Ian Greaves
@greavesian.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Pinned
A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.
Hope in the Year Two (1994) was my entry point for Trevor Griffiths - and with that Jack Shepherd. An actor of such presence. Later, I discovered Bill Brand, All Good Men, McGill, and even got to ask him about that time he was on the cover of The Listener in just his pants. youtu.be/wRUjcVzDtcM
Late Show preview of Hope in the Year Two
YouTube video by Ian Greaves
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November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hope in the Year Two (1994) was my entry point for Trevor Griffiths - and with that Jack Shepherd. An actor of such presence. Later, I discovered Bill Brand, All Good Men, McGill, and even got to ask him about that time he was on the cover of The Listener in just his pants. youtu.be/wRUjcVzDtcM
One of the absolute best.
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of the absolute best.
Is there a box I can tick on here so I no longer get forced posts from Professional Hauntologists?
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Is there a box I can tick on here so I no longer get forced posts from Professional Hauntologists?
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Exactly 75 years ago today, BBC Television began regular broadcasting at Saturday teatimes with the very first episode of Whirligig, one of its first well-known, long-running children’s shows.
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
Whirligig
A tribute to a much-loved Saturday teatime children's favourite, 75 years on.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Exactly 75 years ago today, BBC Television began regular broadcasting at Saturday teatimes with the very first episode of Whirligig, one of its first well-known, long-running children’s shows.
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
Well, this looks great: a Jake Thackray broadcast rarities collection just in time for Christmas. jakethackray.com/product/the-...
The Lost Archives 1966-1996 (2CD) | The Official Jake Thackray Website
The Lost Archives 1966-1996 is a two-CD, 48-track collection featuring rare performances from radio and TV archives, concerts and private recordings, and a ...
jakethackray.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Well, this looks great: a Jake Thackray broadcast rarities collection just in time for Christmas. jakethackray.com/product/the-...
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I can finally announce!
This Christmas Eve, 2:15pm, BBC Radio 4, a drama I've written - 'The Truth about Phyllis Twigg' - will inform, educate and entertain about the first ever radio drama! 103 years later to the day.
If you like this classy image, you should see our cast...
This Christmas Eve, 2:15pm, BBC Radio 4, a drama I've written - 'The Truth about Phyllis Twigg' - will inform, educate and entertain about the first ever radio drama! 103 years later to the day.
If you like this classy image, you should see our cast...
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I can finally announce!
This Christmas Eve, 2:15pm, BBC Radio 4, a drama I've written - 'The Truth about Phyllis Twigg' - will inform, educate and entertain about the first ever radio drama! 103 years later to the day.
If you like this classy image, you should see our cast...
This Christmas Eve, 2:15pm, BBC Radio 4, a drama I've written - 'The Truth about Phyllis Twigg' - will inform, educate and entertain about the first ever radio drama! 103 years later to the day.
If you like this classy image, you should see our cast...
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As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
So far this month I've managed to pop up in the Leyton Orient matchday programme, the Times Literary Supplement, and Birmingham Dispatch. Can Birdwatching Today be far behind?
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/pendas-fen-r...
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/pendas-fen-r...
Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age
How an experimental British 1970s television play pioneered a folk horror revival
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
So far this month I've managed to pop up in the Leyton Orient matchday programme, the Times Literary Supplement, and Birmingham Dispatch. Can Birdwatching Today be far behind?
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/pendas-fen-r...
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/pendas-fen-r...
The late Roger Jenkins' camera script for one of my favourite bits of disturbed Seventies television. Delighted and touched to be handed it today for permanent safekeeping.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The late Roger Jenkins' camera script for one of my favourite bits of disturbed Seventies television. Delighted and touched to be handed it today for permanent safekeeping.
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Sue Johnston, Paul Copley (in seven original Plays for Today!) and Alexa Davies are a fine small ensemble in tonight's Play for Today, BIG WINNERS, at 9pm on Channel 5. Directed by Emma Turner and written by Martha Watson Allpress, it's well worth watching.
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
Brookside legend Sue Johnston stars in Play for Today revival - how to watch
Sue Johnston stars in the revival of Play for Today revival.
www.liverpoolworld.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sue Johnston, Paul Copley (in seven original Plays for Today!) and Alexa Davies are a fine small ensemble in tonight's Play for Today, BIG WINNERS, at 9pm on Channel 5. Directed by Emma Turner and written by Martha Watson Allpress, it's well worth watching.
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
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Dream jobs do come along… I’ve spent the last few months immersed in BBC Scotland’s City Lights as Assistant Producer on a new 60min doc telling the story of the show. With vintage clips + new interviews, it’s pure dead brilliant!
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dream jobs do come along… I’ve spent the last few months immersed in BBC Scotland’s City Lights as Assistant Producer on a new 60min doc telling the story of the show. With vintage clips + new interviews, it’s pure dead brilliant!
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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I am International Men’s Day and International Women’s Day. I am mud and flame.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I am International Men’s Day and International Women’s Day. I am mud and flame.
Emperor Hirohito could have seen Mr TSW 1982.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Emperor Hirohito could have seen Mr TSW 1982.
Pet Shop Boys tickets secured. Phew. And also ouch.
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Pet Shop Boys tickets secured. Phew. And also ouch.
Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Glad to have caught up on this substantial, precise piece for Equator on the BBC's fatal obsession with over-correction. www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Glad to have caught up on this substantial, precise piece for Equator on the BBC's fatal obsession with over-correction. www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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Applause to @greavesian.bsky.social for organising the showing of all episodes of Derek Bailey's excellent TV series on improvisation, On the Edge, at London's Barbican. Haven't seen these in years.
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Applause to @greavesian.bsky.social for organising the showing of all episodes of Derek Bailey's excellent TV series on improvisation, On the Edge, at London's Barbican. Haven't seen these in years.
Just seven tickets left. We kick off at 2.
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Just seven tickets left. We kick off at 2.
Just under 20 tickets left. There was a bit of a flurry today. Do join us tomorrow if you can.
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just under 20 tickets left. There was a bit of a flurry today. Do join us tomorrow if you can.
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The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…
cstonline.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
A welcome intervention by J.E. Smyth in the latest @thetls.bsky.social "The BBC is restricting access to its archives." www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
Who controls the past
The most accessible archives are usually those managed by universities and public libraries. Corporations are arguably less welcoming: mindful of brand reputation and profitability, they have been kno...
www.the-tls.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A welcome intervention by J.E. Smyth in the latest @thetls.bsky.social "The BBC is restricting access to its archives." www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...