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New favourite Doctor Who extra, acting exactly as I do when called to action

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 8h

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A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You see, there's the regular Government and then there's the Government for TV Remotes, and never the twain shall meet

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Second time watching Vertigo, first time enjoying it

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Immediately saw that as the set-up to one of those C4 perspective idents

Screenshot of one of the old Channel 4 idents, in which random objects come together to form the number 4. In those one, different market stalls and trolleys and things are arranged as the 4, as the camera moves down a city street

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shared from reddit. The portal at Rownhams Services.

Photo of the entrance to a long, rectangular tunnel lit with yellow-orange light, which looks incongruous appearing as it does among trees and bushes. It looks like an infinitely long portal in the middle of a woodland.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Threads nuke scene but with the repeated screaming sound effect from the end of Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I cannot express the amount of joy this podcast has brought to my life. I'm off to flood a basement.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anna Cropper, Dennis Potter, Curry (Tim), Bob Hoskins More Play for Today fun on BBC4 with a repeat of Schmoedipus on Weds 7 October. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC One - Play for Today, Series 4, Schmoedipus

A strange young man turns up on Elizabeth’s doorstep and makes a frightening claim.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For some reason the teachers told us Madonna was coming to perform for us, and for a week we were beside ourselves with excitement. When the assembly finally came, a teacher sadly informed us Madonna was stuck in traffic and wouldn't make it. Why any of this was said I don't know

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Private Passions: 90 mins of classical music and reminiscences with Sylvester McCoy www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Private Passions - Sylvester McCoy, actor - BBC Sounds

Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor Sylvester McCoy.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026

Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil...

Rick with his hands in the air, from The Young Ones, "Bambi"

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was, you fought back." Enjoying this book about German resistance against the Nazis, which weirdly has the most exclamation marks I've ever seen in a novel.

Photo of the cover of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. The cover depicts a lone individual in coat and hat walking through the empty streets of Berlin as he approaches the rear of the Brandenburg Gate.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When you've written your Doctor Who tender, do you then have to tediously write the whole thing out again on the online Doctor Who tender submission page?

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, for the first time in six-and-a-half years, I have to actually go into some sort of office

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just seen someone say you didn't used to watch broadcast TV because it was good, you were just 'stuck by the lack of choice'

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The bloke who's just finished painting Union flags on all the trains

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My patriotic, ginger, Elgar-loving father remembers the broadcast of Penda's Fen chiefly for the ribbing he received at school the next day

Faded photograph of my dad in his late teens, in a school uniform, looking Spencer Banks-esque

Screenshot of Spencer Banks from Penda's Fen, in school uniform looking despondent amongst some tall grass

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There be Krotons in this quarry

Photo of the entrance to the West of England Quarry in Malvern, one of the filming locations of Doctor Who story The Krotons, just visible through the tall trees that line the small footpath into it. The ground is covered with brambles, ivy, all that shit. In front of it all is a closed gate with a sign that reads in big red letters DANGER KEEP OUT UNSTABLE QUARRY FACE.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: - Signs birthday party scene. - My dad saying that occasionally coffins are dug up where they find scratch marks on the inside. - Happy Tree Friends. - Brother saying a blood moon meant the world would end. - Raiders face-melting scene. - These cunts:

The Simpsons episode with the glowing green alien that turns out to be Mr Burns

Ghost photograph seen in the documentary 'Ghosts Caught on Tape: Fact or Fiction?' It depicts a hazy white figure, almost angelic, standing in front of the wreck of a car on the side of the road.

Screenshot from the CBBC programme Monster TV, in which the villainous Vera Venom (who lives in a cellar below the cellar of a family's home) holds her ventriloquist dummy sidekick (a version of her own head on a stick, with a terrifying mouth that snaps open and closed)

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

characters and objects of the myth

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And, amusingly, there happens to be a house in Malvern called Bernard Lodge

Screenshot from estate agent guide to a Victorian semi-detached house hewn of Malvern stone, with lovely bay windows and a large covered garage. Beneath the image is text reading "Bernard Lodge 262 Wells Road, Malvern, WR14 4HD. £950 Per Calendar Month."

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ahead of tonight's repeat, here's another. The Telegraph has republished a piece I wrote for the launch of #PendasFen Scene by Scene back in June 2025. Some exclusive stuff here about calls to the BBC duty log.... (gift link) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/6926bf7...

