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Philip Ralph

@philralph.bsky.social

Screenwriter, recovering actor, rites of passage guide, dog walker extraordinaire. Will write for food… philipralph.com emergence-uk.org

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Bumped into this very nice gentleman on a recent visit - my first - to Kembleford.

What was I doing in Kembleford, you ask?

It’s a mystery… 😉

01.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bumped into this very nice gentleman on a recent visit - my first - to Kembleford.

What was I doing in Kembleford, you ask?

It’s a mystery… 😉

01.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Everyone quote skeet this with the best fight scene in cinema history…

youtu.be/pDcPRvZ9sDU?...

29.07.2025 21:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A year ago today dear Betty unwillingly left the place she’d spent her whole life - right by my side. I will always be heartbroken without her and always so grateful for every moment we spent together.

29.07.2025 13:26 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

“…television freelancers – many of whom are dependent on word of mouth to secure vanishingly rare jobs in an industry that has undergone a severe contraction in recent years – still felt “massive fear” about speaking out.”
Here’s the problem in a nutshell…

16.07.2025 08:22 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It’s not that deep. It’s not about politics. The Emmys voters would simply have never seriously considered Star Wars in an acting category. That’s all I think it is. However, Kyle Soller, Genevieve O’Reilly and Denise Gough 100% deserved nominations. In my opinion, Soller most of all.

16.07.2025 08:25 — 👍 32    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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8 Days: To the Moon and Back Go inside the Apollo 11 spacecraft in this stunning recreation of the first moon landing.

And in the USA you can find it on @pbs.org

www.pbs.org/show/8-days-...

16.07.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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8 Days: To the Moon and Back Using dramatic reconstruction, declassified cockpit audio recorded by the astronauts themselves and film archive, this is the untold story of the first moon landing.

On this day 56 years ago #Apollo11 blasted off on its 8 day journey to land the first me on the Moon. The documentary I wrote uses original audio tapes to recreate the mission from the inside. It’s available on @BBCiPlayer here 👇👇👇 🌒 🚀 🧑‍🚀

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

16.07.2025 11:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“…television freelancers – many of whom are dependent on word of mouth to secure vanishingly rare jobs in an industry that has undergone a severe contraction in recent years – still felt “massive fear” about speaking out.”
Here’s the problem in a nutshell…

16.07.2025 08:22 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Another #Andor standout for me was the truly brilliant performance by Josie Walker as the Force Healer. As a writer and ex-actor I so admire people who have one scene and deliver a fully realised, deep, real, complex human being that stays with you. Beautiful work.

15.07.2025 14:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Spirited and sumptuous’: why Big Night is my feelgood movie The latest in our series of writers recommending comfort watches is a tribute to 1996’s charming restaurant-set comedy drama

This is, hands down no contest, my absolute favourite movie of all time. Big Night is a delight, first course to dessert. Superb script and direction, beautifully drawn characters and THE distillation of the age old battle between art and commerce. See it!

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

15.07.2025 09:26 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).

If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

15.07.2025 07:52 — 👍 558    🔁 485    💬 13    📌 47

And one of the all time great ‘crap scraps’ in cinema history…

15.07.2025 10:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I LOVE Big Night. And whenever I see it brought up, I am compelled to mention that it has possibly the greatest final scene of any film, ever.

15.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Agree with every word of this. An absolutely perfect movie.

15.07.2025 09:44 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Support Playwrights | Summer Social EVENT: Thursday 24th July 2025, Soho Theatre, Walthamstow

London Summer Social for #Playwrights #Screenwriters & their friends! Thurs 23rd July 7-10pm at Soho Theatre WALTHAMSTOW. All welcome - all levels of experience. Come with friends or come alone! Pls share. #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial

www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...

15.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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‘Spirited and sumptuous’: why Big Night is my feelgood movie The latest in our series of writers recommending comfort watches is a tribute to 1996’s charming restaurant-set comedy drama

This is, hands down no contest, my absolute favourite movie of all time. Big Night is a delight, first course to dessert. Superb script and direction, beautifully drawn characters and THE distillation of the age old battle between art and commerce. See it!

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

15.07.2025 09:26 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

Special hello to all the inky fingered types on here.
Life's great, eh?
Arts Sector? What Arts Sector..?

