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Ian Greaves

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Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 19d

My latest blog for @cstonline.bsky.social , rounding up what has gone on behind the scenes over the past six months in our efforts to rescue BBC Written Archives Centre from recent policy changes. cstonline.net/is-the-bbc-a...

Defending the WAC: Is the BBC a fit and proper keeper of its own paper archive? Ian Greaves on Defending the Written Archives Centre (Part 1)

When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the Board of Management on 17 November 1969, it was done so with a view to history. Kenneth Lamb…

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 16h

"Special Event"? I should coco. You can buy tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

The Wire magazine listing for Barbican screening of Derek Bailey & Jeremy Marre's On the Edge: Improvisation in Music (1992)

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18h

I was at a folk festival at the weekend and can confirm this is an accepted view!

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18h

I think Kershaw said that initially. They've fallen into formula over the past few albums but I'm glad they exist.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18h

Oh god she did a lentils joke about the Liberals.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 20h

I love that he turned down doing Churchill's People. That's enough cultural whiplash for one man.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 21h

Fully Branaghed up at the RSC next year. But my word, Public Sale is a miserable process.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 22h

"Ain't Hurtin' Nobody" was my first. One of the great ironists. All the Prine records are worth having, but then, I think Dylan's Christmas in the Heart is also essential.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 22h

When I was writing the new book - because tbh, the 80s was a hard decade for me at times - I kept coming back to the inescapable truth that what kept me going was: books, TV, comedy, radio, films sometimes, but above all music. That stuff's not frippery, it's how you become the person you are.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 1d

How can a bath towel bought eight years ago still be malting? "Egyptian cotton", my bollocks. Indeed, they're both covered in the stuff.

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think of RTD, he knows television and knows the warning flares need to be sent up. Television and journalism need to start questioning and pushing back. Pushing back hard.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 1d

Further afield in Walthamstow and Finsbury Park should see you right.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 1d

Bacon rolls in Enjoy are the best. High Cross very good for food, as is the Antwerp Arms over at Bruce Castle Park. Elmhurst has recently (re)opened. Chick King by the stadium is an institution.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of sucking of teeth and shaking of head when I told people I was moving here in 2014, but it's been absolutely fine. You'll find Beehive welcoming and the Elbow Room has pride colours in the window as of June (possibly in recognition of me living there).

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Tottenham.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who travels around the uk a lot, I want Jenrick to know there are so many places that are ONLY white faces, he needs to go and tell them to integrate.

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Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 2d

I present the full exchange

Him - Ah well.
Twat when you are.
READY!!
WTF?!

Me - Ha ha ha ha ha
Just having a quick wee
Then I will be twat

Him - Hahaha

Me - TWAT WHEN YOU ARE

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 2d

The same was true on Radio 2. A while ago I had to listen to an old Jonathan Miller interview for research. It was quite obvious the Dr thought it was beneath him, but Norton was welcoming, open, intelligent and adaptable in tone. And it paid off. A brilliant rescue.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 2d

And to be played by Timothee Chalamet, in a sketch that never made it beyond table read. I for one would like to have seen a flood of interest in Fushitsusha.

Liz Bustamante @liznoise.bsky.social · 8d

Sarah Sherman referenced Keiji Haino!!! Amazing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5S...

Sarah Sherman Wanted Timothée Chalamet to Play Her Like an Instrument in a Cut SNL Sketch

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 3d

It's been years since I attended a proper late sing but these were transcendentally good. Good friends, good beer and an extraordinary, cathartic communal feeling that can only exist at HFF. A shame they will have to uproot for Durham next year but a pleasure to experience its 10th year at Headland.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 3d

What a blast, and that's not a reference to Storm Amy. Had a brilliant weekend at Hartlepool Folk Festival repping my Penda's Fen and Ivor Cutler books, but there was so much else besides. The taxi firm now automatically assumes I am in The Fisherman's Arms, and that's not far from the truth.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 5d

What a time to be alive

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 5d

This is really interesting, and again points out the real obstacles that the new WAC restrictions will bring. Also, worth noting that there's an episode of Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan on BBC4 this Sunday (5th Oct) just before midnight.

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 5d

Dipali's blog for CST, published today, highlights the impact of new restrictions at WAC on current studies.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 5d

One I've already got! How annoying.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 5d

Dipali's blog for CST, published today, highlights the impact of new restrictions at WAC on current studies.

cstonline.net/defending-th...

DEFENDING THE WAC: Exploring Indian Cinema broadcast on British Analogue Television at the BBC Written Archives Centre by Dipali Das

In August 2022, I secured a slot at the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) in Caversham to look at the archives for Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan (BBC1, 1968-1982). This was a groundbreaking programme…

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to be chipping in at Hartlepool Folk Festival this weekend, assuming Storm Amy doesn't blow me off course. It's their 10th year and my 1st. Join me on Saturday for a Penda's Fen screening and Q&A, and on Sunday for Ivor Cutler: This and That. Books for sale! www.hartlepoolfolkfest.co.uk

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 5d

“…& all the world is mind.” Virginia Woolf wrote this passage about the expansive interconnectedness of reading (in her diary) when she was 21 years old. Extraordinary.

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