Thomas Nelstrop
@thomasnelstrop.bsky.social
Comedy Writer & Actor: Doctor Who, The Crown, Brave New World, Two Pints
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Download the new ep of Leyline High Rewind!
We've dug up some absolute delights from the Leyline High music archives so far.
DON'T RAISE THE DEAD climbed to no.3 in the UK charts in 1986. Have you ever resurrected the dead? Would this song have stopped you?
#leylinehigh #music #podcast #1980s
We've dug up some absolute delights from the Leyline High music archives so far.
DON'T RAISE THE DEAD climbed to no.3 in the UK charts in 1986. Have you ever resurrected the dead? Would this song have stopped you?
#leylinehigh #music #podcast #1980s
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In our latest episode we discuss the legendary Leyline High episode Harvest Scare-stival from 1984. (You remember? It's the one with the Corn-on-the-Cob Monster that kills the dinnerlady?)
And we also get onto the subject of our favourite autumnal hymns. 🍂
And we also get onto the subject of our favourite autumnal hymns. 🍂
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In our latest episode we discuss the legendary Leyline High episode Harvest Scare-stival from 1984. (You remember? It's the one with the Corn-on-the-Cob Monster that kills the dinnerlady?)
And we also get onto the subject of our favourite autumnal hymns. 🍂
And we also get onto the subject of our favourite autumnal hymns. 🍂
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NEW EPISODE! This month we're looking at Harvest Scare-stival (1984), a fan favourite episode.
Pippa finds a strange unlabelled tin at the back of the cupboard & takes it to school for harvest festival. But she's not prepared for the evil it unleashes.
www.gemmaarrowsmith.com/leylinehigh/...
Pippa finds a strange unlabelled tin at the back of the cupboard & takes it to school for harvest festival. But she's not prepared for the evil it unleashes.
www.gemmaarrowsmith.com/leylinehigh/...
7: Harvest Scare-stival (1984) — Gemma Arrowsmith
www.gemmaarrowsmith.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
NEW EPISODE! This month we're looking at Harvest Scare-stival (1984), a fan favourite episode.
Pippa finds a strange unlabelled tin at the back of the cupboard & takes it to school for harvest festival. But she's not prepared for the evil it unleashes.
www.gemmaarrowsmith.com/leylinehigh/...
Pippa finds a strange unlabelled tin at the back of the cupboard & takes it to school for harvest festival. But she's not prepared for the evil it unleashes.
www.gemmaarrowsmith.com/leylinehigh/...
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The Zombie School Cup Final episode was a landmark episode, particularly the bit when Biffo's arms came off in goal.
We asked Leyline High fans for their favourite episodes.
Do you remember any of these? 👇
Do you remember any of these? 👇
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Zombie School Cup Final episode was a landmark episode, particularly the bit when Biffo's arms came off in goal.
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My Doctor Who character Ruth Lyons didn't get a Top Trump card but @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social's character Ben Wainwright did. This is the Blue Peter badge injustice all over again!
In our latest episode, before playing Leyline High Top Trumps, Gemma & Thomas discuss their roles in Doctor Who.👇🔊
September 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My Doctor Who character Ruth Lyons didn't get a Top Trump card but @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social's character Ben Wainwright did. This is the Blue Peter badge injustice all over again!
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We have a lead on one of the Leyline High show creators!
If you have any ideas on how we could reunite these famously reclusive writers, do get in touch. We think Jacqueline "Jackie" Jackson might be running an antiques shop somewhere in the Wirral but this is unconfirmed.
If you have any ideas on how we could reunite these famously reclusive writers, do get in touch. We think Jacqueline "Jackie" Jackson might be running an antiques shop somewhere in the Wirral but this is unconfirmed.
One of our main goals on the podcast is to meet and reunite the three estranged creators of Leyline High.
