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Workin’ on my brain

Simon Mayo

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Blimey. I know they said it was coming but really this is a bit too cold. It’s that classic Feb/March grumble; one minute you think it’s positively spring-like, the next it’s positively Siberian. It’s the hope that always kills you. So we hunker down one more time with wooly hats and gloves and cheerfully greet another incoming weekend.

Movies kicking things off with Margot Robbie talking about being Tonya Harding in I,Tonya. She’s Oscar nominated for this, her first leading role (!) and its a darkly comic, first rate film.

Then we’ll kick-off an All Request Friday with some quality from 1966. Woh! Different times! Camberwick Green is new and part of the Watch With Mother series, Action Man figures appear for the first time and Time magazine introduces the world to ‘Swinging London’. At the movies its The Good the Bad and the Ugly, A Man for All Seasons and Alfie and there are plenty of ‘swinging hits to choose from...

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