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L R asleep-on-the-Hay (Lynn 😊) #BraveTheDark🎞️ #DoctorWho🔊
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#BraveTheDark stars Jared Harris 94% 🍅🍿

The Young Testament: a kids'-eye view of Jesus!
"quirky, funny, immensely enjoyable" MG books

The Scotch Play: histfic
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Went early with Mary.
She's supposed to be Day 17, but the whole Inciting Incident revolves around her!
#AdventCalendar
The Advent calendar opened: It's a cartoonish watercolour of a theatre stage with hills, sheep and a palm tree. There are numbered slots where characters can be added Cute cartoon little girl dressed as Mary, added to the Advent calendar
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Joseph's Boy has 26 chapters 👇
- so if you started at the beginning of Advent, it would take you through to Boxing Day.

But nothing wrong with beginning a little later and making it last well into Christmas week 😜 😊 ✴️

And... THERE'S A QUIZ!!! 😵😵😵😵‍💫🤩

#AdventDevotional for MG kids
#ChristmasStory
Screenshots of the chapter titles in Joseph's Boy
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Sheesh. AI has been going longer than we thought 😱😱😱

(Hat tip, Dr Bendor Grosvenor, @arthistorynews, for the spot)
Detail of a 19th century oil painting. The dog's eyes are on the same side of its head, and its foreleg is proportioned and positioned more like a human arm. Original tweet by Dr Bendor Grosvenor (@arthistorynews) drawing attention to it
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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An #Advent read with your preteens:
Joseph's Boy takes you right through Christmas and beyond- from all the waiting and Zechariah in the Temple, to the return from Egypt (and hopping ahead to 12-year-old Jesus!)

Work through it together, a chapter a day, or pick out the main events 🌠
#MG #Christmas
Photograph of a copy of the book Joseph's Boy, with a bold, cartoon-style cover by Brian McGinnis, held up in front of a decorated Christmas tree, blurry in the background.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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When St Andrew's Day met Shakespeare Sunday 🎭

The Scotch Play: Shakespeare, the king, and the friends who made a legend

(Gaelic and Scots are in the news today.
We can't offer the former, but several main characters in The Scotch Play speak Scots, if you want to sample it)

#BookSky #ScriptSky
Ian, a man in his nineties, seated with daughter Lynn. They smile as they hold up copies of their book The Scotch Play - Ian's first to be published. A bust of Shakespeare is on the table between them.
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Happy Advent Sunday!

Advent Calendar minus one.
We're all ready over here 🫡
A closed Advent calendar, depicting red theatre curtains and decorations, with two children peeping through in excitement.
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Knights of the Round TARDIS is gaining friends 😍

"😂 such a wonderful adventure!"

(NB, bit of a spoiler in the last para 😉)

#DoctorWho #BigFinish #ScriptSky
bigfinish.com/releases/v/d...
Cover, by Sean Longmore, showing David Bradley as the First Doctor.
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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For future ref on Christmas-themed chapter books, could I suggest my own Joseph's Boy?
It's the whole story, from Zechariah in the Temple to the return from Egypt, but with the children as the main characters 📚
"Quirky, funny, immensely enjoyable... a ripping yarn"
www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...
A graphic showing all the Young Testament main characters, with a bauble highlighting Joseph's Boy as the Christmas one
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Readers say:
🔥A clean, clear, belter
🔥Great tale bursting with interesting characters
🔥Superb... the light, crisp tone enables the audience to be thoroughly entertained
🔥Fascinating read that really adds colour to the history

#BookSky
www.amazon.co.uk/Scotch-Play-...

www.amazon.com/Scotch-Play-...
Copies of The Scotch Play, on a polished wooden table, with a bust of Shakespeare and an embroidered Christmas ornament of him. The cover is pink tartan, with border and lettering from the First Folio, and the well known engraving of Shakespeare with a jaunty tartan Tam O'Shanter cap added.
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Scotch Play is currently only 99p/$1.99! Or free on KU 🎭📚

Dr Chris Laoutaris (Associate Professor, Shakespeare Institute) says:

"An immersive and heart-thumping tale... By turns witty, thrilling and poignant, this superb play is a remarkable achievement and a fitting memorial to the Bard!”

🔗⤵️
Copy of The Scotch Play: Shakespeare, the king, and the friends who made a legend, next to Shakespeare's Book: the intertwined lives behind the First Folio, by Chris Laoutaris. The Scotch Play cover is a bright pink tartan background and the well known engraving of Shakespeare, with a red tartan Tam O'Shanter placed on top. The title is under an ornamental header from the First Folio publication of his work, and the text looks as if it has been torn from the First Folio. Shakespeare's Book is a deep reddish orange with a golden tree's branches running all around it, and reddish orange fruit.
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The kids have taken over the Jesus story, scattering in their wake a trail of loaves, fishes, a Magi washbag, a shiny gardener, a sudden influx of sheep & a wrecked roof

The Young Testament: "quirky, funny, immensely enjoyable"
Aimed at 8-12s, sneakily enjoyed by adults 🤪

#ChristmasGifts #Booksky
The Young Testament logo and sub-heading, a kids'-eye view of the Jesus story, on a sky blue background with snow flakes, and reviews in white clouds. Along the bottom are the four children who are main characters of the respective books (Joseph's Boy, Jairus's Girl, That Woman's Girl and - coming next - Miriam's Boy) - illustrations by Brian McGinnis and Poppy Henson. Christmas baubles saying 'the Christmas one' point to Joseph's Boy, and a magpie in a Santa hat sits on a sign saying 'Aimed at 8-12s, sneakily enjoyed by adults!'
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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My debut Doctor Who audio drama, Knights of the Round TARDIS - available on CD and download from Big Finish
📘💕

My debut feature film, Brave the Dark, starring Jared Harris and Nicholas Hamilton - now available on all major streaming services, inc UK
🎞🍿

Very nice 😊
#ScriptSky

(Oh, and #books 👇)
Lynn's hand holding CD of Knights of the Round TARDIS, fresh out of the box. David Bradley is prominent as the First Doctor Brave the Dark graphic with Jared Harris and Nic Hamilton in character, and the Rotten Tomatoes audience score logo saying 94%
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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* And if you enjoyed his obvious love for Shakespeare, you might be interested in the wonderful play he released in his 90s.
Shameless plug, I know, but I think he deserves it!

