Cathode Ray's Podcast
@cathoderays.bsky.social
Welcome to the café where the CRT telly in the corner is always on. Become a regular at Ray's. https://cathoderays.co.uk/
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…and all the usual podcast places.
#CathodeRays
🎧 Spotify https://tinyurl.com/mre46fm3
🎧 Apple https://tinyurl.com/39mvnffm
…and all the usual podcast places.
#CathodeRays
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#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?!
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👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
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He’s on OTHER podcasts?! 🤯
Wishing a very happy birthday to our brilliant Trap One host @quiteamess.bsky.social 🥳
You can hear him on our recent episode revising the Season 21 Collection:
Apple: tinyurl.com/4kkw8hfw
Spotify: tinyurl.com/462zm8ar
Podbean: tinyurl.com/yav65cab
You can hear him on our recent episode revising the Season 21 Collection:
Apple: tinyurl.com/4kkw8hfw
Spotify: tinyurl.com/462zm8ar
Podbean: tinyurl.com/yav65cab
July 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
He’s on OTHER podcasts?! 🤯
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New article is 5 Out-of-Reach British TV Programmes I’ve Never Seen. Many of these programmes only ever aired once and, somehow, escaped being preserved on home recordings. I may never get to see them.
5 Out-of-Reach British TV Programmes I’ve Never Seen
Five elusive TV programmes I may never actually get to see
curiousbritishtelly.substack.com
June 25, 2026 at 5:35 PM
New article is 5 Out-of-Reach British TV Programmes I’ve Never Seen. Many of these programmes only ever aired once and, somehow, escaped being preserved on home recordings. I may never get to see them.
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Cooper and Lambert have been assigned. Back to the cafe with a couple of classics and one I’m not sure if I saw.👍🏿
A great overview and reminder to rewatch even more stuff.
The pile totters.
Happy Day.👏🏿
🧟♂️ 🚸📺
🚶🏿♂️🎧📻
A great overview and reminder to rewatch even more stuff.
The pile totters.
Happy Day.👏🏿
🧟♂️ 🚸📺
🚶🏿♂️🎧📻
#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?!
💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
June 23, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Cooper and Lambert have been assigned. Back to the cafe with a couple of classics and one I’m not sure if I saw.👍🏿
A great overview and reminder to rewatch even more stuff.
The pile totters.
Happy Day.👏🏿
🧟♂️ 🚸📺
🚶🏿♂️🎧📻
A great overview and reminder to rewatch even more stuff.
The pile totters.
Happy Day.👏🏿
🧟♂️ 🚸📺
🚶🏿♂️🎧📻
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It's a YoLD bonus mini-edition covering those ten weeks in 1976 everyone's been banging on about this week. What were we watching? Drama in which nothing happens, cartoons in which everything happens, monumentally inane competitions and a touch of rabies.
open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
Heatwave Summer Special: 23rd June – 27th August, 1976
“Soon they will kill all the sheep, wander away and live in little holes.”
open.substack.com
June 27, 2026 at 8:38 AM
It's a YoLD bonus mini-edition covering those ten weeks in 1976 everyone's been banging on about this week. What were we watching? Drama in which nothing happens, cartoons in which everything happens, monumentally inane competitions and a touch of rabies.
open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
☀️ Ray's headed out to the beach on his trike to catch some rays, and as that's over 100 miles away we're taking a little minibreak until his return.
Remember to unplug your aerial if it starts thundering, or to be extra safe nip out and take it down. ☀️
Remember to unplug your aerial if it starts thundering, or to be extra safe nip out and take it down. ☀️
June 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
☀️ Ray's headed out to the beach on his trike to catch some rays, and as that's over 100 miles away we're taking a little minibreak until his return.
Remember to unplug your aerial if it starts thundering, or to be extra safe nip out and take it down. ☀️
Remember to unplug your aerial if it starts thundering, or to be extra safe nip out and take it down. ☀️
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Late to the party but this is good stuff. Nice to see Death is a Good Living covered as it's a gem of a series, and thanks to Una I now know that Michael Powell directed episodes of Espionage which will encourage me to dig out the DVD set. Well worth a listen.
