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Emma Price @tinymaster.bsky.social · 11h

Did a fun little sketchy thing for Day 1 of Peachtober, celebrating the start of spooky season with a spider wearing a wee little acorn hat, for the prompt, "Oak"... because why not? Nice to draw something whimsical for a change. #Peachtober26Oak

The letter, "O" for Oak sits behind the dangling figure of a spider, wearing a little acorn cup as a hat. The O is light green, on a dark green background, with oak leaves dotted around.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 15h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re in London on Thursday NOVEMBER 19th, we’ll be in conversation with BBC Radio 6 DJ, broadcaster and writer @zakiasewell.bsky.social at The London Cartoon Museum. More info here: www.nickabadzis.com/blog/2026/10...

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In Conversation with Zakia Sewell - 19 November 2026 — Nick Abadzis

“In Conversation” with Zakia Sewell, Thursday 19th November. Further details…

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 19h

Jackanory - The Hobbit (1st October 1979). To celebrate reaching the 3000th edition of Jackanory, a tag team of four readers - Jan Francis, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, and David Wood - tackled this book.

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 21h

Coming to the stage in 2027! 👉 www.rsc.org.uk/piranesi

Artwork for Piranesi the play. A disembodied hand pulling fingers through clay

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'You should know and love the people you’re writing about as deeply as you possibly can' 💓 Bestselling romance novelist & tutor of our six-week Writing a Romance course, @jennycolgan.bsky.social talks about her approach to writing & what makes a page-turning love story. Read the full interview:

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Jenny Colgan: 'If you love a character you’ll follow them anywhere'

Interview with bestselling romance author Jenny Colgan. Find out what makes a page-turning love story with romantic leads you root for.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026

oh I was DELIGHTED to review Guilty Pleasure - The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else for the Observer, I INHALED it in a single day and just found it so clever and interesting and a pleasure to read: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From the West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 4 March 1986: a Doctor Who story writing competition judged by Dennis Spooner and Robert Holmes, which makes you wonder if the event was cursed as both of them would be dead within six months of the closing date.

Seasider's DIARY
Write a plot for the Doctor

WHO fancies their chances as a sci-fi story writer?

If you've got time on your hands you may like to enter a competition to
compose a tale featuring Dr Who and any of his old adversaries.

Set your control at 1,000 words and let your imagination turn out a galaxy-gripping storyline.

Prove yourself a master in Dalek-dialogue, Cybermen-chat or Tardis-talk and you'll be Lorded up with prizes including Dr Who videos, books and T-shirts.

Entries will be judged by Dr Who script writers Dennis Spooner and Robert Holmes.

The competition has been organised by the Blackpool Branch of the Dr Who Appreciation Society who plan to submit the top stories for inclusion in a soon-to-be-launched national society magazine.

Dr Who freaks up and down the country currently number 3.500-plus.

Time, lords and ladies, will be called on March 21, with the winners notified
by April 4. Entries to Mr Andrew Hayes, c/o 40 Dean Street, South Shore.

Meanwhile the next dose of Doctor-mania will be dished out at the next branch meeting at Blackpool Central Library on March 8.

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Paul @rudemrlang.com · 01/10/2026

They’re doing free access at newspapers.com all this weekend if anyone has any rabbit holes they’d like to disappear down. www.newspapers.com/go/freeacces...

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Free Access! Through October 5th.

Limited time free access to view and search pages in our newspaper archive for obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, social pages, and much, much more.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Many know this record. It samples Esther Rantzen. #RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZp...

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In The Bath

YouTube video by Lemon Jelly - Topic

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World of Telly @world-of-telly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new episode of World of Telly is now available wherever you get your podcasts. This time we take a look at Threads (1984). A video version of this episode will be released over the weekend.

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're counting down to the release of our new book The Reality War. Pre-order now to get the early discount price of £12.99, which will rise to the RRP of £14.99 upon release.

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Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, this is lovely! City of All Seasons by Aliya Whiteley and myself has been shortlisted for the Aldiss Award for World Building in speculative fiction!

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've just received a new crop of reprints. You Are Not Alone, Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, Maximum Power! and David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television are all back in stock. Phew! Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who

David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely feeling the personal touch from the British Museum.

Exhibitions Events Shop FAQS Bayeux Tapestry - Members' priority booking opens 12 noon on Tuesday 6 October • Dear Example Primary Salutation, We greatly look forward to the next Members' priority booking

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My Beloved Other is out TODAY in the UK

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's live! The prologue from Malcolm Hulke's Target novel Dinosaur Invasion - animated! youtu.be/aNRfScgskFY?...

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Dinosaur Invasion: London Alert

YouTube video by Doctor Who Literature Podcast

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The curry house at the end of the rainbow

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday plug for my online shop, because it's never too early to think about you-know-what. You may find something here for friends and family who like #Detectorists, #SmallProphets, #DoctorWho, #InsideNo9, #Bookish, #Ludwig (and precisely 13 more TV Detectives). Right here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

Penguin and Puffin Book covers for Bookish, Small Prophets, Detectorists, Doctor Who and Inside No.9.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All the talk about reviving Playschool, you ought to listen to this… Our recent chat with the woman who created it back in 1964, the amazing Pioneering Joy Whitby.

