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‘My Grandfather Charles Manson’: Sophia Maddox on her documentary

Sophia Maddox knew nothing about Charles Manson when she was listening to the Beatles’ double album known as…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Movies #dad #documentary #Entertainment #father #Film #firstthing #follower #grandfathercharlesmanson #interview #life #manson #orton #otherpeople #relationship #sophiamaddox #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/777704/

I'm watching a Dennis Potter play from 1966 that was broadcast live (on YouTube). I have an affinity with mid century outcast drama that I assume is because of queerness and autism.
#potter #orton # someone else I thought of before but can't now recall.

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Tichborne case ✧

The Tichborne case concerned the claim by an individual known as "the Claimant" (pictured) to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy and fortune. Roger Tichborne disappeared after a shipwreck in 1854; rumours later surfaced that he had survived and made his way to Australia. In 1866 a butcher called Thomas Castro from Wagga Wagg...

#Tichborne #Orton #Claimant #Australia #England #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_case

That last toot reminds of another random-ish hashtag that belongs with my #introduction, I guess.

I've been moderately obsessed with #JoeOrton since my teens. A Cambridge friend, who decided he couldn't introduce me as being from my extremely right-wing posh boys' college, used instead to say 'This is Paul, the #Orton Scholar of the University'