I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers.
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⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
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⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
June 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Late to the party but this is good stuff. Nice to see Death is a Good Living covered as it's a gem of a series, and thanks to Una I now know that Michael Powell directed episodes of Espionage which will encourage me to dig out the DVD set. Well worth a listen.
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Iconically brandishing there a classic Woods Ware Iris cup and saucer, the official crockery of @cathoderays.bsky.social , Ivy's of Holmfirth, a community centre in Ashes to Ashes and many many more.
June 19, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Iconically brandishing there a classic Woods Ware Iris cup and saucer, the official crockery of @cathoderays.bsky.social , Ivy's of Holmfirth, a community centre in Ashes to Ashes and many many more.
Celebrating Sue Townsend's wit and observational genius creating #AdrianMole, it's also important to remember her passionate campaigning against poverty - as Roy Hattersley did with this lovely response to an article she wrote (which is quoted in its replies).
I hope Hull History Centre won't mind me sharing this lovely letter from Roy Hattersley's papers, on the sad news of his passing aged 93.
RIP.
RIP.
June 15, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Celebrating Sue Townsend's wit and observational genius creating #AdrianMole, it's also important to remember her passionate campaigning against poverty - as Roy Hattersley did with this lovely response to an article she wrote (which is quoted in its replies).
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With a gap in the 2026 Christmas schedule for a returning children's favourite, how about a tender for plague victim prankster Nobody, a sepia psycho ghost girl, or a Happy Day of layline-fuelled psychosis?
June 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
With a gap in the 2026 Christmas schedule for a returning children's favourite, how about a tender for plague victim prankster Nobody, a sepia psycho ghost girl, or a Happy Day of layline-fuelled psychosis?
#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?!
💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
June 9, 2026 at 7:19 AM
#SapphireAndSteel, #ChildrenOfTheStones, and #NobodysHouse provide a feast of youthful 1970s TV chills for Hannah and Pete this time at Ray's... with Terrifying Children?!
💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
💎 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
🗿 Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
👻 YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
Do CRT TV programmes contain more terrifying children than TV terrifies?
Hannah and Pete have been very brave for tackling some of this week's shows.
Hannah and Pete have been very brave for tackling some of this week's shows.
June 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Do CRT TV programmes contain more terrifying children than TV terrifies?
Hannah and Pete have been very brave for tackling some of this week's shows.
Hannah and Pete have been very brave for tackling some of this week's shows.
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My absolute favourite campus-life drama. It is simultaneously spot on as to what it's like to work at a university and utterly, utterly bonkers. Also, I've been on committees with all these characters.
We love you: that’s why we’re here. My celebration of 40 years of A Very Peculiar Practice - with contributions from Peter Davison, Andrew Davies, Barbara Flynn and Davids Tucker and Troughton. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/71b8b80...
The radical brilliance of A Very Peculiar Practice has never been bettered
Andrew Davies’s defining TV series was a surreal parable starring Peter Davison, Barbara Flynn and David Troughton
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 8, 2026 at 12:18 PM
My absolute favourite campus-life drama. It is simultaneously spot on as to what it's like to work at a university and utterly, utterly bonkers. Also, I've been on committees with all these characters.
She's on OTHER podcasts?!
Many happy reruns to Trap One agent and Cathode Ray's superspy @hannahcooper.bsky.social ! 🥂
Catch Hannah's thoughts on her first ever viewing of the Dr Who TVM in our latest episode, and exploring other TV greats fortnightly at @cathoderays.bsky.social 📺
Catch Hannah's thoughts on her first ever viewing of the Dr Who TVM in our latest episode, and exploring other TV greats fortnightly at @cathoderays.bsky.social 📺
June 1, 2026 at 11:50 AM
She's on OTHER podcasts?!
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Saved this for the drive home!
June 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Saved this for the drive home!
