All for one and one for all - The Three Musketeers!

This takes me back to those holidays when school finished back in the 1970s. Part of the kids TV line up on BBC1 was The Banana Splits. The three Musketeers were one of the core cartoons of the Banana Splits. The cartoon concerned the adventures of four Musketeers and their constant battle against enemies of the state who would try to topple the reigning Monarch. Porthos, Athos and Aramis were the Three Musketeers plus D'Artagnan who later became their leader. Constance provided the female element as was supposedly D'Artagnan's girl. She was often accompanied by Toulee (spelling ?) who was a young boy who was often getting up to mischief in his pursuit of becoming a Musketeer.

Filmland - The Search for James Dean

This edition of the American Magazine, "Filmland" dates back to 1956 and highlights the search for Movie Icon James Dean after his famous car crash.

Madness - The Rise & Fall Album (1982)

The Rise & Fall is the fourth album by the British pop group Madness. This album saw Madness at their most experimental, exhibiting a range of musical styles including jazz, English music hall and Eastern influences. NME described it at the time of its release as "The best Madness record". It has often been retrospectively described as a concept album. Although initially conceived as a concept album about nostalgia for childhood, the concept was eventually dropped, though the original theme is still evident particularly in the title track and the album's major hit "Our House".

This theme was also mentioned recently when interviewed as part of T in the Park highlights, where Suggs said that all the band were told to write about their childhood memories for the Rise & Fall (although he did say that Barson got the wrong idea, and went off and wrote about New Delhi). Although the band had previously been avowedly apolitical, the track "Blue Skinned Beast" was an overt satire on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her handling of the Falklands War, paving the way for more political comment on subsequent Madness albums.

Though the album was never released in the USA, several tracks were later placed on the compilation Madness, including the melancholic pop of "Our House".

1. Rise And Fall
2. Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)
3. Blue Skinned Beast
4. Primrose Hill
5. Mr Speaker (Gets The Word)
6. Sunday Morning
7. Our House
8. Tiptoes
9. New Delhi
10. That Face
11. Calling Cards
12. Are You Coming (With Me)
13.Madness (Is All In The Mind)

Name	The Rise & Fall
Type	Album
Artist	Madness
Cover	Madnesstheriseandfall.jpg
Released	8 October 1982
Recorded	Air Studios 1982
Genre	Pop
Length	43:04
Label	Stiff Records
Producer	Cliff Langer Alan Winstanley
Last album	Complete Madness (1982

Eastend Cindy joins Corrie!

She's an EastEnders legend, but Michelle Collins has crossed the great divide to Coronation Street.

Former EastEnders actress Michelle Collins is taking on one of the biggest jobs in soapland - as the new landlady at the Rovers Return in Coronation Street.

Michelle, who played Albert Square's Cindy Beale, will appear in the ITV1 show as the pub's new boss, Stella, in June.

Viewers will see Stella brought in to help owner Steve McDonald after a series of bust-ups with his wife, Becky, leave the business in trouble.

But he gets more than he bargained for when she promptly moves her family in and the truth comes out about a dark secret from her past.

Michelle Collins said: "I am honoured to be joining the cast of Coronation Street. The show has been part of my life since I was a child so to become a part of it is extremely exciting." The show's executive producer, Kieran Roberts, said he was "thrilled" to welcome her to the show.