Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The more I think about Digger, the more baffled I am that extremely bright film critics felt comfortable sweeping it aside. It's complex & interesting. It's furious at its audience. It's asking us to dig into lots of parts of the present moment. Do they really not want ambitious movies to get made? 121
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Well, I enjoyed Digger. Sure, parts of the conceit and tone don’t work; but it’s playful and engaging and, if you’re at all interested in storytelling or film, totally worth seeing. 010
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonEmma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A trilogy of Celtic Christie starts @BBCRadio4 today 3pm with Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? a Welsh murder mystery rom-com. Dramatised @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social & starring Matthew Aubrey & Rhianne Barreto (The Outlaws). Directed by John Norton www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Celtic Christie, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?Amateur sleuths unravel a Welsh murder mystery. Matthew Aubrey and Rhianne Barreto star. 141
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If anyone fancies a fun Agatha Christie adaptation, I dramatised a funny, somewhat irreverent, and *extremely Welsh* version of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? for Radio 4 which goes out this Sunday at 3pm as part of the Celtic Christie season. Also recommended by the Radio Times.... 010
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 05/10/20261980 BBC version of Tale of Two Cities. I was 4 or 5. Walked in to living room to see someone on telly being stabbed wearing white nightshirt. Blood against nightshirt. Many nightmares followed… 010
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good thread. And so true. Navigating work worlds as a 20-something freelancer was awful because when guys (often older, often gatekeepers) would hit on me or be creepy I would retreat, and in retreating I would lose that work avenue. 030
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Watched it yesterday and cried through the last hour… 020
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just incredibly sad about Bonnie Greer, who was thoughtful and wise and creative and engaged… 075
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’m so sorry (and I can’t believe they’re doing this on Teams…??) Pob lwc i chi… 110
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think it was Rupert Reed (philosopher and green activist) who said we should stop asking what the humanities offer to science and the economy and start asking what science and the economy offer to humanity. (A lot of course, but much damage too.) 46714
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The only Amis that really had an effect on me was Time’s Arrow. 010
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Zadie Smith has nodded to his influence. Other than that, I feel like it’s mostly his contemporaries. But I could be wrong, and totally missing unacknowleged influences… The novelists from that generation/group who made an impression on me are Ishiguro, McEwan and Barnes. Prob in that order. 110
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yes. No obvious promotion (I think I saw one mini trailer 6 weeks ago) and now I really want to go and see it. But why no marketing? Perfect summer holiday film, surely?? 121
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonTony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026First in 1974 Then in 1989 - Channel 4 Now, 52 years later PENDA'S FEN on BBC 4 this September 9th www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC One - Play for Today, Penda's FenAn awakened force in the landscape challenges a boy's clear and intense view of the world. 073
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonIan Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Let's remember Tim Curry for being an incredible actor, an effortlessly charming human being, and a major contributor to our entertainment culture. But let's also remember him for being an absolute and unquestionable smokeshow. Jesus fuck. 0112
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026An exciting alternative is to go to gigs where everyone is very old. I went to a Fleetwood Mac thing at Cardiff’s WMC (not involving actual Fleetwood Mac, obvs). Average age of audience must have been 75. No phones out! It was brilliant. 000
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Meanwhile the scriptwriting mediums (TV, theatre, radio, film); for all their many flaws, are very collaborative; almost no one’s heard of any scriptwriters (outside theatre) because they’re rarely a brand; it’s unionised as hell; and we mostly know what we’re earning. Publishing is an outlier. 211
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Publishing is so in love with heroic narratives and mythic figures. The young genius; the brilliant debut; the infallible allure of the bestselling author; the *fact that they don’t even credit editors*. It’s semi religious; and falls apart on them all the time; but the religion keeps rolling. 151
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Everyone should go and see this. It’s terrific… 031
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026💯 All of that is a complete mystery to me. Frequently feel like a totally different species to some of my contemporaries! On the other hand, if I meet someone interesting, clever, sparky, compassionate…. 020
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Really understand these feelings (think the ND part is significant). Was only ever really comfortable dating people I was friends with first. Which does reduce the dating pool! For the right person, it’s worth it. But the feeling of risk and vulnerability can be overwhelming. 141
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Academia is a complex world with many moving parts and academic careers can have many acts and expressions. The initial reporting on Arday’s academic credentials leant heavily on gossip & anecdote. Really assessing his work and impact needed a lot of close, careful work ideally involving academics. 120
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026He’s Welsh. As in he’s a first language Welsh speaker. From Cardiff. Sometimes he sounds a bit transatlantic though… Weirdly when I’m in the States people often think my accent is Australian though it’s actually mostly South London! 020
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonErika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Sat 3 Oct 2026 at Christ Church Library, Oxford Univ - Women and Their Books: Women as Book Producers and Owners in Early Modern England and Scotland A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...eventbrite.co.ukWomen and Their Books in Early Modern England and ScotlandA study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland. 35528
