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Wicked Little Letters

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This afternoon I went to the dendy Cinema Coorparoo where I saw the movie Wicked Little Letters. Edith Swain(Olivia Colman) who lives with her parents Edward (Timothy Spall) and Victoria (Gemma Jones) in an town called Littlehampton in England in the 1920's is starting to getting crude letters insulting her with profanities which neighbour and Irish Immigrant Rose Gooding(Jessie Buckley) who is an single mother with an daughter Nancy(Aleisha Weir) and partner Bill (Malachi Kirby) which she gets arrested and sent to prison. Gladys Moss(Anajan Vasan) who is an Woman Police Officer whose father was an police officer suspects that Rose is not the culprit which she goes around asking questions and then it gets interesting. It is excellent, very funny and very entertaning with excellent acting by Olivia Colman, Jessie Bickley, Timothy Spall, gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Aleisha Weir, Anajan Vasan and Eileen Atkins and it's directed by Thea Sharrock and produced by Olivia Colman, J...

4BH April 1955

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This is from the Telegraph April 1st 1955 and 4BH which it's the Classic Hits Station now was one of Brisbane's popular stations at the time which among their disc jockeys was Bob Rogers who was on 4BH since the early 50's had an show called Platter Chatter every Saturday afternoons from 1pm until 3pm and on Sundays at 3pm George Lovejoy did the commenatating on the Rugby League Game .

4BC April 1955

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This is from the Telegraph April 1st 1955 and 4BC which is now the talk back station was one of Brisbane's very popular stations at the time which among their disc jockeys was Johnny James who was an big part of 4BC throughout the 50's and 60's which he would do the Breakfast show as well as at the time in 1955 he did an show every Friday night called Remember These which was on at 9pm.

4KQ March 1960

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This is from the Telegraph March 31st 1960 and 4KQ long before being an country music station and the Good Times Great Classic Hits Station until it ended in 2022 was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations which among their shows was the Talent Quest that would last for many years was an big thing which an lot of local talent would be in the talent quest even the Bee Gees was in one of those in 1959 but didn't win which from this advert in 1960 was broadcast Tuesday nights @ 8pm with Andy Stevens a compere and also auditions were held at the 4KQ studios when they were at Edward Street in the city from 6.30pm until 8pm Thursday nights.

The Blue Sapphire Tour 2023 Cliff Richard

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2023 was 65 years when British singer Cliff Richard emerged on the music scene with Move It going to number 2 in the UK which and he did the Blue Sapphire tour of the UK in November which included 4 shows at the London Eventim Apollo which was where it was filmed which shown in the cinemas in Australia in February this year and was shown in the UK and Ireland on November 25th and 26th 2023 and it is now out on DVD. On this DVD he performs many of his classic hits from his career including Living Doll, Please Don't Tease, Devil Woman, Wired For Sound, Saviour's Day and many others as well as having an 2 part interview with British lyricist Sir Tim Rice. It is AWESOME, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with FANTASTIC and AWESOME songs with great singing by Cliff who is still sounding great at age 83 84 on October 14th this year. Cliff has another CD coming out in April which it's the live recording with the Shadows in 2009. This DVD is an must for Cliff RIchard fans and I give it ...

4BC March 1965

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This is from the Telegraph March 30th 1965 and 4BC who is now the talk back station was one of the top radio stations in Brisbane back in the 60's which among their disc jockeys was Mike Baker who did mornings from 9am until 12pm Monday to Friday.

4BH March 1957

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This is from the Telegraph March 29th 1957 and 4BH which is now the Classic Hits Station was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1950's which their programs that was played on this day in 1957 were at 7pm Craven A Hit Parade, Winner Take All at 7.30pm, Ampol Show @ 8pm, John Turner's Family @ 8.30pm and King Hits @ 9pm.