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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without an explanation.

A statue of Queen Victoria in Dalton Square, Lancaster, Lancashire. Side view of the full figure. From this angle it looks like Her Majesty is either having an outdoor wee or is a flasher.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 09/10/2026

Product idea: caps lock key with Brian Blessed’s face on it

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My Halloween advent calendar. 4th OCT Before The Twilight Zone, there was the scary ABC TV anthology series, One Step Beyond (1959-61), hosted and directed by John Newland. TRACK: Fear - Harry Lubin. Theremin and eerie female wailing? I'll have some of that, thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmD...

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This year, I'm creating a Halloween advent calendar! 👻WOooOOooo!!!👻 Each day of this month, I'll post a track from a favourite spooky-related record in my demonic possession. 1st OCTOBER The Dunwich Horror O.S.T. (1970) Check out the wonderful track titles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwEf...

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was my birthday yesterday, last one of my fifties, and I was blessed with some fab presents. Spoiled for choice with what to watch or read. What Blu-ray should I watch first?

A stack of physical media. From the top Blu-rays of Joe, A Ghost Story for Christmas, Blood Reincarnation, Memories of Murder, The Inugami Family, The Hourglass Sanatorium, The Sargasso Manuscript. Books are; Talking Bottom, Natural Thorn Killers, Island of Terror.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard pass for a physical purchase from me then.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well Cog Sinister can get to f*** then. Cheers for the heads up.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is this the "new" album cobbled together with vocal outtakes?

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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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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Argh! Will look at this tomorrow when sober otherwise it will be lethal for my bank balance. Cheers for this.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bert Bullett has a name reminiscent of a DC Thompson comic book hero. A real life hero.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No nothing. I was either asleep, driving or working when they happened.

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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

stephengallagher.com

Downloads – Stephen Gallagher

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I did! Incredible show and venue. Still chortling today at some of the performance. The support act was great as well.

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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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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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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ah bugger! Happy birthday 🥳 despite this.

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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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Vinegar 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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