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Catrin Lowe

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Write, promote. Once described as a ‘pop culture witch’ on BBC Radio. Half of @dywmpodcast

England, United Kingdom

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Joined October 2009

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1 year

An episode of Frasier where Niles has been given his blue tick back and Frasier hasn’t, provoking palpable tension. Frasier eventually resorts to paying for a blue tick before being found out at one of his own cocktail parties, causing Eddie to hide under a cushion.

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4 years

New Year’s Eve celebrations have had to be pushed back a little at the family home because AN OWL HAS GOT INTO THE STUDY.

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6 years

Such a great picture

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4 years

As I was taking this pic, an elderly man came up next to me and said ‘You know what? I was just thinking the same. Beautiful.’ Then we just stood there silently, gazing dreamily at Macclesfield Aldi.

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11 months

Been aware of Rick Astley’s deft judgement of a crowd since seeing him play a field in Macclesfield ten years ago where he changed the lyrics of She Wants to Dance with Me to She Watches Darts with Me

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1 year

90s pop culture had its faults but you could also find Paula Yates interviewing Leonard Cohen before 9am on a hot pink bed adorned with fruit.

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5 years

The weirdest summer was the one where you heard nothing but Tubthumping by Chumbawamba for weeks and weeks and then Diana died

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1 year

Congratulations to Hannah Waddingham for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2023

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10 months

Watched a compilation of Peter Cook’s Parkinson appearances then read an extract of a memoir by one of his ex wives and it truly blows my mind how much reckless illicit sex people were having in the 70s while having to rely on landlines and corduroy

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1 year

Very into the Christmas decorations at Stoke-on-Trent station

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4 years

A man on a dating app just messaged me to say that he thinks spaghetti is ‘a bit overrated’. Cling tight to your significant others because it’s a jungle out there.

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6 years

The most serious and awkward interview ever conducted in a room made of glitter #ittakestwo

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4 years

Those first 15 secs of Take On Me before the hook kicks in were put there deliberately to allow time for a woman to scream, jump up and drag her friend onto the dance floor, spilling both their drinks in the process.

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4 years

Here’s my sister going full John McClane in order to free the hostage, using my nephew’s Viking shield and the motorbike helmet he asked for last Christmas

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4 years

I’m telling you, you think you’ve known fear in your life, then you walk into a small room to see what has fallen over (you suspect a hoover) and make direct eye contact with an owl swooping towards you. Who needs a drink

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6 years

I love Twitter

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11 months

Sorry to go full centrist dad but I’m watching the Lightning Seeds’ set and most headliners would kill for this amount of lowkey bangers

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4 years

Thanks to everyone asking after our studious visitor. It left safely via the window of its own volition (here it is doing some very late Christmas wrapping before winging it back home). We still have absolutely no idea how it found its way in. 🤷‍♀️🦉❤️

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3 years

How off the rails did you go as a teen? I saw Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility at the cinema five times.

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3 years

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5 years

Another wooden ball. Would it kill the makers of avocados to include a different toy, like a mood ring or a novelty eraser?

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4 years

For anyone out there struggling to get people to engage with their tweets: I was on here for ten years before I was able to craft a really popular tweet and all it took was for me to spend NYE at home with an owl. Never give up.

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2 years

Grateful to Jo Whiley for explaining to us who Paul McCartney is

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4 years

Written by Gillian Gilbert, the only member of the band who was into football.

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4 years

30 years ago today the official England World Cup song was released. Only five players had turned up to the recording. They didn't know it was New Order, and potentially the greatest football anthem of all time. You’ve got to hold and give...

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2 years

A nice thing about getting older is how getting into bed gives you the kind of rush previously reserved for riding the waltzers

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3 years

Watching The Shining and it really is just Fawlty Towers with firmer walls

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2 years

Funny how Rick was written as a figure of fun and now he just represents all the most successful tweeters.

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Rick’s poem about Thatcher (live, in character, on Wogan) #TheYoungOnes

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1 year

@awoodustin

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5 years

This degree of honesty from @dollyalderton re the benefits of public school is something I wish we had more of from people in the public eye

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4 years

There’s a lot going on in this picture but the winner for me is Aled Jones leaning casually on David Bowie’s throne

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2 years

I know I’m learning to grab life by the horns because tonight I used one of the bath bombs I was given for Christmas rather than putting it on a shelf and deeming myself unworthy of it for seven years

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5 years

All I’m looking for in a man is an Italian firefighter who rescues kittens then weeps without shame

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3 years

Always in my heart #totp

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9 years

Jimmy Carr just made a joke about how old Madonna is, just like he would do about David Bowie if he was there.

