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Si Hart

@sihart.bsky.social

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Librarian at RHS Wisley, Doctor Who fan, sometimes podcaster. Owner of The Library of Impossible Things podcast, part of the Maximum Power and Trap One podcast teams. Adores rabbits, Crowded House, pandas, capybaras, cake and tea. Dislikes cheese. 🏳️‍🌈

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · Nov 23

Why do we all love Doctor Who so much?

Find out in my podcast The Library of Impossible Things where I talk to fans about being a fan and how this wonderful show gets inside your head! So many stories of how important the show is to us all!

The Library of Impossible Things

Podcast · Simon Hart · The Library of Impossible Things is a place where fans of Doctor Who bring an object associated with the show and tell their story of why Doctor Who means so much to them. Homem...

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 11h

I was!

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Ha! 😆

Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 11h

Post you from a different era.

Post Christmas do, 2001. Drunk, happy, just finding the internet and new friends. No beard. The beard was to come. 26 and lots of fun to come and this Si was ready for the drama of 2002.

Me, 26. Blue jacket, light trousers, silver tie. Messy kitchen.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 23h

Coming soon on @thepolisbox.bsky.social or Strictly, this bollox in McCoy's pullover defends the politics of Nation, Haisman and Lincoln, or bitches about wokeness and RTD.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 11h

The Traitors knows the importance of a good cliffhanger!

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Darren @whos-ezra87.bsky.social · 15h

If any of my fellow Whovians are interested or looking for a new adventure to read then I’ve got some of my collection for sale.

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 19h

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ALT: the back of a person wearing a cowboy hat and a white shirt

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you! 😊

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Kippy Woo-ooo-ooo! 🦇🎃👻🧛‍♂️💀🐺🕷 @tygerwhocame2t.bsky.social · 1d

"So she was the time scoop all along!"
#TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors
#DoctorWho

A black triangle in the sky, the time scoop in Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983)

Claudia Winkleman all in black wearing some sort of cape/smock affair in The Celebrity Traitors

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

Both! Before, during and after.

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my word!

Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

I love The Traitors and pleased to find the Celebrity version works just as well.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 1d

For paid subscribers, but with a taste and a link to a free piece and the chance to opt in. Can't say fairer than that.
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The Mind Robber

“It's too bad that all these things can only happen in my dreams. Only in dreams. In beautiful dreams.” In 1990 BBC Video really accelerated their Doctor Who...

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

This one feels a bit more experimental than many CH songs, with its weird intro, changes of tempo and the very strange sleepy atmosphere.
It's very immersive with Neil's voice being our anchor through it all.

Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

This thread proves that I'm probably K9's biggest fan on the Trap One team! 😊

Trap One🎙Podcast @trapone.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate the anniversary of K9’s first appearance, this thread provides links to our loose trilogy of podcasts about the faithful robot dog’s adventures…

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

Well of course they don't want us to understand the world or people because that's how we find them out.

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Trap One🎙Podcast @trapone.bsky.social · 1d

And bringing us up-to-date,
@dhollingsworth.bsky.social, @sihart.bsky.social, @quiteamess.bsky.social & @hannahcooper.bsky.social discuss Smith & Sullivan Reunited

Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/mrxjedkn
Spotify: tinyurl.com/5h8zev5d
Podbean: tinyurl.com/23cmbsuu

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The cover for Smith and Sullivan Reunited

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Trap One🎙Podcast @trapone.bsky.social · 1d

K9 enjoyed more adventures in his own audio annual release in 2022:

Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/yfjcsmp4
Spotify: tinyurl.com/2a32mubx
Podbean: tinyurl.com/4dnuffnr

@sihart.bsky.social, @denisery.bsky.social, @hairofthehound.bsky.social & @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social discuss these tales

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Trap One🎙Podcast @trapone.bsky.social · 1d

In last year’s T1 Christmas special @sihart.bsky.social & @quiteamess.bsky.social guided K9 & Company neophytes @colinneal.bsky.social & @hannahcooper.bsky.social through their first viewing!

tinyurl.com/3pntrrpp
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yjy8thm4
Spotify: tinyurl.com/mr493d9u

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

That's enough about me! 😂

Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday K9!

Me in a black Doves T Shirt and sunglasses holding my remote control K9

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

Learning just because you want to learn, not as the means of getting a career is perfectly acceptable. I loved doing my English Literature degree, it taught me critical thinking, analysis and so much about life. I have no regrets. Those are the things they fear.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 1d

Same for me. That's what they're afraid of.