Howay! Ever wondered what happened to the cast of brilliant 1970s ITV drama The Paper Lads? We managed to reunite them for first time in 50 years! I LOVED doing this... a full hour with JG (Tony Neilson), Baz (Gavin Kitchen), Ian (Andrew Edwards) & Gog (Peter Younger) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rip...

This weekend in Whitby! Brilliant line-up, and I'm hosting in a stripy blazer.

Hey! Big Brown Window presence at this ace electronic music weekender in Whitby! DJ’ing from Tom (The Soulless Party) And music from our very own @12hrfoundation.bsky.social Get up there for a weekend of fun and entertainment hosted by the evergreen @bobfischer.bsky.social

Tonight! In Whitby! Come and join us for a genial night of Halloween fun. I've got theories to share about 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'.

Just googled "Boro fixtures" and tomorrow's away tie at Watford oddly came up accompanied by a 0-0 scoreline. I'll take it now.

Happy to reminded of the time when I spent several weeks hosting the BBC Radio Tees Afternoon Show with a butternut squash as my sidekick.

Great night at Dukes, as always. If the story about the baby that turns into a telephone doesn't actually exist, can somebody please write it...

Tonight! Come and confess to Ste and me that you were traumatised by the pantomime horse from Rentaghost...

NEW! Bob Fischer (@bobfischer.bsky.social) and Georgy Jamieson (@georgyjamieson.bsky.social) are back for a chat about how we used to 'do' Halloween and Bonfire Night. Don't pick up that dropped sparkler!! timworthington.org/2025/10/28/t...

Genuinely me on my morning walk today. "Police said the missing man was ill-equipped for the conditions, and warned other walkers..." etc

I got lost in the woods, but was rescued by the national BBC1 Breakfast show...

This Wednesday!

They're back on Looks Unfamiliar later this week, but while you're all waiting, here's Bob Fischer (@bobfischer.bsky.social) and Georgy Jamieson (@georgyjamieson.bsky.social) on the drizzle-lashed joys of the Great British Summer... timworthington.org/2024/08/16/t...

Tomorrow (Saturday 25th) at 10am on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social: Jonathan Miller's 'Alice In Wonderland' (1966). A thrumming yet quiescent adaptation of the Carroll classic, a snapshot of its time. Watch it then listen to @bobfischer.bsky.social on Goon Pod! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Sending thoughts to Sheffield Wednesday fans. I know I'm ancient, but stuff like this makes me pine for the days when football chairmen just came from local breweries and building firms and transfer deals were sweetened with a bit of discount carpet for the boardroom.

Now then, this is going to be an event for the ages. Whitby Folklore Festival, 1-3 May! I’m getting married on the morning of the 1st so it’s going to be like a full on party weekend. Bring it on!

A week to go till our Ghost Story Special live show! Bring your spooky tales for a big, cosy group chat at Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, with me and @bobfischer.bsky.social Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

My original 1983 Fighting Fantasy books don't often leave the house these days, but if you come to the Haunted Generation night at Glossop Labour Club this coming Saturday, you can play my 1984 DIY Fighting Fantasy book 'The Moonstone Dungeon...'

Only three weeks to go to #SwitchedOn, Whitby: a three-day jam-packed bargain with a cracking line-up. Thanks to hosts @rebeccasubphotic.bsky.social and @davidowen.bsky.social. See you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...

I’m looking forward to spinning a few tunes ahead of @bobfischer.bsky.social’s Haunted Generation show at Glossop Labour Club this Saturday. Expect a mish mash of tv themes, school choirs, brass bands and questionable covers. Business as usual! Tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bob-fische...

There aren't huge quantities of the 10" vinyl left, and hell - I still think 'Fellfoul' sounds wonderful. Great swords & sorcery script by @andreworton.bsky.social, great narration by Aja Dodd, great soundtrack by @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social. Head over to our @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social Bandcamp...

COME TO GLOSSOP ON SATURDAY AND I WILL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT THIS FENCE

Just over a week till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social materialise at Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, for our UNPLANNED GHOST STORY SPECIAL on Wednesday 29 October! Don't worry if you hear unexplained creaking and knocking - it's probably our 50-something joints... Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

The full text of the letter I sent to Floating Goose Studios in Adelaide ahead of artist Roy Ananda's exhibition 'The Apparitionist'. It seems my concerns about Mr Ananda's dabbling with the occult went sadly unheeded. hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/10/20/r...

