Gill Davies
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Independent audio and video producer | network music producer | thi wurd | spottedbylocals | Glasgow
So delighted the brilliant Robert Aramayo won Best Actor at the Batfta awards for playing Tourette’s campaigner and all round legend Johnny Davidson in I Swear. Great to see a working class actor get the recognition he deserves - a rare thing these days.
about 2 months ago
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On at the
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
this Thursday
@ruthwatson.bsky.social
Will never ever ever forget that night we saw him in The Garage
www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/its-ne...
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Rising musician Jeff Buckley had only released one album when he died suddenly in 1997. Now, never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from those closest to him offer a portrai...
https://www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/its-never-over-jeff-buckley
2 months ago
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The Tenementals
2 months ago
Cine Dialógico - a film about building solidarities across borders - Free screening (and reception) at Glasgow University - 5.30pm - 8pm, Thursday 5 March. All welcome! Come along, pass it on!
@uofgarc.bsky.social
@nuriaarauna.bsky.social
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thi wurd
2 months ago
'The Writer/The Reader'. Two weeks to go. Sat 28 Feb 11am-3pm in Glasgow. Don't miss it. Full details here:
www.thi-wurd.com/writer-reade...
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2 months ago
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Diamond
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/14/tracey-emin-interview-tate-modern-regrets-smoking
2 months ago
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So great to see Jimmy McIlroy at the Winter Olympics. Can’t wait to see the mighty Chas Michael Michaels
#BladesofGlory
2 months ago
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They did a bad bad thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrL...
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) ORIGINAL TRAILER [FHD]
YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrLNspLAnY
3 months ago
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Spot on - cheers for sharing, Dani.
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3 months ago
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🙌🙌🙌
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3 months ago
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thi wurd
3 months ago
This session takes place next week. Create some new writing with us. And it's only a fiver! Book your place here:
www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hou...
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thi wurd hour – Monday 2nd Feb 2026 - thi wurd
thi wurd hour, creative writing fiction class. Improvised writing with prompts. Online, 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). £5. thi-wurd.com
https://www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hour-monday-2nd-feb-2026/
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Hats off to whoever picked this vital and relevant film for
@glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social
Free showing 10.30am Thursday 4 March
3 months ago
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I've just bought that many tickets, I'll no be eating for the next month - but it will be worth it. What a magic selection of films this year - cannot wait.
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3 months ago
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎
3 months ago
I have a new story on BBC Radio 4 - Friday 23 Jan - and then on catchup Elevator pitch - a comedy about love, entropy and a ceremonial badger I’d love for you to give it a listen
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A Whole Giant's Daughter Quest Thing by Jo Lloyd
An original short work for radio by Jo Lloyd. Read by Alexander Vlahos.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q35q
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With facts like this, this guy's worth a follow 👇
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3 months ago
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Everybody to Kenmure Street! Serpico! No! Biopics of Kafka and Leonora Carrington! - this year's GFF is going to be a stoater - can't wait!
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3 months ago
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The Agnes Owens Archive
3 months ago
Introducing The Agnes Owens Archive (AOA). Housed within
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
it is the first standalone satellite archive —illuminating the creative network around Gray while restoring Owens to her rightful literary position. Posts to follow will celebrate her life and legacy.
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thi wurd
3 months ago
thi wurd hour: Improvising New Writing. Online. Monday 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). All writers welcome. Read about it here:
www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hou...
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thi wurd hour – Monday 2nd Feb 2026 - thi wurd
thi wurd hour, creative writing fiction class. Improvised writing with prompts. Online, 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). £5. thi-wurd.com
https://www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hour-monday-2nd-feb-2026/
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A writing class for a fiver from the mighty
@thiwurd.bsky.social
Bring it on
www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hou...
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thi wurd hour – Monday 2nd Feb 2026 - thi wurd
thi wurd hour, creative writing fiction class. Improvised writing with prompts. Online, 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). £5. thi-wurd.com
https://www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hour-monday-2nd-feb-2026/
3 months ago
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What a stoater of a film.
vimeo.com/41516389
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Lisdoonvarna, Lourdes of Love 1999 Silver Spire Award San Francisco Film Festival
Documentary about three Irish bachelors going to a matchmaking Festival in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare West Ireland. This film won several awards worldwide and deals…
https://vimeo.com/41516389
3 months ago
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Brilliant, Dani. Great tribute to an outstanding writer. Let’s hope the centenary celebrations bring Agnes Owens to a much wider audience. A Working Mother is a work of art.
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3 months ago
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Brilliant feature on the impact of The Kitchen. Worth listening to just to hear Steve Reich rehearsing Music for 18 Musicians.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Sunday Feature - New Music New York - BBC Sounds
Richard King explores the conditions for musical creativity in New York City in the 1970s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002pfv4
3 months ago
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The detail!
spacetelescopelive.org/webb
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Webb - Space Telescope Live
Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb
3 months ago
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The Ferret
3 months ago
🔴 Farmed salmon were treated with a lot more drugs than the industry said, leading campaigners to question the credibility of the salmon farming industry. Read our latest investigation:
https://bit.ly/4bt4mLq
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A world without people
AI is a promise to wire the boss’s toy steering wheel directly into the company’s drive-train.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-08-18-seeing-like-a-billionaire-npcs-7a7746fe64e8
3 months ago
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dom
3 months ago
An interesting book to discuss at this moment in time, if you’d like to come to a BBC Radio 4 recording of Bookclub for Sarah Bernstein’s 2023 novel on Jan 26 at 6.15pm in Glasgow, please message me and I can put you on the list, places are still available and this is, as ever, a free literary event
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4 months ago
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Highlight of the year so far - spent Hogmanay doing visuals for the superb bands at
#OldHairdessers
#Glasgow
. Hope the rest of the year’s as good.
