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The new #Blakes7 blu-ray collection is a thing of beauty 😍 Dive even deeper into the making of that second series in the Blake's 7 Production Diary Series B. 318 pages of day-by-day rare untold insight and unseen photos. Grab 15% off this week with code CUSTOMBOOKS15. Available now from cultedge.art
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The new #Blakes7 blu-ray collection is a thing of beauty 😍 Dive even deeper into the making of that second series in the Blake's 7 Production Diary Series B. 318 pages of day-by-day rare untold insight and unseen photos. Grab 15% off this week with code CUSTOMBOOKS15. Available now from cultedge.art
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Opening on this day in 1971, Birmingham's Pebble Mill studios was officially inaugurated by Princess Anne. artandhue.com/studios
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Opening on this day in 1971, Birmingham's Pebble Mill studios was officially inaugurated by Princess Anne. artandhue.com/studios
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inspired by this, I have done a free extract of this section of the book here. it is about understanding that *with all its problems* the BBC is as important for our intellectual health as the NHS is for our physical health:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
inspired by this, I have done a free extract of this section of the book here. it is about understanding that *with all its problems* the BBC is as important for our intellectual health as the NHS is for our physical health:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
This. No kidding. Just this, 100%.
Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This. No kidding. Just this, 100%.
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“Now it says here that you’re interested in the vacant position of Director General of the BBC?”
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“Now it says here that you’re interested in the vacant position of Director General of the BBC?”
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🎧 Did you catch our special anniversary broadcast on BBC Radio 4?
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Jodrell Bank at 80
Brilliant stories told using archive from the BBC and beyond
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎧 Did you catch our special anniversary broadcast on BBC Radio 4?
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
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Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.
Just caught this live, and was transfixed throughout - not least by the breathtaking closing piece from @hannahpeel.bsky.social. Thanks to all involved. #somethinginmyeye
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This was a great listen on the history of Jodrell Bank and the composition of a classical piece to commemorate it.
This was a great listen on the history of Jodrell Bank and the composition of a classical piece to commemorate it.
Archive on 4 - Jodrell Bank at 80 - BBC Sounds
Brilliant stories told using archive from the BBC and beyond
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Just caught this live, and was transfixed throughout - not least by the breathtaking closing piece from @hannahpeel.bsky.social. Thanks to all involved. #somethinginmyeye
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Quite a headline.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Quite a headline.
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
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This offer is expires on Friday at midnight. With the new blu ray collection released on Monday, the #Blakes7 Series B Production Diary is the perfect viewing companion, and this week you can claim 10% off with the code WRITER10. Available from cultedge.art
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This offer is expires on Friday at midnight. With the new blu ray collection released on Monday, the #Blakes7 Series B Production Diary is the perfect viewing companion, and this week you can claim 10% off with the code WRITER10. Available from cultedge.art
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Completely missed the news that Peter Watkins died on October 30th. For all of his insightful and incredible work, for me, it's CULLODEN that *truly* astonishes, nothing in my life will *ever* beat that first viewing, my brain melted, my jaw needing picking up from the floor.
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Completely missed the news that Peter Watkins died on October 30th. For all of his insightful and incredible work, for me, it's CULLODEN that *truly* astonishes, nothing in my life will *ever* beat that first viewing, my brain melted, my jaw needing picking up from the floor.
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The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
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My client meeting today is running late so I filled the time by farting out a new wallpaper for my phone. Here’s the pic if you want it. #Blakes7
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My client meeting today is running late so I filled the time by farting out a new wallpaper for my phone. Here’s the pic if you want it. #Blakes7
Okay. Now this is something I can get genuinely excited about. 🥰
⚡️New animation announcement⚡️
OBSOLETE episode 1 releases November 23rd.
Stay tuned for more updates.
OBSOLETE episode 1 releases November 23rd.
Stay tuned for more updates.
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Okay. Now this is something I can get genuinely excited about. 🥰
Don’t know about you, but I did *not* have Will Ferrell & Rami Malek on my bingo card for this year’s Shada rehash.
I regret to inform you Evil Annie has been at it again.
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Don’t know about you, but I did *not* have Will Ferrell & Rami Malek on my bingo card for this year’s Shada rehash.
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This is very surreal.
It beats the moment some obsessive helped Jon Kay find the BBC Breakfast Time sofa of 1983. 😂
It beats the moment some obsessive helped Jon Kay find the BBC Breakfast Time sofa of 1983. 😂
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is very surreal.
It beats the moment some obsessive helped Jon Kay find the BBC Breakfast Time sofa of 1983. 😂
It beats the moment some obsessive helped Jon Kay find the BBC Breakfast Time sofa of 1983. 😂
And you can relive this splendid occasion - albeit minus the actual programmes - from the comfort of your own phone, right here.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
And you can relive this splendid occasion - albeit minus the actual programmes - from the comfort of your own phone, right here.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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BBCFOUR tonight (and onwards) is showing the original series Edge of Darkness - please book your seat now.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
BBCFOUR tonight (and onwards) is showing the original series Edge of Darkness - please book your seat now.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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<Salutes> Absolutely, beautifully, perfectly right.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
<Salutes> Absolutely, beautifully, perfectly right.
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Looking at you, UK government...
In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌
They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law.
Other governments should do the same!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law.
Other governments should do the same!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
October 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Looking at you, UK government...
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#DoctorWho The Leisure Hive, in TC3, 18th April 1980. Look at Tom Yardley-Jones' amazing composite set! The main hall, corridors, board room, lab, Brock's cabin, and the planet exterior, all linked in lovely white corrugated plastic. A new start! #CGSets
December 27, 2024 at 3:43 PM
#DoctorWho The Leisure Hive, in TC3, 18th April 1980. Look at Tom Yardley-Jones' amazing composite set! The main hall, corridors, board room, lab, Brock's cabin, and the planet exterior, all linked in lovely white corrugated plastic. A new start! #CGSets
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Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
October 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.