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Billy Hayes of the CWU79

An Answer to You & Yours

On Friday's You & Yours on BBC Radio 4 there was a discussion about Dear Granny Smith, featuring Billy Hayes of the CWU and Richard Hooper, author of the Hooper Report into the future of the Royal Mail. This is Roy Mayall's response to that programme.

6 comments    royal mail bbc radio 4
Like a spirit from the past - his name follows me through life75

Haunted by his name

I do not believe in ghosts, ghouls, spirits, poltergeists, spooks, or demons. However, I do believe that I am haunted by a name. This may sound unusual - nevertheless it is true -. I believe it and that is...

9 comments    writing history ghost
Gareth Icke 68

Gareth Icke sings It Feels Like A Race

Singer-songwriter Gareth Icke is the son of world famous conspiracy theory author and researcher David Icke but if you are expecting songs about reptilians or the Illuminati and their secret plans then you...

6 comments    music hubchallenge songs
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jeff conaway

Jeff "Jeff" Conaway (born October 5, 1950, New York City, New York, USA), known for his role in the best film of fat, American actor, Taxi and Babylon 5 TV series in America. He is the director of the...

0 comments    movie new york new york city
The Buzby bird 71

Why I hate telephones

I have never liked telephones, not even old fashioned ones, and my first job back in 1971 was working in Telephone House in Cardiff as a Sales Officer and it was hell! Basically I had 13 telephone exchanges...

28 comments    phones mobile phones telephone
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Copenhagen, trick or treaty?

Dateline: 19th December 2009 So the conference is over and the conspirators have not achieved what they wanted, the complete subjucation of all the sovereign nations in the world, to the New World Order,...

15 comments    god truth global warming
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What is elderly? The BBC wants to know.

Got a very interesting email this morning. The reporter had read the hub "Will Obama Let Me Retire?" and was interested in having me join in on a discussion about aging. I texted her my number and soon the...

0 comments    retirement bbc raising children
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Medicine Head and the pictures in the sky

Like so many brilliant singer-songwriters and bands of the late '60s and later, I discovered Medicine Head on the late great John Peel's BBC R1 show Top Gear. They had a really distinctive sound and were not...

12 comments    pictures music rock band
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Spem in Alium. Thomas Tallis.

I first heard this piece of Tudor music on BBC Radio Four. I was drawing illustrations for my book, Archie-Parchie-Piddley-Poo and was listening to the radio to help concentration. On this particular program...

0 comments    music religion catholic
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Mariza - Voice of Fado

Marisa dos Reis Nunes born on 16 December 1973, is the name of the birth fadista Portuguese Mariza. First disk and internationalization In 1998 acting on the invitation of Savings Luso-Belga, Brussels and...

0 comments    portugal world cup portuguese
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