And we possibly have a lead. Did we spot Beverly Shank at the Edinburgh Fringe? 👇
And we possibly have a lead. Did we spot Beverly Shank at the Edinburgh Fringe? 👇
September 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We have a lead on one of the Leyline High show creators!
If you have any ideas on how we could reunite these famously reclusive writers, do get in touch. We think Jacqueline "Jackie" Jackson might be running an antiques shop somewhere in the Wirral but this is unconfirmed.
If you have any ideas on how we could reunite these famously reclusive writers, do get in touch. We think Jacqueline "Jackie" Jackson might be running an antiques shop somewhere in the Wirral but this is unconfirmed.
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In the last episode we did a rundown of Leyline High actors who had pop careers. Are there any we missed?
September 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In the last episode we did a rundown of Leyline High actors who had pop careers. Are there any we missed?
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In our latest episode, before playing Leyline High Top Trumps, Gemma & Thomas discuss their roles in Doctor Who.👇🔊
September 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In our latest episode, before playing Leyline High Top Trumps, Gemma & Thomas discuss their roles in Doctor Who.👇🔊
Nostalgia alert!
NEW EPISODE! And it’s a back to school special.
🃏 Leyline High Top Trumps!
🎤 Actors’ pop careers!
🎥 Plus the longest tracking shot in the history of the show.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Qfw...
🃏 Leyline High Top Trumps!
🎤 Actors’ pop careers!
🎥 Plus the longest tracking shot in the history of the show.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Qfw...
6: It’s a New You (1983)
open.spotify.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Nostalgia alert!
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NEW EPISODE! And it’s a back to school special.
🃏 Leyline High Top Trumps!
🎤 Actors’ pop careers!
🎥 Plus the longest tracking shot in the history of the show.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Qfw...
🃏 Leyline High Top Trumps!
🎤 Actors’ pop careers!
🎥 Plus the longest tracking shot in the history of the show.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Qfw...
6: It’s a New You (1983)
open.spotify.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
NEW EPISODE! And it’s a back to school special.
🃏 Leyline High Top Trumps!
🎤 Actors’ pop careers!
🎥 Plus the longest tracking shot in the history of the show.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Qfw...
🃏 Leyline High Top Trumps!
🎤 Actors’ pop careers!
🎥 Plus the longest tracking shot in the history of the show.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Qfw...
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Everyone remembers Leyline High (1972-2002). You remember it, right? Of course you do!
Our listeners have been writing in with their favourite episodes of this long-running classic children’s TV show.👇
Let us know yours!
Our listeners have been writing in with their favourite episodes of this long-running classic children’s TV show.👇
Let us know yours!
August 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Everyone remembers Leyline High (1972-2002). You remember it, right? Of course you do!
Our listeners have been writing in with their favourite episodes of this long-running classic children’s TV show.👇
Let us know yours!
Our listeners have been writing in with their favourite episodes of this long-running classic children’s TV show.👇
Let us know yours!
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Episode 5 of Leyline High Rewind is here! This month we're discussing Y2K - Yours To Kill (2000)
The Millennnium Bug arrives at Leyline High & that means only one thing: a ghostly Luddite army terrorizing the playground, of course!
Did this episode terrify you?
open.spotify.com/episode/6NCM...
The Millennnium Bug arrives at Leyline High & that means only one thing: a ghostly Luddite army terrorizing the playground, of course!
Did this episode terrify you?
open.spotify.com/episode/6NCM...
5: Y2K - Yours To Kill (2000)
Leyline High Rewind · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Episode 5 of Leyline High Rewind is here! This month we're discussing Y2K - Yours To Kill (2000)
The Millennnium Bug arrives at Leyline High & that means only one thing: a ghostly Luddite army terrorizing the playground, of course!
Did this episode terrify you?
open.spotify.com/episode/6NCM...
The Millennnium Bug arrives at Leyline High & that means only one thing: a ghostly Luddite army terrorizing the playground, of course!
Did this episode terrify you?
open.spotify.com/episode/6NCM...
