THE DAGENHAM PORKCHOP - is on at 2.15pm today on BBC Radio 4. (And on BBC Sounds afterward.) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New drama: The Dagenham Porkchop by @broughton500.bsky.social 1415 today @BBCRadio4 Ronny 'The Dagenham Porkchop' is an old wrestler with a painful past. Stars Robert Glenister, Ron Cook, Holli Dempsey & Lisa Palfrey. Sound by Nigel Lewis. Directed by John Norton www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Saw The Weir tonight (25+ years after last seeing it on its premier.). Recommended.

the forbidden portal

Tuesday on BBC Radio 4 (4th Nov) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Chair Company is making me laugh a lot

4th November

rip

Last night’s dream - scuba diving in a small muddy pond

In Cardiff BBC Studio - day one of recording

The Mall tonight

Love Rameau

French baroque is so French #proms #bbcfour

There's a 6-part drama series in this.

Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden

I stumbled on seven misty mountains

I am other people

Annual reminder that Geek Love by Bang Bang Machine is the greatest single ever.

RIP Frank Caprio

"it's always the person you most medium suspect"

Everything about #totp 1978 is magnificent - not just legs and co dancing to Dylan

“The blast wave from a thermo nuclear explosion has been likened to an enormous door slamming in the depths of hell”

Is Peter Watkins the most underrated British film maker?

Fallen Leaves (the beautiful little finnish film) is currently on bbc iplayer. It's so good.

some morning are built for a Malcolm Arnold dance

18th century rock and roll #proms #bbcfour

Loving this prom #proms #bbcfour young Parisians are so french

overheard - window cleaner talking to my next door neighbour: "my old man got himself a pair of bifocals, and the next day he smashed his car up. They're fucking dangerous."

I still love the kids from fame #totp

Chloe Kelly has magic in her boots

1583 (Sienese) portrait of Elizabeth I holding a sieve. She looks more real than usual.

“Sit down Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.” -Wicker Man

I'm in the throes of the exquisite sadness that comes from just having finished reading a great book.

Super-Infinite - Katherine Rundell’s biography of John Donne - is really excellent. The chapter on the death of his wife and his writing of her epitaph is v moving.

every year i listen to this song on this day www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfq...

"The Boleyn Tavern was even visited by Mahatma Gandhi who socialised with fans and drank cream soda before attending West Ham matches during his visits to London."

Gosh Petals on Radio 3 Night Tracks just made the world stand still

Where better than now, when better than here.

I was only singing

"language is a set, not of rules, but of possibilities."

Just read a brilliant essay by Kenneth Mcleish (about Woyzeck) from 1996- then discovered he died the following year relatively young. His cause of death ‘hushed’ …..?

the ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face

Arguably the most influential person in US history is Gorgeous George Wagner