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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Murderous doll Marchpane from little-seen Smallfilms production Tottie: The Story Of A Doll’s House. One of the most intentionally terrifying children's programmes ever shown by the BBC. Or by anyone for any audience really. Seriously, it's *nightmarish*. timworthington.org/2022/04/05/l...

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sunday sonder & saudade crew assemble, time for the Highway of the Heart, Antiques Roadshow & undone homework of the soul. Let your spirit hurtle down a dale like elderly buffoons in a tin bath as nameless disquiet rises under your sternum like the plaintive oboes of the Watership Down soundtrack

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bent Pylon. A small ink drawing

An ink drawing of a bent pylon, kind of cloudy and overcast , loose and expressive

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/08/2026

This needs to be studied.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s International Cat Day. Cats all around the world can barely contain their indifference.

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

They say to do something every day that scares you, so I'm finally going to thumb wrestle the bioluminescent hand growing out of the wall.

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For women's music to stay in the repertoire, we don't just need recordings. We also need score publication, composer info & advocacy. So I'm delighted to announce the launch of UNHEARD HERITAGE, a recording initiative marrying research & performance leahbroad.substack.com/p/announcing...

if a work can't be heard, performers won't play it, so we desperately need good recordings of women's compositions if they're going to enter the repertoire.

So this month I am really delighted to announce the launch of my recordings initiative, Unheard Heritage, which is dedicated to bringing forgotten works out of archives and bringing them to life in world-class recordings.

Because women have always been composers. No matter how difficult it was, no matter how trying the circumstances, historical women fought to make their voices heard. We only have to listen.

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 31/07/2026

Tonight's XTC cover. An absolute favourite both to listen to and to play

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 31/07/2026

This week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.

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James @zemblamatic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This could revive the Clacton milkshake industry

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New piece just up on YouTube: this is my setting of Siegfried Sassoon's heartlifting poem 'Everyone Sang', here in its version for upper voices. Do have a listen!

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Bernard Hughes - Everyone Sang (SSA)

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Briony Andrews @brandnewrose.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Bryony and Briony spotted in the wild 🌱👋

The green leaves and tendrils of the plant Bryonia dioica, White Bryony, next to my shadow.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Dirk Bogarde was dishy, dashing and somewhere between a conundrum and a contradiction. On his birthday, let’s consider the tricky business of life at the door of the closet. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

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Dirk Bogarde: Denial and daring...a star with a secret never told

David Benedict on an actor, soon to be celebrated at the BFI, who let his choice of roles do the talking

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 17/03/2026

Rudolf Nureyev was born OTD in 1938. Watch this incredible performance of him dancing Swan Lake with Margot Fonteyn 🦢 bachtrack.com/dance-video/...

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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina

One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes

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Briony Andrews @brandnewrose.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Farewell, my sweetly bonkers friend 🤍

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Bite Anglia Square Norwich

The demolition of Anglia Square by robot dinosaurs. Here we see one of the best bits; a brick and precast reinforced concrete car park being slowly dealt with like a plate of coleslaw at an all you can eat.

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Halloweeno @vimtotime.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🎶Heathcliff! It’s meeee Sindeeeeee

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

For Valentine's Day, here's my I Sing of Love, sung by the Seattle Pro Musica

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I Sing of Love

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Briony Andrews @brandnewrose.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday's storm got worse, and the chicken shed roof is... somewhere...but it all could've been a LOT worse, and all is calm, all is bright this morning.

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Briony Andrews @brandnewrose.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thank you, Oriana. Please tell Pedro & co, nothing personal, but we'd really prefer it if they didn't visit 🫩

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Happy birthday to Peter Coyle. Here he is with The Lotus Eaters performing The First Picture Of You on Switch in 1983. Watch the full song plus Out On Your Own at youtu.be/8Y4y7dHTKYY

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Just some of those we lost in 2025. The gaps are there for us to remember those close to us. Wishing us all a better 2026. x

RIP 2025

Namewall of some noteworthy names who died in 2025.

There was too much text for one ALT description, so Part 2 and 3 to follow.

