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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 the whimsical Scrapper 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 Cygnet	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 feck'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.

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