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Hello everyone and welcome to a new post. I know many of you don’t follow social media sites like Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram etc so, as I have done previously, here are posts from those social media sites. Enjoy.
Up first a video of a very quiet White Horse pub. taken during my September 2024 visit.
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This is very good news. The Eagle and Child’s most prominent role was in the Lewis episode, Allegory of Love.
Shaun Evans in rehearsals at the Orange Tree Theatre. December 2024.
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The wonderful Adam James in the fifth episode of the third series of Dalgliesh. His connection to the Morse Universe; he appeared in the Lewis episode, Your Sudden Death Question and the Endeavour episode, Game as Kent Finn.
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Another connection to the Morse Universe in the fifth and sixth episode of the Dalgliesh series. Nancy Carroll stars as Alice Mayer in Dalgliesh, pic on the right and starred as Anne Rand in the Lewis episode The Indelible Stain (the one with David Soul).
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Two pubs featured in the Morse Universe in top five; The Lamb and Flag (Endeavour episode, Arcadia) and The Victoria Arms (famously used in Morse episode, The Remorseful Day but used in other episodes of the Morse Universe). From December 2024.
Click HERE to read the article from The Oxford Mail.
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Inspector Morse, Kevin Whately, actor reveals dementia fight experience. January 2025.
Click HERE to read the article.
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The Bear Inn was only used twice in the Morse Universe; Morse episode, Absolute Conviction and the Endeavour episode, Cartouche. From January 2025.
To read the article click HERE.
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Endeavour’s Shaun Evans set to star in new ITV spy drama – and it sounds gripping. From January 2025.
To read the article click HERE.
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Honeysuckle appeared in the Lewis episode, Magnum Opus. Honeysuckle is doing personalized videos.
To read the article click HERE.
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Thank you to my friend Helen for telling me about this. A new production of the Morse play, House of Ghosts. I have bought tickets for the Edinburgh show in March 2026.
To read the article click HERE.
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Anton Lesser (Chief Superintendent Bright, Endeavour) to appear in 2025 production of Hamlet at the RSC. Photos copyright of Iken Yum & Marc Brenner. From February 2025.
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Originally posted by Roy Slater on Twitter. March 2025.
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One of my website subscribers, Russell, noticed this fun in joke within the Morse episode, Last Bus to Woodstock. I can’t believe I never noticed this having watched the episode numerous times. March 2025.
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From James Bradshaw’s (Max DeBryn), Instagram account. Pictures of the play, It Runs in the Family. April 2025.
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It all looks promising outside the Eagle and Child in Oxford. Hopefully, on my next visit I will be able to raise a glass to the Inklings, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield, in their local. May 2025.
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The curious incident of the dog in the night. Morse (Service of all the Dead) and Sherlock Holmes (Silver Blaze).
The red bearded actor in the Sherlock Holmes clip is Malcolm Storry who plays Inspector Gregory. Malcolm Storey played DCI Martin Johnson in the Morse episode, The Way Through the Woods.
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I met Colin Dexter on Oxford’s High Street. May 2025.
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And the rest of the guys in the band. May 2025. Oxford Bookshop.
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Looks like The Eagle and Child won’t open until 2027. may 2025.
To read the article click HERE.
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A postcard I came across in an Oxford bookshop. Can you see the connection to a Morse episode?
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Not Morse related but I thought you might find it interesting.
This plaque is on the wall of 1 Brewer Street. The famous crime writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893–1957) was born here at the Head Master’s House of Christ Church Cathedral School, where her father, the Revd Henry Sayers, was headmaster.
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I have just returned from Oxford (May 2025) and while there I did a lot of recording. Here is one of those recordings. It is the location where Lewis and Hobson talk and hug. The Old Stone Bridge near Iffley Lock.
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Oxfam’s two second hand bookshops in Oxford. The Turl Street bookshop has been used as a location in the Morse, Lewis and Endeavour series.
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Oxford at night. My photos from May 2025.
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Who is Endeavour actor Shaun Evans’ new ITV partner? Filming starts today for an ITV spy thriller starring Endeavour star Shaun Evans. June 2025.
To read the article click HERE.
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Sergeant Lewis ‘dad’ joke from the episode, Deadly Slumber.
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Inspector Morse quoting the last four lines of Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. (Episode: Death is Now my Neighbour).
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John Thaw and Shaun Evans reciting the final verse of A.E.Housman’s poem, How Clear, How Lovely Bright.
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Lewis (Kevin Whately) unknowingly quotes from the Rudyard Kipling poem, ‘If.’ From the Morse episode, The Way Through the Woods.
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I hope you enjoyed the catch up. Sorry, it has taken so long to do a social media catch up.
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