This is how I arrived onto the BlueSky

This Sunday might just be the best night on BBC Four in a while. A corking Ibsen double bill, the continuing Pevsner repeats, and at its centre a celebration of the late music and arts supremo Humphrey Burton. (A full run of 100 Great Paintings would be great too.)

Nice to see Malvern celebrating its heritage

Fckn woke buses, telling you what the next stop is

"Littleman, Prettyman, Dainty, Rug, Jack, Prickears, Frog."

The names of some imps, via Malcolm Gaskill’s book ‘Witchfinders’ about Matthew Hopkins and the witch mania of the 1640s: Littleman Prettyman Dainty Rug Jack Prickears Frog Touch Pluck Take Jacob Hangman Meribell Kit Beelzebub (a log) Trullibub (a stick)

Is it to send soldiers in bowler hats?

New on my blog today, an article about the time Dennis Potter tried to get into writing for Doctor Who in the 1960s, what his story would have been about, and the other times he crossed paths with the series. Hopefully this will interest a few of you. thehiddenplanet.substack.com/p/when-denni...

Gorton and Denton sound like a Robert Holmes double act

What's a line delivery you'll never forget?

This evening it's Terror of the Autons on a TV sitting on a card table

This is being repeated this coming Sunday. I think it'll be the earliest TV repeat BBC4 has ever shown, if not the whole of the BBC.

Coming soon: 'The Haunted Archive - The Annotated Ghost Story Manuscripts of M.R. James'. Beautiful facsimile autograph manuscript editions of MRJ's ghost stories, annotated by leading Jamesian scholars. Volume 1: 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' coming to Kickstarter soon... >>>

POIROT'S FLAT

A bloke stared at me as he walked past and then muttered to himself "Ah yes, I could have a pie. A pie would be nice." Glad to have provided the inspiration.

Having such a nice day, now it's time to watch Arsenal

That's the third of Malvern's (unprecedented) THREE fluted pillar boxes officially looked at

Muppets Christmas Carol in French w/ English subtitles. Still feels weird seeing it in English. "Marley et Marley! WooooOOOooooo!!"

Due to being overshadowed by breaking news, the BBC will repeat its TV Movie announcement next week

Due to being overshadowed by breaking news, the BBC will repeat its TV Movie announcement next week

"I think you're right, Brigadier. I need a bomb - BRING IT HERE" "Roger that. I'll get one of those suitcase jobbies. One of our boffins, that's his hobby!"

For some reason my Google Maps now permanently displays every temperate rainforest in the UK, and I can't turn it off (not a complaint btw)

Jude the [obscured]

This Shrove Tuesday, revive the tradition of burying a chicken up to its neck and throwing sticks at it while blindfolded. The one who kills the chicken gets to keep it.

Possibly my most picturesque Monster Munch consumption to date

A welcome repeat for Victor Pemberton's "The Slide" on 4 Extra, starting yesterday. Full of great actors doing great things, including Maurice Denham delivering a portrayal of "man descending into madness" that's quite unlike much else you'll ever hear. It's a cracker of a serial.

BBC Alba is showing Serie A football tonight from 16:50, the first in a series of matches to be shown free-to-air on the channel in the coming weeks/months👇🏼 share.google/2a3AOghb6DXJ...

Rather enjoyed this, particularly its Teletubbies-based epilogue.

Most well observed character in Small Prophets is the ostensibly friendly but simmering with rage huel-drinking Audi-driving neighbour with grey wallpaper and a picture of a French bulldog in sunglasses on the wall *chef's kiss*

Forgot the critical detail that he'd just been to Lidl

Just walked past Mark from Invasion of the Dinosaurs #CelebSpotting

A Criminal Practice, a comic play by Terrance Dicks first broadcast on 5 July 1967, is being repeated on Radio 4 Extra today at 3pm and 9pm; afterwards, it’ll be available on BBC Sounds - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

*Bananas in Pyjamas tune*

*Bananas in Pyjamas tune*

Not now, cursed Mithraic altar

Fun fact, I used to think ex libris meant ex-library book

Malvern Bookshop, you've done it again 🥵

Quite enjoyed Ep 1 of Lord of the Flies. Nicely weird.

Big shout out to the BBC Olympic titles for using the Tuba Mirum from Verdi's Requiem, far superior to the more famous Dies Irae

Being sent down a luge track is absolutely the way a henchman would try and kill Roger Moore era Bond. Almost amazed it never happened. You can just picture it, the cutting to close-ups of Moore's gurning face as he struggles to remain in control of the sled, the comically sped up footage etc.

"An offer JUST for you, watch Sky Sports for *only* £19.99 a month!!!!!!!! (plus an extra £6 to watch it in HD!!!!!)" And people will argue the BBC isn't good value for money

The home office is now COMPLETE

Have finished consuming Ulverton. Very enjoyable, especially the last chapter, a script for a documentary you could imagine popping up on the BBC Archive youtube channel in 2026.

This would be my Tardis interior

The abandoned pub beneath Hereford Cider Museum

The opening titles to BBC's coverage of the #WinterOlympics isn't computer or hand drawn - it's actually a stop motion animation using models and real flames #BBColympics #MilanCortina2026

Sun came out about 10 mins before I started work, for maximum cruelty.