From Page To Screen public booking opens tomorrow, Sat 14. Includes:- * Walter Murch recut of Touch of Evil! * Casino Royale with writers Purvis & Wade! * Airplane! & 2001 on the big screen! * James Strong, David Arnold, Suzanne Mackie Q&As & loads more Do share! https://www.bridport-arts.com/fpts/

Where do you write? At the kitchen table. In a café. On the train. Late at night when everyone else is asleep. However it happens, we’d love to read it. Entries for the Bridport Prize close 31 May 23:59pm UK time buff.ly/fMqXUEs #BridportPrize #AmWriting #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

A bit about the thinking behind some events at the upcoming From Page To Screen festival in Bridport. Filmmaker sessions, every lunchtime, for those wanting to get in to the industry. Free for under-25s. (Full Programme announced tonight!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78xgzp5qqpo

Tune into BBC South Today (and hopefully BBC Spotlight, too) this evening to hear guest curator Chris Chibnall discussing this year's From Page to Screen - Bridport's Film Festival (22-26 April 2026). Our programme goes goes 'live' online tonight at 7.30pm.

We thought you might like to see the poster design for this year's From Page to Screen - Bridport's Film Festival. There are still a few tickets left for the free programme launch on Thu 12 Mar, hosted by our guest curator, Chris Chibnall https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/fpts-programme-launch/

I’m curating this year’s From Page To Screen film festival - April 22-26 in Bridport. @bridportarts.bsky.social Full programme announcement on Thursday, with some really special events. A little preview: https://www.marshwoodvale.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Chris-Chibnall-Mar-26.pdf

A stunner of an interview.

Bamboozled with delight - Death at the White Hart is shortlisted in the Crime & Thriller category at this year’s British Book Awards.

Death at the White Hart has been nominated for Best First Novel at the International Thriller Writers Awards taking place in New York in May, at ThrillerFest. 🤯🥳

February POV

January POV (it was a whirl)

I do not write much but there is not a day goes by that I do not think of you.

All three seasons of #Broadchurch are coming to Netflix UK from Tuesday 18 November.

Exactly how I felt being at the birth of our son.

I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

This piece, as cited by @emilybell.bsky.social & @taraconlan.bsky.social, is the big picture of what’s going on. The playbook successfully deployed in the US is happening here. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned-influencers-media-emerge-new-mainstream-2025-11-08/

Superb, old school, independent local journalism, in a new model of collaboration and funding. Not seen the conclusions of this reporting picked up/acknowledged yet by other outlets. This is the sort of reporting they used to do. https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/

Been enjoying watching videos of Radiohead’s return to the stage last night. What a setlist! Anyway, seemed like a good excuse to repost this old favourite I drew a few years back.

Agatha Christie invites you to a Netflix mystery… Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials debuts 15 January on Netflix, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.

Coming in 2026 📚💙

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Dad's Army - Getting The Bird (27th October 1972). A moment of Croft/Perry pathos.

Love the cover art for the Japanese edition.

Tomorrow: Dorchester! Friday: Yeovil! Last Death at the White Hart events.

Also: The Chair Company.

Why, yes, @helenlewis.bsky.social did go to the Riyadh Comedy Festival www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Was simultaneously thrilled and slightly terrified to be subjected to The Shoot Treatment by the brilliant @4hundredblows.bsky.social for @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social This show - and Martin himself - always manages to provoke conversations few other interviews get to.

Final Death at the White Hart events next week, back in the South West. Dorchester next Thurs (23rd) and Yeovil on Fri (24th) https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/chris-chibnall-death-at-the-white-hart/ https://www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/chris-chibnall/10069

#DoctorWho Postcards are now available to buy! 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books in another universe, in a different time. Get them here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

Congratulations to @johnrivers.bsky.social, @aquatics64.bsky.social, @gasbirder.bsky.social who each win a pack of my TV Crime Penguin Book postcards. Nobody guessed all 15, but I think the first was pretty hard to "crack". Here they all are, and now available to buy: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

🤯Death at the White Hart is Number 2 in the Sunday Times Bestseller list! Thanks so much if you’ve bought it. The support from everyone - booksellers, readers, events, podcasters, media - has been immense. And the team @michaeljbooks.bsky.social have been incredible. 📚💙

Get your guesses in today. You may not have to know all of them to win — the three people with the most correct get a pack!

This is a lovely hour’s listening. Not just the unheard-since-1975 audio with Lennon, but Nicky Horne recounting the experience of travelling to New York as a 24 year old and interviewing his musical hero at the Dakota. www.boomradiouk.com/player/boom-...

US #Traitors casts sneaky & backstabbing celebrities to amp up drama. UK celeb version already feels smart for the opposite instinct: national treasures, Olympians and overall sound types. Their liking for each other makes the game more challenging and the programme funnier & warmer. Great first ep.

In the creative industries/the media and want to mentor? @artsemergency.bsky.social is looking for enthusiastic professionals

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Last few tickets left! A Christie for Christmas Organised by HarperCollins on Thursday 20 November. Taking place on the 17th Floor of The News Building in London, it promises to be a wonderful evening! @harpercollins.bsky.social #agathachristie

Unsurprisingly, strong recommend:

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-christie...

Excited to be doing this next month!

And further updates.

Incredible clipping from 1992, and the internal machinations it hints at.

Nudge nudge wink wink say no more etc

That Ishiguro quote, one more time.

Death at the White Hart is @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller of the Month for October! www.waterstones.com/book/death-a...

Absolutely gorgeous.

The director of the abandoned Scoob: Holiday Haunt tells his story, in a special episode of the Film Stories podcast. filmstories.co.uk/news/in-conv...