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A lovely little achievement for our podcast! Thank you for following on Spotify, Leyliners!
New episode next week! 💚
New episode next week! 💚
July 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A lovely little achievement for our podcast! Thank you for following on Spotify, Leyliners!
New episode next week! 💚
New episode next week! 💚
Download the new ep of Leyline High Rewind!
We've dug up some absolute delights from the Leyline High music archives so far.
DON'T RAISE THE DEAD climbed to no.3 in the UK charts in 1986. Have you ever resurrected the dead? Would this song have stopped you?
#leylinehigh #music #podcast #1980s
We've dug up some absolute delights from the Leyline High music archives so far.
DON'T RAISE THE DEAD climbed to no.3 in the UK charts in 1986. Have you ever resurrected the dead? Would this song have stopped you?
#leylinehigh #music #podcast #1980s
June 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Download the new ep of Leyline High Rewind!
We've dug up some absolute delights from the Leyline High music archives so far.
DON'T RAISE THE DEAD climbed to no.3 in the UK charts in 1986. Have you ever resurrected the dead? Would this song have stopped you?
#leylinehigh #music #podcast #1980s
We've dug up some absolute delights from the Leyline High music archives so far.
DON'T RAISE THE DEAD climbed to no.3 in the UK charts in 1986. Have you ever resurrected the dead? Would this song have stopped you?
#leylinehigh #music #podcast #1980s
Just managed to turn a long yawn into the chorus of Enigma's Return to Innocence. What long yawn songs have you managed to achieve (one yawn only)? #longyawnsongs
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Just managed to turn a long yawn into the chorus of Enigma's Return to Innocence. What long yawn songs have you managed to achieve (one yawn only)? #longyawnsongs
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Triple Threat (1993) was a classic episode. Who remembers it?
June 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Triple Threat (1993) was a classic episode. Who remembers it?
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OK, I’m putting it out into the universe NOW that I want to write on this.
I’ve written Doctor Who & spin-offs for Big Finish and I’ve written on a bunch of CBeebies shows. I can do this. If you end up producing this, hire me.
Cosmic order: send.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
I’ve written Doctor Who & spin-offs for Big Finish and I’ve written on a bunch of CBeebies shows. I can do this. If you end up producing this, hire me.
Cosmic order: send.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Doctor Who - The Tardis is set to land on CBeebies
The BBC is looking for a production company to create and produce the series, which will run independently from the main show
www.bbc.co.uk
June 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
OK, I’m putting it out into the universe NOW that I want to write on this.
I’ve written Doctor Who & spin-offs for Big Finish and I’ve written on a bunch of CBeebies shows. I can do this. If you end up producing this, hire me.
Cosmic order: send.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
I’ve written Doctor Who & spin-offs for Big Finish and I’ve written on a bunch of CBeebies shows. I can do this. If you end up producing this, hire me.
Cosmic order: send.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Do you remember the episode "On Your Own Time" (1989)? The next day, kids in playgrounds up & down the country were walking in slow motion & wouldn't stop. It became quite a problem. There were special assemblies about it and everything.
June 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Do you remember the episode "On Your Own Time" (1989)? The next day, kids in playgrounds up & down the country were walking in slow motion & wouldn't stop. It became quite a problem. There were special assemblies about it and everything.
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It's ALIVE!
Listen to me, @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social & @sueharrison123.bsky.social as we delve into the enormous Leyline High archive & choose some of our favourite episode of this children's classic.
Listen to me, @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social & @sueharrison123.bsky.social as we delve into the enormous Leyline High archive & choose some of our favourite episode of this children's classic.
Happy Launch Day, Leyliners! The first 3 episodes of Leyline High Rewind are available NOW at leylinehigh.com, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
Have a listen! And let us know which episode of Leyline High terrified you as a kid. 👻
Have a listen! And let us know which episode of Leyline High terrified you as a kid. 👻
May 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's ALIVE!