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1 year

Live your life like you’re in Group E

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2 years

@chris_hawkins

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1 year

My friend and I snuck in to see Four Weddings and a Funeral underage, which means that the most rock n roll thing I’ve done has been to break into a Richard Curtis film.

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5 years

I would describe my dating style as Bing Crosby trying to interact with David Bowie

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1 year

Contender for most relatable lyric in a love song?

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3 years

This was my introduction to ABBA

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2 years

This 30 year old edition of #totp coincides with the first ever copy of Smash Hits I bought from the Spar on my way home from school, yet somehow neither Kylie or I have aged a day.

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1 year

The most aspirational part of The Holiday is the life Cameron Diaz lives before Jude Law turns up.

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4 years

There is something of the Christmas tree that someone forgot to take down about Corbyn now

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4 years

Me: ‘Excuse me, where are the eggs?’ M&S staff member: ‘You know, that’s the thing I’m asked by far the most. When a customer’s walking towards me, I’m thinking "EGGS EGGS EGGS"’

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3 months

Roll With It and Country House are such poor singles, listening to either of them feels like being dragged through a pub by the ankles #totp

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5 years

Man on train offered me his seat so I pointed out his sexism by taking it, beaming and saying ‘That’s so kind’ three times.

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4 years

A date asked me to advise on whether he should omit his academic ranking from his Tinder profile in case it was intimidating for prospective admirers, if you want to know why I look tired

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2 years

Having Gen X friends is fun because all their dating advice essentially boils down to ‘Just get drunk together and see what happens’.

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4 years

@chip_daley We did exactly this. Made her/his exit very elegantly, eventually

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4 years

Chris Rea is like if Leonard Cohen had had to learn a trade #totp

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1 year

Sometimes it’s weird to be a woman. #IWD

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4 years

Judging from my tl whenever Neneh Cherry shows up doing Buffalo Stance, it’s the only thing that can unite the nation now #totp

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4 years

The scenes between Catherine O’Hara and John Candy in Home Alone are more emotionally affecting than the entirety of the film Titanic.

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2 years

Maybe Eleanor Rigby was just quietly living her best life?

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4 years

Keep spreading the joy, people

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4 years

Having to counsel mum today as she sent a 😋 instead of a 🙂 in reply to a text from the young guy who helps her with her garden

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4 years

Later this year I shall be attending my friend’s 1989-themed 40th birthday party dressed as Wendy James #totp

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5 years

Glastonbury 2020? #petshopboys

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3 years

Maybe on dates with men I should give up on the blonde dollybird look and instead simply dress as Paul McCartney

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3 years

Remembered to put the bins out three minutes before the lorry turned up. This must be what skydiving feels like.

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3 years

My mother is getting her vaccine and this may be the happiest I’ve ever been before 10am

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4 years

If I ever moan about the BBC in the future then someone please remind me that during lockdown 2020 they broadcast a Giovanni Pernice Argentine tango to When Doves Cry #strictly

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4 years

Me at 20 with then boyfriend

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3 years

How do you mute an ongoing flirtation between two of your mutuals that is making you feel like a priggish chaperone played by Maggie Smith

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4 years

Dating apps are easier now it’s ok to say that your main pastimes are things like eating oatcakes and staring into space rather than kayaking in Ecuador

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4 years

Sorry to make you all feel bad about your existing relationships but I found a hedgehog in the garden and we hung out.

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2 years

What’s the best rhyming couplet to open a song? ‘I wasn’t jealous before we met, now every woman I see is a potential threat’ is up there.

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3 years

UK dance music in ‘91 sounded like someone in a garage hitting a synth with a sodastream while recording onto a portable cassette player before dropping the tape in a puddle of 7Up then fishing it out again. Love it so much #totp

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3 years

Imagine if Giovanni was a real person rather than a heterosexual single woman’s lockdown hallucination #strictly

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3 years

Ate cottage pie in bed last night, like a woman in a movie before a man comes and fixes her.

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3 years

If it’s of any comfort, you’re all making Cavafy very proud.

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3 years

@albiondumsday @KatyFBrand If Prince wanted to go home with you then the issue of sleeping probably wouldn’t come up.

