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Ben Willbond

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Yes it’s The Captain off of Ghosts. Screenwriter and you know the rest. www.benwillbond.com instagram.com/benjaminwillbond

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9h
Most TV is just this now.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This looks stunning Chris! Love love that artwork. Wow.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026
When I post something like this it warms my heart that you folks dig deep and throw us £150 right off the bat but there is still a £14,850 hole that needs to be filled and that means a few more of you legends need to get involved.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Taxi driver last night told me that global warming was not an issue What’s happening is that the months have slipped forward about a month to a month and a half. But… Snow in April, mate. Snow in April. Ok. Tell you what though, looking forward to Tesla’s new hover car. Oh we’re here…
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The problem with schnitzel is that around a 1/4 of the way through you’ll find it hard to remember a time when you *weren’t* eating schnitzel.
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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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lagoonnebula3.bsky.social @lagoonnebula3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They’re all over the bee buses in Manchester!
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Mielle @herbssnoof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@benwillbond.bsky.social The brilliant young Hawaiian shirt school gang from WHWF is doing a march for Finley’s Trust! www.justgiving.com/page/stgregs...
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St Gregory CEVC's fundraiser for Finley’s Touch
Help St Gregory CEVC Primary School raise money to support Finley’s Touch
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The torpor inside a mobile phone shop. Baffled customers trying to understand ‘contracts’. The muzak. Life ebbing away.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 11/09/2026
Today I accidentally loaned out the van and left my wellies in the back, meaning I had to spend a few hours heaving through stingers and paddleboarding the Fishy McFishface camera into place in Birkenstocks. 🤣 Eventually picked up the beautiful boots @benwillbond.bsky.social donated me. Gorgeous.
Laying down on a paddleboard in river ducking under a tree, wearing human clothes instead of the probably better idea of a wetsuit. Two gorgeous brushed suede waterproof boots with a background of grassSide on of these lovely boots. Never had a pair so pretty.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Does anyone know what’s going on in Dune?
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@countbinface.bsky.social Can you include a manifesto clause to change train announcements from ‘arriving in to’ back to ‘arriving at’. Also ban the use of the frankly baffling ‘station stop’ and return it to just ‘station’ which is, after all, what it is. ALL HAIL OUR NEW LEADER (hopefully).
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Who decided that film crews ‘descend’ on a location? Same people who decided that we ‘parade’ about in the nude, I guess.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Delighted to be joining this wonderful bunch of reprobates.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Young Sherlock S2 - Now in Production I Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Buh bye now. Buh bye.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Such a good bowler…
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Yes Bell Yes! #cricketworldcup
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Come on ENGLAND! #cricketworldcup #wishiwasthere #lordscricket
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Lads I'm really not liking the number of fellow children's authors who are experiencing homophobia/queerphobia in relation to school visits - lots of cancelled visits. If you happen to be a school governor/head teacher, can you give everyone's head a shake please? #KidLitUK
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thieves, why parcel shelves?
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Really enjoying this opening spell from england…oh. Ok. Alright.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The amount of finished pilot scripts and pitches I have sitting on file. All of them a no. Some of them can’t be pitched because others pipped me at the post. One cant be made because it’s too ambitious. The message is keep going and I’m telling myself that really not you but also keep going yeah?
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Ghosts: The Possession of Button House - Official Trailer
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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Very pleased my piece 'Crude' (from the bigger piece Precious Things) is having another outing, courtesy of Hemiola. They are a really brilliant young vocal consort and well worth hearing. It's in Cambridge on Saturday 4 July - tickets available now!
Poster for Hemiola concert on 4 July featuring my piece 'Crude'
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Splendid use of hat on a hat. Ha haaaa.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Radio history. Gnosticism. Elizabethan magic. WW2 codebreaking… Not my words, Carole. The words of Radio Four’s Front Row…” Broken Veil II is out now. Patreon.com/brokenveil
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Anyone travelling to Europe this summer know that Farage and his wrecking crew caused this unnecessary chaos. But at least we got our blue passports back. Super high quality. Oh…
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Upon arrival in the EU in the long (we got our sovereignty back) passport queue, I imagine dark suited Americans tapping away on screens in a remote room - as I get to passport control (after an hour because 350 million a week to the NHS) the agents look up; Jason Bourne just popped up on the grid…
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
More travel. More waiting in hot pipes. Two scenes always play out. The first - as we take off I imagine Shawn Flynn struggling with the control column, suddenly shot in the foot, just managing to escape with the other Wild Geese. (Oh there’s more…)
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Very much enjoying Gay, Bethell at the crease, and also enjoying Stokes’s buzz cut - a strong look. #testcricket #carryon.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 30/05/2026
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A grid of nine images featuring music prints, a mixtape T-shirt, a phone case, a cassette mug, a National Theatre T-shirt, a Forton print and Toast Rack print.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Very rare sighting of all spectacles at a watering hole. Since this was taken at least two pairs have vanished again in to the wild.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Do so love cracking the spine on a new large book, knowing it will be dog-eared and coffee stained within a week or so…
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PermaConfused @permaconfused.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"I'm becoming a Reform councillor... For an hour."
Steve Coogan as Hennety, owner of The Bureau on the satirical show, The Day Today.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hell yeah I’m tough enuss.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
brb changing my linkedin to "writer of vocal gymnasiums" @benwillbond.bsky.social
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The press has got hold of it! Yes we’re making a #bbcghosts movie.
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Writer for hire! I’m available to help polish up scripts (Edinburgh on the horizon); Make your wedding speech amazing or consult on a writing project you’re working on. 30 years experience working in the telly, radio, journalism, advertising - my website www.mathew-owen.co.uk Please share! 👍👍
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is excellent fun and I shall be using it with abandon at 9.30 this morning.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The boys are back in the foxholes! A fascinating study of the Battle of The Bulge with @almurray.bsky.social and James Holland. #ww2headquarters youtu.be/VmWvgSN95jw
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
One of those days where nothing quite goes right. But then my boys and I helped rescue a woman who was desperate to get home to her poorly mum by pushing her car out of a snowdrift. And my boys learned that helping people feels good. Community, help, and love. So not a wasted day. Hope her mum is ok
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
A picture of bad bunny with the word love
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Saturday ‘Dad Luge’. Gold medalist.
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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Watching the men’s luge on the sofa in the exact position that they do the luge. #winterolympics #somuchsliding
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If it makes you want to fund mine and @benwillbond.bsky.social’s project even more, I can let you know that the working title was “Ip Dip Dog Spy”. It’s going to be *that* good.
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