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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 23/09/2026

I don't think I directly mentioned this, but I will now because posting it makes it real. Weird, folky horror nostalgic comedy podcast 'Listen Through the Brown Window' is nominated for Best Comedy at the Independent Podcast Awards! The team are all very happy. That is all. See you there.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 02/09/2026

Spent far too long faffing with scissors and glue putting together this diorama of Delia Derbyshire in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Stupidly pleased with my handiwork.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 15/08/2026

General response to yesterday’s alert

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 12/08/2026

The name’s Bush. Basil Bush.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 03/08/2026

It’s a new episode of the (British Podcast Awards Comedy Longlisted) Listen Through the Brown Window!

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 17/07/2026

Sorry, forgot to mention Listen Through the Brown Window made it onto the #BritishPodcastAwards Best Comedy longlist. Say nice things now, because given the competition, we aren’t likely to make the shortlist next week!

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 10/07/2026

Moved into my garden office for the night last night as it has aircon. Best night’s sleep in weeks. Had to crawl everywhere as it’s basically a pod hotel. Stop zooming in on my shelves, there’s nothing of interest you weirdos #noduvetknowitsaheatwave

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 09/07/2026

So sad to hear this. Wally was one of the Mercury 13 - women who took the same tests as the Gemini 7 astronauts but never went to space. I’m glad she finally made it in 2021. She was fizzing ball of energy even in her late 70s. I’m so grateful I met her. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/09/s...

Wally Funk with me in 2019 on her visit to the UK

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 30/06/2026

Rather incongruously read this on holiday by a hotel swimming pool last week. Loved it, although I am struggling to look at drill bits at the moment. @davidmbarnett.bsky.social

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 27/06/2026

Something to amuse the punctuation fans. Is this “Alexander the Great - Beach Hotel” or “Alexander: The Great Beach Hotel” or “Alexander the Great Beach: Hotel” or….

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 24/06/2026

I am in Cyprus. I have never before been happier to go on holiday where the daily average temperature is still warm and sunny, but 7C less than today’s high in London.

A sunset view with palm tees silhouetted in the foreground.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 13/06/2026

In the chat for one of the local theatre groups. Would love to see a liberated, free love, hippie version.

A beige vintage vacuum cleaner described as “uptight”

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 25/05/2026

The cast of Angelfish - a Chelmsford Theatre Workshop production in Chelmsford written by Bev Doyle (The Martian Chronicles for BBC Radio 4 and Going Postal for Sky TV) which finished its run on Saturday. What a gorgeous bunch and a joy to direct.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 20/05/2026

A little something I directed for the stage. Five performances remaining of brand new comic drama Angelfish in Chelmsford.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 06/05/2026

Bloody hell, we only went and won Best Scripted comedy podcast at the Golden Lobes Awards. We were in the same category as the excellent Wooden Overcoats, so doubly gobsmacked! We’re a big team, but four of us went along as representatives.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 03/05/2026

When you’re proudly taking a photo of the lighting rigging process for Angelfish at #Chelmsford Theatre Workshop (19 - 23 May!) and fail to notice your stage crew’s predicament.

A lighting technician at the tops of a ladder while a colleague looks on. stage left, a member of the stage crew is helplessly trapped under a bed, only legs visible.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 01/05/2026

Another endorsement for Listen Through the Brown Window this time from the very kind @realmattlucas.bsky.social Even if it was on X…

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 29/04/2026

Are you in or near Chelmsford between 19-23 May? You are? Well how about seeing this brand new play? Gangsters, chancers, heists, farce and a love story set in the London’s East End of 1958… www.ticketsource.com/chelmsford-t...

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 24/04/2026

Evening mist creeping towards me in my Norfolk riverside bolthole. Eerie but beautiful.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 23/04/2026

A peek behind the scenes of Harry’s Home as actor Phil Davis delivers one of Harry’s monologues. Harry’s Home is a gently funny and emotional audio drama by Hannah Puddefoot touching upon the day to day reality of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Available for free from Audioteria and Heard+

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 22/04/2026

This is the second delightful audio thing I've been involved with that's made an appearance in the Radio Times as a Pick of the Week in the last six months - and they couldn't be more different! Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/0qNtknm...

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 13/04/2026

OUT NOW - Harry's Home: Phil Davis stars in this @b7media.bsky.social gently funny and emotional audio drama touching upon the day-to-day reality of dementia. It began as a play staged by a local theatre group, so it's come a long way! Available from @bandcamp.com, audioteria.com and HEARD.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 10/04/2026

Making women over 50 visible?

