Alice Bright
@alicelbright.bsky.social
Writer - Audio/Comedy/Current affairs. 'The Skewer' BBC R4/Dead Ringers
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"Nobody writes about the BBC board without observing that it is a strange beast."
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
Boardroom dramas, backstabbing and the BBC‘s darkest hour | The Observer
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November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Nobody writes about the BBC board without observing that it is a strange beast."
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
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TIL the BBC doesn't have Kitten Kong (1971) in its archives because it regularly taped over programmes after it had broadcast them.
The Goodies S02e07 Kitten Kong
Dailymotion video by hannahmillertv
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November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
TIL the BBC doesn't have Kitten Kong (1971) in its archives because it regularly taped over programmes after it had broadcast them.
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The grimmer the news gets, the sillier the comedy antidote you require. We're here to help.
All 4 episodes of The Abergele Files are now up on BBC Sounds. Stop doomscrolling and enjoy the show that puts the D into Cozy Crime!
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
All 4 episodes of The Abergele Files are now up on BBC Sounds. Stop doomscrolling and enjoy the show that puts the D into Cozy Crime!
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - The Abergele Files - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Abergele Files on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The grimmer the news gets, the sillier the comedy antidote you require. We're here to help.
All 4 episodes of The Abergele Files are now up on BBC Sounds. Stop doomscrolling and enjoy the show that puts the D into Cozy Crime!
👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
All 4 episodes of The Abergele Files are now up on BBC Sounds. Stop doomscrolling and enjoy the show that puts the D into Cozy Crime!
👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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This hurts so badly I can only assume Cenobites made it
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This hurts so badly I can only assume Cenobites made it
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This (and the rest of this thread) is a beautiful tonic.
A quick little throwaway tune in RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION from the late, great Neil Innes.
I'd love to hear various artists cover this ditty in concert... (Which artist will take up the challenge first?)
I'd love to hear various artists cover this ditty in concert... (Which artist will take up the challenge first?)
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This (and the rest of this thread) is a beautiful tonic.
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“Each generation has had to learn how to work with its newly acquired cognitive prostheses, whether stylus, scroll, or smartphone,” Kwame Anthony Appiah writes—but what’s different with AI is its speed and the intimacy of the exchange with it.
The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
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November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Each generation has had to learn how to work with its newly acquired cognitive prostheses, whether stylus, scroll, or smartphone,” Kwame Anthony Appiah writes—but what’s different with AI is its speed and the intimacy of the exchange with it.
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
FLA 33: Mark Watson (16/11/2025)
For over twenty years now, the writer-performer Mark Watson has sustained two parallel careers. In one of them, he has pursued stand-up comedy to great acclaim, both in live settings and via broadc…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
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Released this Tuesday by Penguin Random House / DC Comics.
With Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman & more - even the Joker - after three decades I'm back in Metropolis and Gotham City in November with KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, a fully cast, cinematic audio drama from DC and Penguin Random House Audio, with music by my SANDMAN pal James Hannigan.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Released this Tuesday by Penguin Random House / DC Comics.
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Marty Feldman on the nature of comedy
Marty Feldman on the nature of comedy
BBC releases fascinating 1969 documentary - watch here
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Marty Feldman on the nature of comedy
How's it the middle of November when it only just started
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How's it the middle of November when it only just started
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
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not many people know this, but when the bbc doesn't have a director general its staff are allowed to come in not in uniform and bring in board games
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
not many people know this, but when the bbc doesn't have a director general its staff are allowed to come in not in uniform and bring in board games
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It's June Whitfield's 100th birthday - so I'm delighted that Radio 4 Extra have picked a delightful 2-part retrospective I made 10 years ago, for her 90th birthday, with Joanna Lumley.
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
June Whitfield: 90 Not Out - 1. Take It From Here to Happy Ever After - BBC Sounds
Joanna Lumley looks back at June Whitfield's first radio appearances.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's June Whitfield's 100th birthday - so I'm delighted that Radio 4 Extra have picked a delightful 2-part retrospective I made 10 years ago, for her 90th birthday, with Joanna Lumley.
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Actually, Bond was turned to ash last time so just have a voice coming from an urn & then add some water or something
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Actually, Bond was turned to ash last time so just have a voice coming from an urn & then add some water or something
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
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Good clip from a great episode.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
I'm getting word that some of you haven't listened to The Abergele Files yet. Seriously? After the week you've had? Give your poor weary soul a break and put something silly in your ears
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November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Good clip from a great episode.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman merchant vessel shipwreck from around ca. 320 CE near Mallorca. It was carrying olive oil, wine, and garum, “two leather shoes, a carpenter’s drill likely used for onboard repairs, and an oil lamp … Some amphorae, however, bear early Christian monograms.”
A 1,700-Year-Old Roman Merchant Ship Lies Just Two Meters Below the Surface off Mallorca’s Playa de Palma - Arkeonews
Conservation team examining amphorae recovered from the Ses Fontanelles Roman shipwreck near Playa de Palma, Mallorca
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November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman merchant vessel shipwreck from around ca. 320 CE near Mallorca. It was carrying olive oil, wine, and garum, “two leather shoes, a carpenter’s drill likely used for onboard repairs, and an oil lamp … Some amphorae, however, bear early Christian monograms.”
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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Feel like I’ve seen them somewhere before
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Feel like I’ve seen them somewhere before
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just one outstanding costume in an excellent thread of mundane Halloween costumes in Japan
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
just one outstanding costume in an excellent thread of mundane Halloween costumes in Japan
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Well worth scrolling through. 🤣
Timeline cleanse: I present a series of photos of irritated animals
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Well worth scrolling through. 🤣