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Mark Ayres
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“Genius Composer” (Dick & Dom). Sound Design/Restoration/Remastering. 5.1, Atmos, Doctor Who & The Radiophonic Workshop. Reposts not necessarily endorsements.
Happy Doctor Who Day, folks. Like me, I am sure they don’t feel a day over 62. Thanks to @benjamincook.bsky.social for the picture and to the Bad Wolf team for a great day out which included playback review to sign off my mix for the new edit of @bbcdoctorwho The Sea Devils. We hope you’ll enjoy it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Yesterday was the online review and final mix of our 2025 cut of “The Sea Devils”. 🌊 😈 Pictured ⬇️ at the mix with @markayresrws.bsky.social, Russell T Davies, and our brilliant post-production producer Ceres Doyle – and ⬇️ in the actual TARDIS (!!) with Mark and Mark’s son Sam.
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Accidentally walked into a cupboard. It’s bigger on the inside. WHERE ARE WE? Send help!

@markayresrws.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yep. Dun this. One of the best Doctor Who stories ever. I love Malc’s music.
Starring Jon Pertwee & Katy Manning!

🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊

Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!

And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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“I always find that violent exercise makes me hungry.” I’ve edited a thing. 7 DECEMBER! – 7PM – BBC FOUR (and iPlayer from 6AM, for early risers/sadists)…

THE SEA DEVILS. 🌊😈⚔️🥪🚤🔥👹 A brand-new 90-minute blockbuster edit of one of the maddest DOCTOR WHO stories EVER! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🔥 NUJ backs call for AI ethics guidelines...

...as fears grow over job cuts, plagiarism, and newsroom pressure driven by artificial intelligence.
AI and journalism: the greatest challenge of our time?
NUJ backs call for AI ethics guidelines as fears grow over job cuts, plagiarism, and newsroom pressure driven by artificial intelligence
bylines.cymru
July 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
July 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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COMING SOON: Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 13

BBC Studios have today announced the next release in the hugely popular Doctor Who: The Collection range will be...Season 13 In his second season, Tom Baker’s Doctor really hits his stride, with faithful companion Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth…
COMING SOON: Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 13
BBC Studios have today announced the next release in the hugely popular Doctor Who: The Collection range will be...Season 13 In his second season, Tom Baker’s Doctor really hits his stride, with faithful companion Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) by his side. Together they cross time and space to do battle with the Zygons, the biomechanoid Loch Ness monster, the fearsome Sutekh and his robot mummies, vengeful renegade Time Lord Morbius, an anti-matter creature on a distant planet, the scheming Kraals and the terrifying Krynoids.
www.blogtorwho.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Thrilled to reveal the cover for #DoctorWho The Collection Season 13! We're back again, giving our beloved show the love it deserves!

(10 points to the first person who spots what the background to this one is).
July 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The last post from our local @royalmail.bsky.social post box is at... 9am.

Ridiculous.
June 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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With Doctor Who legends Dick Mills and Mark @markayresrws.bsky.social Ayres. Together with our respective better halves, our annual (or thereabouts) Doctor Who alumni meal was a joy from start to finish.
June 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I’m on my way to the @ivorsacademy.bsky.social Ivor Novello Awards in London, genuinely the biggest song contest in the world. Guess which earworm has been stuck in my head all morning? Dugga Doo from Doctor Who that’s what. Thanks, Murray. ;)
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Reminder that the UK’s House of Lords has twice proposed legislation that would make AI companies disclose their training data, and the Labour government has twice rejected it.

Can't think why

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I don’t remember this being in the edit #doctorwho #lux #daleks
April 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"a landmark moment in sci-fi fantasy history, but as we've never seen it before" – Radio Times

"STUNNING" ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Daily Mail

"a TREAT for discerning Whovians" – TV Choice

⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Heat

"a hidden GEM" – The Times

"absolutely INCREDIBLE… an impressive reworking of a #DoctorWho classic" – Screen Rant
April 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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💥THE WAR GAMES IN COLOUR💥 is OUT TOMORROW on DVD/Blu-ray/Steelbook! Feat. an additional SIX MINS of colourised footage not in the BBC Four broadcast, plus a TON of extras – including a commentary w/Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Russell T Davies, @markayresrws.bsky.social, @rtipple.bsky.social & me.
April 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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'The War Games' in color now has cover artwork and a release date.
cultbox.co.uk/news/dvd-and...
Doctor Who: The War Games colourisation "coming soon" to Blu-Ray and DVD
Doctor Who: The War Games, which has been given the feature-length edit and colourisation treatment is coming to DVD & Blu-Ray
cultbox.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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💥COVER REVEAL💥 "The War Games in Colour" will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and Steelbook on 21 April.

Featuring an additional SIX MINUTES of colourised material not included in the BBC Four broadcast (the sonic! in colour!), plus a ton of new extras.* 🪖🎨

PRE-ORDER NOW!
March 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Our @biggiveorg effort is go! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Please support & share. With ever decreasing funding for music education, we turn to you wonderful humans for support. We thank you for your support as we endeavour together!
DD Day 2025 electronic music education initiative – Big Give
Help us nurture future electronic music talent like Delia Derbyshire in our 10th year. We inspire and empower via the …
donate.biggive.org
March 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Brilliant speech. But... 😥
This description of the current situation by French senator Claude Malhuret is worth watching in full.

"This is not merely an illiberal drift. It is the beginning of seizure of a democracy." ~AA

youtu.be/QIK9vbQRwBQ?...
Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )
YouTube video by Alain Cazes
youtu.be
March 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Just when you think the BBC might learn to avoid own goals, they put the ball straight back in the net.
SCOOP: BBC News to create a new department using AI to help give the public more personalised content.

In a note to staff seen by the Guardian, Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, says the corporation has been “defying gravity” in reaching audiences amid seismic changes in the way news is consumed.
BBC News to create AI department to offer more personalised content
Boss says BBC News’s reach is ‘defying gravity’ and it must use AI to ‘support and accelerate our growth’
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Great, troubling scoop. The point of a public service broadcaster is that it’s NOT personalised, IMV.
SCOOP: BBC News to create a new department using AI to help give the public more personalised content.

In a note to staff seen by the Guardian, Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, says the corporation has been “defying gravity” in reaching audiences amid seismic changes in the way news is consumed.
BBC News to create AI department to offer more personalised content
Boss says BBC News’s reach is ‘defying gravity’ and it must use AI to ‘support and accelerate our growth’
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ooh…
February 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM