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Justin Lewis
@whenisbirths.bsky.social

Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic:
NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW.
Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/ (new eps on Sundays)
Email: whenisbirths@yahoo.com
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Justin Lewis is a Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the Director of Clwstwr, an Arts and Humanities Research Council and Welsh Government funded Research & Development innovation centre for the Screen and News sectors and Media Cymru, a £50 million, 23 partner consortium, funded by UK Research and Innovation, Cardiff Capital Region and Welsh Government, designed to boost inclusive and sustainable media sector innovation in Wales. He is also Chief Field Editor for Frontiers in Communication, a global Open Access publisher. .. more

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NEW! Beginning Series 3 of my music textcast #FirstLastAnything, broadcaster/writer Matthew Rudd @matthewjrudd.bsky.social talks about his ace long-running Sunday radio show #Forgotten80s, his home city of Hull and its fourth best band, and much more besides. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/08/02/f...
FLA 25: Matthew Rudd (03/08/2025)
Matthew Rudd pic (c) Jamie Stephenson If you work Mondays to Fridays, Sunday nights don’t have a good reputation. They’re about winding down the weekend, and about preparing for another week of gri…
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My creative writing degree hasn’t been the most useful of qualifications but I feel it gives me some authority when I say this is one of the best how to start writing articles I’ve read in ages. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!
After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know…
www.theguardian.com

Some eps on YT, three or four when I last looked.

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The internet is bad in many ways, but it has meant I was able to spend 13 minutes this AM watching this from 1959, after reading Damian Barr’s wonderful The Two Roberts.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Arts - BBC Arts, Scottish Painters by Ken Russell
Allan McClelland narrates this 1959 film from the Monitor series
www.bbc.co.uk

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Remembering the great Philip Lynott, who died 40 years ago today, aged just 36. This archive piece from the Guardian is an attempt to measure his considerable reach as a songwriter, recording artist and performer in just 10 tracks: www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...

Meursault, Central Rain?

4 January 1965:
The death of TS Eliot.
The births of Beth Gibbons, Cait O'Riordan and Craig Revel Horwood.

4 January 1960:
The death of Albert Camus.
The birth of Michael Stipe.

Exactly 40 years ago today, 4 January 1986, Phil Lynott and Christopher Isherwood died on the same day.

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Julie Andrews’ Daily Schedule.

1. Quick Homer Simpson impression
2. Learn about bushcraft
3. Watch silly British comedy
4. Remove weeds in garden
5. Begin making coffee flavoured bread

D’oh, Ray Mears, Farce, Hoe, Latte dough.

#FirstLastAnything, my music textcast (ie you read it rather than listen to it, but there's a playlist that accompanies it) returns in the spring. In the meantime, for the next dozen Sundays, let's revisit series 3, beginning with this chat from last summer with @matthewjrudd.bsky.social. Please RT.

Oh god I miss this.

The radio never plays anything he did after 86. Not even things like Hallo Spaceboy.

Sending her and you best wishes, S. Hope she is better as soon as possible x

I do think 90s Bowie still hasn’t been properly reassessed yet.

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This doc is pushing the narrative that Bowie playing the hits again was *the important thing* about his resurgence when Earthling, Outside, Heathen, Next Day & Blackstar were all still to come. If you don't accept and celebrate his often obtuse creativity then you don't get Bowie. #BowieFinalAct

Above all, I admired that he kept moving on, clearly was listening to new stuff all the time.

A tube of Pringles may yet get the gig.

There seemed to be a lot of fans on FB….

That said, I love Absolute Beginners and This is Not America.

That can’t still be on. Or can it?

This is why I can never truly call myself a *fan*. I love bits of it but my teens coincide with probably my least favourite bits of the catalogue. Whereas I like the drum and bass album he did. And above all, Low.

After 15 years though. Thank god they didn’t wait till it got stale eh.

Well, on the bright side, Go Compare ads have changed radically for the new year. IYKYK

Used to give me the utter horrors, that show. There are rushes of it on YouTube which are even more… weird.

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SO worth it. For one thing, once you know what you're dealing wirh you can work on practical strategies for compensating. Also, I'm *somewhat* less on an asshole to myself about my difficulties.

My advice would be to go to your GP and get yourself in the system. Might be years, but might be months.

It’s the kind of laughter you heard whenever bullying went on at school.

God, he was like Mr Eurovision for years!

Even then, I was like ‘Kids don’t laugh like that, that’s just shouting’.

Thank you, Nicola!

Thank you!