum in hospital with a broken hip, I've had to move in to be full-time carer for my Dad. I love my parents, but this is the most time I've spent with him in years. And we've had the old photos out, just me and him.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

7 months

A joy to write this huge @ElectronicMagUK feature about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 16 pages! I did new interviews with Brian Hodgson, Dick Mills, Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb, Peter Howell & Mark Ayres - & David Butler, discussing Delia Derbyshire's Inventions series. Loved it.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Found this, and still felt proud.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Good grief, this is brilliantly done. Today's Blue Peter.

CBBC

@cbbc

4 years

On tonight’s #BluePeter , presenters @mwaksybluepeter , @RichieDriss and @Linds_bluepeter wanted to speak to our audience about racism. We want to stand together and pledge to do better at fighting racism, to build a better future for everyone.

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Bob Fischer

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3 months

Really sad to hear about Steve Wright. One of the more surreal moments of my life was being a studio guest on his Radio 2 show and I was terrified, but he was absolutely lovely, totally reassuring and just wanted to talk about The Prisoner. He said "Be seeing you" as I left.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

5 years

Tough decision, but after seven proud years I'm stepping down from the Saturday @BBCTees @bbcteesintro show, and handing it over to the ace @Rianne_Thompson , who will host it from December. Please give her loads of support, she'll do a cracking job! And... (continued)

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

My Mum is 80 today, so I'm heading over to see her now. Here she is with me at High Force waterfall, over 40 years ago. I'm sticking my tongue out, and will probably do the same today. Say Happy Birthday to my Mum, everyone!

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@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Went walking in Thorpe Wood yesterday, and found this hidden deep amid the trees. Genuinely felt like I was inside a @fightingfantasy book. What should I do, @ian_livingstone ? Use the key to open the trunk, or just keep heading north?

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

My dog has fallen asleep with her head under the floor tom of my drumkit, so every time she gives a little woof in her dreams, it's got a shedload of echo on it. It's like having a dog signed to Sun Records.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

2 years

"We must wait for the results of Sue Gray's enquiry" is the new "That would be an ecumenical matter".

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone. You're all very kind. Having successfully outlived Rasputin, I'm celebrating by spending my first night at home in my own bed since 27th September. Both parents now finally at home together and able to cope without me! I hope...

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Spotted this in Sheffield. Seems like a good arrangement.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

Spotted on a walk. This is my kind of social history.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Always love the fact that Rutger Hauer's sinister Blade Runner android is called Roy Batty. Clearly a West Yorkshire replicant. "I've seen attack ships on fire off the A642, just before the Wakefield turn-off..."

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

Admit it - the only difference between the original Indiana Jones films and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is that you watched the first three when you were 11, and the last one when you were 35.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

I'm 48 and I recommend just having loads of fun throughout your entire life and pissing around as much as possible.

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Age: 18 to 25 The age where you can build your life or destroy it.

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3 years

Rummaging through old photos, and burst out laughing at this. A night out with actual Father Stone.

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@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Ghosts of a shopping arcade. Last wistful look round Stockton's Castlegate Centre, opened in 1972 and a special place for me as a child. WHSmiths was were I bought swathes of my Doctor Who & Fighting Fantasy collection. Already partly demolished, but still open for last respects.

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@Bob_Fischer

4 years

A little ray of sushine... Barry Cryer is 85 today. Happy birthday, Barry Cryer! I bleedin' love Barry Cryer.

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@Bob_Fischer

11 months

Wood pigeon outside my open bedroom window at 4am, loudly and immaculately doing the "Woo-woos" from Sympathy For The Devil.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

3 years

From my ancient photo albums - Kirsty MacColl live at the Arena club in Middlesbrough, 19th August 1992. I thought she was fabulous then, and I still do. Sorely, sorely missed.

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

4 years

So tonight's show will be my last appearance for a little while, but doubtless I'll be back on the station sometime soon. In the meantime - thanks so much to everyone who has tuned in, and contributed to making it all so special. And I'll still be here, being annoying. 😉2/2

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@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Here I am with the Scarborough Darth Vader, circa 1978/79. £1 to pose with him, and the picture arrived in the post about a fortnight later. I've tried this before, but I'd love to know who it was - does anyone know? #scarborough

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Bob Fischer

@Bob_Fischer

1 year

Say hello to @mulgraveaudio ! I've teamed up with @andreworton and @illegibleme to form a new company dedicated to producing original audio drama. We're really excited about this, and our first release - Simon Perkins' Lurgy - is out on 25/4. More here:

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@Bob_Fischer

3 years

Second of my Star Wars transfer sets. Did these in 1978, when I was five. Love the big bully Stormtrooper knacking the little one with his blaster, and also note: I've filled in the "Continue The Story" bit. "Then Darth kills Ben then he looks in Bens cloak but he is not in it"

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@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Best not to mess with St Mary's Church in Whitby.

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@Bob_Fischer

2 years

Yarm, my home town. I have a little wander up to this vantage point at the end of every year... it's like a gradual rolling back of history. Victorian railway viaduct, Georgian High Street, North York Moors.

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@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Oh, Diana Rigg. I loved her from the moment I first saw The Avengers as a teenager, and this poster followed me from bedroom wall to bedroom wall for years after that. A great actor, and proper star to boot. Such sad news.

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@Bob_Fischer

7 months

The hallway of the Fisherman's Arms in Hartlepool has the exact same wallpaper as the entire ground floor of our house in the 1970s. A genuine thrill to see it again. Great pub, too.

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@Bob_Fischer

1 year

A visit to the Darkplace with the Dreamweaver. Catch Garth Marenghi's live show if you can, it's fantastic. Thanks @MrHolness ... #flayed

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@Bob_Fischer

4 years

Judging by this morning's reports, the most devastating effect of the Stockton #earthquake is that it seems to have knocked an 's' from the word 'Teesside'.

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1 year

Happy New Year, everyone. I'm slowly rumbling back into life, and swinging into 2023...

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3 years

My Mum had her first Covid vaccination this morning. If Bill Gates is now monitoring her thoughts, he's going to learn an awful lot about The Yorkshire Vet and what Betty next door has been up to.

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