tu 16 Jul 2024 | 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? |
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. |
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. |
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 ... |
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:) |
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. |
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. |
su 12 Mar 2023 | Anorak Alert No.52: Sarah Beeny's New Life In The Country might want to tell their sub-titles that it's signet as in her husband's signet ring and not cygnet which is a young swan. |
mo 23 Jan 2023 | Anorak Alert No.51: We like Eric Ravilious' careful and faintly other worldly watercolours. Last week we enjoyed the feature documentary film Eric Ravilious Drawn to War but were slightly irritated by a hand shown using an open bottle of Quink and a fountain pen as a dip pen. |
mo 12 Dec 2022 | Anorak Alert No.50: In series two episode nineteen of Shed and Buried presenter Henry Cole says to BFF Sam Lovegrove as they are driving to Suffolk If I went to a posh school ... Henry went to Eton for christ's sake. |
fr 21 Oct 2022 | Anorak Alert No.49: Someone on the radio described LS Lowry's Going To The Match as nostalgic with flat caps ... he had obviously not seen the painting which has sold for £7.8 million. |
sa 10 Sep 2022 | Anorak Alert No.48: On Radio 4Ex today cuddly Michael Palin recalling his return from Around the World in 80 Days after some hesitancy concluded that the container lorry that met him at Felixstowe docks took him to Ipswich railway station ... it didn't. |
tu 16 Aug 2022 | Anorak Alert No.47: In the first episode of Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics when the "expert" finally identifies the French moped as a Derny stock film is shown not of Dernys but big motors pacing cycle track racing . Once upon a time Andy Tiernan came back from a German auction with such a 2500c moto ... the Brooks saddle is British. |
we 13 Jul 2022 | Anorak Alert No.46: Dodgy David Dickinson's Real Deal dealer Alison Chapman when offered a portable wind up gramophone said that 78 records were made of wax and the stereo comes out here. |
tu 21 Jun 2022 | Anorak Alert No.45: Perhaps this is being overly picky as the entertaining Laura Kampf is speaking German but the sub-titles call a slug a snail. |
mo 23 May 2022 | Anorak Alert No.44: Some people don't know the difference between meter which measures something and metre the metric unit of length ... we didn't use to know either:) |
fr 15 Apr 2022 | Anorak Alert No.43: Flog It visiting seaside town Morecambe has presenter Paul Martin saying comedians Morecambe and Wise saw military service during WWII. Well not really, Ernie was in the merchant navy and Eric was a Bevin Boy. |
we 16 Mar 2022 | Anorak Alert No.42: The graphic in this GCN YouTube on cycle speedway has the riders going round the wrong way, like roller derby, NASCAR and most grass track it's turn left. |
th 27 Jan 2022 | Anorak Alert No.41: Journalists are often vague about where Suffolk is. They get it confused with Sussex and Norfolk. Today BBC Suffolk news includes a dancing Leicester University graduate and on the red button a Manningtree boy who knows a lot about Harry Potter. |
tu 18 Jan 2022 | Anorak Alert No.40: On ITV3 the episode Maigret on Home Ground with Michael Gambon as the French policeman has him bribing a small boy with green grenadine and fizzy water... we don't think so. |
tu 9 Nov 2021 | Anorak Alert No.39: On Dodgy David Dickinson's Real Deal throughout a transaction both the punter and dealer referred to a concertina as an accordion. ♫ |
we 3 Nov 2021 | Anorak Alert No.38: The blurb write on the back of this Maigret DVD seems to think the iconic French detective was Belgian, perhaps they're confusing him with Poirot or that author George Simenon was a Belgian. |
su 19 Sep 2021 | Anorak Alert No.37: Sir Clive Sinclair invented the pocket calculator ... we don't think so. |
fr 6 Aug 2021 | Anorak Alert No.36: We've always thought that the self satisfied, smug entitlement of failed Tory MP Gyles Brandreth justifies the return of the death penalty. So unsurprisingly we noted when on Inheritance Tracks like others he thought Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear was 'by' Alan Price, it was written by Randy Newman. ♫ |
su 13 Jun 2021 | Anorak Alert No.35: In 1951 eminent author and antiquarian Patrick Nightingale couldn't have requested Stranger on the Shore as it wasn't released until 1961. Perhaps the stunningly creative and original John Finnemore understandably wasn't going to let a fact get in the way of a joke. ♫ |
tu 25 May 2021 | Anorak Alert No.34: It's an urban myth that Rod Stewart played harmonica on My Boy Lollipop, it was probably Pete Hogman or possibly Jimmy Powell. Pauline Black of The Selecter credits Stevie Wonder, he would have been 14 ... but then he was a child prodigy. ♫ |
sa 27 Mar 2021 | Anorak Alert No.33: That tech expert in the Currys PC World advert advising to put speakers as far apart as you can is presumably unaware of 'hole in the middle' ... but like all things hifi tweaks can't agree where's best to put the speakers. |
mo 15 Mar 2021 | Anorak Alert No.32: In the Alfred Hitchcock/Robert Donat The 39 Steps when the man with some of his little finger missing threatens Richard Hannay with a pistol he calls it a revolver when it's clearly an automatic. Re-watching the film we were surprised how impressively nasty John Laurie (Private Frazer Dad's Army) was. |
th 11 Feb 2021 | Anorak Alert No.31: Dodie Smith's novel I Capture The Castle is set in Suffolk but the film adaptation has a beach scene that doesn't look like Suffolk to us. |
mo 9 Nov 2020 | Anorak Alert No.30: Today's Radio 4Extra Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow has two Germans overlooking Harwich harbour from the great chalk cliff?? |
we 4 Nov 2020 Roy Hudd | Anorak Alert No.29: Lovely and late June Whitfield and Roy Hudd (he reportedly celebrated his 80th at the Crowfield Rose) and perhaps overly picky but unlikely Hetty could fix the MG with a sharp rap on the big end. |
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