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Presenter @BBCRadioKent @BBCSussex @BBCSurrey and host for public events across the UK. Posts do not represent the organisations I work for.
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If you recognise this contraption and it’s stirs a memory in you, please retweet it to your followers without revealing what it is. Let’s see how far it travels!
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Happy Birthday to Winnie the Pooh! On this day in 1926, the original novel written by A. A. Milne was released. The Hundred Acre Wood is based on Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. You can still visit the Bridge, where Milne and his son used to play Poohsticks together.
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On this day in 1996 Bogotá announced a new plan to deal with jay-walkers: they would be hauled to the side of the road and ridiculed by mime artists. On the same day, readers of the Clothes Show magazine voted John Major the person they would least like to see in his underpants.
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All set for another busy edition of Sunday Gardening. From 10 o’clock we’re live @BBCRadioKent, @BBCSussex & @BBCSurrey. Jean Griffin answers all of your questions and at 11.15am we’re joined by Alan Titchmarsh MBE to discuss his appointment as President of the @NGSOpenGardens
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I’m looking forward to reading the new book by Justin Lewis @WhenIsBirths. #IntoTheGroove is a month-by-month guide to 80’s pop music. It has some fantastic facts, including that Haircut 100’s Nick Heyward, used to work in advertising and designed the Ready Brek cereal packet!
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Today in 1963, the second James Bond film, “From Russia With Love” was released in London. The MI6 scenes and final revisions of the original book were written and edited in here in #Kent at Ian Fleming’s home, White Cliffs, overlooking the Channel at St Margaret’s Bay.
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On this day the 9th of October in 1997, Peruvian witch-doctors cast spells to bring misfortune to the Chilean football team in the crucial World Cup qualifier between the two countries. Despite that, history records that Chile won the match 4-0 so they qualified and Peru didn't.
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On this day in 1999, a survey for the National Farmers’ Union discovered that playing music, increased egg production in chickens. I’d like to think that Bob Dylan was included in their playlist. #LayLadyLay.
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Jodie Whittaker debuted as the first female Doctor Who in her first full episode, “The Woman Who Fell to Earth” on this day in 2018. Back in 2006, she was in #Whitstable co-starring alongside Peter O’Toole in the film Venus. They filmed on the beach and at The Old Neptune pub.
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@patmarsh @ParkersPatch @BBCSurrey @BBCSussex @BBCRadioKent Last night, it was so windy, one of the farmer's chickens laid the same egg twice 😲
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If #StormAmy has left your garden looking worse for wear, let us help you to sort it out again. Our gardening expert Julia Parker @ParkersPatch has just arrived in the studio and joins me live from 10am @BBCSurrey, @BBCSussex and @BBCRadioKent to answer all of your questions.
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The 500th edition of the BBC music show Top of the Pops aired on this day in 1973. Cliff Richard's performance was interrupted when the stage was showered by wigs. The culprits were The Who's roadies who had become bored and raided the props department at Television Centre.
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15 years ago today, the actor, comedian and singer-songwriter Sir Norman Wisdom died. He had strong connections with #Deal having been placed in a children’s home in the town and attending school there. In later years he would come back to stay with his sister-in-law Christina.
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20 years ago today, Ronnie Barker sadly died. The hardware shop Harrington’s in #Broadstairs, was the starting point for his famous 'Four Candles' comedy sketch. Ronnie Corbett had a holiday home in York Street. When Ronnie Barker came to visit, he was inspired by the shop.
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Today is the anniversary of one of the odder news stories of the 90’s. On the 2nd of October 1991, Ron Chassidy (who had been jailed for not paying his poll tax) was released, after a 'whip-round' at his local pub so that he could play in a dominoes match!
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On the 2nd of October 1997, Czech police found an “exceptionally well forged” 1,000-crown note in the town of Jablonec. All that gave it away was that the words ‘Forging of notes will be prosecuted in accordance with the law' had been replaced by 'This note is a fake!'
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Here’s a few firsts for the 1st of October. Lady Coventry died on 1st October 1760 after painting her face with white lead. Today in 1928 Elastoplast dressings were first manufactured. Disneyworld in Florida first opened in 1971, as did the first McDonald's in London, in 1974.
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This is how Radio 1 celebrated their 20th birthday, today in 1987…
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Today in 1967 the UK’s first National pop radio station, BBC Radio 1 was launched to take over from the pirate stations, which had been forced off-air by the Government. Former pirate DJ Tony Blackburn was the first presenter on air. He’s as popular nowadays as he was then!
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10 years ago today, the original contract signed by The Beatles and manager Brian Epstein sold at Sotheby’s for £365,000. The 1962 document was said to be one of the most important contracts in popular music, marking the beginning of the band’s journey to international fame.
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