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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A severe alert on my phone, which made a new noise. I thought we were under attack.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Two views of older Chicago. I’ve still got two weeks to go before I’m home.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For @hogglestock.bsky.social. I made it! Loved the Barber and Walton (he was born in the town I worked in for twelve years.) The Lieberson sort of drifted over me.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Flying high to Chicago with bubbles. Cheers!

A picture of me seated on a plane holding a glass of champagne.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A fascinating look back at London’s cinemas in the company of national treasure, David McGillivray. youtu.be/JRJO7pAF6J4?...

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MY FLEAPIT, MY PALACE WITH DAVID MCGILLIVRAY || EPISODE 1

YouTube video by Severin Films / Intervision Picture Corp.

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Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Oh, and I have done a new commentary for Devil’s Planet too (whilst watching the episode itself). Tim Burrows, Oliver Crocker and I reminisce about the day it was unveiled to Peter Purves, and then celebrate all of its brilliant moments: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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HT&P BONUS - Devil's Planet (moving pictures)

Podcast Episode · Doctor Who: Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels · S1 E4,003 · 1hr 9min

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Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Watch The Nightmare Begins again, but this time with a commentary recorded over the moving pictures with me, Tim Burrows and Oliver Crocker, including some background to its return: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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HT&P BONUS - The Nightmare Begins (moving pictures!)

Podcast Episode · Doctor Who: Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels · S1 E4,002 · 1hr 14min

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Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It’s Testing, Testing at 53Two tonight with Gary Delaney, Alun Cochrane, Josh Jones, Hannah Platt and Tabish Akbar. Stonking line-up for ridiculously little money. Do pop in:

Five comedians - Hannah Platt, Gary Delaney, Josh Jones, Tabish Akbar, and Alun Cochrane - advertising a new material standup comedy night tonight at 53Two.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oh god, it’s another bit to make the ceremony go on even longer. #oscars

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Why are these people in the ITV studio talking about actors as if they know them by using their first names? #oscars

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Good grief, this casting category is going on forever. #oscars

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If you have to explain the joke, then… #oscars

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I’m retired so I’m going to watch the Oscars live tonight. Annoyed it’s on ITV, so will turn the sound down when the ads are on. #oscars

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Spending the late evening with the stunning Udo Kier in Blood for Dracula. He needs wergins. On Rewind TV now.

Udo Kier and Arno Jurging in Blood for Dracula.

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Yay, my book The Pandorica Opens is in the Spring sale! Covers Matt Smith’s first season in depth. Fill your boots Eleventh Doctor fans. I still get royalties so you’ll make an old man very happy.

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A thread of appreciation for the costuming, makeup, eyewear and accessories showcased in Gary Sherman's Poltergeist III (1988).

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Very excited to unwrap and watch these.

Two Blu-ray boxes. Strongroom and The Knights of the Teutonic Order.

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

If all this nonce news is too much, good news! Another cosy ep of Eleanor and Alasdair Read That is out now. This time, The Wind in the Willows: are we going to have our first fight??

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

If you’re interested here’s my top ten horror films for 2025. Still far too many ‘grief is the monster’ movies but they seem to be thankfully declining. Happy New Year.

Small posters of my top ten. In descending order, Bring Her Back, Sinners, Weapons, 28 Years Later, Hallow Road, Companion, Portal to Hell, The Long Walk, Keeper and Man Finds Tape.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Wishing all my fellow Blue Sky friends a merry and peaceful Christmas.

A head and shoulders photo of me wearing a red Christmas sweater.

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Jo dB @jodb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Day 17. Time for a route one selection. This is genuinely one of the best ever. Wombling Merry Christmas youtu.be/_JhVkWNHaU4?...

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The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas

YouTube video by DramaticoMusic

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Wallace and Gromit are on the front cover of the Christmas Radio Times for the second year in a row. I do like them, but the lack of imagination from the RT symbolises in a very small, insignificant way where we are these days.

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

To those commissioning DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K booklet essays: I write mainly about British and American films - 60s, 70s, 80s cinema. Worked for Arrow (How to Get Ahead in Advertising, September, Count Yorga, Lifeforce, Incubus) and Indicator (Birdy, Fatherland, Captain Clegg, Robin Hood at Hammer).1/2

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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...

Cover design for Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on December 15th on #4K in the UK from @hammerfilms.bsky.social: #WhisperingSmithHitsLondon (1952)! In this rediscovered classic, restored for a new generation, Private detective Steve "Whispering" Smith is intent on holidaying in England but soon becomes

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I should mention that the Manchester Festival of Fantastic Films (which I’m Involved with) takes place in two Friday’s time. Guests include James Swanton, Dominic Brunt and Virginia Wetherall. We’ve talks, book launches, performances and much more. fantastic-films.uk

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Festival of Fantastic Films Manchester – The unique annual celebration of horror, SF and fantasy in films, TV and books

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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Festival of Fantastic Films Manchester – The unique annual celebration of horror, SF and fantasy in films, TV and books

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James Swanton @jamescswanton.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

A reminder that tickets are now available for all my Halloween and Christmas shows at London's Dickens Museum! Choose from THE SIGNAL-MAN & THE TRIAL FOR MURDER, THE HAUNTED MAN and the immortal CHRISTMAS CAROL before they sell out: dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev...

Graphic for THE SIGNAL-MAN & THE TRIAL FOR MURDER: a man in undertaker's weeds disappearing into a black void.

Graphic for THE HAUNTED MAN: a semi-transparent man in Victorian dress against a starry sky.

Graphic for A CHRISTMAS CAROL: a leonine door knocker on a maroon background.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

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Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Don’t look now has just started on BBC4, the opening sequence is among the most dazzling in cinema history. I never tire of watching it. Christie’s scream at the climax of the scene is utterly chilling.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I am up to page 112 of HORROR MOVIE by @paultremblay.bsky.social . I am unnerved and disturbed in equal measure. ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Pat Troughton and Sylvia Sims as Winston and Julia in this recovered radio production of Nineteen Eighty Four www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Hidden Treasures - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - BBC Sounds

Winston Smith rebels against Big Brother.

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

6: "You might as well just blow your brains out on the first day."

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

So, a double bill of Hawk’s SCARFACE and Eggars’s NOSFERATU in 35mm. A lovely old theatre.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Lovely to catch up with @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social for lunch and gossip. Always an excellent afternoon spent in his company.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Treated myself to the QUATERMASS and the Pit Blu-ray. Still an impressive effort all these years later. The first three episodes just flew by. It has some great cliffhanger endings as the story slowly tightens the screws.

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Stephen Witkowski @stephenwitkowski.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Apropos of nothing… It's the same the whole world over It's the poor what gets the blame It's the rich what gets the pleasure Isn't it a blooming shame?

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