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 06/04/2026

Got one of those robot vacuum things. Called it Rocky in honour of Project Hail Mary's lovable alien. Left it to its own devices for 5 minutes and it tried to hoover the plughole. Feels appropriate.

Idiot HooverBot tries to vacuum a shower plughole.

Rocky the HooverBot sends a notification to let me know it is "physical trapped" in the shower.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 31/03/2026

Unfortunately this means I have one of these now.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 31/03/2026

Went to Riga. All that beautiful Art Nouveau architecture and I become fixated on the hotel’s HooverBot instead.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 27/03/2026

🎶 Activity trousers Activity trousers Gardening and skiing And farting On a horse. Activity trousers Of course” 🎵

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 21/03/2026

“Here’s what I think of your radio signals, mate. Putting pigeons out of a job”

A pigeon sits on the outstretched hand of Chelmsford’s Marconi statue. It looks livid.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 17/03/2026

Annual trip to a QI recording (thank you Piers!) where every year I talk to John Lloyd in the green room and every year he “pretends” we’ve never met. Oh the larks. 🤣 Anyway, I banged on about my X-Files/Gillian Anderson photo double story a bit because it felt appropriate. It probably wasn’t.

Piers Fletcher (QI Producer), me, and Andrew Mark Sewell)

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 27/02/2026

Nothing says a podcast festival is over like John Lewis coming to collect their sofa. Great to meet @bobfischer.bsky.social in person post his Broken Veil chat with @gralefrit.bsky.social and @willmac23.bsky.social

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 18/02/2026

Got a sign for my studio voice booth from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social I have gone full anorak.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 26/11/2025

Very kind of @edgamblecomedy.bsky.social to humour me with this ridiculous photo this evening. Also thanks to Ed Gamble. #traitorsuncloaked

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 15/11/2025

“A what now? Sith? I don’t care what you’re lord of mate, you’re still in my way.” #thoughtbubble

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 28/10/2025

If you’re not doing a podcast then you’re voice tracking an online radio station. Guilty on both counts. But it’s soundtracks so thats all good then. Soundtrackradio.co.uk

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 24/10/2025

Audio people are the BEST people. Lovely evening celebrating 40 years of The Soundhouse!

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 26/09/2025

More comedy podcast nonsense from @soullessparty.bsky.social coming soon - as I do my best storytelling narrator voiceover and we learn what Stig of the Dump did when he grew up.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 25/09/2025

“Goodness gracious…”

Fireballs at dusk at The Royal Docks Rekindling fire garden event

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 05/09/2025

“Linda Lusardi, Helen Lederer and me walked into a pub” “And?” “No, that’s it.”

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 29/08/2025

BOOBIES! That got your attention. I don’t mean the birds. You’ll have to listen to find out why. Mark gets winky, I get kneaded by Paul Hollywood and Sam is confused by potatoes. Listen now to “The One With the Booby Winky Read” from @hdystpodcast.bsky.social now. podfollow.com/1668117379

A blue footed booby staring quizzically at the camera

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 20/08/2025

Birthday present from my husband. I’m 50 today so I’m not sure if this is a warning or a threat. @gralefrit.bsky.social

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 06/08/2025

Premium level radio and comedy geekiness tonight at the Water Rats pub with @paulkerensa.bsky.social and he didn’t even have a laser pointer. In true BBC style, repeats tomorrow.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 05/08/2025

Conversation tonight somehow came round to that time in 1998 when I met Seth Rogen after his stand up set at a networking event in Vancouver. He was 16, I was 22 and we were introduced. Apparently he’s doing all right now.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 14/07/2025

Book recommendation: Four Films by Harauld Hughes. Accompanying text to “The Unfinished Harauld Hughes” by Richard Ayoade. Read/listen to that first. Fans of Timothy West’s “This Gun in My Right Hand is Loaded” will appreciate the nuance of the dialogue.

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 09/07/2025

Posting without too much comment for now, but thank you to these guys (and those currently not pictured!) for making my BBC Radio 4 drama directing debut so straightforward and a joy. Day 1 of recording complete - Day 2 to follow in September…

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 03/07/2025

Accumulated rather than given, but this was in my parents’ cupboard. Don’t know the BBE, but the competition closes 31/12/79. We moved house in 1985 - it came with us.

Archeologically unearthed tub of 1970s “hundreds and thousands” from Supercook. Sprinkles for ice cream

Same as picture 1 but text in reverse listing a competition which closes on 31 December 1979

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Helen Quigley @soundliness.com · 22/06/2025

Sign on the wall of the local takeaway in a Norfolk village. All served with chips, presumably.

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