Chris Ashworth-Bennion
@chrisabennion.bsky.social
welsh person. freelance arts journalist. ex TV and Radio Editor at The Telegraph. ex TV and theatre for The Times. mainly nonsense on here.
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'Full of theatrical magic'
★★★★ Telegraph
'A fiery comedy that comes out roaring'
★★★★ The Stage
The Red Rogue of Bala by NHB author Chris Ashworth-Bennion is now on @theatrclwyd.bsky.social.
Get your playscript copy at the venue or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/red-rogue-of...
★★★★ Telegraph
'A fiery comedy that comes out roaring'
★★★★ The Stage
The Red Rogue of Bala by NHB author Chris Ashworth-Bennion is now on @theatrclwyd.bsky.social.
Get your playscript copy at the venue or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/red-rogue-of...
Thanks so much to everyone at NHB. Couldn't be more thrilled.
oh my. I could barely breathe. just wonderful.
25 'MOST BLUESKY' POSTS OF 2025
Here's my selection of the 25 Bluesky posts that most impressed me this year. They're quite varied, but doesn't that reflect the thriving, harmonious site this really is? Yes. It does. They've been anonymised anyway, who cares?
Here's my selection of the 25 Bluesky posts that most impressed me this year. They're quite varied, but doesn't that reflect the thriving, harmonious site this really is? Yes. It does. They've been anonymised anyway, who cares?
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
oh my. I could barely breathe. just wonderful.
I won't be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I won't be visited by three spirits
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The first zero-star review I've ever written. No regrets. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/non-pla...
The ‘first 100 per cent AI-generated reality TV show’ is a load of pig swill
A derivative fusion of Fortnite and every survival reality show ever, Non Player Combat is the worst thing you will see all year
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The first zero-star review I've ever written. No regrets. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/non-pla...
The first zero-star review I've ever written. No regrets. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/non-pla...
The ‘first 100 per cent AI-generated reality TV show’ is a load of pig swill
A derivative fusion of Fortnite and every survival reality show ever, Non Player Combat is the worst thing you will see all year
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The first zero-star review I've ever written. No regrets. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/non-pla...
I did not have him on my list of potential hosts, but this is a *great* appointment
We’ll be back - at 09.02 on 15th January 2026 - with Misha Glenny! www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Misha Glenny to present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time
The much loved series returns on 15 January 2026
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I did not have him on my list of potential hosts, but this is a *great* appointment
❤️
Radio by Lester Beall for the Rural Electrification Administration (1937)
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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This is absolutely wonderful, but I fear it puts a lot of pressure on modern-day playwrights
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This is absolutely wonderful, but I fear it puts a lot of pressure on modern-day playwrights
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‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked together
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
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We’re wrapping up November by spotlighting the three fantastic plays we’ve published this month, as well as a brilliant anthology of new writing! 🧣📚
Learn more about them – along with the rest of our recent publications – on our website: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/new-titles
Learn more about them – along with the rest of our recent publications – on our website: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/new-titles
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We’re wrapping up November by spotlighting the three fantastic plays we’ve published this month, as well as a brilliant anthology of new writing! 🧣📚
Learn more about them – along with the rest of our recent publications – on our website: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/new-titles
Learn more about them – along with the rest of our recent publications – on our website: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/new-titles
Stoppard. Ah. Shit.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Stoppard. Ah. Shit.
I'm not saying I've got bad seats for Radiohead, but the tickets do say "unsuitable for those afraid of heights"
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm not saying I've got bad seats for Radiohead, but the tickets do say "unsuitable for those afraid of heights"
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Harry Wilson ❤️❤️❤️
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Harry Wilson ❤️❤️❤️
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My god. My god.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
My god. My god.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Such awful news. She leaves an enormous hole.
Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Such awful news. She leaves an enormous hole.
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
Reposted by Chris Ashworth-Bennion
Thanks so much to everyone at NHB. Couldn't be more thrilled.
'Full of theatrical magic'
★★★★ Telegraph
'A fiery comedy that comes out roaring'
★★★★ The Stage
The Red Rogue of Bala by NHB author Chris Ashworth-Bennion is now on @theatrclwyd.bsky.social.
Get your playscript copy at the venue or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/red-rogue-of...
★★★★ Telegraph
'A fiery comedy that comes out roaring'
★★★★ The Stage
The Red Rogue of Bala by NHB author Chris Ashworth-Bennion is now on @theatrclwyd.bsky.social.
Get your playscript copy at the venue or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/red-rogue-of...
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thanks so much to everyone at NHB. Couldn't be more thrilled.
Thanks so much to everyone at NHB. Couldn't be more thrilled.
'Full of theatrical magic'
★★★★ Telegraph
'A fiery comedy that comes out roaring'
★★★★ The Stage
The Red Rogue of Bala by NHB author Chris Ashworth-Bennion is now on @theatrclwyd.bsky.social.
Get your playscript copy at the venue or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/red-rogue-of...
★★★★ Telegraph
'A fiery comedy that comes out roaring'
★★★★ The Stage
The Red Rogue of Bala by NHB author Chris Ashworth-Bennion is now on @theatrclwyd.bsky.social.
Get your playscript copy at the venue or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/red-rogue-of...
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thanks so much to everyone at NHB. Couldn't be more thrilled.
Reposted by Chris Ashworth-Bennion
All good writing is embarrassing
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
All good writing is embarrassing
My debut play, The Red Rogue of Bala, opens tonight at my hometown theatre. Can't thank everyone at Theatr Clwyd enough. Wonderful, surreal, terrifying. www.theatrclwyd.com/event/the-re...
The Red Rogue of Bala. | Theatr Clwyd
A hilarious, fast-paced comedy in the heart of Denbighshire.
1913. In a dark, dingy pub, stood on a table top soaked in beer and ale, John Jones - rogue an
www.theatrclwyd.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My debut play, The Red Rogue of Bala, opens tonight at my hometown theatre. Can't thank everyone at Theatr Clwyd enough. Wonderful, surreal, terrifying. www.theatrclwyd.com/event/the-re...
Reposted by Chris Ashworth-Bennion
"Player 238. Eliminated." My day on the set of Squid Game: The Challenge www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/0...
A £3.5m prize fund and outrageous lying: Behind the scenes of the Squid Game The Challenge
Chris Bennion zips into his green tracksuit and braves the cavernous set of Netflix’s wildly successful game show
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Player 238. Eliminated." My day on the set of Squid Game: The Challenge www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/0...
"Player 238. Eliminated." My day on the set of Squid Game: The Challenge www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/0...
A £3.5m prize fund and outrageous lying: Behind the scenes of the Squid Game The Challenge
Chris Bennion zips into his green tracksuit and braves the cavernous set of Netflix’s wildly successful game show
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Player 238. Eliminated." My day on the set of Squid Game: The Challenge www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/0...
Reposted by Chris Ashworth-Bennion
Happy Hallowe'en! I went to visit Britain's spookiest man - Danny Robins www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...
Ghost hunter Danny Robins: ‘Even the most hardened sceptics secretly hope that ghosts exist’
The paranormal podcaster on becoming a lightning rod for supernatural belief in Britain and beyond
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Happy Hallowe'en! I went to visit Britain's spookiest man - Danny Robins www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...