Guy Ducker
@guyducker.bsky.social
Professional writer, director, editor and all-round filmmaker. Amateur eco-zealot.
My partner's Wolfson nominated book is in the Yale sale: HALF PRICE until the end of the month (Yale website only). This means that you can pick up the paperback for less than £6, a perfect stocking filler.
Discount code: FIFTY
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
Discount code: FIFTY
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective - Yale University Press London
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensationShortlisted for The Wolfson History Pr...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My partner's Wolfson nominated book is in the Yale sale: HALF PRICE until the end of the month (Yale website only). This means that you can pick up the paperback for less than £6, a perfect stocking filler.
Discount code: FIFTY
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
Discount code: FIFTY
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
Delighted that an opera I filmed last Christmas for London Youth Opera has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award! Congratulations to all involved.
Ceremony tonight...
www.meggnicol.co.uk/news/nominat...
Ceremony tonight...
www.meggnicol.co.uk/news/nominat...
Nominated for an Ivor Novello Award - Megg Nicol
It’s incredibly exciting but Nathan Williamson and myself have just been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for ‘The Quest‘ which we were commissioned to write by London Youth Opera for their last ye...
www.meggnicol.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Delighted that an opera I filmed last Christmas for London Youth Opera has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award! Congratulations to all involved.
Ceremony tonight...
www.meggnicol.co.uk/news/nominat...
Ceremony tonight...
www.meggnicol.co.uk/news/nominat...
Girl-next-door or Terminator? Will Tilly Norwood really lay waste to the acting profession?
Thoroughly Modern Tilly
Will AI be the end of the acting profession? The latest hopeful starlet hit the news last week: a young unknown called Tilly Norwood. Unknown because, up until a few months ago, she didn’t exist. As you may have heard, Tilly is AI generated. Reportedly, Hollywood agents are vying to represent her, and her human counterparts are decrying her. Does this mean that the future foretold by the 2002 movie…
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October 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Girl-next-door or Terminator? Will Tilly Norwood really lay waste to the acting profession?
Proud and delighted to announce that Sara's book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' has been nominated for the UK's top history prize!
I’m incredibly honoured to be in this company of writers. It’s a wonderful confidence boost & I’m looking forward to meeting all of them.
Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.
The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Proud and delighted to announce that Sara's book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' has been nominated for the UK's top history prize!
Victorian female detectives in Chiswick, no less! Come along on Saturday.
V grateful to @thevicsoc.bsky.social for sponsoring my conversation with Jojo Silva about Victorian Female Detectives at Chiswick Book Festival this Saturday 13th September. Please do come along at 12.30 pm and stay for a drink & a chat.
W4 was crawling with 19th-c sleuths...🕵️
W4 was crawling with 19th-c sleuths...🕵️
September 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Victorian female detectives in Chiswick, no less! Come along on Saturday.
Sara's talking about her book, 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' with Jojo Silva at the Chiswick Book Festival on Saturday. If you can, do come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/chiswickbook...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sara's talking about her book, 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' with Jojo Silva at the Chiswick Book Festival on Saturday. If you can, do come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/chiswickbook...
'Tales from the Cutting Room Floor' offers some thoughts on movies that helped builds nations... and one that lead to many murders.
#cinema #nationalism #movies
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#cinema #nationalism #movies
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Movies of the Motherland
The Dangerous Power of Patriotic Cinema ☛ After a family holiday in Country Cork, Ireland, home of Michael Collins, hero of Irish independence, I became curious to know more about him. I decided to…
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August 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
'Tales from the Cutting Room Floor' offers some thoughts on movies that helped builds nations... and one that lead to many murders.
#cinema #nationalism #movies
cuttingroomtales.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
#cinema #nationalism #movies
cuttingroomtales.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
On movies that helped builds nations... and one that lead to many murders.
Movies of the Motherland
The Dangerous Power of Patriotic Cinema ☛ After a family holiday in Country Cork, Ireland, home of Michael Collins, hero of Irish independence, I became curious to know more about him. I decided to take the easy route and watch the movie, the 1996 Neil Jordan biopic. The film seems to be something of a touchstone for the people of Ireland – it was even granted a PG certificate, despite the swearing and violence; it’s deemed to be so culturally important that the Irish government is keen that all Irish kids see it.
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August 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
On movies that helped builds nations... and one that lead to many murders.
For fans of Lewis Carroll, and indeed of portrait photography, I offer up my Dad's reading on 'Hiawatha's Photography'. Enjoy! #LewisCarroll, #NonsensePoetry
youtu.be/HKf9SOanOlo
youtu.be/HKf9SOanOlo
'Hiawatha's Photographing' by Lewis Carroll, read by John Leeson
YouTube video by Guy Ducker
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August 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
For fans of Lewis Carroll, and indeed of portrait photography, I offer up my Dad's reading on 'Hiawatha's Photography'. Enjoy! #LewisCarroll, #NonsensePoetry
youtu.be/HKf9SOanOlo
youtu.be/HKf9SOanOlo
My father—actor John Leeson—finishes up his season of Shakespeare sonnets with no.12 'When I do count the clock that tells the time'. #Shakespeare, #sonnets, #K9
July 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My father—actor John Leeson—finishes up his season of Shakespeare sonnets with no.12 'When I do count the clock that tells the time'. #Shakespeare, #sonnets, #K9
My father's season of Shakepeare sonnets continues with sonnet 2: 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow'. #Shakespeare, #sonnets, #K9
July 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My father's season of Shakepeare sonnets continues with sonnet 2: 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow'. #Shakespeare, #sonnets, #K9
Another from the season of Shakespeare sonnet read by my father, actor John Leeson. All the 3s - sonnet 33!
