Mark Ludmon
@markludmon.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, editor & ghostwriter, writing on theatre, drinks, bars etc. Theatre studies MA from Central School of Speech & Drama. Early modern literature & history postgrad. Včasih slovensko. 🌈 he/him
I love how the Slovene word for murder, “umor”, works so well for the punning title of Založba Goga’s collection of classic murder mysteries, “Memento umori”.
Se v naši družini pripravljamo na umor? Sploh ne, je pa res da tak vtis daje naš nakup na knjižnem sejmu.
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I love how the Slovene word for murder, “umor”, works so well for the punning title of Založba Goga’s collection of classic murder mysteries, “Memento umori”.
A sad day: another trade magazine abandoning its weekly print publication, in this case after nearly 145 years.
From January 2026, The Stage will no longer appear as a weekly newspaper but rather as a monthly magazine designed for deeper reading, says Alistair Smith.
Read more 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/...
Read more 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/...
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A sad day: another trade magazine abandoning its weekly print publication, in this case after nearly 145 years.
Found time today to visit Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury in Suffolk before a meeting. A fantastic museum and gallery with a mix of contemporary art, including a great Stanley Spencer exhibition on until March, alongside Gainsboroughs & Constables.
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Found time today to visit Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury in Suffolk before a meeting. A fantastic museum and gallery with a mix of contemporary art, including a great Stanley Spencer exhibition on until March, alongside Gainsboroughs & Constables.
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
Enjoyed seeing Noah Baumbach’s film, Jay Kelly, on the big screen with a starry cast led by George Clooney. Despite his character’s flaws, it’s a compelling celebration of films & film-making. The post-screening Q&A with Clooney, Baumbach, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup etc added to the fun.
#JayKelly
#JayKelly
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Enjoyed seeing Noah Baumbach’s film, Jay Kelly, on the big screen with a starry cast led by George Clooney. Despite his character’s flaws, it’s a compelling celebration of films & film-making. The post-screening Q&A with Clooney, Baumbach, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup etc added to the fun.
#JayKelly
#JayKelly
Hey, marketers: it may be a Friday today but Black Friday is NOT “here” yet…
#BlackFriday
#BlackFriday
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hey, marketers: it may be a Friday today but Black Friday is NOT “here” yet…
#BlackFriday
#BlackFriday
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Morning. Don’t know if this counts as promotion or just me
Mouthing off? Possibly both. Anyway Ordinary Decent Criminal is on your for three more weeks.
Mouthing off? Possibly both. Anyway Ordinary Decent Criminal is on your for three more weeks.
a brief history of resistance, with @markthomasinfo.bsky.social 🔥
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Morning. Don’t know if this counts as promotion or just me
Mouthing off? Possibly both. Anyway Ordinary Decent Criminal is on your for three more weeks.
Mouthing off? Possibly both. Anyway Ordinary Decent Criminal is on your for three more weeks.
Pleased to catch Clarkston in its final week at Trafalgar Theatre: a solid American drama lifted by three very strong performances from Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville.
#LondonTheatre
#LondonTheatre
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Pleased to catch Clarkston in its final week at Trafalgar Theatre: a solid American drama lifted by three very strong performances from Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville.
#LondonTheatre
#LondonTheatre
Looking forward to a haunting time at The Weir at the Harold Pinter Theatre
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Looking forward to a haunting time at The Weir at the Harold Pinter Theatre
A clever way of highlighting how today’s transphobia is horrifyingly similar to the homophobic rhetoric of the past.
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
Have I Got Phobia For You
Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A clever way of highlighting how today’s transphobia is horrifyingly similar to the homophobic rhetoric of the past.
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
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You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why
You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why
Adapting your fitness routine to your physical realities can help prevent injury from over-exercising
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why
Born With Teeth was very entertaining, especially for someone as interested in early modern English theatre and history as me. I can’t believe I nearly missed it. Ncuti Gatwa was great but Edward Bluemel was superb as Will Shakespeare.
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Born With Teeth was very entertaining, especially for someone as interested in early modern English theatre and history as me. I can’t believe I nearly missed it. Ncuti Gatwa was great but Edward Bluemel was superb as Will Shakespeare.
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!
A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast.
#Manchester #Frankenstein
#Manchester #Frankenstein
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast.
#Manchester #Frankenstein
#Manchester #Frankenstein
At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted.
#Greggs #Manchester
#Greggs #Manchester
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted.
#Greggs #Manchester
#Greggs #Manchester
Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat”
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat”
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me.
#RiotWomen
#RiotWomen
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me.
#RiotWomen
#RiotWomen
The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer?
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer?
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
Another “Brexit benefit”? A clothing company is exiting the UK market after 25 years because of “the complexity and cost of cross-border operations between the UK and Europe in the current trade environment”.
#Brexit
#Brexit
The owner of Mantis and Babybugz has today announced that the two garment brands are exiting the UK market as it focuses its operations on the rest of Europe.
imagesmag.uk/mantis-exit
#MantisWorld #mantis #babybugz #brexit #GarmentPrinting #GarmentDecoration
imagesmag.uk/mantis-exit
#MantisWorld #mantis #babybugz #brexit #GarmentPrinting #GarmentDecoration
Mantis and Babybugz to exit UK market - Images magazine
L-Shop-Team has announced that garment brands Mantis and Babybugz are exiting the UK market as it focuses operations on the rest of Europe
imagesmag.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Another “Brexit benefit”? A clothing company is exiting the UK market after 25 years because of “the complexity and cost of cross-border operations between the UK and Europe in the current trade environment”.
#Brexit
#Brexit
More nonsense. It’s a good thing that UK-born British citizens don’t need to be proficient to “A Level English” standard (whatever that means). Literacy surveys show the average reading age among British adults is 9 to 11.
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK - BBC News
The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
More nonsense. It’s a good thing that UK-born British citizens don’t need to be proficient to “A Level English” standard (whatever that means). Literacy surveys show the average reading age among British adults is 9 to 11.
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.
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‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules
‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules
What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under way
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules
I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!
I find it very concerning that a police commissioner is allying herself with an anti-LGBT+ organisation, especially as her beat covers Brighton.
The Conservative Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner to open the FiLiA hate conference, with this coded incitement to hatred.
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I find it very concerning that a police commissioner is allying herself with an anti-LGBT+ organisation, especially as her beat covers Brighton.