Monday is the last day to get your agent to submit your details. We've had literally hundreds of applicants so far, including one from an 80-year-old! Please be able to sound convincingly like a teenager: we need good RP for Bond and good (ideally native) Scottish for Wilder.

Monday is the last day to get your agent to submit your details. We've had literally hundreds of applicants so far, including one from an 80-year-old! Please be able to sound convincingly like a teenager: we need good RP for Bond and good (ideally native) Scottish for Wilder.

Just been approached by an online Nepalese film festival asking whether I’d like to submit my paintings for consideration - for a substantial sum, payable by me. I pointed out that they don’t have an Artwork award. They replied that if I paid them, they would create one. Imagine paying for an award!

Really proud to have been a part of this collaboration with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. We gave five wonderful students their first professional job - and a wonderful job they made of it too. I can’t wait for you to hear it.

If you're a young professional actor, get your agent to drop us a line. #YoungBond

Get your codename and sign up for mission briefings at youngbondadventures.com

Young Bond reports for duty at @bigfinish.bsky.social @barnabyedwards.bsky.social @charliehigson.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/02/11/y...

This is what I've been writing and am about to direct. www.radiotimes.com/audio/young-...

It is with immense pride and not a little relief that I can announce what I've been up to for the last countless months. James Bond is back and I've been writing it! youngbondadventures.com

I watched Queer last night. My hopes were not high - I’d found the central relationship in Call Me By Your Name to be devoid of chemistry - but I was blown away by this. Incredible direction, cinematography and music - and performances which were sexy, funny and real. So like the novel. Wonderful.

This looks like one of those free apps that claim to bring old family photos to life and just harvest your data instead. Only worse. Any of us could have shot this scene on our phones in half an hour, in our living rooms and with our neighbours as actors - and it would have been far better.

Imagine making a series about people fighting for freedom, independence and the right not to be exploited - and choosing to use AI owned by billionaires rather than employing actual humans. Aronofsky *chose* to put thousands of creative people out of work. Awful. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

In 2021 I directed the voice cast for an animated movie about cats. It's taken five years to animate, so it's with great joy and not a little surprise, that I see it's about to get a release! youtu.be/54hM5tsS_SA?...

I’m tempted to apply for the post of ‘AI philosopher’. I’ve been spouting vague and unsubstantiated bollocks for years. High time I was paid for it. www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-p...

A truly gorgeous cover for Polygon’s new edition of Frankenstein.

I’ve just done a literary quiz composed by AI. See if you can answer these tricky posers: “What is the name of the whale in Moby-Dick?” “Who is the female lead in Romeo and Juliet?” “What is the first novel in The Hunger Games series?” #AI

A quick heads up for audiobook narrators. Sadly it looks like the world's largest independent audiobook production company, Deyan Audio, is in serious financial difficulty. Think twice before accepting any work from them - I've not been paid yet for a job I did in September last year. #DeyanAudio

Ligging at the British Library for David Bowie in Time. My father Tony Visconti was in conversation with @nicholaspegg.bsky.social. Great to see them both along with @barnabyedwards.bsky.social!

Remember when you could type a query into a search engine and get a result first time? If you’re irritated by Google’s decision to deliberately downgrade its results in order to get more ad revenue, then do try changing your phone’s default search engine. I went with DuckDuckGo. So much better.

‘Son of Frankenstein’ opened in cinemas on this day in 1939. Here’s my pen and ink drawing of Basil Rathbone as the eponymous hero/villain. Follow the link for more: barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...

Another beautiful piece of art that I bought from @barnabyedwards.bsky.social barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/barnaby...

Just seen ‘Weapons’. What a glorious film. If you haven’t seen it, I urge you not to find out anything about it and just watch it. A wonderful, scary romp and a metaphor for Western society. Brilliant.

According to YouGov, 40% of Britons have not read or listened to a book in the past year. Of the remainder, 22% read 1-5 books per year and 4% (me) read more than 50 books. If that's you, please stop doomscrolling and open a book. Let's each recommend a title. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Happy birthday to Nathaniel Curtis! Here’s my portrait of him.

Oh that every month could be like October!

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Has anyone broken it to The Mail that Postman Pat is fictional?

Don’t do interviews for the gutter press, especially not The Telegraph. They’ll either make you say something stupid or, worse, reveal that you are stupid.

One of the most beautiful films I’ve seen. I bawled my eyes out.

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. I shall be working my way through these for the next month or so.

Really looking forward to tonight. We follow the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð, literally 'Christmas book flood'. Rather than watching regrettable repeats on TV, you give each other a book and then settle down with a nice hot chocolate to read them. It's fab! 📚 adventures.is/blog/iceland...

Just seen a ‘Monsters Size Comparison’ video and stopped quite early on when it suggested that a bronze Dalek - famously the same height as Billie Piper - was 6’6”. Presumably all such size comparison videos are done by AI these days and are therefore fact-free drivel.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

I must say I’m loving Wikipedia’s new analysis of classic literature. It’s so helpful. Here’s Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet for people who’ve not read it. Sorry, I meant BY people who’ve not read it.

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

I’ve just found out about Iceland’s terrifying Yule Cat - Jólakötturinn - who looks in through house windows at Christmastime to see whether children have been good enough to be given new clothes as presents. If they haven’t, then the cat rips them to shreds and devours them. Happy Christmas, kids!

Okay. I’m going to stop looking stuff up online. It’s getting too unreliable - AI inventing facts, Wikipedia being Wikipedia, Google deliberately making their search engine worse to get more ad clicks. I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.

It’s a horrible day for news. So here’s something uplifting and precious instead. As we all know, Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday over the weekend - what a man! - but here’s my favourite story about him. 🐬🐬🐬 www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...

Spoilers for War Between the Land and the Sea

Just finished The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. What an astonishing piece of writing. It skewers the entirety of Western civilisation, takes it to its logical conclusion, destroys it and then offers a tiny atom of hope for the future. Perhaps even more relevant now than when it was written.

Is it me or is it the ghastly new #iOS26? When I play any video (there’s a lovely one below), if I accidentally nudge it to the right by so much as a pixel, I lose all power to stop the video or get back to Bluesky. I have to exit the app and then reopen it. Does this happen to you too?

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Nestlē products contain such poor quality ingredients that they can no longer be legally termed ‘chocolate’. The company is claiming it can’t afford to pay the going rate for cocoa and for milk, despite making a profit of $49b last year. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They stole a car, repainted it and passed it off as new. That’s all. There was nothing original or creative about ‘the process’. And - worst of all - they have the gall to demand praise for inventing the petrol engine.

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

And now Linktree is wanting to copy and exploit our content. 🙄 Obviously they can’t own the stuff on the websites you link to, but the new T&Cs mean that any content - embedded videos, photos, music, etc. - that you have on your Linktree profile, they can copy and sell on without paying you.

House of Dracula opened in cinemas on this day in 1945. Here’s my drawing of John Carradine as the eponymous vampire. 🧛🏻‍♂️ barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...

Still, at least everyone who watches the new Harry Potter TV series can feel reassured by the knowledge that every penny the show makes for JKR will be lovingly spent sending legal threats to every organisation on the planet until trans people are banned from existence.

Roofing tiles are an interesting early example of the populace being sold something that does the job less well than its predecessor (thatch), but which its manufacturer can make way more profit on.