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Sarah Dempster
@dempster2000.bsky.social
Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian, script reader/editor. I like books.
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I’ve written about TV’s best and worst historical epics
The Muppets do The Thing (1982): a thread.

“I don't want to stay out here anymore. I want to come back inside”.
January 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"
January 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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The first two hours this morning
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
“Have you been involved in a government that wasn’t your fault?”
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Awful politicians getting the songs of The Smiths slightly wrong:

1. I Know It’s Dover
January 4, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your jackboots were stolen
January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Hermann Böring
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Until Americans learn how to pronounce "herbs" it's hard to see how the empire can progress.
January 4, 2026 at 2:33 PM
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.”

Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Surprise! It’s two thousand 2016s in a B-1 bomber.
What if 2026 turns out to be two 2025s in a trench coat
January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
[starmer at home, curtains drawn, riverdancing expressionlessly as the phone rings off the hook]
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Do Reuters know we can see this
January 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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Tomorrow this trio of odd noises starts slipping off BBC Sounds and back into audio oblivion. If you want to hear the missing Episode 4, in which it all turns out to be a dream*, give me a call and I'll dictate it down the phone.

*no, obviously not

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - No-Platformed - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of No-Platformed on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What if 2026 turns out to be two 2025s in a trench coat
December 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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It is a little known fact that they prerecord the Jools Holland Hootenanny - all the people on screen are faking it being New Year for tv.

For eg, last year’s was prerecorded June 15th, 1535, during the Siege of Munster, look carefully and you can see John of Leiden mingling with the audience.
December 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Jane Crowther • Fox Field •
December 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
December 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🎵”Suss-suss-sausages”🎵
December 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I once watched a pensioner blow his nose outside the Norwich branch of Monsoon.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The one-armed drummer from Def Leppard gave me a reiki treatment in a Las Vegas dressing room while prop comic Carrot Top watched silently from the doorway.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM