Jeremy Mortimer
@jeremort.bsky.social
Making a noise about sound drama. Likes walking, theatre, Shakespeare, autumn. Don’t like airports, ice cream, flashing lights, X.
BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent
February 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent
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Next Thurs 13 Feb is World Radio Day, but audio drama is under serious threat
Share a short video to tell BBC Director General Tim Davie + the BBC why audio drama is important to you, the wider UK drama ecosystem + why you oppose their cuts
More info 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-d...
Share a short video to tell BBC Director General Tim Davie + the BBC why audio drama is important to you, the wider UK drama ecosystem + why you oppose their cuts
More info 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-d...
February 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Next Thurs 13 Feb is World Radio Day, but audio drama is under serious threat
Share a short video to tell BBC Director General Tim Davie + the BBC why audio drama is important to you, the wider UK drama ecosystem + why you oppose their cuts
More info 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-d...
Share a short video to tell BBC Director General Tim Davie + the BBC why audio drama is important to you, the wider UK drama ecosystem + why you oppose their cuts
More info 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-d...
I've just spotted that LITTLE MUSPRATT is on BBC Sounds (for the next month) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Little Muspratt by Penelope Mortimer - BBC Sounds
A widow moves to a new village and hopes to befriend a novelist. Stars Mary Wimbush.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I've just spotted that LITTLE MUSPRATT is on BBC Sounds (for the next month) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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"The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it matters"
My piece for @thestage.bsky.social on the importance (past & present) of BBC Radio 3 drama: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
#RadioDrama @writersguildgb.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social
My piece for @thestage.bsky.social on the importance (past & present) of BBC Radio 3 drama: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
#RadioDrama @writersguildgb.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social
Andrea Smith: The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it matters
Radio drama has been at the heart of the BBC since it began broadcasting in November 1922. The first play written for children was aired…
edition.thestage.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it matters"
My piece for @thestage.bsky.social on the importance (past & present) of BBC Radio 3 drama: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
#RadioDrama @writersguildgb.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social
My piece for @thestage.bsky.social on the importance (past & present) of BBC Radio 3 drama: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
#RadioDrama @writersguildgb.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social
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Absolutely, Lisa. Read more about this here: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
January 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Absolutely, Lisa. Read more about this here: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
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Following on from my piece in @thestage.bsky.social yesterday about the importance of drama on BBC Radio 3 (and the decision to axe it), @eggsbened.bsky.social explains why size is important...
edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/22/d...
edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/22/d...
David Benedict: How long should a play be? Probably not 45 minutes
How long does a play last? Dumb question, I know – up there with ‘How long is lunch?’. The most recent bid for the longest…
edition.thestage.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Following on from my piece in @thestage.bsky.social yesterday about the importance of drama on BBC Radio 3 (and the decision to axe it), @eggsbened.bsky.social explains why size is important...
edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/22/d...
edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/22/d...
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Today, alongside @equityuk.bsky.social + @societyofauthors.bsky.social, we have launched a petition calling on Director-General of the BBC Tim Davie to rethink plans to eradicate audio drama from BBC Radio 3
Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC
www.change.org/SADatTheBBC
Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC
www.change.org/SADatTheBBC
Sign the Petition
Save Audio Drama at the BBC
www.change.org
January 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Today, alongside @equityuk.bsky.social + @societyofauthors.bsky.social, we have launched a petition calling on Director-General of the BBC Tim Davie to rethink plans to eradicate audio drama from BBC Radio 3
Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC
www.change.org/SADatTheBBC
Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC
www.change.org/SADatTheBBC
“I have conversed with the spiritual sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill”. Wm Blake.
January 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
“I have conversed with the spiritual sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill”. Wm Blake.
Yes - it's war. With newts. Put on your goggles. Pull on your wet suit. Sunday 8.00pm BBC Radio 3 - and after @bbcsounds.bsky.social @edmundharris.bsky.social @reducedlistening.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social
BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, War with the Newts
By Ed Harris adapted from Karel Čapek’s 1936 novel. With Doña Croll and Laura Elphinstone.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Yes - it's war. With newts. Put on your goggles. Pull on your wet suit. Sunday 8.00pm BBC Radio 3 - and after @bbcsounds.bsky.social @edmundharris.bsky.social @reducedlistening.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social
Back in the day when some uni theses were typed up a friend found that her dissertation on Webster’s heroine was renamed ‘the Duchess of half;’. Strangely satisfying now that I only got to see half of the production tonight. ;;;;;;;;
November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Back in the day when some uni theses were typed up a friend found that her dissertation on Webster’s heroine was renamed ‘the Duchess of half;’. Strangely satisfying now that I only got to see half of the production tonight. ;;;;;;;;
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'There was change in the air, a hunger for art that escaped committees and censorship – even for Bacon’s brand of (exuberant) nihilism.
