“Now remember, Cory, show us that you can take good care of these little fellows and maybe next year we’ll get you that puppy.”

Young Bond audition process: achievement unlocked! 🔓 Over 500 applicants and one big mission to find the new audio drama James Bond and Wilder Lawless. Watch the video and head to www.youngbondadventures.com to sign up for further briefings, news and updates.

🚨 There's never been a better time to start listening to Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama. Especially the FREE stuff. Find out how here: https://bgfn.sh/bfforfree

On behalf of all the companies desperately trying to think of a way to market their products without mentioning the name of a certain massive international soccer tournament beginning tonight, may we wish you all great enjoyment of The Beautiful Game. ⚽

"Are we taking this robot with us?" said Ford, looking with distaste at Marvin who was standing in an awkward hunched posture in the corner under a small palm tree.

Good morning, gang. ☕️ 🌧️ ☀️ 🌧️

There are a whole lot of new Doctor Who adventures to look forward to on audio this year. Click https://bgfn.sh/dw to browse through the collection and find out what's coming. ❤️❤️➕🎧

Once again, my immediate life problems were not as catastrophic as my sympathetic nervous system would have had me believe.

Young Bond news incoming soon. 𖣠 Get your codename and sign up for mission briefings at http://youngbondadventures.com

Genuine peril and fun as the Master starts pulling all kinds of horrors of history to throw at UNIT and Rob and I couldn't be happier! But what about Atlantis? @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

HAPPY MANY RETURNS, COLIN BAKER! 🥳 Here's some Reunion news: https://bgfn.sh/cbat83

🔄 ICYMI, a reunion (at least) six years in the making. Click https://bgfn.sh/rarn to read more about River and Rory's return, and to pre-order the full-cast audio drama box set.

Knew it. That fortnight in May was Summer, wasn’t it? Now we’re back to Sprautumn. ☕️ 🌧️

I’m suffering from a deplorable lack of biscuits.

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

“Under the oak tree, whose leaves are now fully expanded, cows are resting in the shade” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

I'm running the Great North Run in September for @lewybodysociety.bsky.social with some @bigfinish.bsky.social writer chums. If you're able to sponsor me, that'd be lovely of you, but I also accept moral support and hectoring. ajbellgreatnorthrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/robert-ta...

The 20th birthday of @lewybodysociety.bsky.social seems a good day to say I'm running the Great North Run in September, with some @bigfinish.bsky.social chums, to raise money. I don't enjoy the actual running but a good cause is a good cause! ajbellgreatnorthrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/lisa-mcmu...

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behaviour of numbers.

I keep being reminded of this question and answer: "What is the problem that AI services are being built to solve?" "Wages."

The intrepid Joe Ford and I brave the perils of a mythical lost city in the Aegean to discuss The Time Monster. A golden age of Doctor Who or a load of Cretan bull? Join us on Hamster with a Blunt Penknife to find out! 🐹

celebrate the acme of summer by tuning in to M R James's "A View from a Hill" told live online on 27 June, 8pm(UK) and available any time after. Register and pay-what-you-can here viewhill.eventbrite.co.uk

There’s no escape.

And now we’re back to “don’t leave the house without umbrella, sunglasses, overcoat and sunscreen” weather.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 📅 Big Finish Day 2027, in association with DWAS, will be on 17 April 2027. Click https://bgfn.sh/bfday27 to find out more and to reserve your tickets.

BOOK CLUB IDEA: a book club where we discuss the books we’d like to read but have no time to as we’re busy and too tired. We also never actually get round to meeting either, just send nice supportive messages saying it’s no problem.

The parenting skills of Rapunzel’s witch may have been suspect, but she was an ace gardener Artist: Eric Winter

The room has gone dark and I can hear the rumble of approaching thunder. Is there time to make it to the shop and back for custard creams before the heavens open again?

Good morning, gang. ☕️ 🌧️

New companions, old foes for the 8th Doctor @bigfinish.bsky.social @ksarmitage.bsky.social @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social @kenbentley.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/06/02/t...

NEW COVER ART! 👀 Doctor Who: New Pathways. Click https://bgfn.sh/salvak to read more and to pre-order the box set, or are you just a cranak pel casackree salvak?

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

A sacred two-headed snake, the art of mummification and sinister snails with Rev #LionelFanthorpe in... FORTEAN TV (1997) 11:10pm on #TalkingPicturesTV

On this day 29th May 1953 Tenzing and Hillary and became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest Artist: Frank Humphris (Danger Men, 1970)

Doctor Who Circuit Breaker: new artwork released cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-...

Theory: this new slate of liminal horror Shows/films (backrooms/level 8/severence) are a reflection of the current time when we all feel like we’re stuck in a liminal time period. No longer Making any progress, rather a slow degradation of the present. Things getting weirder the more time goes on.

Some lovely stuff about the miniature effects in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen from modelmaker Martin Gant. (Thanks to @jeromeanfre.bsky.social for the heads up). There's wonder and delight and... well, a rather deflating story about underappreciated artists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtc...

Good morning, gang. ☕️ ☀️

Ian Fleming was born on this day in 1908. Without him none of all this would have been possible. #JamesBond #dates #OTD

change of plan: the livestreamed M R James story on 27 June will now be "A View from a Hill" rather than "The Residence at Whitminster." Register here viewhill.eventbrite.co.uk

I know it’s too warm because Marmite should never be this runny.

On the latest Trap One🎙Podcast the brilliant @reecypontiff.com drops by to discuss her excellent new book, Leap of Eighth: Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/47sbx3tb Spotify: tinyurl.com/yan3tw6e Podbean: tinyurl.com/84mbds9k @davidjhowe.bsky.social

“At Jodrell Bank, someone decided it was time for a nice relaxing cup of tea.” - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 💫 Happy #TowelDay to all those who celebrate, celebrating the author Douglas Adams and his iconic stories (of which we are proud to play a small part in)! #DontPanic

PSA: the cheese rolling at Cooper's Hill starts at 12pm, tomorrow, and will be streaming on BBC iPlayer.

Other work by the Ladybird artists A Portrait of Atma Singh, 1943 (Now in the Imperial War Museum) Artist: John Berry

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"