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christopher rourke
@christopherrourke.bsky.social
writer and public sector worker.
opera and r+b freak (once a singer.)
🎾 crusher.
sometimes 📘academic.

tiramisù, coffee and chocolate cake expert.

teacht ar ais, ✨Frankie.

for my thoughts on 🎭🎬🎞️✨ please check
https://letterboxd.com/christopher1998
@citizenscreen.bsky.social

some less than predictable posts on ✨Rita Hayworth, (please)!

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November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@zadickal.bsky.social
i feel that the bbc should demand that Donald Trump pay the ^corporation a few billion pounds in compensation — for having to report on his unrelenting trash, his general trashiness, his calamities, his endless falsehoods and his grotesque personality.

@bbcstever.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
@jackycoyne.bsky.social

Jack,
this is absolutely ✨brilliant.

— with the fabulous 🌠Maya Rudolph(*) in 🗽New York.

*Saturday Night Live, As Good as it Gets, If.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FvhV...
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
people representing most murderous and demonic of authoritarian states don’t have to win the biggest tournaments.
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
the fabulous ✨Nicole Kidman stars in
🎭 🎬 🎞️ 🎟️ the Others
(director: Alejandro Amenábar. released late summer 2001.)

— tonight on bbc2 at 23h00.

#theOthers
#NicoleKidman
#AlejandroAmenábar
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
listening to this wonderful interview with Maya Angelou and Harriet Gilbert @harriettsg.bsky.social
— marking the release of Maya’s sixth volume of autobiography, A Song Flung up to Heaven
in summer 2002.

the treasure of the bbc world service.
Thursday 4th July 2002.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
October 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
🌠Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan are absolutely sensational in the brilliant film
I Swear.

don’t waste another evening of your life without having watched this film!

#RobertAramayo
#MaxinePeake
#PeterMullan
#KirkJones
#ISwear
🎭🎬🎞️✨
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October 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
absolutely.
i have been saying the same things for fifteen years now.
like minds. : )
i have never encountered such intense levels of stupidity in my life, yet i sometimes think that this is simply a conflict between disparate sets of values.

i wrote this yesterday:
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July 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Amanda Anisimova, post match press conference.

— Saturday 12th July .25

📄 🎾 💡
#Wimbledon
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQU8...
July 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
✨ Iga Świątek played brilliantly today and she totally deserved this title.
total credit to her.

also: Amanda lost with honesty, humility, with decency and with grace.

and that is a good lesson to anyone in this world.
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
my delicious coffee, made for me by
✨Jonathan the wonderful barista.

☕️ 🍫 🥛 💧
July 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
beyond expectation Gregory Doran's edition of Desert Island Discs is exquisite.

wonderful music(*), affecting and edifying stories.

* 🎼 🎹 Johann Sebastian Bach, the Weather Girls, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

programme:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
25.06.29

📄 🎭 🎟️
#GregoryDoran
#DesertIslandDiscs
June 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
June 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
the quite magnificent Alf Dubs /Lord Alfred Dubs
‪@alfdubs.bsky.social‬
is being interviewed for Desert Island Discs.

some wonderful music (— John Coltrane, the Beatles, Mozart) too.

_________________

(also, a lovely man who wrote back to a young christopher!)

🎼🎹📄
#AlfDubs
#DesertIslandDiscs
June 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
absolutely incredible.

i have never seen such high quality, especially in terms of the all-court shotmaking, sustained for so long.
👏🏼✨

just so sorry that one player had to lose in this remarkable match.

highlights:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mi5g...

🎾🎨🎟️✨
#CarlosAlcaraz
#janniksinner
#RolandGarros
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
from the late summer of
📆24 Jannik Sinner has won 47 of his last 49 matches.

the two losses?
— to Carlos Alcaraz.
(Beijing, October .24; Rome, May .25).

Jannik (3) and Carlos (4) have not lost a grand slam final.

before today.

🎾 💥

#RolandGarros
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
the screeching is ridiculous (i grunt, rhythmically — screaming on each shot is something else)
but her brutish and ungracious behaviour is something that i have never seen.
she was swearing continuously (in Russian) too.
and zero penalty from a Serbian umpire, who must have discerned a lot of this.
June 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
@davidlawtennis.bsky.social
David,
as a serious banger that loves both Carlos and Jannik, this is the grand slam final that i have most wanted since 2006(!)
the last men’s match that excited me this much was
Carlos versus Jannik
at Wimbledon .22,
round of 16.
(JS. 6-1 6-4 6-7 6-3)
#rolandgarros
June 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
complaining to myself that there is nothing for me to watch on television, ever.
then the remote control finds an arts channel broadcasting a documentary on Jacqueline du Pré and Kate Bryan's wonderful documentary feature on Maggi Hambling.

two early instructive✨heroes in one evening.
magnificent.
May 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
4.
is kind of right.

not sure what grok was thinking for no.2 ….
May 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
how to be a totally decent sportsperson.

🎾 ✨

@carlosalcaraz
@janniksin

#janniksinner
#carlosalcaraz
#lessons
#rome
May 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
no surprise, really — Danny Dyer feels like a vulnerable and resilient human being with different and very likable features.

some lovely songs here, too.
— two of my all-time favourites!

@mrddyer.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🎭 ✨ 🎼
#DannyDyer
#DesertIslandDiscs
May 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
a review for
Mr. Burton
(released spring .25)

starring:
Harry Lawtey
Toby Jones
Lesley Manville

screenplay:
Tom Bullough and Josh Hyams

cinematography:
Stuart Biddlecombe

director:
Marc Evans

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🎭 🎬 🎟️ 🎼 ✨

#MrBurton
#HarryLawtey
#LesleyManville
#TobyJones
May 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Mummy’s flowers.
May 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM