White House press release.

Fabulous fully-funded PhD opportunity working with a stellar team of supervisors at Warwick/BFI on British South Asian Culture in Non-Fiction Films and Television, 1960s-1980s. @drjlw.bsky.social @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social

I’m delighted to announce that I have just received another job rejection email.

TV doing what only TV can do — and doing it brilliantly! #dirtybusiness #channel4 @channel4tv.bsky.social

Dear BBC Archives... A letter to thank you for Mañana, the Ibsen collection and more, to express my disappointment at how in certain ways you fail to treat these precious fragments with proper respect, and to suggest how you could do things better. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/dear-bbc-arc...

Finally finished it! 🧶

On deadlines.

Outstanding telly! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #riotwomen #bbc #sallywainwright

My notebook’s better than yours!

10 years married to this beaut! 🥰

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

Next April, I’ll be running @manchestermarathon.bsky.social to support the vital work of @tht.org.uk. Fundraising page: www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

A great piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social, who, it’s safe to say, knows a thing or two about Play for Today. 📺

Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving attention today to the campaign for independent access to the BBC Written Archives. The Corporation is still yet to engage with our argument and properly defend the policy shift. That is because it is indefensible. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Huge kudos to Channel 5, here – but the BBC needed to be running with this, long before now. 📺

I simply would not have had a thesis without this place ... 📺

📺 An OPEN LETTER responding to the recent access restrictions at the BBC Written Archives Centre – changes that effectively mean an end to sustained research into histories of the BBC, and those of television more broadly. Read the letter, spread the word, and join the campaign here:

Ali Smith, Gliff (2024)

"It's the end of civilization, true. But the television is superb." 📺 #rolli #television #cartoon

That Wes Streeting, a gay man who used to work at stonewall, is having to attempt to rebuild bridges with his own community because he burnt them by selling us out in the hope of getting his slimy hands on the keys to 10 Downing Street is shameful. May he never be welcome in an LGBTQ+ space again.

Really looking forward to this whole issue. Two articles already available (Rebecca’s, and Faye Woods’s), #openaccess. 📺 EastEnders at 40, @cstonline.bsky.social

"to advocate against trans women is to advocate against equality" — @notaphaseorg.bsky.social

Solidarity. Always.

On rage … ✏️ @shimi.bsky.social

Excellent funded PhD opportunity, working on a fascinating research project at @cujournmedcul.bsky.social in collaboration with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales: 'The Reg and George archive: co-creating stories about love, care and LGBTQ+ relationships in later life' www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Finally made it to the fabulous @queerbritain.bsky.social — and also managed to lose an hour in @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social’s brilliant Transcestry exhibition, celebrating 10 years of the Museum of Transology. It’s on until 11 May, and is well worth a trip!

From some viewing I did today at the BFI Mediatheque for a potential new project:

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A scene from the life of an early career researcher; or, a covering letter.

Chris Lang has knocked it out of the park – again.

Feels like an appropriate time to give this another boost:

Keith Haring, Untitled (1981) 📺

Talking to a Stranger (BBC2, 1966) 📺 In my view, this is one of the most captivating pieces of television ever made. Currently on BBCiPlayer.

This morning’s rabbit hole:

Education: “at its best, it should be disruptive” Mona Siddiqui

Mr Loverman (BBC, 2024) is just brilliant! Feel like it may have slipped under the radar a bit … www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Some of my 2024 telly highlights 3/3 📺 The Traitors - series 2 (BBC1) Tree on a Hill (S4C/BBC1) Truelove (Channel 4) Unforgotten - series 5 (ITV)

Some of my 2024 telly highlights 2/3 📺 Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC1) Mr Bates vs. the Post Office (ITV) Sherwood - series 2 (BBC1) Slow Horses - series 4 (Apple TV+)

Some of my 2024 telly highlights 1/3 📺 After the Party (TVNZ1/Channel 4) Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Breathtaking (ITV) Inside No 9 - series 9 (BBC1)

Ronald Searle - Christmas at St Trinians

My Christmas TV Advent Calendar #24 The Snowman (Channel 4, 1982)

My Christmas TV Advent Calendar #23 'Who’s Listening?', One Foot in the Grave (BBC1, 1990)

My Christmas TV Advent Calendar #22 'Christmas at Paradise Lodge', You’re Only Young Twice (Yorkshire, 1979)

My Christmas TV Advent Calendar #21 'Mum's Classic Family Christmas', Here We Go (BBC1, 2023)

Whether you agree or disagree with her actions; if you’ve created a system that’s incapable of coping with women then your system is prejudiced, sexist and misogynistic. It’s a basic principle of system design that it should cater for your user base. So for the Home Office to ignore that is wrong.

My Christmas TV Advent Calendar #20 'Silly, But It’s Fun', The Good Life (BBC1, 1977)

My Christmas TV Advent Calendar #19 'The Signalman', A Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC1, 1976)

My Christmas TV Advent Calendar #18 Cunk on Christmas (BBC2, 2016)