Gareth Ceredig
@garethceredig.bsky.social
||: Words-Music :|| Cold Case Crime Cuts / We Forced A Bot / Naked Week / The Skewer and so off. Also plays in orchestras in exchange for money.
Well, this is a lovely surprise. Next month* there will be another chance to hear a show I wrote called No-Platformed which I assumed had been consigned to audio oblivion. As I recall, it contains quite a lot of strange jokes. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
*assuming the BBC makes it to December
*assuming the BBC makes it to December
BBC Radio 4 - No-Platformed
Comedy that drives a train through sitcom-land via a platform crowded with silly jokes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Well, this is a lovely surprise. Next month* there will be another chance to hear a show I wrote called No-Platformed which I assumed had been consigned to audio oblivion. As I recall, it contains quite a lot of strange jokes. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
*assuming the BBC makes it to December
*assuming the BBC makes it to December
Yes, One Battle After Another is outrageously good, but half a point off for missing out the best bit of the book.
October 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Yes, One Battle After Another is outrageously good, but half a point off for missing out the best bit of the book.
When you're not sure how to spell "soup"
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When you're not sure how to spell "soup"
Concerto for Your Grandparents and Orchestra
October 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Concerto for Your Grandparents and Orchestra
SECRETARY
Sir? I have Maurice Baron on Line 1.
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
[from behind a mountain of cocaine]
Has he finished his new piece?
SECRETARY
Yes, but he says he's not sure about the title, which is--
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
Sure, great, whatever, tell him it's f***ing perfect, just print it.
Sir? I have Maurice Baron on Line 1.
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
[from behind a mountain of cocaine]
Has he finished his new piece?
SECRETARY
Yes, but he says he's not sure about the title, which is--
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
Sure, great, whatever, tell him it's f***ing perfect, just print it.
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
SECRETARY
Sir? I have Maurice Baron on Line 1.
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
[from behind a mountain of cocaine]
Has he finished his new piece?
SECRETARY
Yes, but he says he's not sure about the title, which is--
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
Sure, great, whatever, tell him it's f***ing perfect, just print it.
Sir? I have Maurice Baron on Line 1.
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
[from behind a mountain of cocaine]
Has he finished his new piece?
SECRETARY
Yes, but he says he's not sure about the title, which is--
1920s MUSIC PUBLISHER
Sure, great, whatever, tell him it's f***ing perfect, just print it.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:
Waaah! The BBC is dumbing down classical music! Waaah! Radio 3 told me to relax and now I'm Jeremy Corbyn! Waaah! Shame on the sick BBC for reducing great culture to banal garbage! Waaah!
ALSO THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:
Waaah! The BBC is dumbing down classical music! Waaah! Radio 3 told me to relax and now I'm Jeremy Corbyn! Waaah! Shame on the sick BBC for reducing great culture to banal garbage! Waaah!
ALSO THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:
October 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:
Waaah! The BBC is dumbing down classical music! Waaah! Radio 3 told me to relax and now I'm Jeremy Corbyn! Waaah! Shame on the sick BBC for reducing great culture to banal garbage! Waaah!
ALSO THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:
Waaah! The BBC is dumbing down classical music! Waaah! Radio 3 told me to relax and now I'm Jeremy Corbyn! Waaah! Shame on the sick BBC for reducing great culture to banal garbage! Waaah!
ALSO THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:
Delighted to wind back the clock and slip into this week's #TheSkewer. It's like slipping into your favourite uncle. Still the best 15 minutes of noise out there by an absolute sodding mile. Listen and weep. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 14, Episode 5: It's Actually Romantic
Jon Holmes remixes the news into satirical shapes and sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Delighted to wind back the clock and slip into this week's #TheSkewer. It's like slipping into your favourite uncle. Still the best 15 minutes of noise out there by an absolute sodding mile. Listen and weep. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Meanwhile, on Platform 5 at Milton Keynes Central...
October 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Meanwhile, on Platform 5 at Milton Keynes Central...
Reposted by Gareth Ceredig
Simon Heffer has written his classical music article again.
December 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Simon Heffer has written his classical music article again.
A quick PSA for anyone who might give a toss:
Atlanta is currently on Prime Video. It's one of the best-written, best-acted, best-directed, funniest and oddest slabs of telly ever made.* Rub it into all your eyes and ears.