#ProudDaughter

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🇨🇦 www.amazon.ca/Scotch-Play-...
Ian & Lynn R Hay smiling with copies of their book, The Scotch Play, on publication day.
October 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Last night I found out it was St Crispin's Day. Mentioned it to the Aged Parent, and the whole speech immediately poured out.
I asked him to repeat, as I'd love to have a recording, and he did it again without fault.

Old men forget??!
😯

#Shakespeare
#ScriptSky

(Don't miss the final comment 😁)
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Copies of The Scotch Play, on a polished wooden table, with a bust of Shakespeare and an embroidered Christmas ornament of him. The cover is pink tartan, with border and lettering from the First Folio, and the well known engraving of Shakespeare with a jaunty tartan Tam O'Shanter cap added. The Young Testament table at a book event, laid out on large banners of That Woman's Girl and Jairus's Girl, with piles of the books and colour-in bookmarks of the characters.
October 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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📚 My Young Testament series, a kids'-eye view of #Jesus!
💥 1/4 Narnia
💥 1/4 Famous Five
💥 1/4 Horrible Histories
💥 1/4 The Chosen

"vivid, attractive story-telling of a high order"

🎭 And "immersive, heart-thumping" #Shakespeare fest The Scotch Play

#BookSky #MG #KidLit #HistFic
Links👇
Four books, standing on a polished wooden table. The three from The Young Testament series (Joseph's Boy, Jairus's Girl and That Woman's Girl) have bright, cartoon-style covers by Brian McGinnis and Poppy Henson, showing each of the main character children. The Scotch Play has the well known engraving of Shakespeare with a tartan hat added.
October 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The Young Testament, a kids' eye view of Jesus
💥 1/4 Famous Five
💥 1/4 Narnia
💥 1/4 Horrible Histories
💥 1/4 The Chosen

And "immersive, heart-thumping" Shakespeare fest The Scotch Play

#BookSky #KidLit
#ScriptSky
🇬🇧 amazon.co.uk/dp/B08MKJQDJ9
🇺🇸 amazon.com/dp/B08MKJQDJ9
🇨🇦 amazon.ca/dp/B08MKJQDJ9
The first 3 books of The Young Testament (Joseph's Boy, Jairus's Girl and That Woman's Girl) and The Scotch Play, standing in a line on a polished wood table.
September 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Weeeelll, @timbobaggins.bsky.social already mentioned my amazing news.
The CDs of my first ever Doctor story shipped, so I got to hold in my little mitt something with *my name* and the Doctor Who logo.
Surreal.

And that it stars legends such as David Bradley is a cherry on top 🍒

📘💕
Lynn's hand holding a CD of Knights of the Round TARDIS, fresh out of the box
September 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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According to my dad, on Robert Redford's first day at school, his teacher wrote a note and told him to take it to a colleague.
She read it and sent him to another- and so on, around the school.

It said:
"Get that smile!"

So glad we got to share it.
What talent. What generosity to young #filmmakers
Black and white photo of Robert Redford, laughing
September 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Mr Deen is sending you to detention for 1 hr 52 mins, snuggled on your sofa, watching Brave the Dark.
Bring popcorn! 🍿🍿🍿

Available to stream now in the UK, on all major platforms
(and still available all the places it was before, I'm sure 😉)

#ScriptSky #DebutFeature
#JaredHarris #NicholasHamilton
Jared Harris as teacher Stan Deen, in a school corridor, pointing with authority. Text says Brave the Dark, Watch it now
September 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Brave the Dark - available to stream in the UK from tomorrow 🤩
📺 💻 🖥 🍿🥤
Picture of Jared Harris and Nicholas Hamilton in Brave the Dark, with text saying Rotten Tomatoes 94% audience score, and IMDb 7.3/10
September 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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For all those UK folks who wanted to see my Jared Harris film - it's here from Monday! 🎉

Brave the Dark, available on all the major digital platforms from 15th September
#ScriptSky #WritersLife
Still from Brave the Dark, showing Jared Harris (in pyjamas and dressing gown) speaking to Nicholas Hamilton, on a bridge. The text says: Brave the Dark Bring the story home
September 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Oh my. The first time I've held something that has my name and the Doctor Who logo. Unbelievable.
Thank you, #BigFinish!

Doesn't seem real. I suppose I should listen to it 😁

📘💕

#Unboxing #ScriptSky
#ProudMoment #WritersLife
A CD copy of Knights of the Round TARDIS, in Lynn's hand, fresh out of the box
September 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I am about to receive something "rip-roaring and hilarious" "absolutely brilliant. Very light and witty... an ending that hits home hard"
"incredible start to BF's First Doctor Unbound range"
"Ian quotes Hancock on Magna Carta"

Between 10:45am and 2:45pm

CAN NOT WAIT

#KnightsOfTheRoundTARDIS
Parcel Force notification about a package from Big Finish arriving today
September 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Have to say, I'm very pleased with this take on Knights of the Round TARDIS 🤣
bigfinish.com/releases/v/d...
A post about Knights of the Round TARDIS, saying "and at one point, Ian quotes Hancock on Magna Carta"
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM