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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

✨Sara Pascoe’s chosen songs are, quite literally, the soundtrack to (own) my life. i never hear these songs on Desert Island Discs …. she is so relatable and so sharp, too. i could not be happier. #SaraPascoe www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

7 🏆 and counting ⬆️. i hope to see the fabulous 🦊 🇮🇹 @janniksinnier.bsky.social reunited with Carlos in the next finals! #AustralianOpen2026

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

@danielkebedeneu.bsky.social i not understand why holding those values somehow makes a person ‘political‘ or ‘radical’. 😬 people have described me in these terms since i was a child, though i do not believe that i am especially ‘left wing’ in real 📚ideological terms .. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

@danielkebedeneu.bsky.social Daniel, i was a little irked by your interview on Political Thinking. for me, you are not especially ‘political’. i share your perceptions. on nearly every subject. i would contend that you are simply manifesting the values of decency and treating people with ^dignity.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

@juderogers.bsky.social Jude, i had not read this before because i not have a facebook account. — Marianne’s honest and simple recognition of /tribute to 🌠Sinéad O'Connor.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

was a student in spring 1999, at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. tumultuous time for me. i loved everything second with her. Jude, this archive documentary feature is absolutely brilliant. enthralling—as i knew that it would be. thank you so much for making this excellent www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

@juderogers.bsky.social They had a conversation over my head …. to be pretty is … people just thought that you were stupid.” — Marianne Faithful. seeing my own background in her life, i read everything that i could about Marianne and then i watched her perform when i www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

early Saturday 🌌morning in the park. 13th December .25 at 01h12.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

thoughts on 🎞️ Pillion. starring: Alexander Skarsgård, ✨Lesley Sharp and Harry Melling. 🏍️ 🎬 🎟️ #Pillion letterboxd.com/christopher1...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

@citizenscreen.bsky.social some less than predictable posts on ✨Rita Hayworth, (please)! letterboxd.com/christopher1...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

@zadickal.bsky.social i feel that the bbc should demand that Donald Trump pay the ^corporation a few billion pounds in compensation — for having to report on his unrelenting trash, his general trashiness, his calamities, his endless falsehoods and his grotesque personality. @bbcstever.bsky.social

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

@jackycoyne.bsky.social Jack, this is absolutely ✨brilliant. — with the fabulous 🌠Maya Rudolph(*) in 🗽New York. *Saturday Night Live, As Good as it Gets, If. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FvhV...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

people representing most murderous and demonic of authoritarian states don’t have to win the biggest tournaments.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

the fabulous ✨Nicole Kidman stars in 🎭 🎬 🎞️ 🎟️ the Others (director: Alejandro Amenábar. released late summer 2001.) — tonight on bbc2 at 23h00. #theOthers #NicoleKidman #AlejandroAmenábar

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

listening to this wonderful interview with Maya Angelou and Harriet Gilbert @harriettsg.bsky.social — marking the release of Maya’s sixth volume of autobiography, A Song Flung up to Heaven in summer 2002. the treasure of the bbc world service. Thursday 4th July 2002. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

🌠Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan are absolutely sensational in the brilliant film I Swear. don’t waste another evening of your life without having watched this film! #RobertAramayo #MaxinePeake #PeterMullan #KirkJones #ISwear 🎭🎬🎞️✨ letterboxd.com/christopher1...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

absolutely. i have been saying the same things for fifteen years now. like minds. : ) i have never encountered such intense levels of stupidity in my life, yet i sometimes think that this is simply a conflict between disparate sets of values. i wrote this yesterday: letterboxd.com/christopher1...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Amanda Anisimova, post match press conference. — Saturday 12th July .25 📄 🎾 💡 #Wimbledon m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQU8...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

✨ Iga Świątek played brilliantly today and she totally deserved this title. total credit to her. also: Amanda lost with honesty, humility, with decency and with grace. and that is a good lesson to anyone in this world.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

my delicious coffee, made for me by ✨Jonathan the wonderful barista. ☕️ 🍫 🥛 💧

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

beyond expectation Gregory Doran's edition of Desert Island Discs is exquisite. wonderful music(*), affecting and edifying stories. * 🎼 🎹 Johann Sebastian Bach, the Weather Girls, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. programme: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 25.06.29 📄 🎭 🎟️ #GregoryDoran #DesertIslandDiscs