4 months ago
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
4 months ago
Technology should work for you, not against you. Help EFF make it happen:
eff.org/yec
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Stand Together to Protect Democracy
Donate in 2025 and you’ll help EFF receive bonus grants. Support digital privacy and free speech!
https://supporters.eff.org/donate/year-end-challenge--S
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Had to stop walking and really listen to this. Captures working class Glasgow so well. Outstanding radio
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Essay - Empty Spaces - Sean Lìonadh - Govan Docks, Glasgow - BBC Sounds
Poet Sean Lìonadh explores Glasgow’s abandoned Govan Docks and the echoes of lost industry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lck0?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
4 months ago
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Marc Garrett
5 months ago
A fantastic night at
@housmansbookshop.bsky.social
in London, for my book launch, published by
@minorcompositions.bsky.social
Please read my blog post about it here
tinyurl.com/4557b9tk
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#WritingCommunity
#BookSky
#readingcommunity
#books
#writing
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Dani Garavelli
5 months ago
"It wouldn't be so bad if [they] integrated. They should learn to speak English. But only if it doesn’t require any effort on our part. If you encounter such efforts, get your placards out." My
@heraldscotland.bsky.social
column on racism, contradictions, a world gone mad & uniting against Reform.
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Dani Garavelli: 'The consequences of a Reform government would be catastrophic'
We must unite against Farage and stop running like lemmings into the abyss
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25660661.must-unite-farage-stop-running-abyss/
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Dani Garavelli
5 months ago
Today at 1.30pm for anyone interested.
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The New Statesman
5 months ago
Lewis Goodall: Trump's attack can rescue the BBC The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom 🖊️
@lewisgoodall.com
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Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/11/trumps-attack-can-rescue-the-bbc?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763044287-2
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Lewis Goodall
5 months ago
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Ex-BBC boss leads calls for end to political appointments to board
Tony Hall urges government to bolster BBC’s independence as MPs and union seek Robbie Gibb’s removal from board
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/14/ex-bbc-boss-tony-hall-political-appointments-board
5 months ago
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A new venture into video art with an exhibition at the
#CCA
gallery for the
#HavanaGlasgowFilmFestival
. Multimedia projection of Cuban artists' fab posters for the people of Vietnam, 5.30-7pm, Saturday 15 November. Here's a snippet.
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5 months ago
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Thanks
@radiophrenia.bsky.social
for a great night of audio at GMAC. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Look forward to the next one
5 months ago
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This brilliant Radio 4 play is all about what happened to the immigrants who built the stadiums. Beckham couldn't lace their boots
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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6 months ago
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Dani Garavelli
6 months ago
Looking forward to chairing this with irrepressible duo Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi, whose company I love, & Steven Veerapen, whom I'm excited to meet. Their books are terrific and I'm sure it will be a lively event. Please come if you can: Sunday (Nov 9), 6pm, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
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How to Kill a Witch and Witches: Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell and Steven Veerapen with Dani Garavelli - Glasgow Life
How to Kill a Witch and Witches
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/how-to-kill-a-witch-and-witches-zoe-venditozzi-claire-mitchell-and-steven-veerapen-with-dani-garavelli
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Should be working but I'm watching this on repeat instead. Brilliant entertainment and hands down the best version of Creep ever. Hunner times better than greetin-face Radiohead.
youtu.be/hcKn15Vz_H8?...
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Lewis Cope & Katya Jones Couple's Choice to Creep by Radiohead ✨ BBC Strictly 2025
YouTube video by BBC Strictly Come Dancing
https://youtu.be/hcKn15Vz_H8?si=gfzrw5nsoNp6INMI
6 months ago
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Agree. It's the same in the UK. Despicable greed.
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6 months ago
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Mike Sowden
7 months ago
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Time Out on Finnieston. Pure waffle from London 🤪 😂 "Today ‘WeMo’ (West of Motorway), as local Wags have dubbed it, is the city’s go-to hipster hub. The savvy set from Byres Road have upped sticks here, bringing their creativity and energy."
7 months ago
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I could listen to the BBBC all day. Most sense I’ve heard talked about religion
open.spotify.com/episode/2zIR...
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Provisional IRA Edwardian Minotaur Sex Porn
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zIRDBj7HPfYYMqIhrRW1y?si=XRSOE4S8TqqAFwUkEoGdDw
7 months ago
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So great to have this brilliant book at last. Makes a change to hear some positivity about the internet/www. Cheers!
@timbernerslee.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Far out. Great listen
#TimHayward
#bbcsounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - Understand - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Understand on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m002h37b?partner=uk.co.bbc
7 months ago
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Love love loved this. What a guy. Beautifully produced
#LeoHornak
#bbcworldservice
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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In the Studio - Wynton Marsalis: The sound of democracy - BBC Sounds
The creative process of Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6vtm?partner=uk.co.bbc
7 months ago
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The Guardian - keeping it real 🤪
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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You be the judge: my boyfriend wants two types of potato with our meals, but I prefer rice. Should he compromise?
Paul loves his spuds and finds Noor’s preference for rice mystifying. She wants a more equal approach to carbs. You decide who gets a roasting?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/04/you-be-the-judge-my-boyfriend-wants-two-types-of-potato-with-our-meals-but-i-prefer-rice-should-he-compromise
8 months ago
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Brilliant. Inspirational. And a bonus to have Mark Steel as presenter.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - Shadow World - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Shadow World on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m002h38n?partner=uk.co.bbc
8 months ago
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