11.07.2025 18:44 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There’s one absolute certainty when the BBC says “we must accelerate our transformation and take advantage of opportunities in technology” - experienced, talented people will lose their jobs and they will not be replaced by humans. It’s zero sum bs. Invest in people, people!

11.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is terrific news for those who’ve never seen @TheBearFX
and a fascinating new development in the TV landscape in the UK. The key question remains: how can local British stories that don’t sell globally still find funding to be made end up on these platforms too?

10.07.2025 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a dark room with the words i burn my decency for someone else 's future ALT: a man in a dark room with the words i burn my decency for someone else 's future

Particularly struck by Gilroy - who seldom if ever went to set - saying “I was sitting in this chair for 5 years…” That’s the writer’s life right there, folks. No shortcuts, no AI, no easy outs, just you, a chair, a screen and moving your fingers. That’s it. ✍️

09.07.2025 15:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Disney+ Q&A with ANDOR Creator Tony Gilroy and Writers Tom Bissell, Dan Gilroy, and Beau Willimon
YouTube video by Writers Guild Foundation Disney+ Q&A with ANDOR Creator Tony Gilroy and Writers Tom Bissell, Dan Gilroy, and Beau Willimon

Any screenwriters out there who love #Andor should watch this terrific conversation with Tony Gilroy and the writing team. The dictionary definition of ‘how the sausage gets made’ and the agonies and ecstasies of the writer’s life. 👍👍

youtu.be/o_eSF-K1I5o?...

09.07.2025 12:19 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Crisis out of a drama: why British stories are in danger of vanishing from our TV screens “It’s the NetBrits!” crowed the Daily Mail, breathlessly, above a recent report about how “the UK is leading the charge of Netflix’s most watched shows”. And on the surface, you could indeed b…

Six years ago I wrote an article for the New Statesman tentatively asking what impact the rise of US streamers might have on British television, and the stories we, as a nation, tell about ourselves. Now, that drumbeat has grown into a full-blown existential crisis. Here are all the reasons why.

08.07.2025 10:48 — 👍 39    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 3
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Finished #Andor. Loved every second. But the main takeaway for me is that I cannot wait to see every single goddamned thing Elizabeth Dulau does next. She is astoundingly good, this show’s secret weapon and beating heart. Wow.

07.07.2025 21:25 — 👍 56    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 1
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Finished #Andor. Loved every second. But the main takeaway for me is that I cannot wait to see every single goddamned thing Elizabeth Dulau does next. She is astoundingly good, this show’s secret weapon and beating heart. Wow.

07.07.2025 21:25 — 👍 56    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 1
Tony Gilroy talks ANDOR, STAR WARS, BOURNE, MICHAEL CLAYTON I Happy Sad Confused
YouTube video by Josh Horowitz Tony Gilroy talks ANDOR, STAR WARS, BOURNE, MICHAEL CLAYTON I Happy Sad Confused

In this interview with Josh Horowitz, Tony Gilroy speaks eloquently about the deep bench of brilliant underused actors in the UK he and Nina Gold drew from for #Andor The reason they’re underused? Snobbery at having been in soaps. It has to change.

youtu.be/4Hk3w9W0ZjA?...

06.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 62    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 0
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The Lasting Harm by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – legacy of abuse A personal perspective on Ghislaine Maxwell offers an empathetic telling of a horrific story

All bookshops - please stock this vital book - The Lasting Harm by @lucia-oc.bsky.social - it might save someone’s life

www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

06.07.2025 10:16 — 👍 82    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 2

The ongoing contraction in UK TV production is entrenching this snobbery and slamming the door on so much brilliant and underused talent. It’s beyond time it was called out and ended. Talent is talent full stop. Use it or lose it.

06.07.2025 09:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With Guest Sarah Lucas Podcast Episode · Chicken Soap For The Soul · 01/07/2025 · 1h 1m

For more evidence of the snobbery around soaps, check out this terrific interview with Sarah Lucas, 1st AD on #Adolescence who got her start - you guessed it - on BBC’s Doctors!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

06.07.2025 09:34 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The wealth of underused talent in the UK is an indictment on the ludicrous snobbery across our industry. It’s not just actors. Writers, directors, producers, crews, you name it, if you can make soap, you can make anything and brilliantly. Use the talent! End the soap prejudice. Clip @ 18:53

06.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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