Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

I still think often of how The Huffington Post was allowed to rise off the back of people writing for free, how it normalised it, and how the person behind it sold up for hundreds of millions, and is regarded as a legend of business. I'd also suggest the value of writers has never really recovered.

If next year's Murder, She Wrote festival was not in the USA, I would be there with bells on. Tickets on sale now. www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/events-murde...

Anthony Horowitz's Marble Hall Murders is released in paperback today and this is the good stuff. The real deal.

Zinzanimos! Animal comics illustrated by @jeromeanfre.bsky.social and written by Rémi Chaurand. jeromeanfre.myportfolio.com/zinzanimos-h...

Who in the UK has a sort of Wednesday Addams, Aubrey Plaza, or Daria Morgendorfer tone? I need to find this person for a thing! All suggestions welcome.

That book ban idiot is gross. Angie Thomas' outstanding novel The Hate U Give is painful but positive, empathetic and not at all divisive (sigh). It looks wisely into dark places for glimmers of understanding. Audrey Wells' and George Tillman Jr's movie adaptation is wonderful too.

Have I got my wires crossed or is Mimi Rogers having a comeback?

Not sure if BlueSky friends realise, I also write crime fiction. This features my Australian equivalent of Parker, Gary Chance. Some of these books have, on occasion, been well reviewed. www.amazon.com/Gunshine-Sta...

Thomas Perry obituary.

Journalist and media critic Mic Wright takes aim at moguls who own the news and the journalists who do their bidding.

I've lived in Norwich for six years and one day, walk through the street in this shot very often, and have yet to see Alan Patridge in public at all. Something funny is going on.

With Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) out on 4K UHD/Blu-ray from 22 September via BFI, here is a cross-section of ten German horror films that I have selected www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

From earlier this year -- why my dad, FCC chairman 1961-63, criticized television for failing to serve the public interest but encouraged them to share opinions and made it clear the government would never try to censor the broadcasters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In our most recent podcast, with @mysterysteven.bsky.social, Titles in Translation, we learnt about the use of "Le Crime" in French translations. How many clocks in The Clocks? Why does Norway love Canon Pennyfather? For this and more, listen now! > pod.fo/e/3263c3 #AgathaChristie #SwingingChristies

I would like to think this adaptation of The Incredible Shrinking Man will capture imaginations outside of France too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdlh...

Solidarity with our sister union in the States

Thank you Robert Redford. Goodbye.

Brand new Spectrum game, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, by Kamil Blazěk. A text adventure based on the epic 90's point & click game. Download (english and czech): https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/44498/ZX-Spectrum/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Fate_of_Atlantis #zxspectrum #retrogaming

I have just heard that Jeff Hiller won a prize for being on Somebody Somewhere, and I hope that makes loads of people check it out. It's an extraordinarily beautiful show. An empathy machine that just hums along with good humour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCo...

Celebrating Agatha Christie's birthday by submitting the first draft of a murder mystery to a producer, then getting blown away when the producer reads it more or less right away and replies to tell me they love it, adding some great notes on how to push the next draft. Perfect! Happy birthday!

I absolutely adore Kathryn Harkup's books about the science of Frankenstein, vampires, James Bond, Agatha Christie and deaths in Shakespeare. This video is a brilliant taste. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miVg...

2: Angeline Morrison. Oh my God, this is so good. British Folk music telling stories of Black British History, concentrating on a different person's story per song. I LOVED THIS. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Brian De Palma, director of the greatest sequence in motion picture history (sorry, Powell and Pressburger) is 85 today.

When I was younger and had to scrounge together money for a bus ticket, I'd sometimes go alone to London to see films not showing in Oxford. Usually, it was disappointing. When it was Perfect Blue, it was mindblowing. Try to see it in a cinema if you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrWa...

Oh, go on then. www.youtube.com/watch?v=staW...

A trailer for Lucile Hadzihalilovic's The Ice Tower. www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQF...

I randomly stumbled upon Fujio Kito, an artist who documents Japanese playgrounds at night. It was a fun little rabbit hole to follow. fujio-pand-park.tumblr.com

From the pen of the Queen of Crime, STUDIOCANAL is thrilled to bring #AgathaChristie's classics to stunning 4K. Featuring five of her memorable titles including one of the world's most iconic detectives Hercule Poirot, THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION is essential viewing for any murder mystery fan. 🔎

Double standards and hypocrisy around piracy abound. Gross.

Full of great pictures and tiny anecdotes.

Tom Holland is looking a bit Alex Cox, to my eyes at least, in his new advert thing.

@adrianchills.bsky.social Bait.

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

We're crowdfunding next month for an in-person audio fiction con next year! Follow our kickstarter prelaunch page to get an email when it launches! audiofictioncon.com

Calling all Nor-witches and Nor-locks... We're teaming up with our friends at @soundyard.bsky.social for the first ever Norwich Podcast Festival, to bring you... LET'S MAKE A HORROR PODCAST a workshop with Long Cat Media Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm - 9:00pm at SOUNDYARD

I'm pretty sure today's Wordle answer is exactly one month premature. Did somebody fill in their content calendar wrong?

The only exception is when they say zoom instead of dolly.

I don't entirely agree but these 'run-of-the-mill' shows are sometimes superb, or have many superb things about them. A good episode of Annika or Whitstable Pearl is truly great, and the best bits of Jonathan Creek are the pinnacle of the whole genre.

Just recommended to a work colleague that she call her dog Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger with a Side of Aircraft Noise and You'll Be Gary Indiana and I don't think she's even considering it.

The Game Changers hits the shelves in paperback today! Do YOU want to hear all about the intertwining histories & modern communities surrounding one of our greatest artforms, games? I flipping hope so, because I'm not good at reading social cues indicating a lack of interest & I like to monologue

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:

'Learn basic repair techniques for your clothes, inspired by wartime resourcefulness and resilience, in this hands-on workshop'.... from none other than my wife! theforumnorwich.co.uk/whats-on/men...

Catching up on the last week. Glad to see there are still some wonderful things in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBXp...

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre Follow the instructions at the top of this open letter to join the campaign and sign docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Brian Bolland’s original, and truly rather astonishing, cover art for 1990’s Animal Man #27. Whatever DC was paying him, it just wasn’t enough. This is clearly wonderful.

If you're enjoying the Public Eye repeats on Talking Pictures and you're wondering just went on in the sadly depleted first three series... this site may be pure catnip. Forensically detailed, packed full of stuff I never ever knew. It's brilliant. So much *stuff*. missingmarkers.weebly.com

According to the end credits, The Red Mask has the MPA number 88888. Is it just a placeholder?