Francis Bacon in Moscow.
The story of an exhibition - and a BBC Radio 3 play on the same theme
Francis Bacon in Moscow.
The story of an exhibition - and a BBC Radio 3 play on the same theme
BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow - Bacon in Moscow
How Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to exhibit solo in the USSR.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 4:18 PM
'There was change in the air, a hunger for art that escaped committees and censorship – even for Bacon’s brand of (exuberant) nihilism.
Francis Bacon in Moscow.
The story of an exhibition - and a BBC Radio 3 play on the same theme
Francis Bacon in Moscow.
The story of an exhibition - and a BBC Radio 3 play on the same theme
Anohni sings Lou Reed. Astonishing.
November 24, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Anohni sings Lou Reed. Astonishing.
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In 2015 we stumbled across an old ambulance depot in Tottenham Hale.
over the next 5 years we would turn it into a space for us to experiment, our first show an audio adventure saw audience members shot out of the warehouse in coffins down a canal we built in the car park!
#theatre #music #myths
over the next 5 years we would turn it into a space for us to experiment, our first show an audio adventure saw audience members shot out of the warehouse in coffins down a canal we built in the car park!
#theatre #music #myths
November 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Spent today with Felix at Hall for Cornwall, sharing our learnings from the past 15 years.
It made me grateful for a shared adventure that’s seen us produce dozens of plays in crazy spaces, cycle the length of the USA, bus to Singapore and much much more.
#theatre #travel #cornwall #adventures
It made me grateful for a shared adventure that’s seen us produce dozens of plays in crazy spaces, cycle the length of the USA, bus to Singapore and much much more.
#theatre #travel #cornwall #adventures
November 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Spent today with Felix at Hall for Cornwall, sharing our learnings from the past 15 years.
It made me grateful for a shared adventure that’s seen us produce dozens of plays in crazy spaces, cycle the length of the USA, bus to Singapore and much much more.
#theatre #travel #cornwall #adventures
It made me grateful for a shared adventure that’s seen us produce dozens of plays in crazy spaces, cycle the length of the USA, bus to Singapore and much much more.
#theatre #travel #cornwall #adventures
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... just caught up with this. Will Young is brilliant. And the sound design is magical. Bravo @jonnicholls.bsky.social and Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore.
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Song from Far Away
Will Young's solo tour de force about family, loss and the faces of love. Strong language.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... just caught up with this. Will Young is brilliant. And the sound design is magical. Bravo @jonnicholls.bsky.social and Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore.
Ford Madox Ford writing to Joseph Conrad about the sounds of war #greatwar #westernfront
November 19, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Ford Madox Ford writing to Joseph Conrad about the sounds of war #greatwar #westernfront
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with these fellas recently @edharris.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with these fellas recently @edharris.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social
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Some wonderful resources here for anyone interested in the history of broadcasting:
Hundreds of archive clips, documents, interviews, and images.
Timelines.
Curated collections on special themes with background articles by academics.
Links to other relevant resources
Hundreds of archive clips, documents, interviews, and images.
Timelines.
Curated collections on special themes with background articles by academics.
Links to other relevant resources
History of the BBC
Explore the history of the BBC since its foundation in 1922 to the present day
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Some wonderful resources here for anyone interested in the history of broadcasting:
Hundreds of archive clips, documents, interviews, and images.
Timelines.
Curated collections on special themes with background articles by academics.
Links to other relevant resources
Hundreds of archive clips, documents, interviews, and images.
Timelines.
Curated collections on special themes with background articles by academics.
Links to other relevant resources
‘Leaving Twitter’ by First Dog on the Moon in today’s Guardian.
November 16, 2024 at 9:48 AM
‘Leaving Twitter’ by First Dog on the Moon in today’s Guardian.
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How many of these do we have?
November 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM
How many of these do we have?