Steve Doherty
@stevedoherty.bsky.social
Dad, husband & audio entertainment wonk. Producer: David Sedaris, Marian Keyes & Tara Flynn, Ashley Blaker, Bravo Two Charlies, The Learners. Also plays and docs. Currently: The Old Fools podcast
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"And you can shut your fucking trap Gibb, you Royal nonce-alike. Right, I want some top-quality telly NOW, and you can tell Trump to fist himself, him with a face like one of my auntie's fucking tan boots. I'm talking Play For Today and The Traitors. Clever people. And put some fucking TUNES on!"
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"And you can shut your fucking trap Gibb, you Royal nonce-alike. Right, I want some top-quality telly NOW, and you can tell Trump to fist himself, him with a face like one of my auntie's fucking tan boots. I'm talking Play For Today and The Traitors. Clever people. And put some fucking TUNES on!"
It's June Whitfield's 100th birthday - so I'm delighted that Radio 4 Extra have picked a delightful 2-part retrospective I made 10 years ago, for her 90th birthday, with Joanna Lumley.
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
June Whitfield: 90 Not Out - 1. Take It From Here to Happy Ever After - BBC Sounds
Joanna Lumley looks back at June Whitfield's first radio appearances.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's June Whitfield's 100th birthday - so I'm delighted that Radio 4 Extra have picked a delightful 2-part retrospective I made 10 years ago, for her 90th birthday, with Joanna Lumley.
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Part 2 is available from tomorrow.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑🚒
Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row
A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑🚒
This is the thing I have never understood.
While other organisations brush off minor mistakes, the BBC spends days self-flagellating like a mentally-disturbed medieval monk - but only if the criticisms have come from the right. They literally couldn't give a toss if they're being attacked from the centre or left.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This is the thing I have never understood.
Let's face it. I've chosen the wrong day to try and tickle you into trying a Radio Wales sitcom, haven't I?
a yellow smiley face with glasses and the words " why u waffling " below it
ALT: a yellow smiley face with glasses and the words " why u waffling " below it
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November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Let's face it. I've chosen the wrong day to try and tickle you into trying a Radio Wales sitcom, haven't I?
Episode 4 this week. And no ... we won't stop banging on about it. Here's a little preview clip brilliantly pulled together by @mattleys.bsky.social and hot off the digital "press"
This week, Dennis and Lee go INTERNATIONAL.
Eps 1, 2 & 3 await you on BBC Sounds. If I can still say BBC.
This week, Dennis and Lee go INTERNATIONAL.
Eps 1, 2 & 3 await you on BBC Sounds. If I can still say BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Episode 4 this week. And no ... we won't stop banging on about it. Here's a little preview clip brilliantly pulled together by @mattleys.bsky.social and hot off the digital "press"
This week, Dennis and Lee go INTERNATIONAL.
Eps 1, 2 & 3 await you on BBC Sounds. If I can still say BBC.
This week, Dennis and Lee go INTERNATIONAL.
Eps 1, 2 & 3 await you on BBC Sounds. If I can still say BBC.
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Prescott's claims that the BBC has a pro-trans bias are even flimsier than you might imagine. He thinks all positive stories about trans people represent bias unless some ghoul from Sex Matters is invited to say that they are awful actually. Crackpot green-ink stuff
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Prescott's claims that the BBC has a pro-trans bias are even flimsier than you might imagine. He thinks all positive stories about trans people represent bias unless some ghoul from Sex Matters is invited to say that they are awful actually. Crackpot green-ink stuff
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Mhari Aurora asks a pretty fair question, is booed by the crowd and told off by Dear Leader. Then Noa Hoffman, lobs a dogwhistle soft ball about making "our high streets beautiful again", not "covered in illegal migrant vape shops," to great applause.
Genuinely ugly moment. ~AA
Genuinely ugly moment. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Mhari Aurora asks a pretty fair question, is booed by the crowd and told off by Dear Leader. Then Noa Hoffman, lobs a dogwhistle soft ball about making "our high streets beautiful again", not "covered in illegal migrant vape shops," to great applause.
Genuinely ugly moment. ~AA
Genuinely ugly moment. ~AA
I hope Trump doesn’t hear the edits in The Skewer or we’re all buggered.
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I hope Trump doesn’t hear the edits in The Skewer or we’re all buggered.
One thing I don’t see so much on here as I did … over there is use of the phrase “emergency podcast”.
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
One thing I don’t see so much on here as I did … over there is use of the phrase “emergency podcast”.
