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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday plug for my online shop, because it's never too early to think about you-know-what. You may find something here for friends and family who like #Detectorists, #SmallProphets, #DoctorWho, #InsideNo9, #Bookish, #Ludwig (and precisely 13 more TV Detectives). Right here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

Penguin and Puffin Book covers for Bookish, Small Prophets, Detectorists, Doctor Who and Inside No.9.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Embankment police post at sunset.

The police post on the Embankment with the Thames on the left and the setting sun on the right

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And two years later, on another fast train through France, a young Italian software developer has a version of this image as her laptop wallpaper. We’re everywhere. 😊 (Looking at the post from 2024, I see that I failed to make the point that the couple in front were French 😅.)

David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, opening the TARDIS doors with a click of his fingers in ‘Forest of the Dead’.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’d’ve loved Moondial to be in here somewhere, representing the kind of six-part children’s serial the BBC used to do so well. But this is a wonderful list, and there’s no arguing with no. 1.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Watched ‘Operation Crossbow’ at the weekend. Not a great film, but a good opportunity for Doctor Who bingo. Eyes down for a full house: 19, 18, 26 21 19 (again!) 25 6, 13, 16 2, 4 5, 7, 11, 16 (again!) 3 BINGO!

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I happened to be in Trafalgar Square for the eclipse. It was nice of Daft Punk to put in an appearance.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To me, this scene is more thrilling than all of the MCU put together. #SupermanTheMovie

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Paid an impromptu visit to Tibet yesterday.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Peter Davison profiled in Buddy (31st July 1982)

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It also shows one of the locations of police box R28, in operation from 1934–1970.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

++50s++Soho++is++required. Watched ‘Spin a Dark Web’ (1956) tonight, with an unremarkable screenplay by Ian Stuart Black, but some lovely, handheld footage of 50s Soho, and at least one warehouse full of boxes to make me feel at home.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A very busy period at the moment! Here is an important press release from Bromley Council, confirming that - as an outcome of the current conservation work - the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs have been removed from the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register! www.bromley.gov.uk/news/article...

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World-famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs removed from Heritage at Risk Register, as the park’s multi-million-pound regeneration works complete – London Borough of Bromley

Specialist regeneration works have delivered transformation in Crystal Palace Park, the hidden gem and historic landscape considered the world’s first theme park, as the works programme concludes.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The first episode of Sapphire & Steel was originally broadcast on this day in 1979.

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Luddites are the subject of our season finale. The spectre of AI coming for our jobs makes Luddite rebellion feel surprisingly relevant today. Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social as they search for the true history of the Luddites. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Paranormal Investigations – a thrilling story of faith, doubt and fraud. From Arthur Conan Doyle to The Conjuring via Ghostbusters with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m listening to the early-access Origin Story on the paranormal and I’m pleased to let you know that there *is* a play about the Conan Doyle/Houdini friendship @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social. It was on at Chichester recently and was rather good 🙂 www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

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Houdini’s reappearing act: David Haig’s new play lays bare the magician’s dispute with Conan Doyle

An interest in spiritualism drew the escapologist and the Sherlock Holmes author together but, as actor-playwright Haig’s drama Magic shows, also threw them into conflict

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James McDonald @jmcdonald1998.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

AT LAST! One of my personal projects is complete. I came up with an idea for a Doctor Who title sequence concept years ago (you can tell how long ago by the credits used) and I've finally finished it, creating dozens of 3D environments in a primarily 2D software! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1i...

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Doctor Who Title Sequence Concept

YouTube video by James McDonald

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

While I was writing #YouAreNotAlone, actor John Breslin emerged as a bona fide queer hero. Wish he'd appeared in more than one (great) #DoctorWho story but the same year – 56 yrs ago! – he was vocal on TV about improving gay representation. #PrideMonth2026 tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/you-...

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm rewatching 'The Changes' for the first time in over a decade. Last time, I didn't spot the pragmatic use of model shots from 'Quatermass and the Pit' to show the seismic upheaval that's underway.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Leela, on Fore Street in Totnes. Ground floor: Devon trustafarian fashions. First floor: Animal skins and Time Lord robes. Shop Manager: Janice Thorn.

Half-timbered shop front with colourful, patterned clothes and accessories in the window. Above the window is a painted sign with the shop’s name, Leela.

Shop front with colourful, patterned clothes and accessories in the window. Above the window is a painted sign with the shop’s name, Leela.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

David Attenborough and one of his creations.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

K9 and Company in Chichester today.

A Dalek and K9 in the sunshine beside Chichester Cross.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Another thing I found at Dad's was a scrapbook, unseen for decades. It included my two instances of callow correspondence with the BBC, aged 13. Here's one. I'd wanted to learn how to play the Dr Who theme on the keyboard, and what *else* could I do but write to the BBC to request the score? 🤔🤷‍♂️😅

Letter of 11th May 1990 reads, "Dear Paul, Thank you for your letter. I am afraid we cannot send you a copy of the score for Doctor Who. May I suggest that you approach the publishers of the late Ron Grainer i.e. Chappells. Yours sincerely, Brian Hodgson, Head of Radiophonic Workshop."

