An Interview with Robert Llewellyn

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On the set of Channel Flip’s first feature film, WUWO is greeted by Robert Llewellyn dressed a smiling human, instead of Red dwarf’s mechanoid, Kryten.

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Top Four Festivals (of all time)

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Below is a list of our top four music festivals EVER. If you were hoping to find Woodstock on our list, then sorry to disappoint.. It’s just too easy!

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Retronaut’s Exotic Dancers

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The title of “exotic dancer” brings with it connotations of skinny girls, seedy clubs, nudity and Motley Crue’s Girls, Girls, Girls playing on repeat. However, exotic dancing in the late 19th century involved curvier women, corsets and horse outfits. Retronaut’s …

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On yer bike love: From Dandy Horse to Penny Farthing

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Bikes are back. Ever since Sir Bradders was crowned King of cycling it’s actually considered pretty cool to don on a helmet.

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Old School Slang: The Cat’s Pyjamas!

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“Excuse me if I flub the dub today boss, I’m not off one’s chump but I did waste all my happy cabbage at a tiddlywinks. I Got back and forgot we keep a pig on a donkeys breakfast so he …

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Retronaut Presents: Behind the Scenes of Jaws 1974

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It ran over budget, past schedule and the mechanical shark regularly malfunctioned and forced Spielberg to replace shots of the man-eating, great white with ominous music to suggest its presence.

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Retronaut: Las Vegas Gaming Chips, 1960s-1970s

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Mafia connections, heists, Hollywood films, 15 of the 25 largest hotels and nuclear weapon test parties. All were held in what started as a small rail-road town in the middle of the Nevada Desert.

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Banned Kids TV Episodes From Your Childhood

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Kids TV for the most part is wholesome clean fun, normally with friendly messages like friendship, sharing and kindness. However, some are disturbing, violent and/or extremely racist.

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The Dandy – RIP

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In 1937 kids could go down to the news agents for a cheap fix of cow pie related gags and comic strip slap stick.

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Mobile Phones – Yuppies, Snake and Indestructibility

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Mobile phones have come along way from the totally immobile 80′s yuppy mobiles to the totally indestructible Nokias of the 90′s.

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