Ian Greaves
@greavesian.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
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A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.
In order to entertain my mum on a home visit, I have agreed to watch Downtown Abbey The Finale with her after dinner tonight. I have never seen a single episode before. Pray for me.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In order to entertain my mum on a home visit, I have agreed to watch Downtown Abbey The Finale with her after dinner tonight. I have never seen a single episode before. Pray for me.
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Terrific story - and a great example of the serendipitous discoveries that BBC Written Archives Centre once made possible, and which with the recent restrictions on access is now next to impossible
Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..."
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great Yarmouth Town's 'amazing' place in TV football history
How a small, non-league team became the first football club from Norfolk ever to appear in a live TV game.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Terrific story - and a great example of the serendipitous discoveries that BBC Written Archives Centre once made possible, and which with the recent restrictions on access is now next to impossible
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Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
Today's Derek Bailey special with me, Mark Wastell, John Butcher, Tim Fletcher and host Ivor Kallin is now available to stream. Play once play often.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...
The Ambrosia Rasputin Show - 09 Nov 2025
www.mixcloud.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Today's Derek Bailey special with me, Mark Wastell, John Butcher, Tim Fletcher and host Ivor Kallin is now available to stream. Play once play often.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We are fucked as a species.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We are fucked as a species.
What an absurdly good bit of television The Seeds of Doom is. All the stars align perfectly. Episodes 1 and 2 inhaled gladly tonight alongside a lot of brandy.
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What an absurdly good bit of television The Seeds of Doom is. All the stars align perfectly. Episodes 1 and 2 inhaled gladly tonight alongside a lot of brandy.
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
Just up: a great contribution to CST's ongoing Defending the WAC series by James Jordan. Thoughts on Cartier, Dimbleby and the unknowns of archive research. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: Filling the gaps which some never knew existed by James Jordan
In common with the other authors of this series of blogs, I am a regular user who knows first-hand the importance of the BBC’s Written Archives. When I first visited in 2006 it was to research a…
cstonline.net
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just up: a great contribution to CST's ongoing Defending the WAC series by James Jordan. Thoughts on Cartier, Dimbleby and the unknowns of archive research. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Today from 1pm
In this week's Lunchtime Talk, Mandy Rose, Professor of Documentary & Digital Cultures at UWE will revisit the Video Nation project, with a focus on the Shorts that were the best-known output.
Book a ticket on our website: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/13656/video-nation-home-movies-of-the-90s
Book a ticket on our website: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/13656/video-nation-home-movies-of-the-90s
Video Nation - Home Movies of the 90s
In this Lunchtime talk, Mandy Rose will revisit the Video Nation project, with a focus on the Shorts that were the best-known output.
www.watershed.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Today from 1pm
Second go at this tonight, having convinced myself a few months back that it caught me on a bad day. It's a sort of anti-Elephant, but one in which much of the action doesn't engage me at all. Breaks my heart to be down on an Akerman, who in my eyes can do no wrong. Some lovely moments though.
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Second go at this tonight, having convinced myself a few months back that it caught me on a bad day. It's a sort of anti-Elephant, but one in which much of the action doesn't engage me at all. Breaks my heart to be down on an Akerman, who in my eyes can do no wrong. Some lovely moments though.
Blackeyes viewers having flashbacks.
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Blackeyes viewers having flashbacks.
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
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To all who celebrate
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
To all who celebrate
Coming up this Sunday on Resonance FM at noon. Must be two decades since they last let me on air. Thanks to Ivor for the second chance.
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Coming up this Sunday on Resonance FM at noon. Must be two decades since they last let me on air. Thanks to Ivor for the second chance.
This is a diverting series on Radio 4 this week; a set of talks by Hallie Rubenhold on the process of writing history. Episode 4 particularly evocative on that sensation of emerging from an archive after a day spent working in isolatory silence. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold, 4. Reel History
Occasionally fact and fiction collide on screen and a historian is required to mediate.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is a diverting series on Radio 4 this week; a set of talks by Hallie Rubenhold on the process of writing history. Episode 4 particularly evocative on that sensation of emerging from an archive after a day spent working in isolatory silence. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I think we can all agree that Evri has excelled itself with its confirmation photo of my parcel delivery.
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I think we can all agree that Evri has excelled itself with its confirmation photo of my parcel delivery.
A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.
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Roger Allam giving excellent quote in the Guardian
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Roger Allam giving excellent quote in the Guardian
Aladdin Sane's really good, isn't it? Sometimes I forget.
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Aladdin Sane's really good, isn't it? Sometimes I forget.
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Some spooky reprints have appropriately arrived on Halloween. 🎃 The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic and Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene are back in stock and could be haunting your bookshelves. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk/
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Some spooky reprints have appropriately arrived on Halloween. 🎃 The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic and Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene are back in stock and could be haunting your bookshelves. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk/
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Well this is massive. One of the very best. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
www.bfi.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Well this is massive. One of the very best. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...