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Ian Greaves

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Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 21d

My latest blog for @cstonline.bsky.social , rounding up what has gone on behind the scenes over the past six months in our efforts to rescue BBC Written Archives Centre from recent policy changes. cstonline.net/is-the-bbc-a...

Defending the WAC: Is the BBC a fit and proper keeper of its own paper archive? Ian Greaves on Defending the Written Archives Centre (Part 1)

When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the Board of Management on 17 November 1969, it was done so with a view to history. Kenneth Lamb…

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 11h

Two and a half months out of Christmas and the truffle Pringles are already making me hate myself.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 17h

Wish I'd been there for the Feels Trio

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 17h

Bill Orcutt and Oren Ambarchi in 2017, but keen to match your achievement.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 17h

My campaign colleague Kate Murphy has written today about the plight of women's studies in light of the BBC Written Archives Centre's withdrawal from the world of independent study. The policy changes, in her view, are 'nothing short of catastrophic'. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Defending the WAC: recovering the invisible women of the BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18h

The yolks are ridiculously orange so this is legitimate. The greatest egg.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18h

Dear oh dear. And it's bad enough having to go to the Jazz Cafe.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 19h

ah... i wonder how it will be priced at gigs. Cheaper I suspect.

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ChicaLolita @chicalolita.bsky.social · 21h

We need to hit this 'it's a distraction' narrative about everything on the head right now. Many awful things can be true at the same time, and you really can focus on them all. Consider it trauma multi-tasking.

Julie in Cope @julesette.bsky.social · 1d

someone just told me that billionaires are a distraction and that I should focus on the government giving them tax breaks. It's not as if the two things are connected or anything.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 19h

Pleasing to see the start of a complete rerun of The Great Philosophers (1987) next week on BBC Four. You can keep your TOTPs; this is the stuff! Arid studio discussions hosted by Bryan Magee. A sequel to Men of Ideas (1977). Hopefully it's more Empire Strikes Back than Caravan of Courage.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 19h

Radio Times always promotes the Radio Circle recoveries, which are regularly and enthusiastically featured on 4 Extra. Not a mention this time.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 20h

Disappointing to see somewhat muted promotion of the latest haul of Hidden Treasures - presumably all Radio Circle recoveries - on 4 Extra. Surely one of the standouts will be Victor Pemberton's 1972 play Eyes of the Buddha (on air/online from Thursday 16 October) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hidden Treasures, Eyes of the Buddha by Victor Pemberton

Paul receives letters from his dead father asking him to return to Sri Lanka. From 1972.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 20h

I hate to give A*azon any air, but I see the Tiny Ghost remaster of The Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight is finally in stock.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 21h

That must be what I paid for Unfold.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 21h

I am aware of that, but even so. Has the whiff of an import price.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 21h

The new Necks album is £32! My days.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 23h

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat": the Major spots the offending creature in the bar.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 1d

This reads to me very much like the tale of somebody who once said PRIMM-er by mistake in front of people and got the piss absolutely ripped out of them, and who after many many years of hard work and perseverance finally achieved control of the Merriam-Webster social media accounts

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 22h

Dreamy!

Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful to see the Jackie archives appearing on the British Newspaper Archive so we can see which hot to trot hunks the teen girls of 1964 were moistly pinning to their walls.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 1d

Just listed at Barbican - a December afternoon of rare footage of Derek Bailey, one of a series of events that week marking the 20th anniversary of his death. Supported by @thewiremagazine.bsky.social Tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

So Watt Special: Derek Bailey - New Sights, Old Sounds | Barbican

A film screening of rare, unseen footage of Derek Bailey from the Incus Records archive and beyond, capturing his performances and collaborations across decades and continents.

www.barbican.org.uk

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