In Vancouver, where I grew up, radio station CKNW did a late night show called 'The Owl Prowl' hosted by Jack Cullen, who had a collection of 300,000 records, and who aired old-time radio shows nightly from 10.05pm. When I was old enough to be up that late and listen to them - from about the mid-1970s - I grew to love…

I think they are; last year 'TCM Remembers' came out before Joan Fontaine and Peter O'Toole died, and they re-did the piece to include clips of those two actors but kept the same running time.

I love 'TCM Remembers', and as Franko says, every year they outdo themselves. Music, setting, staging - all perfect. And I admire that they go way outside the North American mainstream, unlike the Oscars' 'In Memoriam' segment, which barely scratches the surface of American cinema and cherry picks who gets featured,…

There's also an earlier clip from Dead Poets Society, before they show Williams.

That's when I first saw it, too; on a trip to New York in 1999. Ducked out of some Baker Street Irregulars' weekend activities to see this with a couple of friends from England; great fun!

I was only familiar with Turner's paintings through reproductions when I went to England at the age of 19; one of my favourites was 'The Fighting Temeraire', a portion of which was used as the cover image on the Penguin Classics edition of The Moonstone that I had. I walked into the National Gallery, and a few rooms…

Glad to see Martin Savage singled out; his turn as George Grossmith in Topsy-Turvy was brilliant. That said, I can't think of anyone in Topsy-Turvy who was less than excellent; if ever a movie deserved an award for Best Ensemble Cast, that one does.

Since she was a write-in candidate for Outstanding Performance I'm not surprised she didn't make the list, but damn, Eva Green in Penny Dreadful was brilliant.

I guess Blackadder's Christmas Carol doesn't really fit in here, which is a shame. '"Christmas" has an H in it, Mr Baldrick. And an R. Also an I and an S; also a T, an M, an A, and another S. Oh, and you've missed out the C at the beginning.' And of course there's the traditional 'Greetings of the season to you,…

The 1631 edition of the King James Bible - known as the 'Wicked Bible' - accidentally left out the 'not' in 'Thou shalt not commit adultery', so if you can get hold of a copy then you're totally fine, 'cause you've got proof it's okay, it's right there in black and white.

'Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913' is one of my favourite Christmas pieces; absolutely beautiful. And the version of 'Silent Night', with the spoken word introduction giving the background, is lovely. Indeed, the whole thing is one of my favourite Christmas albums (along with The Chieftains' The Bells of Dublin and Vince…

Yes, a line like 'I'll be home for Christmas / If only in my dreams' takes on a new resonance when you realise that when it was written and first performed in 1943 millions of people would only by home for Christmas 'in their dreams' (and a lot of them would never make it home for Christmas or any other time).

Was just coming on here to post this very thing, so can't like this enough. It's beautiful in its simplicity, in the harmony of the two voices, and the performers' ease with one another (the little asides throughout) - the last is really odd when you think that one of the performers is a piece of felt, but there you…

Agreed. Never heard either until I moved to England for five years in the mid-1990s. Now I can't un-hear them.

Maybe a gleet?

Yes, Boothe was initially cast as Swearengen, then had to bow out due to illness, and McShane got the part. Series creator David Milch wrote the character of Cy Tolliver for Boothe, so he could still be in the show.

I don't think I've seen 'Come Wander With Me', and now I'll have to, because it sounds as if it has similarities to one of my favourite 'John the Balladeer' tales by Manly Wade Wellman, 'The Desrick on Yandro'. Here's a link to the story:

Love the film; so much campy fun. 'Some voices . . . carry' is one of my favourite movie lines.

Collins edition? I have that one too.

Sleeping Murder, although the last 'new' Christie novel published (after her death in 1976), was actually written in the early 1940s, at the same time as Curtain. Christie, and her publisher, was worried she might be killed in a bombing raid on London, so she wrote the 'final' Poirot and Marple novels then. When she…