Episode Number: 1564
First Shown: 7.00pm on February 24th, 1994
Presenter(s): Bruno Brookes
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Elstree Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – February 24th, 1994
BBC Genome: Here!

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Episode Number: 1564
First Shown: 7.00pm on February 24th, 1994
Presenter(s): Bruno Brookes
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Elstree Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – February 24th, 1994
BBC Genome: Here!

And it’s time for an aide-mémoire for a fact that seems to be disappearing into the ether.
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Apple’s European DSA Recipients of Services Report (Archive.org) turned up in my RSS feed and it has some quite shockingly low numbers! Whilst personally I prefer a real book over an e-book, I was very surprised to find that Apple has less than 1 million monthly e-book purchasers across the entire EU! And the tvOS and watchOS user base feels incredibly low as well!

Jona Lewie’s You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties from 1980. Apparently it made it as high as number 16!
Visual Mutterings has quite a nice guide to Yorkshire’s Blake’s 7 filming locations. It sounds like an entirely successful trip!

From the chap who brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas a few months ago.
From 2000, the rather lovely Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt.
Orbital covering the theme to Doctor Who at Glastonbury 2004. A little less than a year later we would get Murray Gold’s significantly more prosaic orchestral version for the reboot.
I’ve added 572 additional map images of Brecknockshire from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series to the mapping project.
Interesting places covered this update include:

And, having found another old video of York on YouTube, it’s time for another Tour of Old York. Alas, the the YouTube video doesn’t seem to be embeddable on any old random website but – in better news – it does seem to be tagged with a permissive licence that allows me to rehost it here…