#shakespeare, #sonnet, #drwho
#shakespeare, #sonnet, #drwho
July 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Another from the season of Shakespeare sonnet read by my father, actor John Leeson. All the 3s - sonnet 33!
#shakespeare, #sonnet, #drwho
#shakespeare, #sonnet, #drwho
Another 14 lines of golden words from Shakespeare, delivered by my father, actor John Leeson.
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
July 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Another 14 lines of golden words from Shakespeare, delivered by my father, actor John Leeson.
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
On a beautiful June day, actor John Leeson seeks to do a direct comparison between 'a summer's day' and 'thee'. Which is lovelier? Let's find out...
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
June 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
On a beautiful June day, actor John Leeson seeks to do a direct comparison between 'a summer's day' and 'thee'. Which is lovelier? Let's find out...
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
In these days of high-stress doom scrolling, one minute of poetry can provide a moment of peace. So here's my Dad reading Shakespeare's sonnet 116.
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
June 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In these days of high-stress doom scrolling, one minute of poetry can provide a moment of peace. So here's my Dad reading Shakespeare's sonnet 116.
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
Tales From the Cutting Room Floor reports from one of the most fun festivals around.
Screen. Play.
Report from The London Screenwriters Festival 2025 I’d not been to the London Screenwriters’ Festival for some years, maybe not since 2017. As you might expect, it’s changed. The venue is the same—Regent University, neatly hidden in London’s Regent’s Park—but the tone is different, or perhaps just more noticeable. It’s fun. Whether it's a festival or a film set, the tone filters down from the top, and presiding over the Screenwriters’ Festival is one of the most distinctive personalities of the British indy scene: …
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April 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Tales From the Cutting Room Floor reports from one of the most fun festivals around.
Reposted by Guy Ducker
🤣🤣🤣
The smallest red carpet ever. And it’s in a puddle.🤣🤣🤣
Bravo Canada 👏🏽
Bravo Canada 👏🏽
March 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🤣🤣🤣
Reposted by Guy Ducker
Cat standoff! ⚔️
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
March 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Cat standoff! ⚔️
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
Tales from the Cutting Room Floor asks what are awards really for?
Raise the Red Carpet
Are Movie Awards Nonsense? The Golden Globes and the BAFTAs are in the rear-view mirror, the Oscars lie ahead – awards season is upon us, and you know what that means… Do you know what that means? I’m not sure I know what it means and I vote on awards. The Oscars may be the most high profile trade junket on the planet, watched by nearly 20 million Americans and millions more worldwide, but aren’t all these ceremonies just a festival of self-congratulation?
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February 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Tales from the Cutting Room Floor asks what are awards really for?
A want to take a moment to big up the film 'Speak No Evil' (2024). I've not seen the Danish original , but the US/UK remake has an incredibly taut script. James McAvoy owns the film, but Scoot McNairy and Macenzie Davis (both of 'Halt and Catch Fire') are excellent too.
February 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A want to take a moment to big up the film 'Speak No Evil' (2024). I've not seen the Danish original , but the US/UK remake has an incredibly taut script. James McAvoy owns the film, but Scoot McNairy and Macenzie Davis (both of 'Halt and Catch Fire') are excellent too.
Just learned two wonderfully obscure storytelling words:
Deuteragonist - the second most important character in a drama.
Contagonist - a secondary antagonist.
#screenwriting #screenplays
Deuteragonist - the second most important character in a drama.
Contagonist - a secondary antagonist.
#screenwriting #screenplays
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just learned two wonderfully obscure storytelling words:
Deuteragonist - the second most important character in a drama.
Contagonist - a secondary antagonist.
#screenwriting #screenplays
Deuteragonist - the second most important character in a drama.
Contagonist - a secondary antagonist.
#screenwriting #screenplays
Proud to have made this film for MP Watch – putting pressure on politicians to step-up on climate and nature.
If you can, please support!
If you can, please support!
⚡MP Watch has two campaigns running:
⚡one on Carbon Capture and Storage &
⚡a second on widening the public debate about how to organise our vital water system
⚡we also support our constituent groups
👛 We need your help to continue this work. Please donate here: buy.stripe.com/9AQ9DK83jdrS...
⚡one on Carbon Capture and Storage &
⚡a second on widening the public debate about how to organise our vital water system
⚡we also support our constituent groups
👛 We need your help to continue this work. Please donate here: buy.stripe.com/9AQ9DK83jdrS...
MP Watch: uniting people and politicians to work on climate and nature
YouTube video by MP Watch
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February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Proud to have made this film for MP Watch – putting pressure on politicians to step-up on climate and nature.
If you can, please support!
If you can, please support!
Hello Bluesky! I'm a refugee from Twitter, looking forward to engaging with a calmer forum for discussion and wit.
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hello Bluesky! I'm a refugee from Twitter, looking forward to engaging with a calmer forum for discussion and wit.