Andrew Smith
@andr3wsmith.bsky.social
Writer (Big Finish, 80s TV 📺 inc Doctor Who, Not the Nine, A Kick Up the 80s, radio comedy and drama.) and retired Blue Guard.
And I run a bit. 🏃♂️
And I run a bit. 🏃♂️
The Holmwood Foundation is a wonderful horror audio drama series from Big Finish writers @fiotrethewey.bsky.social and @georgiacooked.bsky.social. And you can back its second season. 😁
www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two
Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!
www.kickstarter.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The Holmwood Foundation is a wonderful horror audio drama series from Big Finish writers @fiotrethewey.bsky.social and @georgiacooked.bsky.social. And you can back its second season. 😁
www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
Vision Express is missing a trick by not using Troilus and Cressida in their advertising…
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Vision Express is missing a trick by not using Troilus and Cressida in their advertising…
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Strikingly brutal from the outset. Then Liberator’s crew taunting the captured Shrinker— when Tarrant defends it (“He's an animal, Cally”) Cally’s terse reply: “Yes, and it's contagious, isn't it?”
@andr3wsmith.bsky.social’s prequel was satisfyingly gruesome.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/h...
@andr3wsmith.bsky.social’s prequel was satisfyingly gruesome.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/h...
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Strikingly brutal from the outset. Then Liberator’s crew taunting the captured Shrinker— when Tarrant defends it (“He's an animal, Cally”) Cally’s terse reply: “Yes, and it's contagious, isn't it?”
@andr3wsmith.bsky.social’s prequel was satisfyingly gruesome.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/h...
@andr3wsmith.bsky.social’s prequel was satisfyingly gruesome.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/h...
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Pleased to see this series is continuing. @andr3wsmith.bsky.social and the rest of the team have done an absolutely stellar job of taking the best of what was originally in the series and making it one of the most compelling non Doctor Who series that @bigfinish.bsky.social produces.
STAR COPS cover reveal and story news. ✨👮 Click https://bgfn.sh/sc5news to open the forthcoming case files for the International Space Police Force... beginning January 2026.
October 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Pleased to see this series is continuing. @andr3wsmith.bsky.social and the rest of the team have done an absolutely stellar job of taking the best of what was originally in the series and making it one of the most compelling non Doctor Who series that @bigfinish.bsky.social produces.
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So sorry to learn that CHB has departed, @andr3wsmith.bsky.social. Like you, he responded so kindly and thoughtfully to tweets years ago expressing gratitude for the seeds sown in an 8yo mind by Season 18. Your mutual admiration and affection were evident in interviews and DVD extras. Condolences.
August 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So sorry to learn that CHB has departed, @andr3wsmith.bsky.social. Like you, he responded so kindly and thoughtfully to tweets years ago expressing gratitude for the seeds sown in an 8yo mind by Season 18. Your mutual admiration and affection were evident in interviews and DVD extras. Condolences.
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Raising a glass to Christopher H Bidmead, who brought big ideas and magic moments to Doctor Who, and commissioned writers like Christopher Bailey, @andr3wsmith.bsky.social and @stephengallagher.co.uk. A playfully cantankerous persona never quite masked a deep intelligence and a kind, generous soul.
August 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Raising a glass to Christopher H Bidmead, who brought big ideas and magic moments to Doctor Who, and commissioned writers like Christopher Bailey, @andr3wsmith.bsky.social and @stephengallagher.co.uk. A playfully cantankerous persona never quite masked a deep intelligence and a kind, generous soul.
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AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual.
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
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August 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual.
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
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Sad news. We were big fans of Christopher Hamilton Bidmead and his button down approach to Doctor Who. He even critiqued our Miniscope of him in 2012. A skeptic till the end.
Sunday’s episode has already been recorded, so we’ll properly pay tribute to Mr. Bidmead the week after.
Sunday’s episode has already been recorded, so we’ll properly pay tribute to Mr. Bidmead the week after.
Farewell to Doctor Who script editor Christopher H Bidmead, who died on August 8. He brought a singular creative vision to season 18 and was an entertaining commentor across many DVDs and John Nathan-Turner's biography. See you on the other side (E-Space).
August 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Sad news. We were big fans of Christopher Hamilton Bidmead and his button down approach to Doctor Who. He even critiqued our Miniscope of him in 2012. A skeptic till the end.
Sunday’s episode has already been recorded, so we’ll properly pay tribute to Mr. Bidmead the week after.
Sunday’s episode has already been recorded, so we’ll properly pay tribute to Mr. Bidmead the week after.
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fancy forty-five minutes of impeccable sketch comedy? here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
August 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
fancy forty-five minutes of impeccable sketch comedy? here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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"Ah, the human scum Carter."
"That's *Captain* Human Scum Carter."
