Tony Hannan
@tonehannan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, half-owner of Scratching Shed Publishing empire. Books, fillums, music etc. Live and let live. Attended same school as Mr Blobby
That time Nancy Pelosi almost signed to play rugby league for Warrington
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
That time Nancy Pelosi almost signed to play rugby league for Warrington
Time to read this again. How I love this book. One of the absolute greats
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Time to read this again. How I love this book. One of the absolute greats
I, Tonya
My favourite movie with my name in?
Dave The Jackal.
Dave The Jackal.
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I, Tonya
‘This place is beginning to smell like an owl’s foot’
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
‘This place is beginning to smell like an owl’s foot’
He is, and always has been, a faithful
Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
He is, and always has been, a faithful
Folk who think sport is just people messing around with bats and balls are like folk who think music is just people making noises
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Folk who think sport is just people messing around with bats and balls are like folk who think music is just people making noises
Love this film. High recommend 💣
Attention Powell & Pressburger fans. On @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow 1.05pm.
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Love this film. High recommend 💣
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Wrote this the other month about The White Bus davehaslam.substack.com/p/shelagh-de...
October 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Wrote this the other month about The White Bus davehaslam.substack.com/p/shelagh-de...
The White Bus, a short film written by Shelagh Delaney & directed by Lindsay Anderson, has just come on Amazon Prime, should you be interested
October 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The White Bus, a short film written by Shelagh Delaney & directed by Lindsay Anderson, has just come on Amazon Prime, should you be interested
If you are interested in the history of sport, class and British culture, this little @itvx.com documentary may be an eye opener. Rugby has never just been about throwing a ball around www.itv.com/news/border/...
www.itv.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
If you are interested in the history of sport, class and British culture, this little @itvx.com documentary may be an eye opener. Rugby has never just been about throwing a ball around www.itv.com/news/border/...
How had I never heard of this book by Frankenstein’s grandad? It’s terrific - absolute page turner. Any film directors out there? Get on it
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
How had I never heard of this book by Frankenstein’s grandad? It’s terrific - absolute page turner. Any film directors out there? Get on it
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Rock on, Tommy! Launch day for 'This Is Me', Tommy Cannon's memoir, at Blackpool Waterstones. Ask for a copy in your nearest Waterstone's and they might stock a few too! #RockOnTommy #Cannon&Ball
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Rock on, Tommy! Launch day for 'This Is Me', Tommy Cannon's memoir, at Blackpool Waterstones. Ask for a copy in your nearest Waterstone's and they might stock a few too! #RockOnTommy #Cannon&Ball
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Telling Hollywood like it was! #DickVanDyke stars in THE COMIC (1969) at 9:55pm #TPTVsubtitles
Co-starring #MicheleLee #MickeyRooney in this comedy-drama.
Co-starring #MicheleLee #MickeyRooney in this comedy-drama.
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Telling Hollywood like it was! #DickVanDyke stars in THE COMIC (1969) at 9:55pm #TPTVsubtitles
Co-starring #MicheleLee #MickeyRooney in this comedy-drama.
Co-starring #MicheleLee #MickeyRooney in this comedy-drama.
STEVE NALLON’S GHOST STORIES – now in Waterstones shop window – is a darkly humorous collection of tales with modern takes on classic supernatural story traditions. Haunted houses, enchanted mirrors, spooky graveyards… as the nights grow longer, why not share them with a fiend? #Halloween
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
STEVE NALLON’S GHOST STORIES – now in Waterstones shop window – is a darkly humorous collection of tales with modern takes on classic supernatural story traditions. Haunted houses, enchanted mirrors, spooky graveyards… as the nights grow longer, why not share them with a fiend? #Halloween
This means nothing to me
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This means nothing to me
Absolutely love Old Grey Whistle Test repeats this time of a Sunday, especially after half a bottle of red. Whispering Bob introducing Emmylou tonight #mellow
October 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Absolutely love Old Grey Whistle Test repeats this time of a Sunday, especially after half a bottle of red. Whispering Bob introducing Emmylou tonight #mellow
Hawk just tore past with a bird in its claws. Quite the sight. Too fast for my phone camera. Wild, fierce and not bothered about anybody, as someone from Barnsley once said (not Dickie Bird)
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hawk just tore past with a bird in its claws. Quite the sight. Too fast for my phone camera. Wild, fierce and not bothered about anybody, as someone from Barnsley once said (not Dickie Bird)
I am now so old I no longer have any idea whether this actually means something or not
October 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am now so old I no longer have any idea whether this actually means something or not
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Richard Hines, hawk-keeping brother of Barry, directly inspired 'A Kestrel for a Knave', adapted for film by Ken Loach as 'Kes'. 'The Place That Knows Me' is a touching memoir of the family's South Yorkshire roots – roots that seem set to be pulled up www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/products-pag...
October 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Richard Hines, hawk-keeping brother of Barry, directly inspired 'A Kestrel for a Knave', adapted for film by Ken Loach as 'Kes'. 'The Place That Knows Me' is a touching memoir of the family's South Yorkshire roots – roots that seem set to be pulled up www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/products-pag...
This is really quite something - a magnificently odd watch. You don’t have to have haunted second hand bookshops in the 1970s, but it helps
This film takes us deeper into its world of disreputable book scouts.
We meet - still alive and thoroughly respectable - Michael Moorcock and Alan Moore.
Then there's David Seabrook (dead), Michael Stone (dead) and Driffield (disappeared, though see the recent court case).
We meet - still alive and thoroughly respectable - Michael Moorcock and Alan Moore.
Then there's David Seabrook (dead), Michael Stone (dead) and Driffield (disappeared, though see the recent court case).
The Cardinal and The Corpse: Deeper into Iain Sinclair's world
Reminiscing about a lost Stamford bookshop , I mentioned Iain Sinclair's novel White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings. This film takes us deep...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is really quite something - a magnificently odd watch. You don’t have to have haunted second hand bookshops in the 1970s, but it helps
New Alan Bennett diaries in-coming early next year - praise be to heaven, Booths’ supermarkets (where he does his shopping), mam, dad etc www.waterstones.com/book/enough-...
Enough Said by Alan Bennett | Waterstones
Buy Enough Said by Alan Bennett from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New Alan Bennett diaries in-coming early next year - praise be to heaven, Booths’ supermarkets (where he does his shopping), mam, dad etc www.waterstones.com/book/enough-...
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I’m past the point of caring if older films and music “hold up” or not. I love it when art is a perfect product of its time.
September 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I’m past the point of caring if older films and music “hold up” or not. I love it when art is a perfect product of its time.
Three favourite Banksys
September 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Three favourite Banksys
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I deplore your taste in 19th century French artists, but I do so more in Seurat than in Ingres.
September 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I deplore your taste in 19th century French artists, but I do so more in Seurat than in Ingres.
‘Tolkien and Lewis moved their pint glasses from the Eagle and Child to the Lamb and Flag when the landlady installed a dartboard – you can imagine their reaction to today’s modernising horrors…’
www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/opening...
www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/opening...
Opening time for Tolkien and CS Lewis - Harry Mount on the reopening of the Inklings' Oxford pubs - The Oldie
Opening time for Tolkien and CS Lewis - Harry Mount on the reopening of the Inklings' Oxford pubs. CS Lewis became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, a century ago.
www.theoldie.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
‘Tolkien and Lewis moved their pint glasses from the Eagle and Child to the Lamb and Flag when the landlady installed a dartboard – you can imagine their reaction to today’s modernising horrors…’
www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/opening...
www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/opening...