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Adam Dyster

@adamdyster.bsky.social
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Comms & public affairs on culture, nature & more. Theatre-lover, mudlarker and rock-bottom bargain hunter. Views and bad puns all my own!

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Something I wrote in 2020 about the church of Dolly whttps://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20201204-how-dolly-parton-became-the-worlds-best-loved-celebrity
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How Dolly Parton became the world’s best-loved celebrity
How did Dolly Parton become one of the world’s most-loved celebrities? Dorian Lynskey explores the singer’s appeal.
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly. Chance for me to recommend one of my favourite podcasts: a state-of-the-nation exploration of the US through Dolly and her work, covering everything from contested history to Dollywood and nostalgia open.spotify.com/show/0dfJjJy...
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Dolly Parton's America
Podcast · WNYC Studios & OSM Audio · In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, ...
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Jamie Gollings @jamiegollings.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
How much time have you spent on local Facebook groups, X or Nextdoor recently? Hopefully less than the @smfthinktank.bsky.social research team - we manually analysed 125,000 social media posts from 95 places in the UK to get a read on the extent and nature of local misinformation. (1/6)
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 08/05/2026
Election latest: A swarm of bees has arrived at Worthing Leisure Centre where counting for Worthing, Adur and West Sussex councils are under way. Returning officer Paul Brewer has advised everyone to REMAIN INDOORS
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
How long does it take to shoot an apple off someone’s head with a crossbow? Time will tell.
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
There is widespread public support for the BBC being given long-term protection, an opinion poll shared exclusively with PolHome suggests A new Survation survey for campaign group 38 Degrees found backing for the BBC charter being put on a permanent footing across different voter and age groups
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Public Backs Long-Term Protection For BBC, Poll Suggests
A poll shared exclusively with PoliticsHome has found widespread public support for the BBC charter being put on a permanent footing, in a move whi...
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
'A Charter Review that simply preserves the status quo will not be enough to deliver a BBC that remains recognisable to audiences nor brings benefits to UK society and beyond' BBC response to the Government's Royal Charter Review published today 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
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A BBC for All
The review of the BBC's Royal Charter
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I've fallen out of the habit of posting on here, but if there's a reason to try and get back on it's that there's *less than 4 weeks* left for you to share your views on the future of the BBC. What comes next matters to all of us - this is your chance to shape it. www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Bloomin' brilliant - so well deserved! 🎉🎉🎉
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This morning I played the Brahms Lullaby on ‘Broadcasting House’ on BBC Radio 4. Wishing everyone, everywhere calmer, more peaceful times.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
Alan Carr - Comedian playing for Neuroblastoma UK
Cat Burns – Singer/Songwriter playing for the National Autistic Society
Celia Imrie – Actor playing for Beat
Charlotte Church – Singer/Activist playing for The Awen Project
Clare Balding - Broadcaster and Author playing for Cancer Research UK
David Olusoga - Historian and Filmmaker playing for Bristol Dog Action Welfare Group Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue
Joe Marler – Former England Rugby Player and Podcaster playing for CALM
Joe Wilkinson - Comedian playing for Wolo Foundation
Jonathan Ross - Presenter playing for Cancer Research UK
Kate Garraway - Broadcaster playing for Carers First
Lucy Beaumont - Comedian playing for Zoe's Place
Mark Bonnar - Actor playing for Action for ME
Nick Mohammed - Actor and Comedian playing for Blood Cancer UK
Niko Omilana - Content Creator playing for Under One Sky
Paloma Faith - Singer/Songwriter and Actor playing for Save The Children
Ruth Codd - Actor playing for Almost Home Animal Rescue NI
Stephen Fry - Actor, Writer, Presenter playing for Mind
Tameka Empson – Actor and Comedian playing for Parkinsons UK
Tom Daley – Olympian, Author, Broadcaster and Entrepreneur playing for The Brain Tumour Charity
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The BBC has today published the results of its biggest ever listening exercise, with over 870,000 responses The message was clear: there's overwhelming support for pursuing the truth with no agenda, backing the best homegrown storytelling, and bringing people together www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Our BBC, Our Future questionnaire findings published
The results of the organisation's biggest ever listening exercise will play a central part of the BBC’s planning for the future, now that the Charter Review process with government is underway
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Imagine my disappointment when I found out that this wasn't in celebration of Arms Length Bodies
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
What a feast we were served for the all night Prom! Kudos to Anna Lapwood because that was a great programme - and testimony to that was how quick the 8 hours (8!) flew by! Should probably get some sleep now... 💤
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Incredible late night Arvo Part prom - with the sublime Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir 🇪🇪
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Great first #BBCProms tonight. Bought tickets because we love Arooj Aftab's voice, and then discovered the joy of Ibrahim Maalouf on the night!
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
'Here the past is not a foreign country – you can get there on a tram.' I might not be in the speechwriting game at the moment, but I still recognise a beaut of a line when I see one! 😍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the museum of the year: a history of the north-east in 3m objects | Editorial
Editorial: From teapots to trams, Beamish tells the everyday stories of generations in a way that is unique to the region
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
There are some big things driving social disconnection and undermining cohesion: but don’t underestimate the impact of smaller soulless, price of everything mentality things like this. Rather a society where traffic went a bit slower & kids high five the lollipop man www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Howden lollipop man told to stop giving kids high-fives
Neil Cotton says he has been told the gesture 'upsets drivers' by causing extra seconds of delay.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
THREAD: Misinformation about the Los Angeles protests The claim in this viral tweet that US Marines have arrested the chief master sergeant of the California National Guard for opposing President Trump's orders is baseless and false. RealRawNews is a notorious fake news website.
