Damian Barr
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve also curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve also curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
I haven’t aged a day since 🧛
On this day, 33 years ago, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was released in cinemas.
Starring #GaryOldman, #WinonaRyder, #KeanuReeves and #AnthonyHopkins it was an Oscar-winning, critically acclaimed success and one of the most revered #vampire movies ever.
Starring #GaryOldman, #WinonaRyder, #KeanuReeves and #AnthonyHopkins it was an Oscar-winning, critically acclaimed success and one of the most revered #vampire movies ever.
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I haven’t aged a day since 🧛
‘Dear Library’ is an exhibition @natlibscot.bsky.social Featuring shelves chosen by me, fellow Centenary Champion Val McDermid and many others. It’s free to visit and might suggest some new reads for you. On until April 2026.
Cracking conversation over carrot & coiander soup in a favourite place.
While there, had a wee peek at what was on @damianbarr.bsky.social's bookshelf [great choices].
@natlibscot.bsky.social happy 100th.
While there, had a wee peek at what was on @damianbarr.bsky.social's bookshelf [great choices].
@natlibscot.bsky.social happy 100th.
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
‘Dear Library’ is an exhibition @natlibscot.bsky.social Featuring shelves chosen by me, fellow Centenary Champion Val McDermid and many others. It’s free to visit and might suggest some new reads for you. On until April 2026.
‘…people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not begin to value culture at all….’ Zadie Smith nailing the effects of decades of cuts to the arts and culture at every level in every nation of the UK.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
‘…people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not begin to value culture at all….’ Zadie Smith nailing the effects of decades of cuts to the arts and culture at every level in every nation of the UK.
This US goverment poster is from 1943. The Nazis burned books - this US goverment is banning them. Hard to imagine such a poster being produced now.
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This US goverment poster is from 1943. The Nazis burned books - this US goverment is banning them. Hard to imagine such a poster being produced now.
Tomorrow night in Glasgow :)
From finding a space from which to travel to distant lands through reading books as children, to using their university libraries as undergrads, @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @damianbarr.bsky.social will reminisce about how libraries helped shape their careers.
📅Wed, Nov 12th |📍Kelvin Hall
🎫👇
📅Wed, Nov 12th |📍Kelvin Hall
🎫👇
Libraries that shaped me, in-conversation event with Professor Louise Welsh and Damian Barr | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
saha.scot
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Tomorrow night in Glasgow :)
Nice write-up in House & Garden for the Two Roberts, novel and exhibition. You can catch both now. The exhibition is on at Charleston in Lewes till April.
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Nice write-up in House & Garden for the Two Roberts, novel and exhibition. You can catch both now. The exhibition is on at Charleston in Lewes till April.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
This song never fails to make me smile. I often have a wee dance to it before I start writing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mraL...
Cass Elliot - Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by CassElliotVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This song never fails to make me smile. I often have a wee dance to it before I start writing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mraL...
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now
Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
So looking forward to this!
From finding a space from which to travel to distant lands through reading books as children, to using their university libraries as undergrads, @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @damianbarr.bsky.social will reminisce about how libraries helped shape their careers.
📅Wed, Nov 12th |📍Kelvin Hall
🎫👇
📅Wed, Nov 12th |📍Kelvin Hall
🎫👇
Libraries that shaped me, in-conversation event with Professor Louise Welsh and Damian Barr | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
saha.scot
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So looking forward to this!
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Reposted by Damian Barr
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
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💜 Lush London Lovers 💜
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
💜 Lush London Lovers 💜
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
My last London events of the year are not far off. First up: it's a lovely joint affair with Michael Pedersen at the St Andrew's Book Festival on Sat 29th Nov! Then, later that same day, I'll be talking Libraries with Amina Shah.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
See you there?
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
See you there?
www.ticketsource.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My last London events of the year are not far off. First up: it's a lovely joint affair with Michael Pedersen at the St Andrew's Book Festival on Sat 29th Nov! Then, later that same day, I'll be talking Libraries with Amina Shah.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
See you there?
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
See you there?
A helpful wee film about simple things ways nature can lift your mood as seasons change. By Emma Mitchell. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Two - Autumnwatch, 2020, Episode 3, 5 simple ways: Nature can help your mood
Emma Mitchell guides us through a natural take on wellbeing this Autumn.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A helpful wee film about simple things ways nature can lift your mood as seasons change. By Emma Mitchell. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
I donate to this every year I can and hope some of you will too. Books change lives.
The brilliant Scottish Book Trust's Xmas campaign. Donate here:
www.scottishbooktrust.com
www.scottishbooktrust.com
Scottish Book Trust
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I donate to this every year I can and hope some of you will too. Books change lives.
@leiththeatre.bsky.social hi! From me and the Big Scottish Book Club team!
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@leiththeatre.bsky.social hi! From me and the Big Scottish Book Club team!
Enjoying these wee free libraries all over the Madrid metro. Civilised! Every city should have them
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Enjoying these wee free libraries all over the Madrid metro. Civilised! Every city should have them
Haunting works by MacByde & Colquhoun coming up any minute at this auction...They have been in same hands since 1945. www.lyonandturnbull.com/auctions/mod...
Robert Macbryde (British 1913-1966) Emotional Cornish Woman
Auction from 'MODERN MADE', 30 October from 17:00 & 31 October from 10:00 GMT. Lot 33. signed (lower left), oil on canvas
www.lyonandturnbull.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Haunting works by MacByde & Colquhoun coming up any minute at this auction...They have been in same hands since 1945. www.lyonandturnbull.com/auctions/mod...
I like a cocktail. Where should I go sipping in Madrid?
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I like a cocktail. Where should I go sipping in Madrid?
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.