Hear the famed theme tune as you gaze in awe at the wondrous London, as he goes about his daily life of danger, intrigue and battling coronary heart disease. Your tips in the comments.

The CBC hasn’t always relied on American TV to flesh out their programming. This evening we present les blast from de past: Thierry la Fronde. Your tips dans les comments.

In tonight’s Tippity amusement, my last until August 8th, Italian actor Ernesto Calindri does his level best to pull off a song and dance number in a televised performance of Ventiquattromila Baci (Twenty-four Thousand Kisses).
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In a 2009 poll of musicologists, composers, and music industry insiders, not a single respondent considered tonight’s song to be a precursor to punk rock, but over ninety-eight percent of them admitted that Twenty Tiny Fingers is “bouncy.”
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Tomorrow is Dragsville, man, tomorrow is a king-size drag.
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Tonight’s tippity amusement comes in the form of a rather dated public service announcement reminding young fellers to beware of strangers who are a little too friendly.
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From a 1935 NYC recording session (not 1927, as stated at the video link), here’s A.P., Sara and Maybelle Carter — the Carter Family — singing Can the Circle Be Unbroken.
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In tonight’s Tips music, Seattle’s Lori Ann Reinhall and Drammen, Norway’s Jim Nelson — together known as Duo Scandinavica — perform a traditional Norwegian-expatriate song of yearning, sorrow, and joy, called Kan Du Glemme Gamle Norge? (“Can You Forget Old Norway?”)
Nei, jeg kan ikke. Skål!
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From a 1965 recording, here’s the great Arthur Rubinstein playing Frédéric Chopin’s sublimely beautiful Nocturne Op.9 No.2 in E-flat major.
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In tonight’s video British comedian Michael McIntyre prompts us to reexamine our basic assumptions about what is the best and most efficient way to walk.
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Via a tip from Kate, here’s NASA astronaut Jeff Williams taking us on an end-to-end tour of the International Space Station.
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Grab your shillelagh, quaff a glass of the pure, and charge down the hill to join the affray as uilleann piper Liam O’Flynn and fiddler Tommy Peoples perform The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
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Smugness is a nauseating character trait in and of itself, but nothing makes one reach for the puke bucket like the spectre of smug children piously reciting the smug words of smug adults. In tonight’s video (h/t Jowita Bydlowska of Ryberg Curated Video) child actors hired by British media and communications agency PHD Worldwide use high-level marketing jargon to warn marketing agencies to “up their game.” Contrived, precious, and cloying to the nth degree, here’s We Are The Future.
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Come camp time after a long lonely day riding the range, a man can get downright sentimental about his horse. Tell ’em, Roy.
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Fred Eaglesmith at 105.
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In our Friday night Tippity amusement British artist Charlotte Young provides a subtitled, plain-English translation of her Artist’s Statement.
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Former New York gubernatorial candidate and self-proclaimed karate expert Jimmy McMillan, founder of The Rent Is Too Damn High Party, might not be particularly worried the state deficit — “It’s like a cancer. It will heal itself” — but as he makes crystal clear at this gubernatorial debate held last October, he is concerned that The Rent Is Too Damn High.
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To help put you into the mood for tonight’s tips thread, here’s a patriotic and uplifting little WWII-era number by Rosalie Allen called Hitler Lives.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement a ballsy Swede channels his inner Cro-Magnon as he demonstrates the proper technique for dealing with a nanny state crusader charging moose.
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In tonight’s Tips music, from a 1956 recording session in New York, noted English wit Noël Coward chronicles the behaviour of the restless, self-pleasuring adults of his milieu who, in the course of behaving like overgrown children, neglect to ask themselves the troubling and inescapable question: What’s Going to Happen to the Tots?.
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