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Amy McGrath
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Music Scribe | Editorial Board, The Journal of Beatles Studies | Cultural Historian: Actor Michael Sheen | Production Designer + Digital Artist
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Substack: writehearpopculture.substack.com
Michael Sheen reads The Execution of Richard Lewis by author Sally Roberts Jones. Her book Dic Penderyn: The Man and the Martyr from @ylolfa.bsky.social is the first full bio on Penderyn. Calon Films is currently in production for Iniquity, centering on his life, hanged for a crime he didn't commit.
February 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Rainbow Swash, Boston Gas tank, Dorchester, MA by Sister Corita Kent (1971)
February 1, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Unbe-fucking-levable. Don Lemon. Beyond reprehensible and an affront to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

If you're not pissed now... get pissed.
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Tony and Olivier Award-winner Jonathan Pryce promoting his upcoming Sky crime series Under Salt Marsh gave this nice shout out: "More investment and encouragement" was needed in Welsh theatre. "There are great hopes for Michael Sheen and @welshnattheatre.bsky.social to bring new young actors on."
January 29, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Lest we forget in this timeframe: "The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution."
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Your social + weather forecast from The Newsman:
January 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
"The time, is just before dawn."

@welshnattheatre.bsky.social in a co-production with @rosetheatre2008.bsky.social have released a trailer for the production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Listen to those hearty Welsh voices, with Michael Sheen in the intro.

"Am byth ac am byth."
January 24, 2026 at 2:55 PM
@nathanwpyle.bsky.social has fully described the Good Omens fandom Final Fifiteen, circa 2023.
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
January 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Since we're onboard for Noah Wyle (whom I've met) and #ThePitt, in another life, at the dawn of the internet, I connected with some of the people who were part of the NBC show 'ER' (hello @guynormanbee.bsky.social). Here's yours truly inside Trauma 2 on the Warner Bros. set in April 1998.
January 10, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Yaysville! With everything going on, THIS right here has brought me tears of joy and cheese in my digital headspace. Love to the master groover @robynhitchcock.bsky.social for bringing back Globe of Frogs and looking out for the CD coming thru the mail soon!
January 9, 2026 at 10:17 PM
January 9, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Look at this beauty! Wonderful to see our Number 1 @mchshe.bsky.social and his 'cover girl' shot on the inaugural issue @thestage.co.uk during rehearsals for the upcoming production of Our Town for @welshnattheatre.bsky.social

Llongyfarchiadau!
January 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Happy heavenly birthday to these two icons. 🌟

Illustration mash-up of Bowie/Presley from neopren.tumblr.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
RAYE has the first Number 1 single of 2026 on the UK officialcharts.com with "Where Is My Husband!"

And I'd like to believe it wouldn't have happened without the dramatic and inspired reading from Michael Sheen on the Josh & Kally Capital radio programme back in November 😉
January 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
As a year closer/year opener intro, this is where you'll find my long-form articles on music (mostly on The Beatles), legacy musician interviews, book reviews and the deep dive history of that 'serious' actor from Wales, Michael Sheen.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The beauty of @bandcamp.com playback availability, watching Johnny and June Carter Cash... I mean, @robynhitchcock.bsky.social and @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social harmonizing on a December evening at Tubby's House. Happy holidays, groovers.
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Winter Solstice in Iceland, courtesy of @kyanasue / IG 🌅
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hey, all I'm saying is that the Funko Pop! version of Premium Deku resembles Michael Sheen. Happy holidays and you're welcome.
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A little late to the game(r), yet highly intrigued by what I've gathered from reviews and recommendations. Looks like the holiday reading will be Gabrielle Zevin level good.
December 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Started/going @merriam-webster.com 📖
December 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else has long been forgotten by me. - Walt Whitman
#GoodOmens
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Jay: Tiramisu.
Sam: What is "tiramisu"?
Jay: You'll find out.
Sam: Well, what is it?
Jay: You'll see.
Sam: Some woman is gonna want me to do it to her and I'm not gonna know what it is!
Jay: You'll love it.

Sleepless in Seattle, 1993. You knew what is was even then, Rob Reiner 😘
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
While it's undocumented, Michael (who portrayed Williams in a 2006 BBC Four television play AND Treplev onstage in 1995 at the Theatre Royal Bath & tour), launched into a story that Williams nearly subbed for Burton, but not knowing the lines, panicked, got Burton drunk and shoved him onstage.
December 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In 2013 author Ian Parsons published Swansea's Grand, a history of the theatre, which opened in 1897.

As related in the book, in 1950 the 25-year-old Burton was cast in Chekhov's iconic play as Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev, alongside Williams and character actor Wilfred Brambell.
December 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM