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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10h

I stalled on this for decades. I'd been a bit perturbed by part of a reading on Jackanory about the Shadow but bought it because the doublet and hosey cover suggested something Narniaish. Literally began again last week. Near end now and worry we won't hit the Immanent Grove imminently. Good stuff.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 3d

Crackerjack Councilor speaks out!

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 3d

A writer writes. Absolutely not about the process of getting a film made.
Garth Marenghi: I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

DALGLISH: How much is dirt and how much is gold?

DILLON: You don't know until you finish the process. That's the gamble.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

Reader, I laughed. Many times.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh, new Partridge. Brain butterflies away... I always like a Partridge where you get to imagine the editorial process- eg. Knowing Knowing Knowing Me with Alan Partridge (the unjustly forgotten radio behind the scenes doc).

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

A vague hint of missing Avengers season 1 episodes still being out there means I'm now regrettably forced to drink wine to ensure a good night's sleep. My life...

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

Oh oh oh. I so fondly remember the evening he got to see the other Tunnel of Fear! A lechier Steed than fan memory recalled, a plot less worked through than Dorney imagined.
I'd love the proper version of one of my two reinventions to turn up. I suspect Dragonsfield might've been particularly good.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

Listening to an audiobook where English people are saying Xavier as Exavier rather than Zavier. This is however a Xavier who speaks with a US accent so there's possible wriggle room as we go on. He may have persuaded people to address him as an Xavier instead of a Zavier.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

"I've discharged!"

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

#RunBore 15km run. I am knackered. Top running list banger was this one (for cool down period with mild euphoria) indie cinema's top ice cream van chime anthem since Badlands. youtu.be/7BWoQJbPkwQ?...

Vier Stücke für Xylophon: Gassenhauer nach Hans Neusiedler

YouTube video by Karl Peinkofer Percussion Ensemble - Topic

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

A Woman of No Importance the proto Talking Heads monologue Routledge stars in is so very very good and probably what made Wood want to bagsy her. She watched a lot of telly.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

Aw, sad to see. I think I read in the Victoria Wood biography that Routledge checked with Alan Bennett if he was OK with her doing Kitty, though ironically this line is pretty much his later Talking Head for Routledge (Irene in A Lady of Letters) in miniature.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 5d

'I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard.' RIP Patricia 'Kitty' Routledge.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 6d

And if I'd read the link first I could have avoided being coy...

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 6d

There's an illuminating episode in the book from the days Cryer lived in rooms in the same house as Douglas Camfield and Angus Lennie. I asked him about Camfield once. I wouldn't have done if I'd any idea there was a story there he would've been uneasy anecdotalising.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

Had a roaring and howling time in the audience for Consumed at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social tonight. So close I could smell the potatoes. Very funny, very moving. See it if you can on tour. painesplough.com/productions/...

The view from my seat, very handy for the cooker.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 8d

I really hope Blair introducing Digital ID cards for Palestinians will do the trick.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

"I so vividly remember seeing Starman and the playful homoerotic charge between Ronson and Bowie (because it didn't getted wiped and you just showed me the clip)..."

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

Really enjoying the all OB VT episodes of Z-Cars just now. Small casts, events unravelling in something approaching real time, washed out white skies. Another era.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

"So versatile, lovely, lively performer, and of course she was absolutely..." *programme dialogue, hollow, clunking rosteum sounds, incidental music* "...such a happy crew, I think that's secret. We all got on with each other."

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

Our brains are so capacious we'd hear an original thought echo.

Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · 9d

Helmed. Edwardian Roadster. Shock of curly hair. Dressed in vaguely bohemian garb. Oddball. Workmanlike.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9d

Words And Phrases Only Ever Used By Doctor Who Fans: Emblazoned, Pleasant Open Face, 'Wiped', Black-Clad, Saturnine Countenance, Telerecording, Telesnaps, The Villainous Paul Merrony, Smarmy Emilius, TV's Mr. Pastry, BBC Top Brass, Jon Pertwee's Old Sparring Partner.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoying The Newsreader but in a sane world we'd be in season umpteen of The Hour by now charting the move from Not Quite Nationwide to Not Quite Sixty Minutes in about the same period.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

Why not entertain *your* significant other by performing The Jeweller as popularised by This Mortal Coil in the manner of Jake Thackray? Strong reaction guaranteed.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

Nation's Tony Hancock stand-in Grisby is a rather charming creation.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10d

Geography's Olivia Colman.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10d

I imagine Ironbridge and Blist Hill would side with their West Midlands big brother, but if it's wide shots with strategic tram passes that are required they're in trouble.

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