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Sound Designer|Audiobook Editor|Gadabout
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"Well as I look at my watch now it is... a quarter after five. In Las Vegas it is... still swingin'."

Happy birthday, Sammy Davis Jr. I give you one of the most thrilling introductions ever to a live album.

I bet the MC5 wouldn't be this energetic at 5.15am.

youtu.be/QFw0ye4jJEE?...
Sammy Davis Jr. / Buddy Rich - Come Back To Me
YouTube video by johnnystaccata
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)
Tom Stoppard: A BBC Radio Drama Collection Audiobook on Libro.fm
The collected BBC radio productions of the internationally renowned playwright Tom Stoppard One of the giants of British theatre, Sir Tom Stoppard has been writing for the stage and screen for over 50...
libro.fm
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Mark’s passion and precision is spot on. And so very vital. The WAC is a *stunning* resource. It must be allowed — empowered — to thrive. SHARE.

cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
cstonline.net
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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This is so true.
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It’s rare that I know the book from only the blurb.
This is how you blurb
October 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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December 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM
@teatles.bsky.social Have you seen this?
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Sex and Violence (12th October 1969). "There's nowt wrong wi' gala luncheons!"
October 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?
The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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This is EXCELLENT. An EXCELLENT programme about an EXCELLENT man. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social — help yourself to a medal.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Great Lives - Oliver Postgate - BBC Sounds
Andrew Davenport, creator of In the Night Garden, chooses Oliver Postgate.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...
Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...
www.totnespulse.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I should probably advertise more often. You can buy prints from me, commission pictures, make 3d models, animation, come up with excellent ideas, all sorts. tell your mates. cheers.
October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

1/2
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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😭

IG newberlinlibrary
October 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Mine would be The Gripes of Ross
Best titles of autobiographies?

Starting with:

- Vic Reeves, Me: Moir
- Dennis Waterman, Reminder (thanks @whenisbirths.bsky.social)
- AA Gill, Pour Me
- Gene Simmons, Kiss and Make-Up
- Julian Clary, A Young Man's Passage
October 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
joelmorris.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"So I then told her - tapped her on the cleavage with a pastry fork - I said..."

Another great Kitty, which runs longer because Routledge has to keep stopping to let the laughs die down.
Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC
YouTube video by maxinebendix
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The British Podcast Awards featured a strange “glitch” that everyone found amusing; but has interesting implications. Most of the winners were upstairs in the cheap balcony seats, meaning there was a few minutes’ delay on almost EVERY award as the winners went down the back stairs to the stage. >>
October 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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RIP Robert Redford. Here's his closing statement from The Candidate
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Caught a bit of Scott Mills... it turns out Kelly Marie's It Feels Like I'm in Love was originally written for Elvis.

Not only can I totally imagine this but now feel cheated that we missed out on Elvis' Disco period.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_su...
Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by UnionSquareMusic
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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I often tell my dad about films and TV shows I think he'd like. I go into great detail, explaining the ideas, the plots and the twists. It's strangely comforting to talk him through Penn And Teller routines and Man On The Moon, things he might love if he was still alive.
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Now you see, THIS is how I remember it when the video was being shot…
That is clearly fake because THIS is the actual audio from that music video:
September 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM