Oliver Harris
@oliharris.bsky.social
Writer - crime novels, thrillers. Teaches creative writing at MMU.
This is a delightful listen, if your ears have a few minutes spare.
For those who like audio, & short stories, 3 of mine are repeated this week - mon/tues/wed - they are linked & tx goes A, Andria, B, Boris, C Chiara - on Radio 4 Extra - today, 15.45
I GOT THE DOG
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I GOT THE DOG
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BBC Radio 4 - I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire - Episode guide
All episodes of I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire
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February 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This is a delightful listen, if your ears have a few minutes spare.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
'A guide told the Guardian he had spotted a “strange” gathering outside the David Hume mausoleum on 16 January at 10pm when the cemetery gates were locked. He claimed four men in long white robes were kneeling by the mausoleum and lighting candles.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Edinburgh tomb of philosopher David Hume vandalised with ‘satanic’ symbols
Tour guide reports drawing of naked woman pointing knife at baby and coded writing at Old Calton burial ground
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:29 PM
'A guide told the Guardian he had spotted a “strange” gathering outside the David Hume mausoleum on 16 January at 10pm when the cemetery gates were locked. He claimed four men in long white robes were kneeling by the mausoleum and lighting candles.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Forgive me for tootling a small trumpet - stuff from the past, reappearing on your radio ...
a mole just told me one of my short story trilogies, I GOT THE DOG, is being repeated in early February - Mon 2nd, Tues 3rd, Wed 4th - 15:45 on Radio4X - readers - Rebecca Front, John McGlynn, Vicki Pepperdine - woof-woof!! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire - Episode guide
All episodes of I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Forgive me for tootling a small trumpet - stuff from the past, reappearing on your radio ...
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Kim Jong-un inspected parts of the future monument and museum dedicated to the memory of DPRK soldiers who died fighting against Ukraine.
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Kim Jong-un inspected parts of the future monument and museum dedicated to the memory of DPRK soldiers who died fighting against Ukraine.
Excited to be chatting all things espionage and fiction with bestselling former CIA analyst David McCloskey later this month - Waterstones Deansgate, Manchester, January 28 - focussing on his new novel THE PERSIAN - www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Excited to be chatting all things espionage and fiction with bestselling former CIA analyst David McCloskey later this month - Waterstones Deansgate, Manchester, January 28 - focussing on his new novel THE PERSIAN - www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
I'm enjoying this 'pubs that changed me' series in @theguardian.com Feels a good angle on life and lives www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The pub that changed me: ‘We would flirt and mingle with the wild children of the wealthy’
To me and my friends from a Battersea council estate, the Dome seemed the very height of Thatcherite hedonism – and seeing ‘successful’ people up close was an eye-opener
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
I'm enjoying this 'pubs that changed me' series in @theguardian.com Feels a good angle on life and lives www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
When I was a teenager out and about in central London there used to be a man selling poems in the middle of Hungerford Bridge. They were in coloured envelopes, laid out on a blanket. Always bought some, seemed too magical not to. Anyway, a few days ago I came across him by Tate Modern (1/2)
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
When I was a teenager out and about in central London there used to be a man selling poems in the middle of Hungerford Bridge. They were in coloured envelopes, laid out on a blanket. Always bought some, seemed too magical not to. Anyway, a few days ago I came across him by Tate Modern (1/2)
Slide from a lecture on post-colonialism. It's never less than mind-boggling
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Slide from a lecture on post-colonialism. It's never less than mind-boggling
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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Want to understand what actually went wrong at the BBC? Read Daniel Trilling’s in-depth report in the corporations’s spectacular failure over the war in Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Want to understand what actually went wrong at the BBC? Read Daniel Trilling’s in-depth report in the corporations’s spectacular failure over the war in Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Exciting opportunity for writers from working-class backgrounds
We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with
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Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Exciting opportunity for writers from working-class backgrounds
I got the idea for The Shame Archive when a friend started telling me about Epstein's potential links to intelligence services. The novel's gone down to 99p on Kindle this month. www.amazon.co.uk/Shame-Archiv...
The Shame Archive: 'Puts him firmly in the Mick Herron class' Daily Telegraph eBook : Harris, Oliver: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Shame Archive: 'Puts him firmly in the Mick Herron class' Daily Telegraph eBook : Harris, Oliver: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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October 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I got the idea for The Shame Archive when a friend started telling me about Epstein's potential links to intelligence services. The novel's gone down to 99p on Kindle this month. www.amazon.co.uk/Shame-Archiv...
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Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican (1917-2011), The Saints of Hampstead Heath, 1997, oil and gold leaf on canvasboard, 45.7 x 35.6 cm, private collection
September 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican (1917-2011), The Saints of Hampstead Heath, 1997, oil and gold leaf on canvasboard, 45.7 x 35.6 cm, private collection
Got to say, Polanski understands how you bring the fight
The Green Party now has 78,000 members.
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Got to say, Polanski understands how you bring the fight
One irony of all this is that South Korea (until now) had a lot of pro-Trump love, central to its big pro-US right wing
South Korea is conducting a government investigation into potential human-rights violations against more than 300 Korean citizens detained in Georgia this month.
South Korea Probes Allegations of Human-Rights Violations Tied to Hyundai Raid
Seoul is looking at the U.S.’s treatment of Korean citizens inside a detention center, and whether any of them was unfairly arrested.
on.wsj.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
One irony of all this is that South Korea (until now) had a lot of pro-Trump love, central to its big pro-US right wing
This podcast makes a strong case for how central AI is to both ICE and Gaza - predictive models giving authority to arrests and killings therealnews.com/trump-silico...
Trump and Silicon Valley’s plan to rule the world with AI weapons
“We're talking about millions of devices all over the world that are supposedly sending information into some kind of centralized point in the military-industrial apparatus from which they can control...
therealnews.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This podcast makes a strong case for how central AI is to both ICE and Gaza - predictive models giving authority to arrests and killings therealnews.com/trump-silico...
Sharing this on the occasion of Constance Martens and Mark Gordon's sentencing - a brilliant, very deep, very long read on the couple and their trials from Clair Wills in the LRB (which may be accessible without a subscription) - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clair Wills · The Price of Safety: Constance Marten’s Defiance
The trials of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were held to determine their criminal responsibility for their daughter...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Sharing this on the occasion of Constance Martens and Mark Gordon's sentencing - a brilliant, very deep, very long read on the couple and their trials from Clair Wills in the LRB (which may be accessible without a subscription) - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Was surprised to find a section of the Berlin Wall currently on display in Lewisham Shopping Centre
September 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Was surprised to find a section of the Berlin Wall currently on display in Lewisham Shopping Centre
The Eulogy I did not Give by Bob Hicok, from the New Yorker
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The Eulogy I did not Give by Bob Hicok, from the New Yorker
If I had money to invest, I'd invest in the past
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If I had money to invest, I'd invest in the past
Re the Rooney row: How would someone donate money to Palestine Action if they wanted to?
August 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Re the Rooney row: How would someone donate money to Palestine Action if they wanted to?
