Today's Derek Bailey special with me, Mark Wastell, John Butcher, Tim Fletcher and host Ivor Kallin is now available to stream. Play once play often. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...

Coming up at noon. Listen live www.resonancefm.com/programmes/5...

We are fucked as a species.

What an absurdly good bit of television The Seeds of Doom is. All the stars align perfectly. Episodes 1 and 2 inhaled gladly tonight alongside a lot of brandy.

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

Just up: a great contribution to CST's ongoing Defending the WAC series by James Jordan. Thoughts on Cartier, Dimbleby and the unknowns of archive research. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Today from 1pm

Second go at this tonight, having convinced myself a few months back that it caught me on a bad day. It's a sort of anti-Elephant, but one in which much of the action doesn't engage me at all. Breaks my heart to be down on an Akerman, who in my eyes can do no wrong. Some lovely moments though.

Blackeyes viewers having flashbacks.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

To all who celebrate

Coming up this Sunday on Resonance FM at noon. Must be two decades since they last let me on air. Thanks to Ivor for the second chance.

This is a diverting series on Radio 4 this week; a set of talks by Hallie Rubenhold on the process of writing history. Episode 4 particularly evocative on that sensation of emerging from an archive after a day spent working in isolatory silence. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I think we can all agree that Evri has excelled itself with its confirmation photo of my parcel delivery.

A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.

Roger Allam giving excellent quote in the Guardian

Aladdin Sane's really good, isn't it? Sometimes I forget.

Some spooky reprints have appropriately arrived on Halloween. 🎃 The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic and Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene are back in stock and could be haunting your bookshelves. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk/

Oh no. My colleague Alban Webb did this a while back: www.bbc.com/historyofthe...

Well this is massive. One of the very best. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

Why the BBC WAC should remain bigger on the inside. An absolutely boffo column from Doctor Who mensch @tobyhadoke.bsky.social about the very silly decision by the BBC to cut off independent and exploratory research at its Written Archives Centre. cstonline.net/defending-th...

If you're stuck for a film this Halloween, Hammer's YouTube channel will be live streaming their 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 this evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

Good luck with that, whoniverse - if that even is your real name. FYI Ama*** will not be stocking Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. The book is freely available from source at cover price £14.99 plus postage (reprint next week), or from your bricks and mortar bookshop via Gardners distribution. Ta!

It's Mystery Drink time! Tune into the stream from 8pm GMT and have a guess. Then stick around for the Rank Off! We're at twitch.tv/jacklyttle

Deliver Me From Nowhere is doing well at the Box Office. Here's a genuine piece of dialogue genuinely from the actual film. Jon Landau: Hey Bruce, come here, look up at the building *Bruce chuckles, walks to Jon, chuckles, turns, chuckles and looks up* Bruce: What?

I get it. I was driven mad by the overrepresentation of rabbits in advertising. Caramac. Duracell. Nesquik.

Seen an obvious bot on Facebook saying that diversity is the reason she no longer watches ad breaks. NOBODY HAS EVER WANTED TO WATCH AD BREAKS. WHEN VCRS ARRIVED WE WERE COCK-A-FUCKING-HOOP.

Frankly no Arena at 50 celebration would be complete without Mary Dickinson. Her Kendo Nagasaki/Peter Blake film, an Indian rope trick of the documentary art, is on BBC Four at 10pm tonight. The last time I watched it, this happened... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

"It’s a moving end to an evening that has sincerely shattered expectations of what it was going to be." Very good write up of Saturday's memorable show. I've booked for Roundhouse this time next year to do it all again. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

My contribution to The Conversation about the changes at the BBC Written Archives Centre which now fundamentally restrict the possibilities for independent and exploratory research. theconversation.com/changes-to-t...

Evergreen: Ken Russell interviewed for Oxford University magazine Isis 26.1.66.

Anyone else along to the Lexington later for Prolapse?

Last saw CV in 1985. Any doubts they'd pull off last night's reunion gig in Sheffield demolished. Fierce industrial electro spanning their late 70s to early 90s output. And Nag Nag Nag as an encore to whoops of joy! If only RHK had been on stage too but they were still brilliant #cabaretvoltaire

It's a reget I have never been able to access the former Little Theatre Club, but tonight I visited the other birthplace of free improvisation: The Grapes in Sheffield, former HQ of Bailey, Bryars and Oxley. They still do nice a pint. We had a couple just to be absolutely sure.

Welcome to Sheffield

That's two train companies i've encountered this week who demand the answer to twenty questions before letting you on the wifi. In 2025

Very sad to read that Nabil Shaban has died. A formidable activist and creative in all manner of ways. During a wideranging interview in 2016, I told him he was the very last person filmed by Derek Jarman while he still possessed sight. He didn't know and it moved him greatly.

Off to Sheffield to see only the blummin' Cabs!

Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world of eccentric characters... ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1966) 10am #TPTVsubtitles featuring #PeterSellers #WilfridBrambell and an all-star cast directed by #JonathanMiller in this classic adaptation.

After a week like this it's got to be The Brain of Morbius on BluRay. Haven't we all earned it?

This has been bothering me for the past three hours. Here, catch.

Thrilled that @marklewisohn.bsky.social has contributed this passionate, personal post to the CST series against the recent BBC Written Archives policy shifts. His cri de couer is directed squarely at those who came up with the changes. Please read and share widely. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Swallowed the entire box today like a whale swallows plankton. The soloish performance on the BluRay, shot earlier this year, eradicates the memory of the truly awful biopic. Nothing beats the real thing.

The mixed reviews made me wonder, but have finally caught up on The Roses and enjoyed it enormously. Mind you I'm already well disposed to 90% of the cast.

Looks to me as though the fifteen episodes of Galbraith's The Age of Uncertainty (1977) uploaded to iplayer this week are new transfers. So hurrah for that. The economics fun starts here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Mark’s passion and precision is spot on. And so very vital. The WAC is a *stunning* resource. It must be allowed — empowered — to thrive. SHARE. cstonline.net/defending-th...

MUST READ! In the latest CST blog about the damaging changes going on at the BBC Written Archives Centre, @marklewisohn.bsky.social delivers his cri de cœur squarely at those who came up with or are signing-off on this policy shift. Please read and share widely. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Post. Lovely post.