Part 1: Jan - Apr

JAN:
A.D.O.R. / David Lodge / Wayne Osmond /
The Vivienne / Brenton Wood / Barbara Clegg
Laurie Holloway
Christopher Benjamin / Sam Moore
Keith Dewhurst / Merle Louise / Joel Paley
Tony Slattery / Gwen Watkins
Paul Danan / Diane Langton / Linda Nolan
David Lynch / Joan Plowright
Jules Feiffer / Denis Law
Geoff Nicholson / Claire van Kampen
John Sykes / Garth Hudson
Charlotte Raven
Elisa Rae Shupe
Christopher Hughes
Marianne Faithfull

FEB: Brian Murphy
Dave Jerden / Mike Ratledge
Dafydd Elis-Thomas / Tony Roberts
Tom Robbins
Tony Kinsey
Nike Arrighi / Tommy Hunt / Simon Mawer
Steve Hodson / Julian Holloway / Kim Sae-ron
Rick Buckler / Jamie Muir
Gene Hackman
Jerry Butler
Gwen McCrae
Bill Fay
Chris Jasper
Roberta Flack / Robert John
Henry Kelly
Boris Spassky

MAR:
Bill Dare / Marged Esli / Joey Molland / Angie Stone
Kathryn Apanowicz / Geraint Jarman
Roy Ayers
Brian James / Troy Seals
Richard Fortey / D’Wayne Wiggins
Bill Ashton / Athol Fugard
Stedman Pearson
Cocoa Tea
Sofia Gubaidulina
Eddie Jordan
George Foreman
Gillian Baxter / Andy Peebles
Jemini the Gifted One
Richard Chamberlain
Lee Montague

APR
Val Kilmer / Johnny Tillotson
Clem Burke
Ted Kotcheff / Nino Tempo
Mike Berry / Max Romeo
Roy Thomas Baker
Jean Marsh / Mario Vargas Llosa
Wink Martindale
Mac Gayden
Colin Berry
Clodagh Rodgers
Pope Francis
David Thomas
Virginia Giuffre / Philip Lowrie
Jane Gardam / Mike Peters

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Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I’ve seen many people discussing sharing Christmas with relatives with #dementia - here is a #poem about the happiness that was sparked whenever we watched Rising Damp with my mum

RIGSBY
Rising Damp still does it She laughs like a drain
Same old episodes
Over and over again
Not enough recall for detectives now
No Midsomer or Morse
But Rossiter's Rigsby brings her close to asthma
Some days I fear she1l die
But oh so happily
In front of Beckinsale
So much now slips her mind
Her lifelong ailments
Nearly gone
Embedded in this thinning mind
Bursts of consciousness still stiffen her
Knees disappoint, resolve resigns And everything's so hard to find
And then another darkness falls Like a child, emotions are binary Silence or despair
Until we press play again
And Rossiter's Rigsby is there

"I'm safe here behind the sofa..."
A collection of instinctual poetry pursuing the psychological essence of personal and societal wellbeing, explored through experiential neurodivergence and humanism.
"Choice words chosen wisely. Highly recommended for all humans who retain their humanity." Henry Normal
"Robin's poems embody the bravery that comes with vulnerability and a reverence for being here and loving every moment of it." Josie Long
"This is poetry to play and replay as each poem's colours change and layers of meaning glow." Dr Kathryn Mannix
"Each of these poems is a treat. A brief moment of connection, slipped between the pages of a hectic world." Reece Shearsmith
"Bright snapshots of where we are, our nature and humanity. our sensitivities, our rage and our happiness." Salena Godden

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Briony Andrews @brandnewrose.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Scary Mary wishes you a happy Christmas x

A (slightly sinister-looking) Christmas tree fairy doll.

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I went to the dark corner to ask the ghost if he wanted to sing some wintertide carols but he left a note in ectoplasm explaining that he's off to teach some self-absorbed nincompoop a life lesson at 1 AM.

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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Happy holidays! Probably my favorite stop-motion from the past few years. Really enjoyed creating this one.

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Kaia 📚 @anjaciske.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Loved this on our walk today - a tiny cat plank bridge from a balcony to a tree in the front garden. 😊🐾

Tiny cat plank bridge from a balcony ti a tree in the front garden.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Even after The Hum went silent, pylons held magic for me. I'd look up and see angels in their angles, feel the echo of the electric ley as a tattoo on my psychic skin. Marching under those transmission tower temples had transformed all of us. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Pylon Person

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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This is a very pleasant piano-led Dutch-language cover of The Pretenders' festive hit "2000 Miles", which naturally becomes 2000 Kilometres in translation. #FestiveForeignCovers

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Stephanie Struijk - 2000 kilometer

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

21. Something very different today. Composer and organist Ian Shaw's incredibly spare, very beautiful setting of 'I Sing of A Maiden'. Just trebles and a harp. Wintry and wonderful. youtu.be/DydFNwrk0zo?...