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

News of the return of Play School prompted me to look out my 2019 piece for TV Years magazine, I which I interviewed creator Joy Whitby and presenters Carol Chell and Carol Leader. You can read it in full here: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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The return of Play School

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Paul Hayes @paul-hayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

70 years ago today, the BBC showed a recording of the CBC's Flight into Danger - later remade as the film Airplane!, and one of the important steps on the way to the creation of #DoctorWho. To celebrate, here's a much longer edit of my audio documentary telling Flight into Danger's story:

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Flight into Danger - The Story of the Original Airplane! (an audio documentary)

YouTube video by Paul Hayes

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the Criterion Current, I wrote about the 1948–1951 trilogy of U.K. anthology movies based on W. Somerset Maugham short stories: QUARTET, TRIO and ENCORE. All three are on the Criterion Channel. I enjoyed them so much I spent all summer reading Maugham stories. www.criterion.com/current/post...

Dirk Bogarde and Honor Blackman in "The Alien Corn" episode of QUARTET (1948)

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Paul Hayes @paul-hayes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This evening in 1956, at 7.55pm, BBC TV ran a trail for a drama they'd be showing the next day - a recording of the CBC play Flight into Danger. So it seems appropriate, exactly 70 years on, to trail that tomorrow I'll be putting out an extended edit of my audio doc on Flight - now 66 minutes long!

A partial screen capture from a computer screen, showing an Adobe Audition audio editing session, with many dozens of clips split over four different tracks.

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Reecy Pontiff @reecypontiff.com · 22/09/2026

Were the Doctor Who TV movie ratings -actually- bad? Was the shooting set a safe space? Might we finally get new Grace Holloway material? Find out that & more in my recent #LIWho 1996 TV movie panel w/co-star Daphne Ashbrook & producer Phil Segal! youtu.be/OUzAwJ43acQ #DoctorWho #8thDoctor

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Doctor Who TV movie panel w/Daphne Ashbrook & Phil Segal @ LI Who

YouTube video by the A/V of Reecy Pontiff

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory

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Marie O’Regan @marieoregan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My son Joe has set up a JustGiving page on behalf of the family, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of our David, who passed away earlier this month after a long illness. Please consider supporting this if you can. Thank you. www.justgiving.com/page/memory-...

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Joseph's fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of David

Help Joseph O'Regan raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our first reading announcement - @0tralala.bsky.social will be reading from his novelisation of Terrance Dicks' The Six Doctors for #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub tickets: bit.ly/smallbluebox

The Six Doctors - Simon Guerrier - a reading

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For years my Wordpress has just been for announcements, but I've started properly blogging there about writing -- what I'm writing, the craft itself, etc. Fer yer interest: kateorman.wordpress.com

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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So tonight I went to an exhibition of the work of the late BBC Costume Designer, Joyce Hawkins, covering her 3 decade long career from 1958 to her retirement in 1988. She died in May this year, aged 95. Well done on all that, Joyce

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a NEW BOOK out in Feb and you can preorder NOW! Preorders are a magic gift to authors (and their publishers)! It shows there's demand for a book so the bookshops get excited and stock in abundance! Links here but your local indie always loves a preorder! www.walker.co.uk/978152953065...

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Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Monster Hunting - Walker Books

The NEW book in the bestselling Loki series that brings together Norse mythology and school day adventures in a hilarious, easy-to-read doodle diary."Tom Gat...

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tonight, I’ll be interviewing author Qaisra Shahraz at Chorlton Library. Details and tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

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An Evening with acclaimed author and campaigner Qaisra Shahraz

Chorlton Book Festival presents

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a little bit of context of the passage of time in #70Up / #UpSeries, here's an overview of some of the television programmes that were around the time each one was broadcast. Seven Up! (5/5/64) was shown in the week of the penultimate ep of #DoctorWho's Keys of Marinus: Sentence of Death.

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lovesick cat - hey boyfriend the cat next door has moved house, at least for a few days

Mittens, a black and white cat, stood on a wall

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Private Passions: 90 mins of classical music and reminiscences with Sylvester McCoy www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Private Passions - Sylvester McCoy, actor - BBC Sounds

Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor Sylvester McCoy.

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Jess Glanz @jessglanz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I yell about Drunk On All Your Strange New Words by @eddierobson.bsky.social all the time and everyone I’ve recommended it to has loved it as much as I do. It’s such a great concept and so much fun. I have no idea why it didn’t make a bigger splash.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One for UK folks, folk horror movie Starve Acre just landed on BBC iPlayer 👍🏻

A movie poster. It features the text 'BFI, based on Andrew Michael Hurley's acclaimed novel, Matt Smith Morfydd Clark, Starve Acre

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Michael Seely @mpseely.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First post in a while (wot a bleedin' year) and this one is about how a debate about the role of BBC story editors in 1965 encouraged a disgruntled writer to write in to Huw Wheldon to illustrate it. michaelseely.substack.com/p/scrap-the-...

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'Scrap the Drama Department!'

In March 1965, Ted Willis and the Screen Writers Guild called for the end of the BBC's Drama Department along with its phalanx of story editors! One writer tells Huw Weldon they may have a point...

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026

Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil...

Rick with his hands in the air, from The Young Ones, "Bambi"

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The Liverpool artists @liverpoolartists.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Our Alexis Butterfield is up for a major international award THE VAO PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS Wouldnt it be amazing to help a Liverpool artist become globally recognised You can vote here or google Vao peoples choice and go to their website www.visualartopen.com @takealineforawalk.bsky.social

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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