Join Cultural Historians Michael Livesley and Paul Carmichael as they attempt to get to grips with modernity, safe in the knowledge that nothing decent has been created since 1992.
New episodes every week (almost) with the shows first 124 episodes appearing as Series 1 so history can judge how wrong they were.
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Join Cultural Historians Michael Livesley and Paul Carmichael as they attempt to get to grips with modernity, safe in the knowledge that nothing decent has been created since 1992.
New episodes every week (almost) with the shows first 124 episodes appearing as Series 1 so history can judge how wrong they were.
An Eh? Aye! Production
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Paul’s tasteless bol, Superman & Nick O’Teen, Shorts in October, Comic Strip Presents, Harry Secombe, Doctor in Love, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, John Inman, writing drama in a socmed world, Eve Myles, All Creatures, Miss Marple, Waiting for God, VHS dilemmas, Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, Douglas Camfield, the new Dr Who S13 bluray controversy plus the sad passing of Nabil Shaban.
TWEETS 'N' THA'- @NiceThingsShow
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Tonight we discuss Robert Hardy's hair, Comrade Dad, anti-lady ageism in the media, the defection of Gordon Burns, Sir Donald Campbell, 80s news room drama, Stephanie Cole and the lovely Bill Turnbull.
Meanwhile, on Twitter... @NiceThingsShow
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This week Lord Paul gives his verdict on ‘Rings of Power’ and we discuss Hedge Porn, Sir John Gieldgud’s Trouser Bar, The Mandela Effect and everyone’s favourite war criminal, Tony Blair.
Nice Things is now appearing at Twitter in the Ray Cooney farce " @NiceThingsShow "!
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This week - Churchill's People, strikes and striking, the prospect of another winter of discontent, Secret Army and Colin Blakely amongst the usual cultural disjecta membra.
Over on Twitter though... @NiceThingsShow
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This week we discuss news bias in general, and Emily Maitlis' comments in particular, the orthodoxy of modern satire, the vocabulary of Television, Spycatcher Peter Wright and the hitherto unknown politics of Ken Dodd.
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In a Summer Bank Hol spesh we chew over cheese, The Beverley Sisters, 'hilarious' scouse dubbed versions of film and TV, Dear John, the peril of school visits to the baths and explore the etymology of 'Oopizootics'.
We wander the Twitter wastelands- @NiceThingsShow
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In full French mode, we discuss the recent furore regarding the The Globe's reimagining of Joan of Arc, Jerry Sadowitz and the unhinged toxicity of social media in general. Also the immutable star quality of Noel Coward, George Melly and take a trip to the Med with 'El Strongarm'.
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Feet, Churchill’s People, Secret Army S2, Duncan Lamont, Oil Strike North, Paul’s cognitive concern, fish, butter pie, Bloodbath at the House of Death, The Days Ahead, the sad passing of Dame Patricia Routledge, Happy Birthday to Stephanie Cole PLUS all the usual rubbish.
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Call my Bluff, My Music, Wot-a-Mess, Alan Coren, deference, Adam Ant, Brian Croucher, Duran-Duran, century designations, centuries, cheese, more One Foot in the Grave, Object Z plus all the usual rubbish.
Still loitering on Twitter-.@NiceThingShow
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In a sizzlingly hot show we mop our brows with Thomas Hardy, the wonder of Dandy Nichols, Judith Durham, Olivia Newton-John and Raymond Briggs, and that most upmarket Malcs the piano tuner plus, of course, Tenko.
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We return to discuss the sad passing of the ultimate Nice Thing, Bernard Cribbins and also David Warner and Nichelle Nichols. We also learn that Lord Paul has become a 'firm' fan of the footballing and has never seen Time Bandits.
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On the hottest day of the year we decided to record, at Paul's request. What followed was an exercise in heat exhaustion and delirium featuring Gary Lineker, Edward Judd, 1980s snow and Father Ted. Make of this what you will...
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This week we discuss the perils of not being versed in 'blokespeak' when it comes to having handymen round, Don Henderson's hairline and the hot weather....conspiracy or cornetto?
Hark at us, being on all Twitter 'n' that- @NiceThingsShow
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In this fun-packed 50th edish we discuss psychotic sanding, the resentment of summer, the genius of Jeremy Brett, Robert Stephens and Michal Bryant, why we crave nice things and look at the moment Australia went colour.
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This week - Paul loses a tooth, getting old, One Foot in the Grave, Tripods, Blake’s 7, Secret Army, TV detectives, the verdict on Only Fools and Horses from #PaulsPrejudices, grubby @Daily_Express ‘died penniless’ clickbait, flashmob disdain, pointless vinyl purchases, @PaulCarmichaelV’s verdict on the new Blue Peter plus all the usual rubbish.
Tweet at us! @NiceThingsShow
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This week we wax lyrical about independent bookshops and discuss the current trend toward censorship in the arts, the sad passing of Peter Brook, why minor keys make us sad and 'Beavis and Butthead do the Universe'.
All this and less on Twitter! @NiceThingsShow
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After a break we return to chew over class distinctions within thievery, why Carry On England is the antidote to French cinema, Strongarm's solution to the Incel problem and a difference of opinion over Narcos.
Oooh, look at us being on Twitter and all that- @NiceThingsShow
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We return to mark an entire year of talking cobblers. Subjects include the lost mandible of Sigmund Freud, axiomatics and a lively discussion on how TV brainwashes the nation concluding with Strongarm's view on 'programming' and, of course, the 'Big Horse'.
We're loitering on Twitter! @NiceThingsShow
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More nonsense from 2022! After, another, short break, we return to chew over false teeth, the tendency of stepdads to make men of us, the impending Jubilee, the 'munchies', comedy in The Sweeney and George Formby Senior.
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