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I Sing of a Maiden

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The Monkees sing "Riu Chiu". 100 seconds of beautiful vocal work, with a bonus moment where as Micky sings, Peter and Davy exchange a look of pure delight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=riG8...

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The Monkees - Riu Chiu (Official HD Music Video)

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Time to share a seasonal poem close to my heart: Christmas in the City by Norwich poet Ron Nevett, with the local references explained by my editorial notes to his best-selling pamphlet, Market Lunch

Christmas in the City
As Norfolk snow drifts through the dark it Meets the peaks of Norwich market And it is Christmas in the city
Now, tinselled electricity (A word invented by our own
Renaissance man, Sir Thomas Browne)
Runs sparkling through the streets around The darkling hill of Castle Mound Now, holly greens medieval lanes
And alleyways where coloured panes
Have shone through flushwork flint and lime
Since solstice turned to Christmastime
Now, glazed with light though late the hour, The Forum harbours Mancroft's tower And, glittering like winter, Jarrolds
Looks down on loose change thrown for carols
As fur-and-feather snowflakes fall
To robe the lions of City Hall

Christmas in the City
First published in the edp24.co.uk comments beneath a report about Christmas shopping (Last minute rush gives high street a festive boost', 23rd December 2019).
Sir Thomas Browne: the seventeenth-century Norwich physician and essayist (1605-1682) was the first writer to use the word 'electricity' in his Vulgar Errors (1646), where it refers to the property of attracting 'strawes or light bodies' when rubbed (that is, 'static' electricity). A statue of Browne stands on Haymarket in the city.
The Forum harbours Mancroft's tower: The Forum (2001), by Michael Hopkins Architects, has a wide glass frontage which reflects the tower of St Peter Mancroft opposite.
Jarrolds: the five storeys of Jarrolds department store, a long-established family business, occupy the corner of London Street and Exchange Street.
loose change thrown for carols: in 1967, London Street was the first shopping street in the UK to be pedestrianised, and as a result has long been popular with buskers.
the lions of City Hall: 'Flanking the outer staircase up to the main entrance a pair of fine bronze lions' (Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: North-East Norfolk and Norwich
(1962), p. 260).

Saint Peter Mancroft: Perpendicular church tower with large lighted window

Jarrolds department store decorated with white Christmas lights

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ZêzereArts @zezerearts.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

✨ BOAS FESTAS from the ZêzereArts team ✨ We're looking forward to seeing you and singing with you next summer at the ZêzereArts Festival 2026! We have exciting plans for our choral programmes and applications are OPEN NOW. ⏳Apply before 31 January for our early bird offer 👉 zezerearts.com

The interior of a sixteenth century church, nine singers from ZAVE choral ensemble, and their director Brian MacKay, standing on the chancel steps, taking a break during a rehearsal.

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

To mark World Choral Day today here is my 'The Singers' - hopefully a bit of positivity on a difficult day around the world

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Bernard Hughes - The Singers (extract)

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The Norwich Cathedral Cat, on the pulpit, drinking from the glass of water left for the Reverend. “He lives here” we were told, as if the church had had no say in the matter and his presence pre-dated the building. “He’s named Budge because he doesn’t budge. He thinks the water is left for him”

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...

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Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works

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Ipswich Choral Society @ipswichchoral.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Step into a world where the Elements come alive through song. 🌍💧🌬️🔥 Journey through Soundscapes featuring music by Arbo, Gjeilo, Lauridsen, MacMillan, Whitacre, and more. Sat 22 Nov, 7.30pm at St Joseph's College Chapel, Ipswich Tickets: tinyurl.com/2ad8ar7u #choralmagic #soundscapes #IpswichEvents

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Elements

Journey through Soundscapes of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire - featuring music by Arbo, Gjelo, Lauridson, McMillan, Whitacre and more.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Maybe there really is someone out there who wants to text like a cross between Chaucer, a deeply drunken Dutch person & Kryten trying to call Rimmer a Smeghead in Red Dwarf & so is absolutely overjoyed with how autocorrect “works” now

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

New perspective on things.

Black skeleton, violet sea. It’ll make sense soon I hope.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...

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FLA 33: Mark Watson (16/11/2025)

For over twenty years now, the writer-performer Mark Watson has sustained two parallel careers. In one of them, he has pursued stand-up comedy to great acclaim, both in live settings and via broadc…

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Delightful mid-century modern interiors on matchbox labels matchbloc.com/blogs/news/m...

A collection of Eastern European matchbox labels depicting mid-century interiors and furniture

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Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...

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1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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