sa 28 Mar
2026 |
Anorak
Alert No.75:
Sorry Henry, Benjamin Britten was born in
Lowestoft not Aldeburgh.
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we 4 Mar
2026 |
 Anorak
Alert No.74: Discovering Peter
Sellers on Sky Arts and a talking head said Sellers
as Lionel Mandrake in Dr Strangelove was a
brigadier an army rank when Sellers is clearly wearing a
RAF uniform.
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sa 29 Nov
2025 |
Anorak
Alert No.73: Streamed
Darkest Hour last night and enjoyed it but when
the cabinet was discussing that unlike WWI the German
tanks would be able to refuel at petrol stations
surely in the 1940s that would have been
American usage ... like calling a lorry a truck?
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th 11 Sep
2025 |
Anorak
Alert No.72: Hugh Bonneville
as Mr Bennet in
Lost In Austen calls a
mattock a pick axe ... picky picky eh?
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fr 25 Jul
2025 |
 Anorak
Alert No.71: Sorry to be an
apostrophe Nazi Heidi but
Pirates is a possessive
and needs an apostrophe.
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fr 23 May
2025 |
 Anorak
Alert No.70: Like with
The Great there couldn't have been loganberries at
the
17th century Danish court.
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su 20 Apr
2025 |
♫ The fox on the
front of the motor boat is playing a chromatic
harmonica. We suspect he couldn't get that bendy sound
from it but not convinced enough for an
Anorak Alert.
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we 16 Apr
2025 |
.jpg "1951 Geroge VI sixpence") Anorak
Alert No.69: ... that didn't take
long.
Love for Lydia last night on tv the garage
attendant says the charge for the petrol is five and
a tanner. Tanner was
slang for sixpence but the sub-titles mishears it as
tenner ... picky picky eh?
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tu 15 Apr
2025 |
 Anorak
Alert No.68: Seems unlikely
but we seem to be getting less anoraky these days.
We see misspellings and
word misuse in sub-titles and celebrities and
scriptwriters getting it wrong but we can't be
bothered to report it ... who knows? might get back to
our old selves.
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su 9 Feb
2025 |
.JPG "BBC Red button") Anorak
Alert No.67: Despite the
government's plans to
melt in their
own image East Anglian councils into larger
bureaucracies
Suffolk, Cambridge and Essex are still
three counties.
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th 9 Jan
2025 |
Anorak
Alert No.66: Canadian tv prog
How It's Made it's fount not font
of all knowledge.
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th 31 Oct
2024 |
nearthecoast
digest subscriber Andy Fordyce emailed that he likes
to think Victoria Coren Mitchell's 'slip' (below) was to
'amuse'
her husband ... could very well be eh?
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we 30 Oct
2024
 |
 Anorak
Alert No.65: On Monday's
Only Connect (around 5:22) Victoria Coren
Mitchell a little uncertainly credited the made up game Numberwang
to Armstrong and Miller.
Embarrassingly it was
Mitchell and Webb (Mitchell as in David
Mitchell her husband). While we're here try Eleanor
Morton's parody
Every Only Connect Team Intro.
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sa 5 Oct
2024 |
Anorak
Alert No.64: The
SIDS DITCH sign hasn't got an apostrophe ... ok picky
picky.
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tu 16 Jul
2024
The
Great |
 Anorak
Alert No.63: Surprisingly
Peter III Emperor of Russia only ruled for the first
half of 1762. In series 1 episode 5 of
The Great the royal foodie speaks of
something involving
loganberries. The fruit was first crossbred in
1881 by James Harvey Logan .. picky eh?
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tu 2 Jul
2024 |
 Anorak
Alert No.62: We like Tim Hartford
the undercover economist and Radio 4's
More or Less but last night in
Skint he reckoned the world wide web is a
British invention. Well
Tim Berners-Lee is British but he made the first
pass at the web in Switzerland whilst
working for CERN a European organisation.
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fr 3 May
2024 |
 Anorak
Alert No.61: Early in When
Harry Met Sally Billy Crystal is
spitting grape pips out the passenger window, cut to
medium shot of the car passing with the passenger window
shut, back to BC spitting pips out the passenger window
... alright picky picky eh.
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mo 25 Mar
2024 |
 Anorak
Alert No.60: In the very excellent
drama
Eric and Ernie repeated last week on BBC 4 when
Eric is clearly doing a Jimmy Schnozzle Durante
impression complete with a paper cup the subtitles
say it's Groucho Marx ...
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tu 20 Feb
2024 |
Anorak
Alert No.59: During taxi driver
Daniel's brilliant
dash to the airport he overtakes a green Mini
twice ... alright picky picky eh.
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tu 23 Jan
2024 |
 Anorak
Alert No.58: If the second signal
is inverted it's not really
exactly the same Professor Fry ... alright
picky picky eh:)
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