Always a pleasure to write the Haunted Generation column for @forteantimes.bsky.social... Issue 463 out now, with Nice Things said about Pneumatic Tubes (and New Age jogging), David Boulter @claypipemusic.bsky.social, @swansither.bsky.social, @btlabel.bsky.social, @adamsleslie.bsky.social and more.

Really looking forward to going back to Glossop on Saturday...

Delighted to be coming back to Lancaster for this little spooky ramble with @scarredforlife.bsky.social. Come and join us, we'll be manifesting at Dukes Theatere on Wed 29th October...

Yarm High Street from the top of the Big Wheel...

Dirty fries and a foot-long sausage.

Full electronic weekender in Whitby next month! Should be great fun with some terrific performers, and I'm MC-ing all weekend. Don't let that put you off, though.

YARM FAIR IS IN #draclea

With @pablovich.bsky.social on Disneytime Rotadraw, @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social on Why Don't You...?, @gfrancie.bsky.social on Fruitopia, @whenisbirths.bsky.social on I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels and more... timworthington.org/2024/10/23/t...

Discovered yesterday that the original Space Jam film website is still online, unchanged since 1996. It's quite the time capsule. Thanks @andrewtsmith.bsky.social for the tip-off... www.spacejam.com/1996/

35 years today since this was released. October 15th 1990. Nothing transports me faster to our old sixth form common room. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7cq...

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

While we're talking @shindigmagazine.bsky.social, the current issue (No 168, with Buckingham Nicks on the cover) has me similarly waxing lyrical about my beloved Penda's Fen. Available from all good newsagents now!

I've got so much stuff to put on the Haunted Generation website. Let's start with an appreciation of beautifully strange 1975 HTV series 'Sky', written for @shindigmagazine.bsky.social to accompany the soundtrack release on @btlabel.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/10/13/s...

Australian artist Roy Ananda has created a collage of diagrams that he calls The Apparitionist. I expressed my concern that he was dabbling with occult forces, but the exhibition has gone ahead. My letter of warning is in the foyer, though. Pics: Sam Roberts. www.floatinggoose.com.au/the-appariti...

RED ALERT! It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new issue of Electronic Sound, with GARY NUMAN on the cover. You can also buy the mag together with a red vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks from Numan’s seminal ‘Telekon’ album direct from us at electronicsound.co.uk/issue130garynuman

A cracking review of @genevadrive3.bsky.social's 'Inner Saga' in this month's @electronicsound.bsky.social thanks to the excellent @bobfischer.bsky.social. electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/issue... plentywenlockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/inner-...

Good people of Glossop! I am bringing The Haunted Generation show to your Labour Club on Saturday 25th October...

On sale now! Witches and Witchcraft: Stories of Sorcery, Spells and Superstition A new special edition from the archives of Fortean Times, with an introduction and commentary by historian of witchcraft Malcolm Gaskill. In shops now, or order direct from: shop.forteantimes.com/product/witc...

Anyone free on actual Halloween night? Come to Whitby, I'll guide you gently through memories of 1970s/80s Halloweens ("The sky is blue, the grass is green") and there'll be music, dressing up, sweets etc. I might even do the "Witches of Halloween" song from 'Words and Pictures'. A fiver. A FIVER!

Northwest weirdies! Join me and @bobfischer.bsky.social for our GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October - it's a big group chat about all things spooky. Bring your real-life ghost stories too! Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

The track list of Vic Mars’s beautiful The Land and the Garden LP on @claypipemusic.bsky.social reads like a poem that perfectly complements the music.

How did you spend your weekend? I hung out in Cud's dressing room dressed as Whitby Town FC's official mascot, Scampi Skipper.

Huge thanks to @bobfischer.bsky.social and all at @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social for the #Patchwuff album and postcard. We were thrilled have played a tiny part in the project, which features both Sandra Kerr (of Bagpuss fame) and Valerie Singleton. Check out all releases: mulgraveaudio.bandcamp.com

Your crumpled correspondent proudly plugging SHORT SHARP SHOCKS VOLUME 4 - out very soon on BFI double disc Blu-ray. A plethora of peppery peculiarities are contained herein! Don't miss it.

From the Film Is Fabulous Facebook page:

Tonight! Goole Library at 7pm! Come and join me for a gentle evening of Haunted Generation strangeness - I'll even read you some of the Fighting Fantasy book I wrote when I was 11. It's only £7 on the door, and I'm really excited because I've never been to Goole before.