Robert Valentine
@mrrobvalentine.bsky.social
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Seems the perfect time to migrate and expand an old Twitter thread of mine about the greatest art heist of the twentieth century...
'INDIANA WHO: CRUSADE OF DEATH!' An adventure in art-theft starring Julian Glover... and Julian Glover.
'INDIANA WHO: CRUSADE OF DEATH!' An adventure in art-theft starring Julian Glover... and Julian Glover.
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
It’s been a very long week and you’re damn right I’m watching Labyrinth.
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It’s been a very long week and you’re damn right I’m watching Labyrinth.
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MASTER SALE! 🥳 Happy birthday, Alex Macqueen! Click https://bgfn.sh/mac25 to get up to 50% selected releases as download to own and collector's edition CD.
Hurry! This offer will be zapped by the TCE at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
Hurry! This offer will be zapped by the TCE at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
MASTER SALE! 🥳 Happy birthday, Alex Macqueen! Click https://bgfn.sh/mac25 to get up to 50% selected releases as download to own and collector's edition CD.
Hurry! This offer will be zapped by the TCE at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
Hurry! This offer will be zapped by the TCE at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
Good morning. ☕️ 💡
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Good morning. ☕️ 💡
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
It’s only taken me thirty years to realise, but the reason Pete Postlethwaite’s character in The Usual Suspects is called Kobayashi is because his proposal is a no-win scenario.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It’s only taken me thirty years to realise, but the reason Pete Postlethwaite’s character in The Usual Suspects is called Kobayashi is because his proposal is a no-win scenario.
My X-Files rewatch has finally reached Humbug. This one’s a good’un.
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My X-Files rewatch has finally reached Humbug. This one’s a good’un.
This Black Dalek Friday sale includes a couple of stories of mine.
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This Black Dalek Friday sale includes a couple of stories of mine.
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My book Where We Stand, Where We fall is now up for pre-order. It's about the politics of Doctor Who, the themes the show keeps returning to over sixty years.
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My book Where We Stand, Where We fall is now up for pre-order. It's about the politics of Doctor Who, the themes the show keeps returning to over sixty years.
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
We didn’t bag a trophy for Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show at #TheSpeakies last night, but if there’d been a Best Pseudoscientific Appropriation of Cornish Mining Folklore category, I tell you, we’d have smashed it.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We didn’t bag a trophy for Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show at #TheSpeakies last night, but if there’d been a Best Pseudoscientific Appropriation of Cornish Mining Folklore category, I tell you, we’d have smashed it.
Bloomin’ loved writing this one. The Fourth Doctor, Sarah, Harry and the Brig, and a diabolical scheme - of death!
Skelephobics look away now. 💀 COVER REVEAL for Doctor Who: The Ministry of Death. Click https://bgfn.sh/DW4D15A to find out more and to pre-order the box set, due for release in March 2026.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Bloomin’ loved writing this one. The Fourth Doctor, Sarah, Harry and the Brig, and a diabolical scheme - of death!
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Robert Eggers' The Telltale Heart, because no-one does films about sad white people with much to be sad about like Eggers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNLI...
The Tell Tale Heart (2008) by Robert Eggers 4K Remaster
YouTube video by GW Remasters
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Robert Eggers' The Telltale Heart, because no-one does films about sad white people with much to be sad about like Eggers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNLI...
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I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*
*via Zoom
*via Zoom
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*
*via Zoom
*via Zoom
Goodnight. #DoctorWhoDay
a black and white photo of a phone booth flying through the air
Alt: The TARDIS spinning through space.
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Goodnight. #DoctorWhoDay
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Steven's catfishing a lovelorn civil servant, Richard's developed Housemaid's Knee, and Brendan's been hypnotised into prompting AI romance novels. At the end of the End of Empire, there's nothing left to do but L♡ve All. #TheAvengers #podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Steven's catfishing a lovelorn civil servant, Richard's developed Housemaid's Knee, and Brendan's been hypnotised into prompting AI romance novels. At the end of the End of Empire, there's nothing left to do but L♡ve All. #TheAvengers #podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
open.spotify.com/episode/4b4p...
The most magnificent bastard of them all. #TheBoxOfDelights
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The most magnificent bastard of them all. #TheBoxOfDelights
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We conclude our #StrangeStudies of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" this week with some reflective canine hijinks! Before you rush off to grab your dog and a mirror, head on over Patreon and check it out!
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We conclude our #StrangeStudies of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" this week with some reflective canine hijinks! Before you rush off to grab your dog and a mirror, head on over Patreon and check it out!
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
It’s Spooky Christmas! @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s #TheHauntedLandscape at @conwayhall.bsky.social. #ForteanLondon 👻 😈 📚
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It’s Spooky Christmas! @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s #TheHauntedLandscape at @conwayhall.bsky.social. #ForteanLondon 👻 😈 📚
I do not bring energy to Bluesky.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I do not bring energy to Bluesky.
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HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
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Something cheerful for a chilly November day.
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Something cheerful for a chilly November day.
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
Good morning, you lot. ☕️ ☀️ 🥶
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Good morning, you lot. ☕️ ☀️ 🥶
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A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
LT Museum’s new exhibition charts 100 years of Art Deco
A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...