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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It also features The Actor Kevin Eldon in his first on screen appearance.

Screenshot of The Actor Kevin Eldon playing a schoolboy in Fahrenheit 451

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I too have seen the Data’s of South Kensington

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just felt nice to say thank you.

A huge house spider drinking water off a Pringle lid receptacle.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just found the camera script for the last episode of Noel’s House Party. So that’s a thing.

The camera script of the last episode of Noel’s House Party.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Great to revisit Yonderland this afternoon at the BFI. The Q&A afterwards was delightfully funny too, as you might expect.

The cast, writers and creators of Yonderland on stage at the BFI with some of the puppets.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat But what they saw there Damaged them psychologically And they don't want to talk about it

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Reading @0tralala.bsky.social’s beautiful biography of David Whitaker, and not just loving the writing (obvs) but also the incidental font stuff between chapters. It’s such a lovely book so far.

The cover of Simon Guerrier’s biography of David Whitaker

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I bought this this weekend from someone on Etsy. An original 60s dressing gown. At an absurdly affordable price. I think it’s the luckiest I’ve ever been on a random unique purchase ever. So insanely happy.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Describe yourself in three characters

Ford, Arthur and Marvin from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I was in Athens for three weeks around this time last year. The weather was like this every day. But with the infrastructure built for it. Apartments with built in shutters, aircon everywhere, fans blowing cold water mist etc. Still, this did happen as I was trying to read... more than once I think.

A photo of an iPad screen saying "Temperature - iPad needs to cool down before you can use it."

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Never realised this had been released on DVD so this was a happy purchase this afternoon. Also hadn’t realised it was written by the brilliant Tony Roche. Daft and brilliant is how I remember it. Looking forward to a rewatch.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

First major exhibition I ever went to was this restrospective with my Dad in 1988. I was 13 and utterly bowled over by the breadth of skill, methodolgy, style, casual mastery of one medium before moving onto the next. Always trying the next thing... polaroids, colour photocopiers... RIP Mr Hockney.

Poster for the Tate Gallery David Hockney retrospective exhibition 1988/89

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Tonty Blair, earlier, welcoming the concept of abandoning net zero as he becomes one with the desiccated soil of planet Earth.

A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade showing the gentleman who “chose poorly”.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

And a trans Glory. What a beautiful evening

A performer doing a song pretending to be Glory off of Buffy

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I’m at Club 5 by 5, a Buffy based cabaret at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. The host is dressed as Lorne from Angel. So much fun.

Host of Club 5 by 5, a Buffy based cabaret.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

When I watched Blake’s 7 in 79/80 (when I was 5ish) I called it “the other Doctor Who” because I knew no better. Back then I had no idea what was going on but I loved Vila because he made jokes I didn’t really understand and drank space booze when everyone else was being serious. RIP

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

The Last Chancers, a band from a comedy 2004 drama series on Channel 4 starring and co-written by Adam Buxton

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Anyway, what a great screenshot for tonight’s fun.

Antony Hopkins as Captain Bligh - a screenshot for the BFI audience awaiting Reece Shearsmith’s introduction

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I am liking Toast. Got at the Almeida during the interval. I’d heard of it before but it’s genuinely very nice. Bread beer! #bskybeer

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Enjoy this building suffering from vaguely drunken surprise.

A building with windows and coal cellar access(?) resembling an old buffer registering drunken surprise.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Cracking screening and Q&A of Ben Wheatley’s new movie, the Bob Odenkirk starring Normal, at the BFI last night. Tremendous fun.

Director Ben Wheatley and actors Billy MacLellan and Bob Odenkirk doing a Q&A about the film Normal at the BFI Southbank

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Just got to that bit watching Superman when wine expert Oz Clarke turns up as “4th Hood”

Wine expert Oz Clarke is one of two actors in this shot aboard a boat after taking part in a robbery. He is playing “4th Hood”

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have made 4 bags out of 30 so far. This beast is going to be enormous.

Lego NCC1701D partway through construction.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Samuel Downing, one of oldest survivors of the 18th century American Revolutionary War to be photographed in the 19th century. Last seen tutting and entering a large blue box.

Samuel Downing, one of last survivors of the 18th century American Revolutionary War of Independence to be photographed. He is pictured aged 102 in 1864, and looking remarkably like a former resident of Gallifrey.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Listening to The Rutles on my phone and noticed that with Apple Music the album cover now fills the screen. And then had to double check I wasn't hallucinating because both Barry and Stig turned away from looking front and looked to the side instead. Apple, this pointless AI feature... why?