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The BBC’s terrifying and ‘diabolical’ Penda’s Fen returns

In 1974, this Play for Today horrified audiences, who described it as ‘horrific’ and ‘approaching black magic’. Now it’s back on TV

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If no one watches TV anymore, how come everyone knows the Pepto-Bismol advert??

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You can also join Penda expert (he wrote a book, you know) @greavesian.bsky.social for his skeetalong-a- #PendasFen this Wednesday night when BBC4 reruns it from 10.15pm. Behind the scenes stories, pics and things to spot.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

TONIGHT - Penda's Fen, BBC4, 22:15 (22:00 for the Spencer Banks introduction). Tonight's broadcast carries a guidance warning for 'upsetting scenes'

Shot of the demon from Penda's Fen sitting on Stephen's chest, from his POV. It is dark and hazy and slightly bad quality, being ripped from a VHS recording. Behind the demon a window and a shelf of books can be seen.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lesley Judd being hauled up to the Bishop's Rock Lighthouse makes Fred Dibnah look like some hand-wringing safety obsessive youtu.be/d5My8f3Nn-0?...

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1975: Lesley Judd Visits Bishop Rock Lighthouse | Blue Peter | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jon Pertwee would have turned down the Henry Jones Sr. role in The Last Crusade anyway, having already starred in a feature-length adventure about navigating death traps to find the key to immortality

Harrison Ford and Sean Connery as Henry Jones Jr & Snr respectively in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Jon Pertwee (one of the backup options for the role of Indiana Jones's dad in The Last Crusade) pictured in The Five Doctors alongside Peter Davison and Patrick Troughton.

Robert Eddison as the Grail Knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Richard Mathews as the colourful floating head of Rassilon in Doctor Who adventure The Five Doctors.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is an excellent watch for the pylon lover and the pylon-curious youtu.be/M0DEVjwUAZE?...

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1997: The People Who Paint Pylons | Picture This | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Join me for a skeetalong-a- #PendasFen this Wednesday night when BBC4 reruns it from 10.15pm. Behind the scenes stories, pics and things to spot. If you've seen the play before, then follow live. If it's new to you, give it proper attention and then join the # on catch up. Link in bio to the book.

Title screen for Play for Today: Penda's Fen (1974)

Close up on Dictionary of Place Names reading "Penda's fen" with Penda in italics.

Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene (Ten Acre Books 2025)

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Genuinely what are you meant to do after a film though? After you've read all the IMDb trivia and looked at the career of every single actor involved, I mean

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rod Hull, time traveller. Villa Romana Del Casale.

Roman mosaic depicting man carrying a large bird like an emu.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Come on City!! Sorry I've not been to a match in person in like 18 years, but now you're on TV I care about you again!

Me holding a blue and white Worcester City football club scarf. It says WORCESTER in big letters, as well as St George's Lane and The Faithful City. Unfortunately you can't quite see the anthropomorphic pear in sunglasses.
On the TV in the background is Knowle FC v Worcester City in the FA Cup First Round, live on BBC iPlayer, Red Button and YouTube.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ah, I see what you've done there

HMV listing for a Blu-ray boxset of Inside No.9. I've drawn a big red arrow to draw attention to the price, which is £99.99.
The accompanying picture shows the boxset with discs, art cards, booklets and the like.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yo, I found the lost end piece of the Bayeux Tapestry

Fake piece of the Bayeux Tapestry created on an online generator. On the left it depicts half a person beneath the tower of a castle. To the right are four people in attitudes of reverence around the figure of a king on the throne. Beneath them words read 'NEXT EPISODE IN 5', in the style of a streaming service that barely lets a film or TV show sit with you for even a moment before it's trying to make you watch something else.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There's no reason they can't make electric cars sound like this btw, and we'd all be a lot happier

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mavic Chen's not even cold and the Daleks are already searching for his replacement on Guardian Jobs

Listing on Guardian Jobs page for 'Masterplan Campaign Project Manager'.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You know it's a good fish & chip shop when it has separate entry and exit doors - no messing about, these people aren't fucking amateurs

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's so gloomy in the house I've had to put a light on 😍

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September

Shot from the BBC Play for Today Penda's Fen, in which the boy Stephen in his school uniform sits pensively at the edge of a reed-filled river, gazing into its reflection. A bit behind him, a golden angel watches him.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dreamt I was watching the Steve McQueen bike chase from The Great Escape, but one of his Nazi pursuers had big L-plates on his motorbike and kept having to slowly walk his bike round tight bends

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