Can hear a local music festival and the current band are repeating cover versions from about an hour ago. I'm now desperate to know if this is an unfortunate coincidence or the first band sabotaged them

Does anyone else constantly get 'Sorry we can't show programmes that you've been watching right now' on iPlayer? I get it at least half the time across multiple devices (this is on Fire TV OS)

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'A complicated legacy.'

Also, #britishlibrarycrimeclassics, republish Lois Austen-Leigh's other book, you cowards:

Michael is a deeply odd film. If you want to gloss over the, ahem, problems with the man then that's standard for an official biopic - so why does his father get such an easy ride? Michael explicitly said that he had his first nose job because he saw the face of his abusive father in the mirror.

Hello, I’ve an event for my Muriel Spark biography next Weds (15th) at Waterstones Liverpool. We’ve sold barely any tickets, however, and it might be cancelled as a result. Please get a ticket if you’re nearby - it’ll be a lot of fun, and I’ll bring badges! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterstone...

This one arrived today: the Book Club edition of Destination Unknown (1955). My sixth Agatha Christie title from the Book Club. Very affordable books with more creative covers than Collins Crime Club made for Christie! #Agathachristie #bookclub #destinationunknow #crime

Someone's just won a series of sunbed sessions in this episode of Bob's Full House. For the final it'll be a carton of Benson & Hedges.

Unless they're gonna burn my physical media, not much

Finally getting around to framing a few items that deserve to be on the wall. Today - Rope! A French poster from an early 1960s re-release, proclaiming the film as 'Le classique du "Suspense"!'. I won't disagree there. #AlfredHitchcock #Hitchcock

Omg yes

YouTube playlist of some of my #AgathaChristie telly appearances for those who like this sort of thing! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Started the second series of Philip Martin's Gangsters and when the titles kicked in with LYRICS sung over the theme tune I thought I was going to die

Do any of you lovely folks happen to have a copy of Private Eye, issue 1659, dated 3 October 2025? I’m looking for the review of The Hack (ITV) in the EYE TV column. 📺 This is the issue’s cover:

Signed copy of my Poirot book now at Foyles Waterloo Station #AgathaChristie #Poirot

Great to hear that 'Reassessing Murder, She Wrote' won the International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize. I was very happy to contribute a chapter but the credit and praise goes to editors Eva Burke and Jennifer Schnabel, of course! #MurderSheWrote

Thanks, Rob! ☺️

One of the joys of the old ITV Cluedo is the mix of panelists. Edwina Currie and Richard O'Brien, together at last! 👀 (I discussed the series with RTD when Andy and I wrote our book - he wrote an ep - and he remembered being told that the drama bits barely mattered! The gameplay needed fixing...)

Signed copy of my Marple book now at Brighton Waterstones #AgathaChristie #MissMarple #Marple

Dr Seuss in the 21st Century

Just want to let you know there is a Keeping Up Appearances steam train experience.

The new hanky code

Aww I just think those caps and shoulder bags worn by the Cybermen-fodder boys are really cute #DoctorWho

Proper branding guidelines simply would NOT allow this awful stretched TOTP logo that's sat above the stage for ages now. Hideous! #totp

Browsing my wardrobe after eating SO much on my recent holiday and trips. Even a dreaded kaftan would be filled to capacity.

The Bookish paperback is out today! Series 2 airs this summer. And there will be a novelisation of that, too. www.quercusbooks.co.uk/contributor/...

This is now WRONG

Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.

New blog post: Two Way TV - product photos of 1997's hottest gadget https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/two-way-tv-product-photos-of-1997s-hottest-gadget/ Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about …

If they're going to ban under-16s from social media surely they need to ban parents from posting pics of their kids on them as well, hardly seems fair otherwise

Oh wow! A forgotten Miss M! I’ve just looked her up, and she was Grandma Grubb in Carry On Loving, so we have another instance of 2x Miss M in the same scene, as Joan Hickson is the mean speaking member of the Grubb family. Hooray!

Over at agathaillustrated on Insta I'm sharing the specially shot photos taken for Woman's Own's publication of A Caribbean Mystery, with Hilda Barry as Miss Marple and a host of 'Dr No'-ish characters and locations! #AgathaChristie #MissMarple #ACaribbeanMystery www.instagram.com/agathaillust...

Lots of episodes lately, you lucky lot! 🎧💃 Is Agatha Christie funny? > pod.fo/e/42a228 🎧💐 Is "A Daughter's A Daughter" worth a read? > pod.fo/e/42be70 #AgathaChristie #podcast #Poirot #MaryWestmacott

On my hols. Not St Honoré but not far off. #AgathaChristie

Gosh I love The New Avengers but K is for Kill is such a stinker. Achingly dull (imagine Sleeper The Eagle's Nest, Target!, Dead Men are Dangerous etc as two-parters instead!), and I note the director (Yvon Marie Coulais) seemingly has no other directorial credits. Not sure even this one counts.

How do history teachers travel in time? HOW might Barbara have taught history at school in the early 1960s? Which other history book might Susan have been reading? For more, see my new book, An Adventure in Space and Time... obversebooks.co.uk/product/an-a...

Tackling misinformation and disinformation is a core principle of the government's green paper on the BBC.

I am very poor at following the private lives of Hollywood people so imagine my surprise on learning both the character and actor are straight

The World Cup AND ITVX? The worst of all worlds.

In the first edition of my new Substack, I go to the launch of an album from 1993, review a big squeegee on a pole, witness Betty Boo trying to catch a rat and share something very gay from Finland. It’s free to read! Let’s be boring, old and/or gay together. open.substack.com/pub/boringol...

After a slight delay, also available on YouTube! > www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJBo... 💃💃💃

NEW #SWINGINGCHRISTIES EP! And it's a laugh a minute! Join us while we ask the question, "is Agatha Christie a mix of murder and mirth?" at the London Comedy Film Festival! Listen here: pod.fo/e/42a228 🎭💃🏻💖🎧😂

Got an ultrasonic cleaner for my glasses (spectacles) and I think it's going to change my life

Excited to see that a compilation of key moments from the Challenge Anneka pilot (a challenge for Children In Need 1987) has made it to YouTube. (Is this too niche for even my followers?!) youtu.be/uqz6fzRHYZQ?...

I guess what I’m saying is that once you accept, as a scholar, that the work is infinite, you know that everything is always unfinished - even published books - it’s just a matter of knowing (deciding?) with any one particular project, when it is appropriate to stop.

Love the surprise In My Arms during the Tension show encore on Netflix 😍 Justice for X! #Kylie

It's 1 week since we dropped our latest #Westmapod 📚🎧 Check it out here if you haven't already! > pod.fo/e/41f17c The 🌹 and the Yew 🌳

Do people still do unboxing videos for their books? If they do then they probably do it better than me. Anyway, a couple of boxes of Marple paperbacks arrived while I was away, and don't they look good! Available now in the UK (international publication date TBC) #AgathaChristie #MissMarple #Marple

It's all very tiring, isn't it.