ICYMI - LABWEEK APPLICATIONS OPEN! Do you have a new idea that you want to explore and develop? Then submit your application for our weeklong residency opportunity for theatre makers to play and experiment with a new idea. Full guidance available here ➡️ www.tron.co.uk/creative/tronlab/

Thought Anna Funder’s Wifedom brilliant. Perhaps the most effective dissection of patriarchy I’ve read. Here’s some reasons why I liked it as a historian.

Trump is attacking the independence of the BBC in the same way that he has threatened and undermined US media. Trump must not be allowed to interfere in the British media. Sign our petition here: stoptrump.org.uk/petition-bbc/

What an incredible online exhibition of Arabic book art spearheaded by Zeina Maasri. "It reveals how the aesthetic concerns & political commitments of a generation of Arab artists & graphic designers transformed the Arabic book in its content, form, & very conception." www.decolonizingthepage.com/en

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

Old school British graffiti.

Mamdani is going to implement Scaramouche law. Everyone will have to do the Fandango.

For #caturday a chair coloured cat on a cat coloured chair

Post a pic from your camera roll that no one has seen but you

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tv.apple.com/gb/show/call... More audio drama. I recommend CALLS, this new-to-me 2021 freaky sci-fi series with abstract visuals accompanying the sound. It’s on Apple tv (you can get a free trial which is enough to get through the series) #audiodrama

#theatre #theatresky I really recommend this. It’s worth the stunning cover. A set of ingenious plays that were devised and performed remotely during covid. They leap off the page into your imagination, some of the strangest and most interesting stuff I’ve read in ages.

Just encountered the extremely beautiful interesting and wildly affordable pocket-size editions (I wrote picket-size at first) of @activedistribution.bsky.social for the first time at La Zone in Exarcheia

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ~ Charles Dickens

The EU today begins a months-long push to ensure content made by artificial intelligence is clearly identifiable online.

youtu.be/LRCuL6vtr74?... “Sorry, Wrong Number” 🔫📞 Just heard this for the first time. Masterpiece of phone-call-based audio suspense drama from 1943 by writer Lucille Fletcher. Agnes Moorehead’s performance as a woman who accidentally overhears a murder planned is outstanding #audiodrama

"You may be wondering why I 'ave zis ridiculous get up on. It is because I 'ave just 'eard the Nazis are terrified of the smell of onions."

URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Where’s Waldobert? - 12th century, Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole, Ms. 108, f. 254r

If you’re there, this starts in London now! Voilà! A multi-national original theatre fest with a huge number of performances. Unfortunately nothing is streamed however. There‘s an audio play in the dark too #theatre www.voilafestival.co.uk

Athens and the wider Attica region face an escalating water crisis as reservoir levels hit historic lows. Officials warn that if current trends continue, the capital could face severe shortages within two years

Do I become a computer?

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

The W&A Working-Class Writer's Prize 2025 is open for entries NOW! Submit your writing within our one-month window to be in with a chance of winning. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4opAzXS

I‘m online-at this event for the first time and it’s been awesome all day. Great workshops and talks and brilliant to hear all the creative work. Looking forward to the live performances tonight! #adhubfest2025

Found! Here! @wirelesstheatre.bsky.social

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If anyone can recommend any good audio drama I’ve got two ears here wanting to listen #audio #audiodrama 🎭 🎧

Headlong Theatre are looking for emerging theatre directors based outside London to join Headlong Origins 2026, a year-long artist development programme supporting directors across the UK. buff.ly/H8eKnaK

If anyone can recommend any good audio drama I’ve got two ears here wanting to listen #audio #audiodrama 🎭 🎧

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Contrary to Harriet Harmen's characterisation of @zackpolanski.bsky.social as a "big I am", of all the political figures I've observed in any detail he is easily the most collaborative and the one who uses his platform to lift other voices and to listen to people way more than anyone else I've seen.

LOCATIONS ANNOUNCED In what is set to be the “most widespread mass civil disobedience in modern British history” actions will take place in dozens of towns and cities, defying the ‘terror’ ban on Palestine Action ahead of and during the judicial review (25–27 November) 🧵

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Kurt Vonnegut

The Moving Body by Jacques Lecoq. I’m on a mission to re-read all my old drama books in November. Really interesting to read-visit now. I remember feeling lost doing exercises based on this and the teacher told me “being confused is a choice”.

That beauty up close

Autumn in central Greece. House continues to fall down gracefully amid the beauty

🥳 We have exciting NEWS! 🥳 'The End of the Sahara' by Saïd Khatibi has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2025 Arab Literature Prize. More details 👉 bit.ly/47DB1LT Winner announced on 18 Nov. We publish in Feb (UK) and March (US). English translation by Alexander Elinson.

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

I had already decided November would be get back into theatre month for me. It’s a portent!

We don't just want 9 river walks, we want access to all rivers. 96% of rivers in England and Wales have no rights of access. Landowners have blocked public access to rivers for centuries. Labour's promise is just 9 new river walks. We say that's not enough.

Timeline cleanse

Intrigued

Enjoying this at the moment. The cut-glass live radio performances… the shenanigans of Paul Temple, private investigator, and his confusingly named wife Steve. There’s a lot of old fashioned attitudes but also a lot of good intentions and zippy stories #audiobook

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A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt

La rencontre / The encounter - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112296