Are you in or near Chelmsford between 19-23 May? You are? Well how about seeing this brand new play? Gangsters, chancers, heists, farce and a love story set in the London’s East End of 1958… www.ticketsource.com/chelmsford-t...

Sharing again because everyone needs to see and hear an extract of Phil Davis recording this gorgeous monologue.

Evening mist creeping towards me in my Norfolk riverside bolthole. Eerie but beautiful.

What a joy to hear @bobfischer.bsky.social in series 2 of Broken Veil with his BBC Tees story. 😁 Scariest experience I had in broadcasting were the mice that emerged during my London overnight traffic shifts. ON THE 29TH FLOOR OF CENTRE POINT

A peek behind the scenes of Harry’s Home as actor Phil Davis delivers one of Harry’s monologues. Harry’s Home is a gently funny and emotional audio drama by Hannah Puddefoot touching upon the day to day reality of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Available for free from Audioteria and Heard+

This is the second delightful audio thing I've been involved with that's made an appearance in the Radio Times as a Pick of the Week in the last six months - and they couldn't be more different! Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/0qNtknm...

We've just hit £30K! That doesn't mean we're bathing in £50 notes. The production costs of Book 1 will be more than our original £20K target once everything is taken into account. Exceeding it helps as a financial curveball buffer. We can breathe a little easier, but there's still work to do!

Just four days left to back the all new Dan Dare Graphic Novel from Alex de Campi, Marc Laming from @b7comics.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/798... - variant covers by Chris Weston, J.H. Williams III available (hopefully we can reveal Jim’s before campaign end!)

An excellent distraction whilst plodding along to Shenfield on the Elizabeth Line because the main line trains were borked

OUT NOW - Harry's Home: Phil Davis stars in this @b7media.bsky.social gently funny and emotional audio drama touching upon the day-to-day reality of dementia. It began as a play staged by a local theatre group, so it's come a long way! Available from @bandcamp.com, audioteria.com and HEARD.

#Essex people and #radio people! @paulkerensa.bsky.social is at Chelmsford Theatre this week with his highly entertaining talk about the early days of BBC radio. I’ll be lurking in the audience, occasionally muttering about Phyllis Twigg. Book here: www.chelmsfordtheatre.co.uk/events/an-ev...

Just to let everyone know that we’ll be adding a couple of very special and exclusive Kickstarter “Dan Dare: First Contact” rewards this week. The first will be announced on Monday. We also hope to reveal @jhwilliams3.bsky.social Hardback cover art by the end of the week too.

Making women over 50 visible?

…And David (the writer’s) own post with the Kickstarter link. Still two weeks left to grab one of the Kickstarter exclusive hardback or paperbacks!

Our Dan Dare project has made it into The Guardian!

SPACE NUTELLA!!

Got one of those robot vacuum things. Called it Rocky in honour of Project Hail Mary's lovable alien. Left it to its own devices for 5 minutes and it tried to hoover the plughole. Feels appropriate.

Thank you. What a nice man.

You know how some words are just better than others? In the latest Listen Through the Brown Window, @jakeyapp.bsky.social and I go head to head in the Word Championships as Scoggins and Stonefrost. open.spotify.com/episode/27PL... And... there's Elvis.

Went to Riga. All that beautiful Art Nouveau architecture and I become fixated on the hotel’s HooverBot instead.

Who needs a BlairCut? See below. New Listen Through the Brown Window episode incoming!

Having attended the recording of one of these, I do agree with the article. It’s not telly, it’s not a podcast either, but something in-between…

The @b7comics.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign for the all-new Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel has hit its fundraising target on Kickstarter – and the publisher has just announced J. H. Williams III as artist for the cover of the project’s hardcover edition: downthetubes.net/j-h-williams...

🎶 Activity trousers Activity trousers Gardening and skiing And farting On a horse. Activity trousers Of course” 🎵

Very happy to see Listen Through The Brown Window in the Best Scripted nominations!

Dan Dare, with all the best and most loved aspects, minus any historical fustiness.

“Here’s what I think of your radio signals, mate. Putting pigeons out of a job”

Annual trip to a QI recording (thank you Piers!) where every year I talk to John Lloyd in the green room and every year he “pretends” we’ve never met. Oh the larks. 🤣 Anyway, I banged on about my X-Files/Gillian Anderson photo double story a bit because it felt appropriate. It probably wasn’t.

Huge thanks to everyone who’s back our Kickstarter campaign for the Dan Dare graphic novel by @alexdecampi.bsky.social and @marclaming.bsky.social. Stand by next week when we’ll be announcing our most excellent cover artists and the chance to have a signed limited edition poster. Spaceship Away.

Great write up of the @b7comics.bsky.social Dan Dare: First Contact Kickstarter by @bleedingcool.com. As a "Dan Dare from day one" reimagining, it's a great fit for the world now. bleedingcool.com/comics/dan-d...

Comedy types - I’ve seen this several times recently. I have thoughts, but why is Tuesday the funniest day of the week?

If you haven’t had the joy of hearing Patchwuff, go and listen now. It’s not long, and it will make your face wet in the loveliest way.

For #InternationalWomensDay the last episode of Series 1 of Echoes of Bawdsey The Story of Radar - Women of Radar. The story of how women played a pivotal role in the history of radar & the Second World War is rarely told. I hope this #podcast puts that right. open.spotify.com/episode/6Usx...

Look, I’d be the first to say my nascent comics knowledge means my eye may not be very well trained, but even I can see this is bloody amazing work Crowdfund starts Monday. I am involved.

Don’t try and understand or rationalise it. Just enjoy the silly.

Nothing says a podcast festival is over like John Lewis coming to collect their sofa. Great to meet @bobfischer.bsky.social in person post his Broken Veil chat with @gralefrit.bsky.social and @willmac23.bsky.social

Who’s ready for more Clopper??? 🐴 This month, we pay a loving tribute to the mighty #kennethwilliams in this very special episode! Starring Robin Sebastian and Keith Jayne! #ListenThroughTheBrownWindow

My choice was dark. Very dark.

Got a sign for my studio voice booth from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social I have gone full anorak.

AAAAARGH! Hit record but didn't arm the track. 30 mins of no narration later, cue meltdown. How long have I been doing this for a living?!

Delighted to add to my hauntology credentials by lending my voice to the prosecution. Way too much fun.

I’m in it as well. But less than Vaun is.

Series 3 starts today! More weird comedy podcast sketch strangeness is available NOW. Yes, that is Richard Stilgoe, for no particular reason.

Who’s up for episode 1 of series 3 the morrow?

I’d been struggling with how I’d word a description of how I see Stephen - this is exactly it!

Listened to this over the weekend. Clearly by a writer (@paulmagrs.bsky.social) with a real passion for Bowie and his work. Loved Sophie Cotton's music too, though I do have a small bias there as she's been creating the music for our dementia drama "Harry's Home"! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Everyone on this Norwich train seems to be having katsu curry for dinner.

Available now - the story of Phyllis Twigg the first radio dramatist. A light comedy drama about giving credit where it’s due: even if it takes 100 years. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We're very proud of Aja Dodd, who has gone straight from Mulgrave Audio to BBC Radio 4! Kudos to director @soundliness.com, who heard Aja in our play 'Fellfoul' and cast her in 'The Truth About Phyllis Twigg', a charming and illuminating new play about the birth of radio drama. It's here...