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2023: A Year in Metropolitan

The Best Way to Spread Gen X Cheer

He’s making a list

Cassandra Darke

The other Christmas stories

Babylon Berlin (2017)

Into Thin Air

A Metropolitan Century

1981: Making noise with the art school boys

Scaredy cat

I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue (1972 onwards)

Blank space

Point Break (1991)

All mushed up inside

The Bear Went Over The Mountain

Civilisation and its discontents

The Bear (2022 - 2023)

Life lessons from Amy Winehouse and Taylor Swift

1980: Gentlemen Take Polaroids

Britain’s most fanciable

The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Lady Caroline

The Return of Mister X

Gymnasiums and Jockstraps

Subway (1985)

Midsummer

Friendlier Things

Cheers (1982-93)

John Peel has no idea what e-mail is

1979: Monkey Magic

Parents on bikes

An Evening (Wasted) with Tom Lehrer (1959)

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3⁄4

The Loved/Hated One

Repo Man (1984)

I'm still here, in D flat

From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring (1994)

Abattoir Blues

1978: Ain't half been some clever bastards

Uneasy listening

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

Eddie Izzard Live at The Ambassadors, 1993

A Stranger at Green Knowe

Nazis. I hate these guys.

The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)

Something like a phenomenon

The X-Files (1993 - 2001)

Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette

1977: God save a Queen

Dr Aziz and the Caves of Androzani

The Godfather (1972)

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