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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 18h

Well I made it to Litomyšl for the Jan Švankmajer: Reliquaries and Fetishes exhibition at Miroslav Kubik Gallery! What a thrill, got to meet a couple of bonafide movie stars in the White Rabbit and Little Otik. Also great to see some brand new pieces for 2026 - 92 and still going strong..!

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Read all about the occult afterlife of ancient mystery cults in a piece by me and the magical @mjpcuervo.com

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com

A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Duddo Stones: five strange megaliths on a hilltop in Northumberland. Sometimes they even sing. #StandingStoneSunday

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 19/09/2026

I've added a new feature to my website where I'll make a selection of script pitches, outlines, and early drafts available for download. The PDFs themselves will be password protected in a futile attempt to keep the scrapers at bay, but the code's right there. First up, John Buchan's The 39 Steps

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Downloads – Stephen Gallagher

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Daily Mirror front page shows grainy image of horde of children in a cemetery, and the headline “Amazing scene as hundreds of children rush cemetery”

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Off to see John Kearns tonight who is more comedic performance monologue than straight forward stand up. His new show has had nearly universal good reviews so expectations are high...

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

45 years ago today! Still the best screen adaptation of Wyndham's novel.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Need to cheer myself up so here's some photos I took of some living legends. First is the star of Gun Crazy, Dublin's own Peggy Cummins, in her home ten or more years ago, may she rest in peace:

A white-haired lady wearing a blue top sits in her living-room armchair surrounded by photos and bric-a-brac

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bookish is very moreish. Just two more episodes to savour...

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Page from a 1970s craft book depicting six white ragdolls of all genders dressed in colourful clothes laid down holding hands in a sort of seance or ritual formation

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Iain Hepburn @iainhepburn.me · 11/09/2026

BBC has uploaded A Guide to Armageddon to its Youtube channel, should anyone need cheering up…

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1982: A Nuclear Bomb in London | Q.E.D.: A Guide to Armageddon | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 10/09/2026

'Gangsters has a terrific soundtrack, again anticipating Tarantino. A careful placement of soul, mod and rock standards, ‘Take Good Care Of Yourself’, ‘Keep On Running’ and ‘Suspicious Minds’, mirror the plot.' An English Western: The BBC’s Gangsters at 50 buff.ly/2Pq74Lq

Still from the BBC TV series Gangsters. An Indian man with a gun in his hand taking cover behind a wooden beam.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lads, the Professor Y episode of the Sister Boniface Mysteries is up on BBC iPlayer and I think the Not We are on to us.

Professor Y (Kirk Fabricant)played by Mark Heap) and his companion Charlie (Celeste Carmichael, played by Kiera Lester) look at Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson) who has materialised inside their Time Machine. The vibe is late 60s Doctor Who.

Sister Boniface: Oh my giddy aunt!

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You too can be like Stephen and pore over your own copy of Britten’s recording of The Dream of Gerontius. Very cheap secondhand www.discogs.com/release/2380... #PendasFen

Album cover of Britten’s recording of The Dream of Gerontius (Decca SET 525-6, 1972) as used in Penda’s Fen.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of my favourite shots in #PendasFen . Rudkin in the script only ever asked that we see a “mouldering wall” over Elgar’s shoulder, but it is Alan Clarke and Michael Williams who decide to make it a full POV tracking shot of the imagined landscape. Even Stephen’s visions are having visions now.

A wall on which Elgar imposes his vision of the Malvern landscape. As we stare, the camera tracks across the brickwork.

Shooting script:

ELGAR: I come to look at the world, you see. The lovely world. The silver river and the verdant valley. The beautiful world. Look, look… The beautiful world..!