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We challenged ourselves to give a taste of three espionage shows in about an hour, and it was a blast! As a complete newbie there was so much to take in. Head to @cathoderays.bsky.social ...but watch your back 🥷
May 30, 2026 at 11:56 AM
We challenged ourselves to give a taste of three espionage shows in about an hour, and it was a blast! As a complete newbie there was so much to take in. Head to @cathoderays.bsky.social ...but watch your back 🥷
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I listened to this earlier today and I thought it was brilliant. Three series I’ve never seen (including one I’d never heard of) but now I really want to watch them all.
I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers.
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
May 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I listened to this earlier today and I thought it was brilliant. Three series I’ve never seen (including one I’d never heard of) but now I really want to watch them all.
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I massively enjoyed doing this: watched episodes of shows I’d never seen before. Plus bonus Michael Powell content!
I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers.
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
May 28, 2026 at 7:23 AM
I massively enjoyed doing this: watched episodes of shows I’d never seen before. Plus bonus Michael Powell content!
I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers.
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
May 28, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I spy @unamccormack.bsky.social parachuting in to Ray's to talk spies! Leonard Rossiter wants to retire but Death Is A Good Living, an electrifying episode of Espionage, and the arrival of The Sandbaggers.
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
🥷 Podbean tinyurl.com/3a9s3bd8
⚛️ Spotify tinyurl.com/2p69h7kn
🕵️ YouTube tinyurl.com/3w624f8y
What's that? You want MORE Leonard Rossiter than this? As you've probably never seen him before?
May 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
What's that? You want MORE Leonard Rossiter than this? As you've probably never seen him before?
We're entering a suspicious world for our next episode...
Here's what's coming up on Ray's specials board this week!
Here's what's coming up on Ray's specials board this week!
May 25, 2026 at 6:12 PM
We're entering a suspicious world for our next episode...
Here's what's coming up on Ray's specials board this week!
Here's what's coming up on Ray's specials board this week!
When you're encouraged to use AI creating an upcoming presentation at work...
May 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
When you're encouraged to use AI creating an upcoming presentation at work...
We're not sure
We love you
...is a lyric so deftly ambiguous and unsettling, it should've been a huge hit single! We'd love to know if a full-length version was ever recorded? Elkie Brooks absolutely takes you there.
#AVeryPeculiarPractice
youtu.be/04qsAE5ZuX8?...
We love you
...is a lyric so deftly ambiguous and unsettling, it should've been a huge hit single! We'd love to know if a full-length version was ever recorded? Elkie Brooks absolutely takes you there.
#AVeryPeculiarPractice
youtu.be/04qsAE5ZuX8?...
A Very Peculiar Practice opening theme and titles
YouTube video by TV REDONE
youtu.be
May 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM
We're not sure
We love you
...is a lyric so deftly ambiguous and unsettling, it should've been a huge hit single! We'd love to know if a full-length version was ever recorded? Elkie Brooks absolutely takes you there.
#AVeryPeculiarPractice
youtu.be/04qsAE5ZuX8?...
We love you
...is a lyric so deftly ambiguous and unsettling, it should've been a huge hit single! We'd love to know if a full-length version was ever recorded? Elkie Brooks absolutely takes you there.
#AVeryPeculiarPractice
youtu.be/04qsAE5ZuX8?...
We can neither confirm nor deny Ray’s influence on broadcasting decisions, but our latest episode has obviously gone down well.
PSA: A Very Peculiar Practice starts on BBC Four tonight.
May 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
We can neither confirm nor deny Ray’s influence on broadcasting decisions, but our latest episode has obviously gone down well.
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And just like that, A Very Peculiar Practice pulls up on the iplayer - the power of Catastrophe Theory?
May 20, 2026 at 10:57 AM
And just like that, A Very Peculiar Practice pulls up on the iplayer - the power of Catastrophe Theory?
One of us was influenced by the music of Goodnight Sweetheart…
May 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
One of us was influenced by the music of Goodnight Sweetheart…