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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is me and my sister Karen in Shantaman near Cavan last Friday with John Joe Lyons, who still owns and runs the family farm 200 years after our great-great-great-grandfather Thomas left Ireland for Birmingham and then London, apparently never to return. Mind-blowing!

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Great trip to Stratford to catch the RSC's Arturo Ui with Mark Gatiss. A dark carnival of a production, painting Chicago/Berlin as a Tim Burtonesque Batman-style nightmare. Terrific design and hi-energy performances driven along by music by Placebo. An exuberant spectacle, scary and timely.

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I've just been on with Gayle Lofthouse on BBC Radio Leeds this morning, talking about my play Blow Down, forgotten Yorkshire towns and other current projects. You can hear it on BBC Sounds - bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031tvv6

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BBC Radio Leeds - Gayle Lofthouse

Join Gayle Lofthouse on BBC Radio Leeds.

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Great night on Tuesday at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough catching up with my talented former student Kerry Wright and her punchy play KAILEY, getting its professional premiere 6 years after she began developing it on the Leeds Uni Writing for Performance MA

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Great evening last night watching the colourful and accomplished Guys and Dolls, the latest fantastic youth musical from @trwakefield.bsky.social. Great to see so many talented young people on stage rolling the dice and hitting a double six!

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Two books about early years of The Bill out on Kindle this week: 1. Oliver Crocker's Witness Statements: Making The Bill 1988 includes a chapter on my script The Coop. 2. Edward Kellett's Reaching a Verdict: Reviewing The Bill 1983-1989 contains a detailed analysis of my episode Speaking Freely.

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Great to see Zodwa Nyoni's engrossing play Liberation yesterday @rxtheatre.bsky.social - a fascinating account of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945, which kickstarted the post-colonial independence movements. Also fab to catch up with Zodwa and my ex-colleague Adam Strickson

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Performing arts leaders issue copyright warning over UK government’s AI plans www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

UK TV industry hit by ‘perfect storm’, says Elisabeth Murdoch www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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Huge win! Government announces plan to open up Land Registry

This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Today the UK Government has announced plans to open up the Land Registry – which, if delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wale…

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/02/2025

The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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k. radke @kradke.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

‘National catastrophe’: drama school funding crisis in England sparks concern www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Garry Lyons @garrylyons.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Another great panto last night @trwakefield.bsky.social - Cinderella. Rollicking it's behind you energy and naughty ad-libs from Chris Hannon and team. Much enjoyed by the family, big and small.

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Ben Lewis @theuniversalben.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Another lying hitjob by The Times on @nationaltrust.bsky.social Restore Trust is not ‘a protest group of national trust members’ or a ‘splinter group’. It’s entryist, a private company of rightwing culture war zealots from circles of Tufton St, GB News and Farage www.thetimes.com/article/3934...

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Future of fire-wrecked mansion fans flames of National Trust rebellion

When Clandon Park House was built more than 200 years ago, it was an extraordinary project that resulted in what is considered by many to be an architectural

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Since 2017, arts funding from national bodies, including for drama, has been cut by 16% in real terms across the UK. In 2024, 41% of schools no longer enter any pupils for Drama GCSE.

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Drama has a powerful positive impact on young people

As drama teaching faces cuts at school, it must be remembered the profound effect on society’s youth it has, and the force for good it is

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