Some lovely audience quotes just in from last week's shows with Creative Arts East - aw. If you'd like the show on the origins of broadcasting that's "so fascinating, and entertaining, and amusing...", "absolutely marvellous!" at your place... ...get in touch! (Ealing tomorrow)

If I don't read them, will I live forever? Maybe I'll just read 4 - that should do it.

West Londoners! 2 more days till my Ealing show: An Evening of (Very) Old Radio Be informed, educated & entertained about British broadcasting’s 1st music, DJ, drama, children’s presenter, comedian, bridge commentary & more: Tue 30 Sept, Questors Theatre: www.questors.org.uk/event.aspx?i...

Dear BBC, I'm unsure about this sequel.

VVV

West London folks! Consider coming to An Evening of (Very) Old Radio at The Questors Theatre, Ealing, next Tue 30 Sept. My last London performance of this show for the foreseeable... and maybe ever. There are tickets remaining. Oh boy are there. Grab some! www.questors.org.uk/event.aspx?i...

I'll be chatting to @bbcnorfolk.bsky.social 3:35pm today, about 'An Afternoon of (Very) Old Radio' Hunstanton (Wed) + Attleborough (Thu), part of @creativeartseast.bsky.social's Arts for Health All welcome, inc those with dementia + other health challenges. www.creativeartseast.co.uk/events/an-af...

Know anyone in Hunstanton/north Norfolk area? Free Wednesday afternoon? Send them to Hunstanton Methodist Church, 2pm, Wed 24th Sept, for An Afternoon of (Very) Old Radio. Includes tea and biscuits! My kind of event... #minesabourbon #orajammiedodger www.ticketsource.co.uk/creative-art...

Obey this scrunched-up flyer! Come to Questors Theatre, Ealing next Tue 30 Sept for An Evening of (Very) Old Radio: The First Firsts of Broadcasting …inc your heckled questions altering the show before your eyes. Eat that, AI! Those retail details: www.questors.org.uk/event.aspx?i...

Had my first mince pie of the season while listening to The Pogues on Magic Xmas. Merry September! (Buy my old Christmas book: thebigchurchread.co.uk/hark/)

To Huthwaite, Notts! Paulkerensa.com/gigguide

The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel by Disney/ABC is chilling. A court jester has been silenced. (Speaking of cancellation, might be time to look at that Disney+ subscription...) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Next one-man shows... Sat 20 Sept, HUTHWAITE, Notts www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... Wed 24 Sept 2pm: HUNSTANTON, Norfolk Thu 25 Sept 2pm: ATTLEBOROUGH, Norfolk www.ticketsource.co.uk/creative-art... Tue 30 Sept: Questors EALING www.questors.org.uk/event.aspx?i... Come to them all, I won't judge

Next London performance of An Evening of (Very) Old Radio: The First Firsts of Broadcasting? Tue 30 Sept, Questors Theatre Ealing. Do come. Let's make history (that informs, educates and entertains) www.questors.org.uk/event.aspx?i...

A great #RADFest25 Radio Academy Festival - some helpful 1:1s and now a talk on the BBC’s first black producer Una Marson (we’ve featured her on episode 51 of the @bbcentury.bsky.social podcast) - and the day is young yet.

Anyone else heading to tomorrow’s Radio Academy Festival? First-timer + self-employed freelancer sole-trader here, so do say hi to the guy muttering into his coffee about his old radio project… paulkerensa.com/oldradio

Ah, my old school nickname.

A joy to host the CEVMA (Christian European Visual Media Association) awards on the weekend - a great bunch of people, and they didn't even throw things when I sang at them. Here after with UCB chief David L'Herroux - and see, he's still smiling (actually this might have been before).

If you've not yet got the Fantastically Faithful books... do! And if you HAVE got them, thanks. Books 3 + 4 out next year. Online reviews welcome if the place you got them from does reviews, extra thanks. (If you bought from a bookshop, double kudos points to you.)

Gig upcomings? Sure: - Church shows inc Notts, Emsworth, Stamford - BBC origin story show inc Ealing, Petersfield, Norfolk - Circuit gigs inc Norfolk, Welwyn, Sunbury (Or get in touch to chat about coming to yours) More at: paulkerensa.com/gigguide.php

This Sunday (14 Sept, details fans), 7pm, I'll be on J John's show Facing the Canon. I faced the canon for a fun half-hour chat about faith + comedy. It'll be on Revelation TV, Shine TV (NZ), New Hope TV (India), Kanal 10 (Sweden) + at youtu.be/i9Mh3pgNZCM Here's a pic of me playing invisible darts:

I have concerns. BBC News + other TV outlets rightly stop short of showing the moment of Charlie Kirk's death. But I know people who've had that unedited moment appear on their phones - they've not sought it out, but it auto-plays in reels, swipes, algorithms...

I made this for your ears...

Great coffee shop exchanges of our time: me: Large latte please, drink in. barista: Our dishwasher's broken. m: (pause) I'm sorry to hear that. b: We can only do take-out. m: Can I have a take-out cup but drink here? b: Course. m: Great. As long as it's a latte I don't mind what you put it in. (1/2)

JOIN ME! (sorry: join me)

If you saw m'show at Greenbelt, and if you enjoyed it, would you do me a favour... and let the bosses know via this feedback thing? And anything else you enjoyed? (If you didn't enjoy it - keep it between us, yeah? Ta.) www.surveymonkey.com/r/gb25survey

First day of school, so I woke up the kids to the sound of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto - which they recognised as the 'wake-up music' on Squid Game*... ...I will accept my Dad of the Year trophy now. youtu.be/Xz_4jrhwIiQ?...