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

the quite magnificent Alf Dubs /Lord Alfred Dubs ‪@alfdubs.bsky.social‬ is being interviewed for Desert Island Discs. some wonderful music (— John Coltrane, the Beatles, Mozart) too. _________________ (also, a lovely man who wrote back to a young christopher!) 🎼🎹📄 #AlfDubs #DesertIslandDiscs

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

absolutely incredible. i have never seen such high quality, especially in terms of the all-court shotmaking, sustained for so long. 👏🏼✨ just so sorry that one player had to lose in this remarkable match. highlights: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mi5g... 🎾🎨🎟️✨ #CarlosAlcaraz #janniksinner #RolandGarros

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

from the late summer of 📆24 Jannik Sinner has won 47 of his last 49 matches. the two losses? — to Carlos Alcaraz. (Beijing, October .24; Rome, May .25). Jannik (3) and Carlos (4) have not lost a grand slam final. before today. 🎾 💥 #RolandGarros

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

the screeching is ridiculous (i grunt, rhythmically — screaming on each shot is something else) but her brutish and ungracious behaviour is something that i have never seen. she was swearing continuously (in Russian) too. and zero penalty from a Serbian umpire, who must have discerned a lot of this.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

@davidlawtennis.bsky.social David, as a serious banger that loves both Carlos and Jannik, this is the grand slam final that i have most wanted since 2006(!) the last men’s match that excited me this much was Carlos versus Jannik at Wimbledon .22, round of 16. (JS. 6-1 6-4 6-7 6-3) #rolandgarros

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

complaining to myself that there is nothing for me to watch on television, ever. then the remote control finds an arts channel broadcasting a documentary on Jacqueline du Pré and Kate Bryan's wonderful documentary feature on Maggi Hambling. two early instructive✨heroes in one evening. magnificent.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

4. is kind of right. not sure what grok was thinking for no.2 ….

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

no surprise, really — Danny Dyer feels like a vulnerable and resilient human being with different and very likable features. some lovely songs here, too. — two of my all-time favourites! @mrddyer.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🎭 ✨ 🎼 #DannyDyer #DesertIslandDiscs

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

a review for Mr. Burton (released spring .25) starring: Harry Lawtey Toby Jones Lesley Manville screenplay: Tom Bullough and Josh Hyams cinematography: Stuart Biddlecombe director: Marc Evans letterboxd.com/christopher1... 🎭 🎬 🎟️ 🎼 ✨ #MrBurton #HarryLawtey #LesleyManville #TobyJones

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Denver, please come back to [what is now] ‘the Context’ on bbc news! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

rational thought for the world. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

precipitated by an unrelenting campaign of Russian disinformation /trash in both ‘non traditional media’ and [via leakage into] traditional media.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

anecdotally = communicated by British consumers to bbc researchers and journalists. there was a report on this activity, featured on 📄📻 You and Yours /radio 4 on Monday this week. (if you can access bbc radio programmes where you are.) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

we should sing my repertoire of show tunes, r + b, contemporary r + b and hip-hop soul in my hometown centre (together). get your Stephen Sondheim songbook off from your bookshelf.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

evangelical ‘Christianity’ in the United States.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Lindsey Hilsum, foreign correspondent and journalist. one of the more magnificent editions of 🎼🎧✨Desert Island Discs. and vénération to Lindsey and Lyse Doucet’s 🗳️📺More Old Bats on the Box! the final song is written by Sandy Denny. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsqz... 📄 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

these have been reworked a little across the decades but taxonomic representation /schema like this are useful when understanding the connectedness of these languages.

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

@stephsings1.bsky.social Stephanie, i am listening to this! oh my good goddess. 🇲🇽 🎼 🎻 🎺 🪇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOrd...

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christopher rourke @christopherrourke.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Butterfly. September 1997. — the use of harmonies, intricate production to create mood and the showcasing of some brilliant, emotional storytelling, 📄 article: www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-... song: 🎼 🎹 ✨Breakdown. — featuring Krayzie Bone and Wish Bone. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7V...

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