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Times reporting that Tim Davie is going to quit as BBC Director General www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
Tim Davie to quit as BBC director-general
The corporation has faced accusations of bias after broadcasting a doctored clip of a speech by President Trump
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Times reporting that Tim Davie is going to quit as BBC Director General www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
Tim Davie to quit as BBC director-general
The corporation has faced accusations of bias after broadcasting a doctored clip of a speech by President Trump
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Times reporting that Tim Davie is going to quit as BBC Director General www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
LOLs! We love ‘em!
I enjoyed eps 1 and 2! Can’t remember the joke that made me laugh loudly but there was one.
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
LOLs! We love ‘em!
Was my favourite of the series, till I edited ep4 (next week’s) which pipped it, for me. But do give it a spin, if you like daft stories about useless detectives in north Wales.
"Roger Roger, Dennis Dennis" lovely little throwaway gag, that. #TheAbergeleFiles
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Abergele Files - Gold - BBC Sounds
The world's worst detective agency has come to North Wales. Relax, criminals.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Was my favourite of the series, till I edited ep4 (next week’s) which pipped it, for me. But do give it a spin, if you like daft stories about useless detectives in north Wales.
Funny and fascinating afternoon with @jonronson.bsky.social at Story House in Chester. If there are any tickets left at a venue near you, Psychopath Night 2025 is a *great* show. And I got to ask a question!
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Funny and fascinating afternoon with @jonronson.bsky.social at Story House in Chester. If there are any tickets left at a venue near you, Psychopath Night 2025 is a *great* show. And I got to ask a question!
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This was my favourite episode of the series so far. Great work @mattleys.bsky.social and @trenamanmartin.bsky.social. (And @stevedoherty.bsky.social , of course).
"Roger Roger, Dennis Dennis" lovely little throwaway gag, that. #TheAbergeleFiles
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Abergele Files - Gold - BBC Sounds
The world's worst detective agency has come to North Wales. Relax, criminals.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This was my favourite episode of the series so far. Great work @mattleys.bsky.social and @trenamanmartin.bsky.social. (And @stevedoherty.bsky.social , of course).
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Heading to Southend-on-Sea tonight for my 11th show of the tour. Every show has been really fun (even Northampton) and I’m loving performing it. Would love a few more people tonight - if you’re in the area then come along! 8pm start. trafalgartickets.com/palace-theat...
Book Matt Green: Legitimate Concerns tickets | Palace Theatre Southend
Book your tickets to Matt Green: Legitimate Concerns at Palace Theatre Southend at the official Trafalgar Tickets, Palace Theatre Southend box office.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Heading to Southend-on-Sea tonight for my 11th show of the tour. Every show has been really fun (even Northampton) and I’m loving performing it. Would love a few more people tonight - if you’re in the area then come along! 8pm start. trafalgartickets.com/palace-theat...
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Belatedly on the subject of Watson, this is fantastic and well worth your time bsky.app/profile/brit...
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Belatedly on the subject of Watson, this is fantastic and well worth your time bsky.app/profile/brit...
They’re running Under Milk Wood as originally broadcast, for the first time, this weekend on R4 Extra. Obviously, it’s brilliant. And I highly recommend a listen. It still sounds amazing; truly timeless. The most dated bit is the credits - but, oh, those character names.
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
They’re running Under Milk Wood as originally broadcast, for the first time, this weekend on R4 Extra. Obviously, it’s brilliant. And I highly recommend a listen. It still sounds amazing; truly timeless. The most dated bit is the credits - but, oh, those character names.
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I've just started episode 1. The bins made me laugh. I'm think I'm going to enjoy this!
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I've just started episode 1. The bins made me laugh. I'm think I'm going to enjoy this!
Good clip from a great episode.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
I'm getting word that some of you haven't listened to The Abergele Files yet. Seriously? After the week you've had? Give your poor weary soul a break and put something silly in your ears
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November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Good clip from a great episode.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
Very proud of what we’ve achieved with this series.
Eps 1-3 on BBC Sounds, now.
Realised I had begun to loath Alexa, so have got rid. Bloody stupid thing.
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Realised I had begun to loath Alexa, so have got rid. Bloody stupid thing.
What a joyful thread
Is it just us or was Alan Carr KILLING IT in last night's #CelebrityTraitors? Like a true butterfly, he transformed to show his true colours!
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#TheTraitors
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#TheTraitors
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
What a joyful thread
Pluribus is great, so far. It’s on Apple + if you have it.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Pluribus is great, so far. It’s on Apple + if you have it.