Listen to me, @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social & @sueharrison123.bsky.social as we delve into the enormous Leyline High archive & choose some of our favourite episode of this children's classic.
Listen to me, @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social & @sueharrison123.bsky.social as we delve into the enormous Leyline High archive & choose some of our favourite episode of this children's classic.
Excited that our podcast is launching later today (round about hometime). #leylinehigh #leylinehighrewind
May 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excited that our podcast is launching later today (round about hometime). #leylinehigh #leylinehighrewind
Can't say pharaoh than that...
Leyline High Rewind our rewatch podcast launches NEXT WEEK!
Everyone has a favourite episode of Leyline High. What's yours?
Everyone has a favourite episode of Leyline High. What's yours?
May 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Can't say pharaoh than that...
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Leyline High Rewind our rewatch podcast launches NEXT WEEK!
Everyone has a favourite episode of Leyline High. What's yours?
Everyone has a favourite episode of Leyline High. What's yours?
May 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Leyline High Rewind our rewatch podcast launches NEXT WEEK!
Everyone has a favourite episode of Leyline High. What's yours?
Everyone has a favourite episode of Leyline High. What's yours?
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Everyone has a favourite ep of Leyline High, don't they? I think mine is the one where the haunted mobile library arrives at the school & sells cursed books to the pupils.
We're delving into the huge archive of this beloved kids' show!
Subscribe to get the first 3 eps on launch day
leylinehigh.com
We're delving into the huge archive of this beloved kids' show!
Subscribe to get the first 3 eps on launch day
leylinehigh.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Everyone has a favourite ep of Leyline High, don't they? I think mine is the one where the haunted mobile library arrives at the school & sells cursed books to the pupils.
We're delving into the huge archive of this beloved kids' show!
Subscribe to get the first 3 eps on launch day
leylinehigh.com
We're delving into the huge archive of this beloved kids' show!
Subscribe to get the first 3 eps on launch day
leylinehigh.com
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Join us @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social, @sueharrison123.bsky.social & @mmaarrow.bsky.social as we rewatch our favourite eps of Leyline High, the long-running kids' show everyone remembers.
👇Get in touch with your memories of this spooky show set in a school built on the intersection of 2 ley lines👇
👇Get in touch with your memories of this spooky show set in a school built on the intersection of 2 ley lines👇
May 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Join us @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social, @sueharrison123.bsky.social & @mmaarrow.bsky.social as we rewatch our favourite eps of Leyline High, the long-running kids' show everyone remembers.
👇Get in touch with your memories of this spooky show set in a school built on the intersection of 2 ley lines👇
👇Get in touch with your memories of this spooky show set in a school built on the intersection of 2 ley lines👇
LEYLINE HIGH was so good I joined a social media platform just to talk about it.
Very excited about this!
@sueharrison123.bsky.social, @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social & I are diving into the huge back catalogue of LEYLINE HIGH (1972-2002)
You remember it, right? Of course you do! Everyone ran home from school to watch it- including you! If you think hard you'll definitely remember
@sueharrison123.bsky.social, @thomasnelstrop.bsky.social & I are diving into the huge back catalogue of LEYLINE HIGH (1972-2002)
You remember it, right? Of course you do! Everyone ran home from school to watch it- including you! If you think hard you'll definitely remember
Welcome to Leyline High Rewind!
We're going to be rewatching our favourite episodes of LEYLINE HIGH, the long-running kids' show everyone remembers!
Get in touch with your memories of this unforgettable show and listen to the first 3 eps of our podcast which will drop on 27th May. 👻
We're going to be rewatching our favourite episodes of LEYLINE HIGH, the long-running kids' show everyone remembers!
Get in touch with your memories of this unforgettable show and listen to the first 3 eps of our podcast which will drop on 27th May. 👻
May 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
LEYLINE HIGH was so good I joined a social media platform just to talk about it.