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1 year

Fun how classic American sitcoms finish in the most drawn-out, sentimental way possible while the British ones end with either everyone being abruptly killed or a rat sticking its head out of a box of biscuits.

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3 years

Evaluating the classics during lockdown is fun eg just watched The Godfather and main thoughts were that it would nice to go on an Italian holiday and also to have a husband

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3 years

The lovely woman who gave me my jab told me gently to ‘look the other way and think of other things’; advice I intend to milk for all it’s worth.

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4 years

Liza doing Losing My Mind is such a mood #totp

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2 years

My favourite bands as a kid in ‘92 were En Vogue and Shakespears Sister. Golden era for intimidating girl groups #totp

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2 years

The account of Elizabeth II I’ve found the most personally inspiring this week has been Barack Obama saying that when you visited her she was welcoming, generous and kind, but when she wanted you to leave she’d just look at her watch and say ‘It’s time to go.’

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5 months

The bassist from Supergrass playing Caught by the Fuzz while wearing a T-shirt with Hugh Grant’s mugshot on it might be the most 1995 thing to have happened #totp

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4 years

Dating is essentially just two people saying ‘My taste in music is pretty eclectic’ to each other until one of them decides to get a cat instead

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3 years

Promise Me by Beverley Craven conjures up the sort of adult relationship none of us on here will ever be mature enough for #totp

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4 years

I used to go out with someone who would laugh at me for keeping hand sanitiser in my bag and always decline to use it if offered. He now has a wife, kids and a newly refurbished home in zone 2, but I think we all know who had the last laugh.

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2 years

My new-found knowledge that Stephen Sondheim didn’t settle down with a longterm partner until his 60s is going to make me insufferable at family festivities this year.

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6 years

Watching #TheSplit with a divorce lawyer so haven't heard any of the dialogue tonight

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4 years

When I was a child I wrote a letter to the Radio 1 request show asking them to play Never Too Much by Luther Vandross dedicating it to me from me and they did it #totp

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3 years

An ex texted out of the blue asking what my three favourite 80s songs are, as if I’m the sort of person who can answer a question like that without making a series of lists and having a full mental breakdown and now I’m wondering if men focus on stuff other than personality

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5 years

It was always on the cards #eurovision

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9 months

Those in any doubt that I have the domestic skills necessary to thrill a guy should know that today I made a cup of coffee for a tradesman which he described as ‘horrifying’

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2 years

Never felt more convinced that I’m distantly related to Chris Lowe than on hearing Zoe Ball ask PSB for their favourite memory of Paul McCartney and their replying that it was when they were invited to PM’s farm and CL sat on a kitchen chair and it collapsed beneath him

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4 years

Watching Pulp’s headlining Glastonbury set and Jarvis just referenced John Major as if 1995 were a time of great social unrest

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4 years

Just watched The Talented Mr Ripley for the first time. Fun how you can fill a film with conventionally stunning stars at the absolute zenith of their powers and then this guy comes on and he’s all you can see.

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7 months

My attachment style is Michael Stipe on Jools Holland singing Nightswimming in an Emotionally Unavailable T-shirt.

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2 years

Thought I was getting heckled by a man driving a van. Sigh. I take out one of my earphones. ‘Excuse me, do you know where the nearest chip shop is?’ He knew I’d know.

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5 years

Last night my mum was talking about Brexit while she was v tired and at one point she merged Boris Johnson with Dominic Cummings and called them Doris Cummings and I really think we should stick with this?

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4 months

🎶 It’s gettin’ cold in here, so put on all your clothes 🎶

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2 years

Autumn romances should be a more established concept than summer ones. Falling for somebody is statistically more likely when faced with a knee high boot and a pie, everyone knows this.

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5 years

To be watching Question Time on a Thursday night may be regarded as a misfortune, to be watching it on a Friday night looks like carelessness

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4 years

The decade plays her last banger - Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush

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7 months

Went to a Halloween disco last night and at some point between midnight and 2am I was briefly convinced that the greatest record ever made was Poison by Alice Cooper.

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3 years

Kim Basinger was in her mid-30s when she starred in Batman and had a wild affair with Prince, in case anyone else needs to hear this today.

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3 years

Vaguely unsettling to realise how much of one’s sense of routine and stability has been based on bbc4 doing the same thing every Friday and 6music doing the same thing every Saturday

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