#wilfred pickles

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

As soon as someone met your gaze you knew you were in trouble. I think everything changed with the advent of the dreaded mobile phone, and of course it's impossible to spot a single person in any crowd who is NOT hypnotised by their own phone. You see people airily walking into four lanes of oncoming traffic as they dial some oh-so-terribly important number. Wherever you go you are forced to listen to someone else's conversation, which is why I'd rather kill myself than travel by train.

MORRISSEY

[mariocki]

The Nearly Man: Reshuffle: June 1975 (1.4, Granada, 1975)

"Any minute now, the sounds of Harold shuffling his pack will be heard. A series of thuds and moans as the various bodies collide, like the blunt instruments they are. All change! To the corridors of impotence!"

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[cadwalladery]

Films seen in 2020

# 73 - Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, 1963)

[loveboatinsanity]

[northernlifemagazine]

Wilfred Pickles and the White Hare

#WilfredPickles and the White Hare

Wilfred Pickles at Grove Mills for Have a Go in 1948

Nearly twenty years ago I took part in a programme called Ramblings for Radio 4, recorded while walking across Ilkley Moor from White Wells at Ilkley to Dick Hudson’s above Bingley, with Jeremy Jessel from the BBC, a countryside warden and a lady novelist from Manchester.

We chatted all the way, the microphone picking up a natural background of…

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