He raises his hand to point ahead: he may see the Severn Valley, Cotswold, Bredon. CAMERA, COLDLY BEHIND ELGAR, SQUARELY SEES ONLY THE MOULDERING WALL HIS POINTING HAND ALMOST TOUCHES.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Stephen’s teacher is played by Ivor Roberts, who had been a newsreader for TWW in the Sixties before his return to acting. The script calls for a ‘dyspeptic eye-bulging man in heavy middle-age’. #PendasFen

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This T-junction, where we also saw the burning of Brott, can be found at Eldersfield. It’s actually 20 miles from Pinvin but the irony is that the blocked path is the best walking route to Chaceley where most of #PendasFen *was* shot. Here it is just three weeks ago, barely changed.

T-Junction at Eldersfield, August 2026. Copyright: Ian Greaves

The impervious Joffer stares at Stephen. Penda’s Fen, 1974.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As Stephen wakes up we get the briefest glimpse of Joel the milkman’s face across that of the incubus. It was achieved with a mirror effect on location. The actual actor playing the demon was Geoffrey Pennells, who was also hired by Pebble Mill for Gangsters in 1978. #PendasFen

Ron Smerczak (Joel)’s face appears on the Demon in Penda’s Fen.

Geoffrey Pennells as bar tender in Gangsters (BBC 1978)

Geoffrey Pennells in The Dick Emery Show (BBC 1977)

Geoffrey Pennells in The Canal Children (BBC 1976)

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And, amusingly, there happens to be a house in Malvern called Bernard Lodge

Screenshot from estate agent guide to a Victorian semi-detached house hewn of Malvern stone, with lovely bay windows and a large covered garage. Beneath the image is text reading "Bernard Lodge 262 Wells Road, Malvern, WR14 4HD. £950 Per Calendar Month."

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is Stephen Franklin, but in some respects he is also David Rudkin, the author of the play. Those ‘laboriously written-out’ Greek paradigms on the wall at top left and centre are written by him…because the graphic design team forgot to do so. #PendasFen

Stephen Franklin sits at his bedroom desk. On the wall beyond are several sheets in which Greek paradigms have been precisely drawn.

Props order, 14 June 1973:

Stephen’s bedroom
*The books of Sallust, Cicero, Livy, Hecuba by Euripides, Alcestis by Euripides, Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Plato’s Republic Book X, Kitson’s Elementary Harmony, Part II, and a softback copy of MacPherson’s Melody and Harmony.
*AFM to source an LP of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius Part II as well as assorted classical records for dressing (not itemised).
*School labels produced by Graphics to be added to exercise books.
*Twelve pages of Greek paradigms to be supplied by Graphics.

Rudkin spoke to The Edge is Where the Centre Is authors William Fowler and Gareth Evans about graphics ordered for the shooting of 1K (“Twelve pages of Greek paradigms” to decorate Stephen’s walls) not being available on arrival.

“My interference, such as it was, on the design front was in matters of detail. This was fairly common in television at the time: you could have a really wonderful concept at the art-director level but down at the execution level sometimes people could be quite loose-thinking. I mean, I remember writing all the Greek verbs out on paper the first morning we shot in the rectory and they said, “Oh, we forgot to do the Greek verbs.” And I said, “If you give me a piece of paper, I’ll write them out.” So I wrote out the whole paradigm of that verb there and then, and that makes quite a nice art object on the wall.” (pp.36-37)

Rudkin’s paradigms survive in his British Library papers.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The music you are hearing is Benjamin Britten’s definitive 1972 LSO recording of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius for Decca. The voice of the Angel is that of Yvonne Minton, who at 87 is still with us. For a detailed profile head here: theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-mag... #PendasFen

Side D label of Britten’s Decca recording of The Dream of Gerontius. This side is playing on a gramophone during the opening sequence of Penda’s Fen.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Before we hear from Spencer Banks, who played Stephen Franklin in #PendasFen, here’s author David Rudkin’s introduction to the last repeat on 22 July 1990. It seems impossible to post this on YouTube unfortunately - as I’ve discovered in the past - so fingers crossed… (full transcript in Alt Text)

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Casey Affleck film incoming, but don't dare call it a horror anthology...

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Unexpected, and frankly unnecessary, 4K announcement of the week.