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026As far as I know my university boyfriend still hasn’t graduated. He had *a lot* of library fines. 040
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026💯 4 years into trying to get a diagnosis for one of the kids. Still don’t have a completed diagnosis despite seeing consultant who confirmed they were definitely ND and struggling 3 years ago. Can’t even think about medication because it seems impossible to get to end of diagnostic pathway. 101
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Excellent thread; excellent description of ADHD. 052
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Oh god. Me too. So much. So deeply, deeply unhelpful. 010
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is spot on. Thinking of going back to Cambridge Latin now they’re online. Our poor Latin teacher got locked in his stationary cupboard three times in a year - by little gits - and quit. And the school dropped Latin so I never got my GCSE. But Tricolore!! Ugh! And I like French! 000
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Good evening! This week's theme is London Nights ------ 'Piccadilly Circus at Night' by Frederick Lawrence Tavaré (1847-1930) (Private collection) 020830
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I miss Gaby’s and The Stockpot and that cheap noodle restaurant that was on The Cut. In London working, (normally in Wales) and every half decent lunch is more than a tenner. I mean, they’re not even decent by proper culinary standards. Sort of vaguely healthy but still mostly tasteless. 120
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I work in both arts and academia and am ND. Have realised in the past ten years that along with all the obvious creative and intellectual attractions of these fields, the fact that I will never struggle to find a ND colleague and frequently have ND bosses is a pretty sizeable bonus. 040
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026None. I was taught by one brilliant British Asian medievalist at Oxford (in the 90s). Everyone else, on all my degrees, some of which were in the 2010s, was white. Found this particularly startling because I’d been to state schools in London where we had plenty of Black and Asian teachers. 020
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Dozens of eclipse shadows in south west London… 000
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I’m staying in my parents’ house while youngest goes to National Youth Theatre summer school, meaning I will watch tonight’s eclipse with youngest daughter from the same back garden where I watched the 1999 one with my dad. Am appreciating the circular nature of things.static.klipy.comStunning Solar Eclipse with CoronaAlt: Black and White Solar Eclipse with Corona. 000
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonNikesh Shukla @nikeshshukla.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Finished copies of The Good Immigrant 10 are in! 0225
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026They are a source of constant fascination to many of us… 010
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The spectrum of words considers bad swear words by parents of MG readers is crazy wide. My kids had friends at that age whose parents didn’t care about the C word and other friends who (still at 15) aren’t meant to use the word hell or damn (despite being, perplexingly, not religious). 120
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Really worth remembering how genuinely brutal Covid was. In our Welsh community, grandparents died, shop workers died, parents and school staff with complex health needs died. 031
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026If English followed the Welsh GCSE model you would study contemporary writing, also poetry, TV and film scripts at GCSE. You would then progress to older ‘classic’ texts mixed with modern texts at A Level. This seems an infinitely more sensible arrangement. 010
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Should add that there are more recent, female and diverse books on Eng Lit curriculum but pressure of workload and pressure to keep marks high means all schools round here sticking to Shakespeare, Steinbeck etc. Which is literally what I did (nearly putting me off studying English) in 1990s. 110
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Fascinated by the gap between Welsh Lang&Lit GCSEand English L&L - taught equally in Welsh lang schools. In Welsh almost everything the kids study was written in the past 20 years & lots of women writers. Classics are held back for A Level. Eng Lit GCSE texts tend much older and more male. 100
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I think that’s really important. Eldest (17) reads books and articles (pretty unusual in her cohort) but thinks she reads about three times more online fiction than anything on the page. AO3 has 125 million page views per day but doesn’t have numbers for readers… 061
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I’m so sorry. Someone I’m close to was a working actor for more than 50 years and no one from his immediate birth family ever went to see him act. It made him so sad, and it was never clear why - BUT he is a lovely and talented person and his chosen family and friends always showed up. 030
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I adored my English A Level: Friel’s Translations Joyce’s Dubliners Walker’s The Colour Purple Levi’s If This Is A Man Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist Synge’s Playboy of the Western World Selected Metaphysical Poets Anthony and Cleopatra (Didn’t love Wuthering Heights - sorry Emily lovers). 000
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonHannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️kcl.ac.ukAHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College LondonThe Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies 0196243
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Very moving on the importance of some of subjects (in this case History) which are being dismantled in the current cull of jobs, courses and research in higher education. 👇 022
Reposted by Miranda Davies/EmmersonJustin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 05/07/2026NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 37. Journalist, broadcaster and author @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social joins me on the textcast to discuss her superb new book on the Beatles’ first film, 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night, and chats about some of her cherished music purchases. firstlastanything.co.uk/2026/07/05/f...firstlastanything.co.ukFLA 37: Samira Ahmed (05/07/2026)Samira Ahmed with Squeeze singer and songwriter Glenn Tilbrook, Front Row, BBC Radio 4, June 2026 It was such a pleasure to welcome Samira Ahmed to First Last Anything, and invite her to talk about… 14832
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Not the original version, but I like Kirsty… 110
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I put you on a pedestal; you put me on the pill. 210