Enjoying hearing the wrap up to UNIT: Nemesis in 'True Nemesis' by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social #DoctorWho 🌂
"That's *Captain* Human Scum Carter."
Enjoying hearing the wrap up to UNIT: Nemesis in 'True Nemesis' by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social #DoctorWho 🌂
July 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"Ah, the human scum Carter."
"That's *Captain* Human Scum Carter."
Enjoying hearing the wrap up to UNIT: Nemesis in 'True Nemesis' by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social #DoctorWho 🌂
"That's *Captain* Human Scum Carter."
Enjoying hearing the wrap up to UNIT: Nemesis in 'True Nemesis' by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social #DoctorWho 🌂
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This seems a bit harsh about Paul McGann and @andr3wsmith.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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"The Barbarians and the Samurai" by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social was a great historical that I aboslutely could have imagined in the 60s. And, "The Invention of Death" by @johndorney.bsky.social was an intriguing exploration of a world with no concept of death and the implications thereof.
July 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"The Barbarians and the Samurai" by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social was a great historical that I aboslutely could have imagined in the 60s. And, "The Invention of Death" by @johndorney.bsky.social was an intriguing exploration of a world with no concept of death and the implications thereof.
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One of my strongest beliefs is if they actually put this on Broadway it would absolutely destroy at the award shows and run for 20 years
June 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One of my strongest beliefs is if they actually put this on Broadway it would absolutely destroy at the award shows and run for 20 years
A very very Happy Canada Day to my lovely Canadian friends!
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July 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A very very Happy Canada Day to my lovely Canadian friends!
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June 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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New look for my website & updated CV. Still to do the other pages but realised how much I have done over the last 2 years so a bit of stock taking going on: www.debbiechallis.com
Historian | Debbie Challis | England
DebbieChallis Historian writer museum archives
www.debbiechallis.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New look for my website & updated CV. Still to do the other pages but realised how much I have done over the last 2 years so a bit of stock taking going on: www.debbiechallis.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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If you're a Barnes & Noble Premium & Rewards member, you can get 25% off all preorders (physical and ebook) with the code PREORDER25 - including my next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heist-...
The Heist of Hollow London|Hardcover
In games of betrayal everyone loses.Arlo and Drienne are ‘mades’—clones of company executives, deemed important enough to be saved should their health fail. Mades work around the clo...
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April 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If you're a Barnes & Noble Premium & Rewards member, you can get 25% off all preorders (physical and ebook) with the code PREORDER25 - including my next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heist-...
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#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.
She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
April 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.
She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
This is the 50th anniversary of what 12yo me thought was the most exciting moment ever in #DoctorWho.
On 12/4/75, over the closing titles of ep 6 of Genesis of the Daleks, the announcer said next week’s new adventure was called ‘Revenge of the Cybermen’
Cybermen! After all those years! 🤩🤩🤩
On 12/4/75, over the closing titles of ep 6 of Genesis of the Daleks, the announcer said next week’s new adventure was called ‘Revenge of the Cybermen’
Cybermen! After all those years! 🤩🤩🤩
a man in a suit and tie is smiling and talking
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and talking
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April 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is the 50th anniversary of what 12yo me thought was the most exciting moment ever in #DoctorWho.
On 12/4/75, over the closing titles of ep 6 of Genesis of the Daleks, the announcer said next week’s new adventure was called ‘Revenge of the Cybermen’
Cybermen! After all those years! 🤩🤩🤩
On 12/4/75, over the closing titles of ep 6 of Genesis of the Daleks, the announcer said next week’s new adventure was called ‘Revenge of the Cybermen’
Cybermen! After all those years! 🤩🤩🤩
Getting a warm TinTin vibe. 😁
April 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Getting a warm TinTin vibe. 😁
A game for you: ‘Where’s Andrew?’ 😂
I ran the Berlin Half Marathon on Sunday. This is me at the finishing line in the Tiergarten.
Along with one or two others.
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I ran the Berlin Half Marathon on Sunday. This is me at the finishing line in the Tiergarten.
Along with one or two others.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A game for you: ‘Where’s Andrew?’ 😂
I ran the Berlin Half Marathon on Sunday. This is me at the finishing line in the Tiergarten.
Along with one or two others.
🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🇩🇪
I ran the Berlin Half Marathon on Sunday. This is me at the finishing line in the Tiergarten.
Along with one or two others.
🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🇩🇪
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And finally The Voord Alliance by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social - a nice end to this little arc with the War Doctor and as a big 60s Who fan it's nice to encounter the Voord again, especially being used in a different and interesting way
April 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
And finally The Voord Alliance by @andr3wsmith.bsky.social - a nice end to this little arc with the War Doctor and as a big 60s Who fan it's nice to encounter the Voord again, especially being used in a different and interesting way
Turns out #LastOneLaughingUK is even better second time around 🤣
April 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Turns out #LastOneLaughingUK is even better second time around 🤣