The album cover of The Rutles on my phone, with Barry Wom turned to the left and Stig O'Hara turned facing the right. For some unknown AI reason.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Apropos of nothing here’s a reminder that the original matriarch of Albert Square is also the mother of the President of the Galaxy.

Anna Wing playing Lou Beale from EastEnders

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Just remembered that men in 2015 wore double ties for a spell. Why did we do that?

Old Marty McFly in Back to the Future 2 is wearing 2 ties for some insane reason that probably made sense when they made the movie. His elderly mum is also there.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Seeing the wonderful @kathrynwilliamsuk.bsky.social tonight on board The Golden Hinde. Such an unexpected and lovely venue.

Downstairs on the Golden Hinde with a crowd of music fans.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

You in another decade. Roughly early 1810s. (1990s)

Picture of me at university playing a restoration comedy character there. 1994. FFS

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Great stuff! Have you spoken to Toby or @robthatisleonard.bsky.social recently? Dad worked on The Power of Kroll in the VFX dept and I have a load of photos Rob is very keen to scan the negatives of properly for you to use.

Mickey Edwards and colleague with the Kroll in a tank, probably at Ealing studios but not entirely sure.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Great “this meeting should’ve been an email, but email hasn’t been invented yet” behaviour from Ian Fleming’s younger brother.

An earlier chairman had been lan's younger brother, Richard. Sir Claude Hankes was at a meeting where two Americans tried to offer some incredible opportunity to the bank. ‘When they finished, he said, "I'm afraid I'm not interested.
"But you were writing everything down."
"Yes," and he turned the notepad for them to see "NO" twenty times.’

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Love the BFI in its physical venue form and the online player version. Proud subscriber to both. Looking for something unusual and fun to watch at home this evening. The most popular title at the moment? A four hour long documentary about a French restaurant. No. I’m clearly a pretend film pseud.

A screen grab of the current homepage of the BFI player app which shows a four hour long documentary about a French restaurant as its most popular title at the moment.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Went into Waterstones in the Whitgift Centre the other day and saw a table piled with this hugely fun book. Glad I took a punt, it’s a joyous celebration of the bizarre history of my adopted home.

Cover of the book Croydonopolis by Will
Noble.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is the maddest thing I’ve ever bought off the internet because of an advert by a Chinese based nonsense factory. Or Temu, as I believe the cool kids are calling it. Chris Sievey, if he were still alive, (I hope) would find it amusing. But I want to burn them to the ground anyway.

A Chinese rubber mask attempting to be Chris Sievey’s creation Frank Sidebotton.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

One of my very favourite things about the more recent Slow Horses books is that Mick Herron’s love of John Finnemore and Cabin Pressure has become a running joke there too.

Quote from Clown Town, the new Slow Horses book
“He'd better hope he's killed attempting a wheelie, because what I have in mind for him will be more protracted.'
'I'll let him know. Yellow car.'
'What now?'

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The BBC Sounds app possibly needs a better way of condensing what’s in the news without implying a new headline.

Headline seems to read David Walliams, Putin, Contactless payments

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I love how close Eric and Michael from the Pythons were to George Harrison. I just saw a man who was the spit of Arthur Sultan, “Surrey Mystic” and it suddenly occurred to me that that Rutles joke in 1978 was a really deep and personal mickey-take.

Sting O’Hara and Arthur Sultan, the Surrey mystic, in the film The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Enjoying this alternative timeline from Stephen Baxter’s World Engines book wherein the manager of The Rutles appears to have been a minor public school teacher in the mid-80s.

A place where your reality strand diverges from ours.
And that is not a sentence I expected to hear when Bob Nash brought me my vitamin juice cuppa this morning - even if it isn't strictly a sentence, as my old English teacher 'Leggy Mountbatten would have pointed out.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits.

Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent and Marvin the paranoid android.

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Saw this by @deldridgewriter.bsky.social tonight. It was glorious and I feel emotionally wrung out. A wonderful end to the trilogy. Grab a ticket if you can.

Programme of the play End by David Eldridge

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Hello what no sorry I can’t hear you I’m saving up to buy this now and everything else is a footnote. £349 is a perfectly reasonable price to spend on an ornament what no sorry can’t hear you.

The LEGO starship enterprise from Star Trek the Nect Generation

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

TIL the cat “Charley” in the Charley Says PIFs was voiced by Kenny Everett.

A still from a “Charley says” public information film.

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