#TheTwen2ie5 Day 33. The Divine Comedy - All The Pretty Lights (2025,🇬🇧) Ice Spice quota: 8 youtu.be/KbJSlMWT_CU?...

Stand. Everyone else is wrong. It's Stand. youtu.be/bLaSXpqp__E?...

Yes, that is "I'll take the high road". #totp

Love the Eels boys. #totp

There he is, Kirby out of Frasier. #totp

Bob Monkhouse, why have you got four video recorders? #totp

Neil taking a sideways look at the week's news. #totp

Nice to hear the backing track from I Wanna Be The Only One by Eternal there. #totp

Tee hee.

Robbie is being an unironic, having a laugh pop star is quite confusing. #totp

Solid gold banger. #totp

Key change! #totp

This song is like a long, drawn-out sigh. #totp

Pop fact; the Alisha's Attic girls are the daughters of 60s skiffle star Lonnie Donegan. #top

Love the Attics. Didn't get the recognition they deserved. #totp

Lucky old Michael Caine, I say. #totp

The cheerleaders jiggling their tits is *ironic* sexism, okay? #totp

Er, I'm all for kicking Labour but the Growth Commission isn't a Labour thing. As far as I can tell they're just a lobbying group with no government connections. And without two brain cells to rub together but that goes without saying.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Singles. New Order. 2005. Top 3 tunes: Blue Monday, True Faith, Blue Monday 1988 You can skip: Oh, where to begin, they put out some very dull records. Rating: 6/10 Well, I gave them a chance but they're not really for me. Fine Time, World In Motion and Regret are /okay/, I suppose.

Just thinking about Celebrity Traitors last night and the fact that if they’d been on that train just 10 seconds longer the scenes would have been horrific. Massive relief all round I imagine, it would have put a serious crimp on what has otherwise been a very successful series.

BTW if you run an audio reviews website/podcast and haven't received an email about The Cricket on the Hearth/The Haunted Man, please let me know. Would hate for you to miss out on the festive joy.

Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN. Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy! Order here: averageromp.com

I say, Jamie! Yeti spheres!

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 32. Max Harwood - And You Don't Even Know It (2021,🇬🇧) youtu.be/ndugsv1gEls?...

This was where I first became aware of Joe Marler, and I've adored him ever since. youtu.be/C8VRk2ViiOw?...

I've written a new audio adaptation of one of Dickens' other Christmas books, The Cricket On The Hearth, and it's available now to buy as a bundle with The Haunted Man scripted by @jonnymorris.bsky.social. Mine stars Graham Fellows, his stars Paterson Joseph! averageromp.com/the-cricket-...

The king to prince andrew

Image of the year. #thetraitors

#EveryAlbumIOwn (Revisit) Butterfly. The Hollies. 1967. Top 3 tunes: Away Away Away, Wishyouawish, Butterfly You can skip: Would You Believe Rating: 10/10 The Hollies' psychedelic phase. Up there with Revolver, Village Green and Odessey. I've played it to death! Pegasus & Step Inside also top.

FIRST LISTEN! 🦾 The ultimate Cyber-form is coming to join the Time War. Click bgfn.sh/gene to pre-order Doctor Who: Cybergene, due for release next month.

Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN. Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy! Order here: averageromp.com

Be like Selim, my new best friend. ⬇️

(I should warn you I will be plugging the hell out of it for the next 6 weeks. You will get sick of the sight of that cover. Apologies in advance).

I have (reluctantly) set up an Instragram account for Average Romp. Please follow if you're there. (But it won't be posting anything there that isn't posted here first). www.instagram.com/averageromp/

Following The Chimes, two more Dickensian Christmas tales from @averageromp.bsky.social @jonnyauping.bsky.social @lisabowerman.bsky.social @eddierobson.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2025/11/06/a...

Proud of these two gems...The Haunted Man & The Cricket of the Hearth. If you enjoyed The Chimes, try these two out for some good seasonal fireside listening. Fine casts, great adaptations and wonderful sound design. Enjoy. #Dickens #Christmas #averagerompproductions #audiodrama averageromp.com

Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN. Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy! Order here: averageromp.com

My latest thing. EXTREMELY proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy!

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 31. Daði Freyr - Think About Things (2020,Iceland) This would've won! We was robbed! youtu.be/1HU7ocv3S2o?...

Look at this object of beauty.

Labour under pressure as another two criminals walk free.

I am on the drunk train! How marvellous. Reminds me of my youth.

In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody

#EveryAlbumIOwn Awake And Breathe. B*witched. 1999. Top 3 tunes: Jesse Hold On, Someday, Leaves You can skip: Red Indian Girl 😬 Rating: 7/10 B*witched attempt to combine Irish with country by adding a bit of banjo and leave everyone perplexed. Once again it's most pastiches of other acts.

Today's frustration.

My timeline has members of the cabinet being slagged off both for congratulating Mamdani and for not congratulating him, so I think they're getting the balance about right.

The Forstater ruling established a loopy-loo interpretation of the Grainger criteria and opened the door to any form of bigotry or political extremism being defended as a protected belief.

Given that about 10% of Covid cases lead to "Long Covid" maybe making vaccinations free again* might be a thing to try. * Or at least the same price as the fly jab, that would be something.

Getty images: Graham Norton pouring baked beans over Denise Van Outen's chest.