Dirk Maggs
@dirkmaggs.bsky.social
#1 New York Times Audio Bestseller. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Superman, Batman (BBC Radio); Alien, The Sandman (Audible) and many other audio productions. Writes. Directs. Plays Drums.
No AI needed. 50% 🇳🇱 50% 🇬🇧 + a smidge of 🏴 = 100 % 🇪🇺
No AI needed. 50% 🇳🇱 50% 🇬🇧 + a smidge of 🏴 = 100 % 🇪🇺
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RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
Absolutely terrific piece by Naomi. If you have the slightest of feelings for The Beatles this will resonate.
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Absolutely terrific piece by Naomi. If you have the slightest of feelings for The Beatles this will resonate.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Dirk does a full rundown of the cast and it is beyond awesome that Kerry Shale is back as the Joker.
I’m also excited that Dirk got to do this. Nothing against the Warner audio version of the late nineties but I was always pulling for Maggs to adapt this.
I’m also excited that Dirk got to do this. Nothing against the Warner audio version of the late nineties but I was always pulling for Maggs to adapt this.
RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Dirk does a full rundown of the cast and it is beyond awesome that Kerry Shale is back as the Joker.
I’m also excited that Dirk got to do this. Nothing against the Warner audio version of the late nineties but I was always pulling for Maggs to adapt this.
I’m also excited that Dirk got to do this. Nothing against the Warner audio version of the late nineties but I was always pulling for Maggs to adapt this.
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💥KINGDOM COME is out now on Audible‼️ It was an absolute treat to work on this; it’s one of my favorite graphic novels. You’ll hear me as Selina Kyle (Catwoman!!) among others 😺 This cast is mighty, @dirkmaggs.bsky.social worked his SuperButt off as usual, & basically I’m psyched about it!
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
💥KINGDOM COME is out now on Audible‼️ It was an absolute treat to work on this; it’s one of my favorite graphic novels. You’ll hear me as Selina Kyle (Catwoman!!) among others 😺 This cast is mighty, @dirkmaggs.bsky.social worked his SuperButt off as usual, & basically I’m psyched about it!
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@dirkmaggs.bsky.social claimed some months back something special was in the works. This would do it. Now if we couldonly get the complete Hellblazer...
RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@dirkmaggs.bsky.social claimed some months back something special was in the works. This would do it. Now if we couldonly get the complete Hellblazer...
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Such a joy to play Wonder Woman for my old friend (and favourite director) @dirkmaggs.bsky.social - what a blast working with so many of the old gang...
RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Such a joy to play Wonder Woman for my old friend (and favourite director) @dirkmaggs.bsky.social - what a blast working with so many of the old gang...
RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
Flipping brilliant album.
On this day, 38 years ago, The Sisters of Mercy released their second studio album, the polished classic that is Floodland.
Floodland by The Sisters of Mercy
Whoever he is, whatever incarnation the Eldritch has assumed for this chapter of The Sisters of Mercy story, Floodland is his success story writ large. It isn’t the difficult and contested pr…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Flipping brilliant album.
Ooh ooh I know the answer. Because old buildings.
Why Herefordshire was the perfect stand-in for Shakespeare’s Stratford in the new film of Hamnet
Why Herefordshire was the perfect stand-in for Shakespeare’s Stratford in the new film of Hamnet
Crooked buildings, welcoming inns, ancient woodlands … it’s easy to see why the location scouts chose this idyllic corner of England
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ooh ooh I know the answer. Because old buildings.
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
As a drummer, a former BBC Radio producer and a childhood fan of James Blades, I’m really looking forward to this.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘Two more broomsticks please!’ Was James Blades the greatest percussionist ever?
He played china mugs, bells, rattles and car horns for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Benjamin Britten – and once got Laurence Olivier to bang a broomstick. We go behind the scenes of a Radio 3 cel...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
As a drummer, a former BBC Radio producer and a childhood fan of James Blades, I’m really looking forward to this.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Released this Tuesday by Penguin Random House / DC Comics.
With Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman & more - even the Joker - after three decades I'm back in Metropolis and Gotham City in November with KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, a fully cast, cinematic audio drama from DC and Penguin Random House Audio, with music by my SANDMAN pal James Hannigan.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Released this Tuesday by Penguin Random House / DC Comics.
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Les vœux les plus chaleureux du compositeur à Thierry Bréhu, Carole Boulanger, Francois Baud, Jean-Louis Serre, La Schola Cantorum de Nantes et l'Orchestre Symphonique de Saint-Nazaire qui interpréteront mon ETERNAL LIGHT: A REQUIEM demain à Saint-Nazaire et le dimanche à Nantes 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Les vœux les plus chaleureux du compositeur à Thierry Bréhu, Carole Boulanger, Francois Baud, Jean-Louis Serre, La Schola Cantorum de Nantes et l'Orchestre Symphonique de Saint-Nazaire qui interpréteront mon ETERNAL LIGHT: A REQUIEM demain à Saint-Nazaire et le dimanche à Nantes 🙏
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we do the script in audio-only (via cleanfeed if you're interested) but i really liked this joke which i wrote about ten seconds before we finished recording.
anyway, remember that this is bluesky and likes do very little to help this get seen so if you like it, please share it
anyway, remember that this is bluesky and likes do very little to help this get seen so if you like it, please share it
Just because NonCensored is a rival to BBC News that doesn't mean it takes any pleasure in the crisis at the BBC.
Listen now, in all the superior podcast apps.
podfollow.com/NonCensored
Listen now, in all the superior podcast apps.
podfollow.com/NonCensored
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
we do the script in audio-only (via cleanfeed if you're interested) but i really liked this joke which i wrote about ten seconds before we finished recording.
anyway, remember that this is bluesky and likes do very little to help this get seen so if you like it, please share it
anyway, remember that this is bluesky and likes do very little to help this get seen so if you like it, please share it
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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The fearsome new Russian 'AI Doll" comes with pre-loaded vodka. youtu.be/qYr-Z6tTfm4?...
Russia’s much-hyped humanoid AI robot collapsed on stage during its debut presentation
YouTube video by ONEST
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The fearsome new Russian 'AI Doll" comes with pre-loaded vodka. youtu.be/qYr-Z6tTfm4?...
This is a terrific idea - may it flourish like a Shakespearean fanfare.
(I first trained as a drama teacher and am horrified at how successive U.K. governments have strangled our schools’ arts curriculum.)
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
(I first trained as a drama teacher and am horrified at how successive U.K. governments have strangled our schools’ arts curriculum.)
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘I really enjoyed it’: new RSC curriculum brings Shakespeare’s works to life in UK classrooms
Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This is a terrific idea - may it flourish like a Shakespearean fanfare.
(I first trained as a drama teacher and am horrified at how successive U.K. governments have strangled our schools’ arts curriculum.)
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
(I first trained as a drama teacher and am horrified at how successive U.K. governments have strangled our schools’ arts curriculum.)
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
Trojan Wars by Sean Street.
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Trojan Wars by Sean Street.
A profound influence on my love of audio …
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 2:27 PM
A profound influence on my love of audio …
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Making comics today with some @dirkmaggs.bsky.social produced awesomeness to keep me company.
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Making comics today with some @dirkmaggs.bsky.social produced awesomeness to keep me company.