Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"i believe that you should stuggle towards the thing you can't do, and not do the thing you can do." Henry Moore 100
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Smell diary of London - 1# Fitzgerald Street E11. -unmistakeable, strong, spirit of cloves 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"'back to the future' will be the big movie in the summer of 1985." - the cultural certainty and confidence they had back then - an assumption of consensus in a small pond. #totp 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/09/2026strong red roll neck from Midge, but he's not sure what to do with his hands #totp 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/09/2026red box look like they're genuinely having fun - baader meinhoff pop #totp 030
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/09/2026not sure about the song itself, but the prince charming video is like some kind of black magic - diana dors alchemy willed it to number 1 #totp 030
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/09/2026bucks fizz songs are interesting - little bridges between the new wave and pop #totp 020
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 12/09/2026thinking of off-screen (never seen/heard) characters: Joe Maplin and Miss Cathcart - Hi-di-hi; Mrs Mainwaring - Dad's Army; 'Er Indoors - Minder. Dick and Lottie Potter in Aykbourn's early plays; Norm's wife Vera - Cheers... Must be some outside of comedies... 101
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Night of the Lunar Eclipse - is now the Drama of the Week Podcast - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukDrama of the Week - Fork in the Road: The Night of the Lunar Eclipse - BBC SoundsA past death resurfaces forcing a reckoning in Matthew Broughton's psychological thriller 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Broken Colours Series 1 is repeated on R4 from today a 2.15pm. (All 3 series are available on BBC Sounds - although not necessarily together...) 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Fork in the Road: The Night of the Lunar Eclipse. Now available on BBC Sounds. (and will be on the 'drama of the week' podcast later this week.) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukFork in the Road - The Night of the Lunar Eclipse - BBC SoundsA past death resurfaces forcing a reckoning in Matthew Broughton's psychological thriller. 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The Night of the Lunar Eclipse in on BBC R4 at 3pm today. And on BBC Sounds afterward. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Fork in the Road, The Night of the Lunar EclipseA past death resurfaces forcing a reckoning in Matthew Broughton's psychological thriller. 011
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Today I saw a woman talking to her dog: "We need to buy a griddle pan." 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Broken Colours Series 1 is repeated on BBC R4 from next Wednesday (26 Aug) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Broken Colours, Episode 1Jess sees the world differently from other people. A new thriller from Matthew Broughton. 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 16/07/2026More information on my new upcoming R4 Audio Drama: matthewbroughton.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/t...matthewbroughton.wordpress.comThe Night Of The Lunar Eclipse60 min audio drama – TX- BBC Radio 4 – 22nd August 2026. CAST: `Nikesh Patel Varada Sethu Norah Lopez Holden Written by: Matthew Broughon Sound Design: Sharon Hughes Producer: Nadia Mol… 011
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 23/06/2026just went to the shop - and imagined i was walking onto that roof in chernobyl 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Things don't only go 'bump' during the night 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 15/06/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEjo...youtube.comJ. S. Bach - Cantata BWV 39 "Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot" (J. S. Bach Foundation)YouTube video by Bachstiftung 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 09/06/2026the last frontier, Alaska's official flower is the forget-me-not 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Seas roll to waft me; suns to light me rise; my foot-stool earth, my canopy the sky 020
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Studio day - recording new 60 min play - “The Night of the Lunar Eclipse” - at Broadcasting House. 021
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Enjoyed Summerfolk at the NT last night - moments before the revolution…. 130
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 22/04/2026George Gershwin died aged 38 - and his last words were “Fred Astaire” 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 16/04/2026every new release by Peter Sandberg is a little treat 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The Pitt is as good as medical drama gets 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Schubert died aged 31 - the last piece of music he wanted to hear -Beethoven's string quartet no.14 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE0j...youtube.comBeethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: 6. Adagio quasi un poco andanteYouTube video by Lindsay String Quartet - Topic 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The Baz Luhman Elvis concert film EPIC is magnificent. (Way better than his biopic.) 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Blonde Redhead utterly superb at the Barbican tonight - timeless and mesmeric 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Last night’s dream - I was cooking an exotic potato 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 16/02/2026by the mid-20th century, Shakespeare’s Richard III had been seen by only a few million people in 364 years. Then in 1956 Laurence Olivier’s film aired on NBC to 40 million viewers — multiplying its audience by seven overnight 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 07/02/2026one of the neighbours just yelled: "Shout to the top." 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Bruce Springsteen enters the conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...youtube.comBruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen 020
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Thinking about how Mel Brooks was David Lynch’s perfect producer on The elephant Man 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Drops of God 2nd series starts on Wednesday - Apple TV - loved the first series. 000
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Available on Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Dagenham PorkchopDrama by Matthew Broughton. Ronny 'The Porkchop' is an old wrestler with a painful past. 132
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 02/12/2025As an aspiring Playwright, when I was 15, i wrote to Tom Stoppard and then had a correspondence with him - he couldn't have been more charming and supportive to someone who he didn't know. He was a great man. And then there's this: 010
Matthew Broughton @broughton500.bsky.social · 29/11/2025 "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." 000