Out of synch with the seasons once again 😃 This is a (40cm x 40cm oil on canvas) view of the Sonnette valley from the hillside above. 250€ (when dry - not including p&p) DM for further details

Merry September! 10 events o'mine: 1 morning, 4 afternoons, 5 evenings, 1 comedy club, 5 solo shows, 1 radio thing, 5 things about ye olde BBC, 4 stand-up, 6 church events (+ writing, podcasting and planning future things) ...Pretty much sums up the career at the mo. Come say hi.

The weather looks good this Saturday. Join my 90min walking tour of early BBC sites! Meet 3pm, steps of All Souls Langham Place, end at Savoy Hill approx 4:40ish, via the birthplace of the headphones, the first BBC studio + Room 101. £PWYW You're welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pks-walkin...

A merry day with a magnificent cast recording WHATEVER THIS IS. Watch this space. Or listen. (And we had to pop by these gaffs after…)

Is ‘Jones’ his only name? Like Madonna, Lassie or Thor.

We saw a fantastic show on the weekend at The Magic Circle. Not just a club, but a venue, with close-up magic (and a tour) each weekend. The kids then spent the next day doing magic tricks at home and I showed them Paul Daniels making an elephant disappear. Next stop: Wizbit.

Comedians club fees in 78 Tarbuck as higher than Dawson has suprised me but Dawson and little and large getting the same rates is something

Next weekend's walking tour of early BBC buildings inc this old place: birthplace of the Beeb at Marconi House. It's changed a little bit. Join us! 3pm Saturday... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pks-walkin...

As a Traitors fan, I wrote this on a different social medium, so sharing here too. Traitors-a-like shows: the best, the worst, the ones I'm waiting for...

One more walking tour this year of early/pre-BBC landmarks: Sat 6th Sept, 3pm, £PWYW. We start at Broadcasting House, we end at Savoy Hill (first permanent BBC HQ), via the first OB, Room 101 + birthplace of the headphones. Details + to sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pks-walkin...

Sorry-not-sorry to talk of Christmas but... Comedians & Carols returns for its 18th year this December. There are these gaps in the diary - so if a church, theatre or other venue fancy a festive comedy show on: Wed 3 Dec Tue 9 Dec Wed 10 Dec Mon 15 Dec Tue 16 Dec Thu 18 Dec ...Get in touch ASAP!

Thanks if you came to The First Religious Broadcast show/talk at Greenbelt. About 1,500 people did! Yikes. Want more? - AUDIO: Podcast on 'A History of Religious Broadcasting: 100 Years of God on the Beeb': pod.fo/e/160bd7 - VIDEO: The first religious broadcast, re-enacted: youtu.be/X-K2zrxu9e8?...

I’ll be talking about Big Church Festival AND Greenbelt Festival on Premier Christian Radio breakfast with Esther tomorrow (Thursday) 7:45am. I was at both, thanks to cloning. So which had the better toilets? Tune in to not find out.

Churches, venues, arts centres in Norfolk/East Lincs/North Cambridgeshire... Fancy booking a touring comedian (me) on Wed 24 Sept? I can do a discount, as I'll be in the area (due to daytime Norfolk event that day) (I'm available too for other dates in other places of course...)

I'm embarrassed how long it took me to work out what a 'bottomless brunch' is.

Thanks to all who came to any of 7 shows across 2 festivals this weekend (BCF/GB). From fuelling catch-ups to battling rappers to leaping from CS Lewis to Amazing Grace x The Muppets, it’s been an eclectic hotchpotch of a joy. (And ‘do you have a mailing list?’, someone asked: eepurl.com/M6Wbr)

Ah, @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social is here + all is well. A fine few hundred in for this morning’s show/talk/performance/whatever-it-is (on 180ish years of transmitting God) - another tonight. Old/new friends galore, catch-ups aplenty. (The podcast it’s based on is www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhI5...)

At @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social? Join me Sunday 11:30am (online, No Fly Zone) or 8:30pm (Forum) for 100+ years of God on air. From the 1st ever speech broadcast (Luke 2: “Do not be afraid!") to the sermon heard by 1/2 the planet, we'll inform/educate/entertain/equip - we're all broadcasters now.

Well Big Church Festival day 1 was a total joy. From doing battle with poets and rappers to good ol’ fashioned standup to coffee chats with old and new pals. Delights one and all. Back tomorrow in the After Hours comedy slot for a shenanigan or two.

From Reith's diaries to 1923's wireless mags, we piece together the unrecorded Beeb from 102 years ago - inc. a Scottish drama with fight scenes, Reith replacing a newsreader to please his Mum, and an announcer whose voice suggests "fresh breezes on the moors". Have a listen...

Roll on festival weekend! If you're at @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social or Big Church Festival, say hi: FRI, BCF: 1400: Spoken Word 1600: Children's Storytelling 1700: Spoken Word 2230: Spoken Word SAT, BCF: 2230: Spoken Word SUN, GB: 1130: First Religious Broadcast, No Fly Zone 2030: ditto, Forum

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Glad to present another Daily Service on Radio 4 Extra this morning. This one’s about faith and a bloke called Thomas. Here hear on BBC Sounds if that’s your thing. Back with another next month. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...