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Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She cla...
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#BBC Press Office: “BBC Director-General Tim Davie met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky in #Kyiv. They discussed the importance of a free media, reporting on the war in #Ukraine and the role of the BBC.”
#BBC Press Office: “BBC Director-General Tim Davie met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky in #Kyiv. They discussed the importance of a free media, reporting on the war in #Ukraine and the role of the BBC.”
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Major intervention from Tim Davie on the UK's crisis of trust, and how the BBC can help the nation tackle it with a strong new Charter 👇 www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Director-General sets out vision for BBC as catalyst for building trust
During a major speech in Salford, Director-General of the BBC Tim Davie spoke about renewing societal trust
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A great read on how complex global film-making is, and how the UK is a major player in the process open.substack.com/pub/stephenf...
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How many Hollywood movies are made outside America?
I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Worse ways of starting off the Bank Holiday early...
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/05/2025
guys! I have huge news! as of this week I now have a monthly sports column (!) in the new Observer first piece will be in the paper on Sunday but it's already online: observer.co.uk/news/columni... [free to read!]
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Anyone want to apply for the biggest role in British broadcasting? The BBC is looking for a Chief Content Officer careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Chief-Co...
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Chief Content Officer
Chief Content Officer
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A movie that takes place where you're from
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been deported from Turkey after being arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday. More worrying infringements on press freedom in Turkey and elsewhere. Turkey ranks 158 out of 180 in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders.
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Yesterday marked the halfway point in my BBC contract, so what better way to spend it than by joining the first ever BBC Partner Symposium, hearing about great projects and the organisations that make them happen Highlight had to be Sir Lenny Henry & Richard Curtis on Comic Relief's 40 years!
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
For anyone who missed this very important news, Jennie the guide dog crossed the floor of the House of Commons yesterday to be stroked by Labour MPs She was then summoned by the Lib Dem Chief Whip for a very stern word
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Tim Johns @timoncheese.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We took the decision today to voice up and read out, on Radio 2, every word of John Hunt's victim impact statement. At ten minutes precisely it must be the longest monologue we've ever broadcast. We did so with good reason - give it a read if you haven't: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kyle Clifford jailed: John Hunt's victim impact statement in full
The racing commentator directs his victim statement to the man who murdered his wife and two daughters.
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Casual Lord Reith's desk, in the Beeb's Pacific Quay office In Glasgow ✨
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Big AI news - in a joint statement, the culture and tech select committees call on the government NOT to proceed with an AI exception to copyright law for ‘text and data mining’ without greater safeguards. Comments here from both committee chairs:
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 20/02/2025
The BBC says it has been forced to close its office in Azerbaijan and "suspend the activities of our excellent journalists in Baku" in what it described as a "restrictive move against press freedom". It will continue to produce news in Azerbaijani.
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BBC statement on Azerbaijan
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Happy Birthday Gromit
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Stark research on AI & disinformation: 51% of answers to news questions were judged to have significant issues 19% of answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors 13% of the quotes sourced were either altered or didn’t actually exist in that article. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
May have already binged the season, but a treat to get to see the first episode of Season 4 on the big screen - and a Q&A with the cast! Nice little perk of @rtsmedia.bsky.social membership
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Crying like a tiny baby over this thread about Able Seacat Simon.
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Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A video claiming that USAID has paid Hollywood stars millions of dollars to visit Ukraine has gone viral. But the clip is not real and has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation that BBC Verify has investigated. @shayan86.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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False video claims celebrities were 'paid' by USAID to visit Ukraine
The video claiming that USAID paid Hollywood celebrities millions of dollars to visit Ukraine is not real and has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation that the BBC has previously investigat...
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The BBC has published its first Climate Transition Plan, setting out how it plans to halve emissions by 2030, and reduce all emissions by at least 90% by 2050 Read more and download the plan here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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BBC publishes Net Zero Transition Plan
The Corporation’s first Transition Plan sets out the BBC’s Ambition, Action and Accountability in reaching Net Zero
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Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"The moment they don’t want music we go to the gas chambers." The stories of the men and women who played in Auschwitz. www.thetimes.com/article/91a1...
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The orchestras of Auschwitz: the musicians who played for their lives
On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, two remarkable documentaries tell the story of the men and women made to perform in the camp
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Traitors a good example of how despite the many strengths of Netflix and co they can’t come close to creating the national discourse moments, the WhatsApp group chats, next day in the office discussions that live TV, and in particular the BBC, do so well.
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Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I feel like enough BBC people follow me now that my reposting this isn't entirely an empty dream... 🤞
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 22/01/2025
BBC says of Govt AI consultation: "we do not believe that ‘scraping’ of BBC data without out permission to train Gen AI models is in the public interest". It's using gen AI for translation and to create transcripts for online of radio sport commentaries
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An update on Generative AI (Gen AI) at the BBC
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
BBC says that #TheTraitors S3 has been watched by more than 10 million viewers, making it the biggest BBC audience for an entertainment show since Eurovision 2023.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/01/2025
Fellow Londoners, City Hall wants to know what you think about nature in the capital. Short survey here: www.london.gov.uk/ta...
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Survey | Connecting with nature in London | Talk London
Take our survey and tell us how you feel about London’s natural spaces and waterways. | Talk London
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