*Especially Series 4.**
**Especially especially the Goofy Movie episode.
Atlanta is currently on Prime Video. It's one of the best-written, best-acted, best-directed, funniest and oddest slabs of telly ever made.* Rub it into all your eyes and ears.
*Especially Series 4.**
**Especially especially the Goofy Movie episode.
September 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A quick PSA for anyone who might give a toss:
Atlanta is currently on Prime Video. It's one of the best-written, best-acted, best-directed, funniest and oddest slabs of telly ever made.* Rub it into all your eyes and ears.
*Especially Series 4.**
**Especially especially the Goofy Movie episode.
Atlanta is currently on Prime Video. It's one of the best-written, best-acted, best-directed, funniest and oddest slabs of telly ever made.* Rub it into all your eyes and ears.
*Especially Series 4.**
**Especially especially the Goofy Movie episode.
Reposted by Gareth Ceredig
Coming up on 6 months since we broadcast this beautiful show. Do check it out, and why not check out the Twilight Zone podcast too, where I was interviewed about the production process and the original Fantasy Park www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Fantasy Park: Fifty Years On
The greatest rock concert ever? Bob Harris hears the story.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Coming up on 6 months since we broadcast this beautiful show. Do check it out, and why not check out the Twilight Zone podcast too, where I was interviewed about the production process and the original Fantasy Park www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
£50 to any BBC Proms presenter with the balls to announce on-air that a performance was actually:
"bang average" / "a right Horlicks from start to finish" / "no idea - went for a vape and a slash" / "the most offensive noise in the Royal Albert Hall since Oswald Mosley did a tight 10 back in 1934"
"bang average" / "a right Horlicks from start to finish" / "no idea - went for a vape and a slash" / "the most offensive noise in the Royal Albert Hall since Oswald Mosley did a tight 10 back in 1934"
August 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
£50 to any BBC Proms presenter with the balls to announce on-air that a performance was actually:
"bang average" / "a right Horlicks from start to finish" / "no idea - went for a vape and a slash" / "the most offensive noise in the Royal Albert Hall since Oswald Mosley did a tight 10 back in 1934"
"bang average" / "a right Horlicks from start to finish" / "no idea - went for a vape and a slash" / "the most offensive noise in the Royal Albert Hall since Oswald Mosley did a tight 10 back in 1934"
Northern Ballet, having recently ditched their live orchestra, now crowing about offering a "rare opportunity" to conduct a ballet. Must have own Spotify Premium account.
August 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Northern Ballet, having recently ditched their live orchestra, now crowing about offering a "rare opportunity" to conduct a ballet. Must have own Spotify Premium account.
Cannonball Udderley [turns gun on self]
August 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Cannonball Udderley [turns gun on self]
She has, and it's very, very, very, very funny (plus ça sodding change), with a final line that does to the English language what I inadvertently did to a mouthful of gnocchi while reading it.
I’ve written about TV’s best and worst historical epics
TV’s best (and worst) historical epics: from Wolf Hall to I, Claudius
July 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
She has, and it's very, very, very, very funny (plus ça sodding change), with a final line that does to the English language what I inadvertently did to a mouthful of gnocchi while reading it.
Are they jousting?
July 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Are they jousting?
Journa. F***ing. Lism.
July 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Journa. F***ing. Lism.
Well, there it is. The least accurate thing ever printed in the Daily Telegraph (Home of the Whopper®).
June 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Well, there it is. The least accurate thing ever printed in the Daily Telegraph (Home of the Whopper®).
Went to see Trooping the Colour. Looks better on TV. Won't bother next year.
June 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Went to see Trooping the Colour. Looks better on TV. Won't bother next year.
[to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]
🎵Glasgow Queen Street's Clamped Piano🎵
🎵Glasgow Queen Street's Clamped Piano🎵
June 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
[to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]
🎵Glasgow Queen Street's Clamped Piano🎵
🎵Glasgow Queen Street's Clamped Piano🎵
Luddite says what?
June 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Luddite says what?
Really enjoyed the new Glyndebourne production of Rod Hull: Resurrection
May 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Really enjoyed the new Glyndebourne production of Rod Hull: Resurrection
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What’s the worst concert you’ve been to?
May 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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