fr 23 May
2025 |  Anorak Alert No.70: Like with The Great there couldn't have been loganberries at the 17th century Danish court.
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su 20 Apr
2025 | ♫ The fox on the front of the motor boat is playing a chromatic harmonica. We suspect he couldn't get that bendy sound from it but not convinced enough for an Anorak Alert. |
we 16 Apr
2025 | .jpg "1951 Geroge VI sixpence") Anorak Alert No.69: ... that didn't take long. Love for Lydia last night on tv the garage attendant says the charge for the petrol is five and a tanner. Tanner was slang for sixpence but the sub-titles mishears it as tenner ... picky picky eh?
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tu 15 Apr
2025 |  Anorak Alert No.68: Seems unlikely but we seem to be getting less anoraky these days. We see misspellings and word misuse in sub-titles and celebrities and scriptwriters getting it wrong but we can't be bothered to report it ... who knows? might get back to our old selves.
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su 9 Feb
2025 | .JPG "BBC Red button") Anorak Alert No.67: Despite the government's plans to melt in their own image East Anglian councils into larger bureaucracies Suffolk, Cambridge and Essex are still three counties.
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th 9 Jan
2025 | Anorak Alert No.66: Canadian tv prog How It's Made it's fount not font of all knowledge. |
th 31 Oct
2024 | nearthecoast digest subscriber Andy Fordyce emailed that he likes to think Victoria Coren Mitchell's 'slip' (below) was to 'amuse' her husband ... could very well be eh? |
we 30 Oct
2024
 |  Anorak Alert No.65: On Monday's Only Connect (around 5:22) Victoria Coren Mitchell a little uncertainly credited the made up game Numberwang to Armstrong and Miller. Embarrassingly it was Mitchell and Webb (Mitchell as in David Mitchell her husband). While we're here try Eleanor Morton's parody Every Only Connect Team Intro.
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sa 5 Oct
2024 | Anorak Alert No.64: The SIDS DITCH sign hasn't got an apostrophe ... ok picky picky. |
tu 16 Jul
2024
The Great |  Anorak Alert No.63: Surprisingly Peter III Emperor of Russia only ruled for the first half of 1762. In series 1 episode 5 of The Great the royal foodie speaks of something involving loganberries. The fruit was first crossbred in 1881 by James Harvey Logan .. picky eh?
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tu 2 Jul
2024 |  Anorak Alert No.62: We like Tim Hartford the undercover economist and Radio 4's More or Less but last night in Skint he reckoned the world wide web is a British invention. Well Tim Berners-Lee is British but he made the first pass at the web in Switzerland whilst working for CERN a European organisation.
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fr 3 May
2024 |  Anorak Alert No.61: Early in When Harry Met Sally Billy Crystal is spitting grape pips out the passenger window, cut to medium shot of the car passing with the passenger window shut, back to BC spitting pips out the passenger window ... alright picky picky eh.
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mo 25 Mar
2024 |  Anorak Alert No.60: In the very excellent drama Eric and Ernie repeated last week on BBC 4 when Eric is clearly doing a Jimmy Schnozzle Durante impression complete with a paper cup the subtitles say it's Groucho Marx ...
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tu 20 Feb
2024 | Anorak Alert No.59: During taxi driver Daniel's brilliant dash to the airport he overtakes a green Mini twice ... alright picky picky eh. |
tu 23 Jan
2024 |  Anorak Alert No.58: If the second signal is inverted it's not really exactly the same Professor Fry ... alright picky picky eh:)
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sa 13 Jan
2024 | Anorak Alert No.57: On Desert Island Discs Lauren Laverne maintains the urban myth that The Hollies were part of 1960s Merseybeat despite being from Manchester. |
tu 14 Nov
2023 | Anorak Alert No.56: Someone at the Beeb seems to think Hollesley Bay prison is in Woodbridge. They're only out by seven miles. |
sa 7 Oct
2023 |  Anorak Alert No.55: Really enjoyed seeing whimsical Scrapper  at the cinema but when 12 year old Georgie's estranged dad tells her to scrape the frame numbers off the stolen bikes ... Frame numbers are usually stamped into a lug and need filing off.
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sa 22 Jul
2023 | Anorak Alert No.54: A trope or maybe urban myth that white blues type guitarists like Jeff Beck got that rough sound by slitting their speaker cones but Dear BBC the Kinks' Dave Davies cut up his amplifier and stuck it back together with drawing pins? ♫ |
tu 23 May
2023 | Anorak Alert No.53: ♫ On Radio 3's In Tune last night both presenter Sean Rafferty and The Kings Singers thought Walpole just outside Aldeburgh ... from the moon it is. |