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Going through some childhood books at my Dad’s house, I’ve found this Ladybird book on ‘How It Works… Television’, published in 1971. It includes Daleks on one of its illustrations and has a lovely plan of Television Centre on its endpapers.

The front cover of a Ladybird book called ‘How It Works… Television’.

Illustration of an electric bell above one of a television set, showing Daleks pursuing a fleeing man. The spread is about electro-magnetic waves.

Two page spread with an aerial plan of BBC Television Centre.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Catching up on Interior Design Masters and it turns out they’re zhuzhing up Irongron’s castle. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Screenshot of ‘The Time Warrior’ showing the Doctor walking in the courtyard of Irongron’s castle.

Screenshot of ‘The Time Warrior’ showing the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Hal escaping from Irongron’s castle.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Went foraging for wild garlic in Berkshire today and made sure to take in some Visitation locations en route. 💀🐀

A wood with a fallen tree, surrounded on the woodland floor by wild garlic and bluebells.

Looking across a woodland carpeted by the white flowers of wild garlic.

A scene from The Visitation, with the Doctor, Nyssa and Richard Mace having just emerged from a gate in a brick and flint wall.

The location in Hurley used for the gate in The Visitation.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

'Oh, the agony of being Dr Who'. William Hartnell interviewed in the Daily Mirror (23rd April 1966)

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My partner did a book photoshoot today with the flautist from The Green Death. She explained to him that she'd been working as a contract musician at the BBC, and Barry Letts told her she could appear in Doctor Who if she taught him to play the flute ☺️!

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Yesterday, I went to Shepherdleas Wood, SE London, to take photos of bluebells, and I encountered a very lethargic bee (had the nectar fermented? 🤔), making it a very obliging photographic subject! 🐝

A macro photo of white bluebells, taken from underneath the flowers.

A macro photo of bluebells against a dark woodland background.

A macro photo of a bee collecting nectar from bluebells.

A macro photo of a bee perched above some bluebell flowers.

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

An example of Douglas Camfield's attention to detail, in 1965 writing quite a tall order for avant-garde composer Tristram Cary. It includes one of the earliest character sketches of Katarina. Also a nice early instance of the serial's overarching title. #DoctorWho

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The Press Release published by the BBC, announcing that the two episodes of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’ will be on BBC iPlayer at 6am, on Friday 3rd April, can be viewed at the following: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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‘Lost’ Doctor Who episodes coming to BBC iPlayer on Good Friday

The Nightmare Begins and Devil’s Planet are from the third series entitled The Daleks’ Master Plan

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If you see this, post a concert photo you took.

St Vincent at The End of the Road Festival 2014

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Some of the birds I saw and photographed yesterday at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park – including goldfinches, greenfinches, and coots and their chicks. I'm not sure I'd ever encountered either of those finch species before, so it was a delight to see them.

A goldfinch sitting on a tree branch in the sunshine.

A greenfinch sitting on a tree branch in the sunshine. It has yellow-green plumage with flashes of yellow on its wings.

A coot chick low in the water, with a bald red head, fuzzy yellow neck plumage, and charcoal body plumage.

An adult coot bringing vegetation for its chick to eat.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I adored @grindrod.bsky.social’s ‘Tales of the Suburbs’. As someone who felt the need to escape the suburbs myself, it gave me a new appreciation of them as a queer space. There’s such a rich diversity of stories that inspire laughter, sadness and deep empathy – but overall, joy and hope.

A photo of the book ‘Tales of the Suburbs’ by John Grindrod, showing a photo of two men in a tender embrace in a domestic kitchen, both looking at the camera.

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Paul Dykes @paulodykes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I had a yen this week to watch a film I hadn't seen since childhood: 'Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'. It is *not* a good film. However, there's nothing so bad that it can't be improved by a brief cameo by Nicholas Courtney.

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Doctor Who Restoration by R3Store Film is Fabulous! have collaborated with the BBC Archives, and R3Stores Studios in London, to ensure that the two recovered episodes of Doctor Who look and sound great, when released on the BBC iPlayer. r3storestudios.com

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Chris Thompson @chrisxl5.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Really chuffed to see the new fx on Doctor Who season 21 going down so well. Doing alternate fx can be quite controversial so it's nice to see all the positive feedback. Here's a thread with some fun BTS stuff for Warriors of the Deep. (SPOILERS AHEAD) 1/9

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Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This album is 40 next week. I remember buying it on the day of release (not this copy, I bought this one in Paris a decade ago because I’m FANCY) and playing it four times on the trot. I didn’t even do that with Dare. It’s not even the best Pet Shop Boys album either. Amazing.

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

45 years ago today, I watched a man I loved fall to his death and I’ve never really recovered.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Pure love for this.

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