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Great to revisit Newcastle's Tyneside Cinema for the first time in several decades. It must be among the most beautiful cinemas in the UK. It was designed by Dixon Scott - great uncle of directors Ridley and Tony Scott - and first opened as a news cinema, the Bijou News-Reel Cinema, in 1937.

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8bitnorthxstitch @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You can buy issues 1 & 2 of Fall fanzine Load o Bloody Nowt www.route-online.com/blog/post/bl... Packed with exclusive interviews (Maxine Peake, Una Baines, John Cooper Clarke, Miki Berenyi, & Julia Adamson), they’re well worth a fiver if I do say so myself.

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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mark Dawidziak’s newly expanded Kolchak book was released last month, so I’ve updated this piece on one of television’s best characters because any excuse to share it again wp.me/pgpnV3-6p

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Carl Kolchak: An Appreciation

Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak It’s my esteemed and correct opinion that Carl Kolchak is one of popular culture’s greatest characters. As brought to life by Darren McGavin in a shabby seersuc…

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

BOOK LAUNCH - WYRD TV: FOLKLORE, FOLK HORROR & BRITISH TELEVISION Sun 6th Dec 2-5pm, Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield. Author/folk-horror scholar Dr Diane A. Rodgers in conversation with gothic television scholar Prof @helenwheatley.bsky.social. Limited tickets available NOW! tickts.co.uk/events/book-...

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Book launch - Wyrd TV: Folklore, Folk Horror and British Television

Book launch event for WYRD TV: FOLKLORE, FOLK HORROR AND BRITISH TELEVISION featuring author and folk-horror scholar Dr Diane A. Rodgers in conversation with gothic television scholar Professor Helen....

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Join me for a skeetalong-a- #PendasFen this Wednesday night when BBC4 reruns it from 10.15pm. Behind the scenes stories, pics and things to spot. If you've seen the play before, then follow live. If it's new to you, give it proper attention and then join the # on catch up. Link in bio to the book.

Title screen for Play for Today: Penda's Fen (1974)

Close up on Dictionary of Place Names reading "Penda's fen" with Penda in italics.

Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene (Ten Acre Books 2025)

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tonight's film is Disco Godfather (1979) starring Rudy Ray Moore. "Put ya weight on it!"

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Suddenly Godzilla X Kong has a whole other meaning...

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Enjoying the cover of this paperback, which imagines Tolkien as a kind of amphibious kaiju, on his way to devastate a peaceful country park

A paperback book - Understanding Tolkien and The Lord Of The Rings. The cover illustration shows a giant head of JRR Tolkien, a middle-aged man with grey hair, the head appears to be emerging from a river in the middle of a park.

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Adam C Cresswell @adamccresswell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fantastic set from The Cure at Rock En Seine this evening. I was impressed, not just with the sheer number of hits in their set, but also by the fact much of their gear had the PAT testing stickers visible. They clearly take electrocal health & safety seriously

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 27/08/2026

On the 30th of September, I'll be interviewing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus at the British Library. It's going to be a brilliant night and we will have a LOT to talk about. Link to order tickets to view in person or online below. Who is going to try and make it?

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tonight's washing up music is a funky new track from Japanese musician Cornelius www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7QL...

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まざらない / Mazaranai

YouTube video by corneliusofficial

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September

Shot from the BBC Play for Today Penda's Fen, in which the boy Stephen in his school uniform sits pensively at the edge of a reed-filled river, gazing into its reflection. A bit behind him, a golden angel watches him.

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Only just noticed this. William Teason original art for mid 60s paperbacks of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived In The Castle (1962) 🤝 the poster for Mario Bava’s final film Shock (1977) #booksky #filmsky

Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived In The Castle paperback

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As with many Country artists, Dolly Parton had a lot of songs with a darker tinge - songs of murder, suicide, arson, shootings, mental illness and loneliness - and a while back I put a bunch of them into a playlist called Dark Dolly, which you can find here: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Hk...

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Dark Dolly

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