🎧 Latest BBC Front Row: Cillian Murphy on Peaky Blinders, Deepa Anapparna on her ace new novel about Tibet, is non-fiction in free fall? And The Stage’s editor Matt Hemley on Timothy’s Chalamet’s faux pas de deux www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ryan Gosling. For Monday’s BBC Front Row.

Featuring Peter Cook and Joanna Lumley having their palms read..

First interview for my forthcoming BFI Film Classics book on the Beatles' first film... Always a joy talking to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth...A Word In Your Ear.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSD...

First interview for my forthcoming BFI Film Classics book on the Beatles' first film... Always a joy talking to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth...A Word In Your Ear.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSD...

Featuring Peter Cook and Joanna Lumley having their palms read..

Thoughtful piece on the Iran War by the excellent @ritula.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ritula/p...

Well worth watching - a great Word in Your Ear with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social talking about A Hard Day’s Night - both the movie and her new book. youtu.be/tkSD6RXHZEI?...

Still queen of hearts in Chester Cathedral..

I came all this way…

Finally made it Chester’s @storyhouselive.bsky.social. And it’s fantastic.

Been talking about the joy of the first Beatles film 🎥 A Hard Day’s Night- subject of my new book on The Word… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Thankyou!

Discussing BBC's coverage of Iran War with director of news programmes John McAndrew on this week's BBC Newswatch. From midnight Fri on link or BBC1 Sat Breakfast at 745am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A reminder that we have a new episode out on Wednesday, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social talking about TV shows from March 1979. That includes...

Very touching to hear Hannah pay tribute to Rosalind Franklin at the end of the lecture – whose crucial contribution to discovering DNA’s structure was only fully recognised after her death. A humanist hero. You can read more on the #HumanistHeritage website. heritage.humanists.uk/rosalind-fra...

Help: which is the Space 1999 s2 episode in which a female character grows a second brain?? I need to know this for Work. @nicksetchfield.bsky.social @stevenobrien.bsky.social

Nearly time to put on my Servalan jacket…

Thankyou @greavesian.bsky.social for a thoughtful tribute to the brave and brilliant Kenith Trodd.

UNESCO-listed Golestan Palace damaged by US/Israeli bombing. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/03/u... A historic building and archive of priceless objects like the Timurid era Shahnameh that we visited in Art of Persia (from 28 min 24s). www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

UNESCO-listed Golestan Palace damaged by US/Israeli bombing. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/03/u... A historic building and archive of priceless objects like the Timurid era Shahnameh that we visited in Art of Persia (from 28 min 24s). www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Wouldn't you LOVE to have me on your podcast/radio show/other modern communications thingy? Tales of the Suburbs is out next week, and it would be smashing to get word out as far as possible over the next few months via the medium of chat. Slide into my DMs or www.johngrindrod.co.uk/contact x

Very sad to hear from his wife that Kenith Trodd passed away on Sunday. A brilliant, fearless maker of tv and film, including a long and lively partnership with Dennis Potter. It was an honour to know him and interview him about his illustrious career. www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/14...

Finally someone explains key facts about the Italian renaissance to me in my kind of language. Really loving Verity Babbs’s book..

Tonight's BBC Front Row: Pixar at 40, Agnieszka Holland and Ian Christie on the cinema of Polish director Andrej Wadja, artist Rose Wylie at the RA, and the battle for Warner Brothers. R4 715pm or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

You can find links to my upcoming A Hard Day's Night @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social book festival events and screenings around the UK here... Hay, Bath, Lake District, Newcastle, Cambridge and more being added .. samiraahmed.blog/upcoming/

Delighted to say I will be discussing the mathematical formula (Beatles+Lester=Fab4) that gave us the film A Hard Day's Night, at the Oxford Lit Fest on Sunday March 29th 4pm oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

A Fab time guaranteed….

A reminder of how remarkable and resilient the people and culture of Iran have always been…

Walking past the blue plaque to Kenneth Clarke near the BBC today reminded me of how much delight @gkw.bsky.social and I had watching the first episode of civilisation for the latest @squarewindowpod.bsky.social

Ernest Withers was a key photographer in the Civil Rights movement. He took pictures from the Emmet Till trial to the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and beyond. Sol B River’s docudrama explores the man, the motivations and key images in the history of the movement. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

EVENT: Join C20 for the fourth High-Tech dialogue of our Spring Lecture Series, featuring architect Dame Patty Hopkins in conversation with C20 President, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social 🗓️ Thu 26 Feb, 6.30-8pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online 🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

About to start on BBC1..

Latest BBC Newswatch: Discussing concerns about BBC reporting from Iran after deaths of thousands of protestors. Viewer @gthe.bsky.social is in the studio. From midnight on link or 745am Sat on BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Relying on sexist tropes “fatal attraction killer” and “gold hunter”. Yet in many such cases there is an underlying & sometimes hidden history of abuse & control-Important reminder of news media repeatedly hounding a woman who's served her sentence. www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/news/2026/2/...

This will be excellent. Tomorrow afternoon 3pm on R4 or Sounds after...

I have written a column about exactly this in the new issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social By comparing the spirit of the Nouvelle Vague to modern day influencer content creators.

If you need cheering up, I’ve been carrying this little gem around…

Happy birthday Graeme Garden!! Coming soon to @squarewindowpod.bsky.social ....

New peak work anxiety dream: Last night I dreamed there was a new book of conversations between Werner Herzog and Leonardo DiCaprio. In German. And I was having to read it ahead of interviewing LD. Who then ran away in great distress from the interview before I could ask my first question.

Samira Ahmed joins me for a chat about Selfridges' Space: 1999 Walkthrough, the Dairy Council's 'Good Looks Ahead' campaign, The Fun Food Factory with Nanette Newman and much more besides... timworthington.org/2021/01/25/l...

"You told me my mother was an evil slut from a problem family, and I believed you!" Ah the joys of 1969's Saturday Night Theatre starring Sean Connery - among the picks in our latest ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social

Lovely show last night. Have a listen.. 🎧

Lovely show last night. Have a listen.. 🎧

Gift from an aunty’s garden. And one of my favourite things: Early rhubarb. ♥️

Gorgeous piece by @willjennings.bsky.social

Front Row: Baz Luhrmann on EPIC Elvis, Artistic Director David Byrne on Royal Court at 70, Emma Freud & Archers' Editor on Who Bottled George? @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social at the Berlinale which has already had its first row - over keeping politics out of art. 715pm or: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Latest BBC Newswatch viewers ask about BBC making not reporting news about PM, & we ask why BBC News in a half hour interview failed to ask Bill Gates about Epstein. On link now:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rm4l

There’s already a whole lotta love for this. Do listen and send us your thoughts by Sunday so we can include them in our next ep…

"You told me my mother was an evil slut from a problem family, and I believed you!" Ah the joys of 1969's Saturday Night Theatre starring Sean Connery - among the picks in our latest ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social