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Ken Bentley
@kenbentley.bsky.social
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Freelance writer and director
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Represented by Julia Wyatt at Berlin Associates
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We dialled it up to eleven for this one. Total audio. A beautiful script, brilliantly played, with a frankly jaw-dropping sound design and score by @jamiecomposer.bsky.social. Episode one is out now. Give your ears a treat. www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/s...
Harriet Kershaw in Sherlock Holmes Untold Christopher Naylor in Sherlock Holmes Untold Aurora Dawson-Hunt in Sherlock Holmes Untold John Banks in Sherlock Holmes Untold
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Screen grab from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More with Feeling Screen grab from Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rapsody
September 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I could quite happily watch an entire animated series of Murderbot in the style of the title sequence, by Elastic.
A still from the animated title sequence for Murderbot.
July 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Starmer with a finger cursor up his nose.
May 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Best I can do, sorry.
A Jack Russell curled up asleep on some blankets.
March 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I have lined my desk drawer with felt and I’m now about as happy as it’s possible to be.
A desk drawer lined with grey felt.
March 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to the memes.
JD Vance in Greenland.
March 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Posted a moment too soon... I've just been sent the artwork. Mark Plastow’s done a terrific job of capturing the tone of the play.
A red telephone box against a backdrop of the northern lights.
March 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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You have to question their intelligence at Apple when, during a time of massive unemployment in the creative industries, they think we can all afford to buy an iPhone for Mother's Day. (For any day come to that.)
An inappropriate marketing email from Apple trying to convince buyers to spend a small fortune during a time of global economic crisis.
March 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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#Research
Nigel Green in The Ipcress File.
March 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The control room in a recording studio.
February 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Moved house recently and today is the first remote recording from my new digs. Still no broadband so I’m using 4G. 😬
A small desk with a laptop, two tablets and a studio microphone.
February 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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THERE’S A NEW SERIES ON APPLE TV+ WITH SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN AND THAT’S WHY I CAN’T STOP SHOUTING!!!
Ali Suliman and Sidse Babett Knudsen in Prime Target.
January 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Last recording for January in the bag.
Me, sitting at a table making notes on a script in the recording studio at The Soundhouse, London.
January 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I see everybody's posting their new year's resolutions or their inspiration for the year ahead, so I thought I'd post mine...
A handwritten note that reads "pills before gin please!"
January 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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And for day 25 of my #MovieAdventCalendar I give you... Let The Right One In (2008), because it has snow in it which makes it a Christmas film. Happy holidays to you all. 🎄
Close up of Lina Leandersson with spots of blood on her face.
December 25, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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I'm going to wrap up my #MovieAdventCalendar with a couple more European films that have a permanent place in my memory bank. For day 24... [Rec] (2007). Bravura film-making.
The emergency services quarantine an apartment building, sealing the exits shut with polythene.
December 24, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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For fans of films about time travel, my #MovieAdventCalendar day 23 is... Timecrimes (2007).
A figure stands in the woods wearing a dark overcoat, their head wrapped in bandages and covered in blood.
December 23, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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#MovieAdventCalendar day 22... Tremors (1990). It really is perfection.
Kevin Bacon wakes Fred Ward from a deep sleep in the back of a pick-up truck.
December 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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#MovieAdventCalendar day 21... Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). A major influence on my enduring love for science fiction, and the film that made me start to pay attention to the craft skills behind the making of science fiction.
Melinda Dillon and Cary Guffey crouch in the middle of the road as a UFO flies overhead.
December 21, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Okay film fans, the final stretch... #MovieAdventCalendar day 20 is... Brief Encounter (1945). There's a close up when Celia Johnson zones out while another train passenger is wittering on and it's one of the most perfect shots ever filmed.
Celia Johnson with her eyes closed on a train in Brief Encounter.
December 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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#MovieAdventCalendar day 19... further evidence that 1974 might just be the best year ever for film releases... The Conversation (1974).
Gene Hackman on the phone in a call box with red neon lights reflected in the glass.
December 19, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Talking of powerful endings... #MovieAdventCalendar day 18... The Wall (2012).
Martina Gedeck presses her hands against an invisible wall and screams.
December 18, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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#MovieAdventCalendar day 17... The Vanishing (1988). This is one of the most terrifying films I've ever seen. Nobody does endings like the Europeans do endings.
Johanna ter Steege waves happily from the forecourt of a service station.
December 17, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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An absolute banger for day 16 of my #MovieAdventCalendar... Hard Rain (1998).
Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman up to their necks in hard rain, in the film Hard Rain.
December 16, 2024 at 2:27 PM