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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 1d

John Masefield, poet laureate and author of The Box of Delights, was alive at the time of the gunfight at the OK Corral. He could have seen Carry On Cowboy and Doctor Who and the Gunfighters.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a terrific first episode. That story gets a lot of stick (too much in my opinion), but that’s as fine a Part One as any of the best Tom Baker serials.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 7d

In the garden today: it’s October, but the gorgeous honeyed fragrance of sweet alyssum is still filling the patio with perfume. The scent was once believed to cure mental anguish: the name ‘alyssum’ comes from the Greek, literally meaning ‘free of madness’. Would that we were.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 8d

In the garden today: Snapdragons basking in September’s final sunset.

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 11d

Well, that was a complete and utter joy. So much so that we’re doing it all again tomorrow in Exeter.

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 12d

I am so thrilled to be interviewing Miriam Margolyes live on stage at the Hall for Cornwall today. What a gorgeous venue! #TheLittleBookOfMiriam

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 13d

Thinking of you and sending all good wishes, Paul.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 13d

‘Watched Attack of the Cybermen.’

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 14d

I didn’t understand a word of this until I imagined Peter Davison’s Doctor breathlessly rattling it out at high speed while simultaneously trying to defuse a bomb, and then it made total sense.

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 15d

'Superresolution microscopy has revealed a nanoscale rearrangement of NK cell receptors at the cell surface upon cellular activation. An emerging idea is that the activation and inhibition of immune cells is influenced by the nanoscale proximities of receptor clusters'
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nanoscale restructuring of the immune synapse with an engager enhances NK cell function | PNAS

Engagers are antibody-based therapies which bind immune cell receptors and a target cell ligand. Next-gen engagers typically bind two activating re...

www.pnas.org

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 14d

The Impoverished Planet Whose Downtrodden Inhabitants Are Being Ruthlessly Exploited By A Slimy Little Alien Who Trundles About In A Life-Support Machine trilogy:
The Curse of Peladon
The Sun Makers
Vengeance on Varos

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 15d

The Triumvirate In Charge Of An Ancient Stranded Spaceship That They’ve Forgotten How To Pilot trilogy:
Full Circle
State of Decay
Ghost Light

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 27d

Plymouth Theatre Royal has a basement space called The Lab - not sure of the hire arrangements, but it might be worth a look… theatreroyal.com

Theatre Royal Plymouth

We are the largest and best-attended regional producing theatre in the UK. Watch, take part and experience.

theatreroyal.com

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 27d

Exeter Phoenix is a great venue with several spaces available to hire, and it’s a minute’s walk from Exeter Central station. exeterphoenix.org.uk

Exeter Phoenix | Exeter's city centre multi-arts venue

Exeter Phoenix is a vibrant arts venue in the heart of Exeter. We are home to gigs, theatre, galleries, cinema, comedy, workshops and more.

exeterphoenix.org.uk

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 29d

Prince Felix Yusupov, ringleader of the group of Russian aristocrats who assassinated Rasputin in 1916, could have heard The Laughing Gnome and watched The Tomb of the Cybermen.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 29d

Wallis Simpson could have heard The Chicken Song from Spitting Image.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 29d

Sadly, I don’t recall ever coming across any feedback from Señor Dalí. He was in the audience for Bowie’s big opening night at Radio City Music Hall on Valentine’s Day 1973, along with Bette Midler, Allen Ginsberg and Andy Warhol. That must have been quite an afterparty.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 29d

I think we have a winner!

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 29d

Salvador Dalí could have seen Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, A Fish Called Wanda or The Happiness Patrol. (And he did see the Aladdin Sane tour.)

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29d

a thing I have just discovered that feels utterly wrong is that Arthur Miller only died in 2005. he could have seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. he could have seen Donnie Darko!

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

A couple of years ago, the actor Brian Cox recalled in his autobiography that back in the 1960s, he had worked on a TV drama with the teenage David Bowie. This was news to me, so I decided to investigate. It took a while, but here’s what I found out.

gutsofabeggar.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/l...

Logan Roy and the Brixton Boy: the curious case of Brian Cox and David Bowie

Every so often in the well-ploughed furrows of academia, an unexpected discovery will come to light. A game-changing revelation that upsets the applecart, moves the goalposts, and rewrites the text…

gutsofabeggar.wordpress.com

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · Sep 7

This sounds terrific.

Matthew Waterhouse @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm delighted to say that I have chosen and will be introducing three episodes of a forgotten 1970s TV masterpiece at this year's Hastings TV Festival at the Electric Palace cinema in the old town on Thursday 9th October, one in the morning and two in the evening.

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today's painting from my Brave New Worlds exhibition:

DUNE (2021, 2024, 2026)

(acrylic on oil paper)

To take a closer look (or to buy the original painting) follow this link:

barnabyedwards.co.uk/brave-new-wo...

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · Sep 5

And of course, unless the Master came up with the nickname himself, an ancient invader of Xeriphas was familiar with the properties of the ‘kamelion’ before it had even evolved on Earth.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Another lovely piece, thank you! Remarkable how many alien races appear to be familiar with Earth’s humble chameleon, naming either themselves or their tech after it. The Axons don’t quite know what a frog is, but happily describe their gift of Axonite as ‘the chameleon of the elements’.

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Alex Storer @thelightdreams.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today's exciting delivery: a few postcard prints of gorgeous classic science fiction film artwork by the brilliant @barnabyedwards.bsky.social - taken from his new exhibition, 'Brave New Worlds' at the Exeter Picturehouse.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · Sep 3

I knew I recognised them from somewhere.

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