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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 23h

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 1d

12 Episodes of Screen Two are on iPlayer atm. Don’t fuck about, no excuses, get it together and watch them.

Some of the best cinema you’ll ever see x

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d

I won’t make the obvious joke but I will ask her name

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d

I know it doesn't really mean that but it works very well with your name - it has a lovely Victorian ring to it.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d

I find these stories of stories of generational stretch so fascinating. That idea that your mind and body is, in some way, not living among its contemporaries.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 1d

I'm the result of my father's second marriage, so he was 56 when I was born (fortunately he made 96 in the end!) but he was born in 1904, and my grandfather in 1865.

So I was only the third generation in a century!

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ninna50.bsky.social @ninna50.bsky.social · 1d

The mother of my great grandma, who held me as a baby, was alive when Charlotte Bronte was alive.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d

I knew a woman who knew Thomas Hardy ...

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d

66. And my friend was born in 1965.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/1RPoymt3Jx4?...

Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've Got A Secret

YouTube video by HistoryFlicks4u

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d

A friend of a friend who I’ve known for years and is only a little bit older than me told me tonight that his dad was born in 1899.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 2d

Tom is Roddy McDowall in Evil Under the Sun

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 3d

So does Old Hamlet count as someone who dies in Hamlet? #thetraitors

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 3d

It’s proper telly innit

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 3d

Love the way Claudia clomps like Hans the sagacious horse

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 4d

quite splendid BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4 hour of sparkling philosophical discussion of the universal topic of ‘the good life’. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
with Sophie Scott-Brown, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Fergus Butler-Gallie, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Rachael Wiseman
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, What is a good life?

Matthew Sweet and guests explore what it means to live a good life.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks! They seem to have mixed up a Missy book with a Master book here…

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot emphasize enough how much the 1915 Italian adventure film THE JOCKEY OF DEATH lives up to its advertising campaign

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 8d

Well thank you *very* much, Sophie Scott-Brown, Rachael Wiseman, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Fergus Butler-Gallie and Sudhir Hazareesingh for coming on to FreeThinking to discuss the Good Life. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 8d

Jean Béraud's picture of a gentleman's club (1904) is painted in a few warm, deep colours. There is no central figure, and the men are positioned in such a way that their faces are either partly or entirely hidden. Privacy in a private club.

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 9d

NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week
pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 9d

Afternoon’s work for Barbara Cartland

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 9d

Gurkha's in Syndenham was a delight!

Listen to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social talk about this South London gem, and the many wonderful books Matthew has both written and read so far this year. @quercusbooks.bsky.social

FULL EPISODE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOs...

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 9d

Some thoughts on on the Manchester synagogue attack:

1. This is the first deadly attack against Jews in the UK in my lifetime. That's a big contrast with the US and France, which have seen numerous fatal antisemitic terrorist attacks in recent decades.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 10d

🚨NEW EPISODE!

@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social, author of 'Bookish', based on the hit TV series starring @markgatissjp.bsky.social, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Buket Komur and others, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social at Gurkhas in #Sydenham.

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