Such sad news. Always loved Quentin Willson’s style. A warm hearted man and a consumer champion. The thinking woman’s Top Gear presenter. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Such sad news. Always loved Quentin Willson’s style. A warm hearted man and a consumer champion. The thinking woman’s Top Gear presenter. www.itv.com/news/2025-11...

Just started on BBC1 …

The story about BBC News concerns in the Michael Prescott report won’t go away and we’re discussing it on the latest Newswatch. From Midnight Fri on link or 745am Sat BBC1. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Features a young Tim Roth!

From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers – Global stories about the buildings that bond us (including Art nouveau Reims, Iranian brutalism, LA's picture palaces) Am giving @c20society.bsky.social Christmas Lecture on Dec 2. In person or online. Tix here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers – Global stories about the buildings that bond us (including Art nouveau Reims, Iranian brutalism, LA's picture palaces) Am giving @c20society.bsky.social Christmas Lecture on Dec 2. In person or online. Tix here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Our podcast, Through The Square Window, returns next Wednesday, hosted by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social . Looking at TV from Nov 1984, including Bob's Full House! (And remember, our doors are always open for you!)

NEW EP OUT WEDS 12 NOV! Featuring TV director, producer and former Blue Peter editor Richard Marson discussing the last-ever Rentaghost with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social, and his ace new book from @tenacrebooks.bsky.social, Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television

Excellent show last night. Have a listen… 🎧

Also we have: Zadie Smith, Brenda Blethyn & Booker nominated novelist Andrew Miller on The Land In Winter.

Going to be remembering the maverick genius of Peter Watkins on tonight's BBC Front Row with @ianchristi.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Going to be remembering the maverick genius of Peter Watkins on tonight's BBC Front Row with @ianchristi.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Go Through The Square Window via your own Square Window! (Well, 16:9 anyway) 📺

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Board games are still back. Loved making this documentary and it’s here. Perfect Saturday afternoon listening. Scroll down on the programme link to find my blogpost about all the board games I discovered at Spielberg in Essen..

Just starting.. on bbc1

I am xo. I've been reading Why Don't Things Fall Up by @alomshaha.bsky.social. I wish the creators of the travesty of the science curriculum had read it.

Latest BBC Newswatch. Viewers concerned about how fairly the BBC is reporting crime & foreign nationals. As we were told no BBC person was available, Dr Ben Brindle of Oxford Migration Observatory is on to give us the facts. Midnight iplayer link or 745am BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

So sorry to hear this. Privilege as a dystopian take on A Hard Day’s Night was like nothing else. I write about it at length in my upcoming book. Punishment Park looks like a premonition of Trump’s America.

Reviving Play For Today? Time to call in @squarewindowpod.bsky.social ‘s TV superbrain @gkw.bsky.social to explain its past & its future.. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Neil Brand's fab new music podcast! What more do you want? Except possibly a William Shatner track pick in a future episode... Happy to oblige... 🎶

Art for a great cause. Silent auction here: artauction.freedomfromtorture.org

Lovely longer online version of me on the magnificence of Margo in the @theipaper.com's feature on The Good Life at 50. inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

Excellent listen 🎧

On tonight's BBC Front Row: Diplomacy as cinematic action thriller: Talking to Norwegian director Tommy Gulliksen about Facing War - his remarkable film about last year of Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Sec Gen. 715pm or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Absolutely beautiful summary in the Telegraph of why @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social is an incredible broadcaster. By one of his many admirers. We are legion. www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...

Loved talking to @nickduerden.bsky.social about The Good Life for the i. And by great chance, I found myself sitting next to Felicity Kendall at the Theatre the other night and told her about my Good Life-themed 40th birthday party. I went as Margo.

Friends, we need your nominations please. What were the worst/most inappropriate "big films" shown on TV during Christmasses of yore? Please share your suggestions.

Free consciousness raising! Thanks Una 🙏🏽

Free consciousness raising! Thanks Una 🙏🏽

Latest BBC Newswatch: The King prays with the Pope in a 500-year first. Should the BBC be discussing Prince Andrew's problems at such a historic time? Also, how the BBC is helping boost local reporting. 3.45pm @BBCNewschannel or link/ BBCiPlayer now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Been talking about this on the latest Open City podcast. open-city.org.uk/podcast

🎙️ "If this government really cares about working class heritage, they would care about cooling towers, they would care about the sites that those buildings represent" Me as C20 President on this& why the Stirling Prize win is like Mr Benn: The Brief podcast by @OpenCity_UK open-city.org.uk/podcast

🎙️ "If this government really cares about working class heritage, they would care about cooling towers, they would care about the sites that those buildings represent" Me as C20 President on this& why the Stirling Prize win is like Mr Benn: The Brief podcast by @OpenCity_UK open-city.org.uk/podcast

Tonight! 🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️

Been talking about this on the latest Open City podcast. open-city.org.uk/podcast

@jameselder.bsky.social I was waiting for you to favourite that tweet about the Fairlight CMI!

Am so sorry to have heard of the death of Composer Adrian Sutton. In Oct last year we had the loveliest geeky conversation on BBC Front Row about the role of computers and 80s synths in shaping his rich musical work. Listen from 28:09. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I never knew there was so much in it!

Essential reading - this column by the always thoughtful Raymond Snoddy in the latest issue of @nujofficial.bsky.social's The Journalist.

I never knew there was so much in it!

Latest BBC Front Row: At last! I get to interview one of my favourite actresses: Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Leicester's Curve Theatre, Todd Rundgren on the power of AI for good & David Szalzy on his Booker shortlisted novel Flesh. Have a listen 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Huge thanks to Total TV Guide magazine for interviewing @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social about our podcast. The issue is out today.

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I thank yew for this letter in today’s Metro…. 🎭

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Latest BBC Newswatch is a really interesting interview with a viewer about easily misunderstood BBC Online headlines on Tommy Robinson & asylum hotel court case stories. From midnight on iplayer link or Sat BBC1 745am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Midnight tonight is Last chance to get a 25% discount on a pre-order of my rather fun book.. use the code on this link: www.waterstones.com/book/a-hard-...

Latest BBC Newswatch is a really interesting interview with a viewer about easily misunderstood BBC Online headlines on Tommy Robinson & asylum hotel court case stories. From midnight on iplayer link or Sat BBC1 745am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...