@accordingtojond.bsky.social
Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
24.11.2025 09:38 — 👍 106 🔁 34 💬 9 📌 11
Udo Kier in Michael Sarne’s Road to San Tropez (1966).
Some Udo Kier tonight I think.
Michael Sarne’s Road to San Tropez (1966).
Great to hear!
24.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He’s screaming for someone to pay him attention.
24.11.2025 19:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Missed this before. My deepest sympathies. Grief is the price we pay for love. X
24.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No.
24.11.2025 11:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
24.11.2025 07:24 — 👍 118 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 4Oh wow.
24.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me, roaring into a microphone.
Sometimes in an ADR studio.
23.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and the TARDIS on location in the Doctor Who serial Terror of the Zygons (BBC, Douglas Canfield, 1975).
Happy Doctor Who Day everybody.
23.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0And directed by Ian Beale!!
23.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gonna ask if we can do it at the BM.
23.11.2025 21:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Poster for THE HOUSE OF KNOW! DEC 21 5PM DR. IRVING FINKEL DISCUSSES HIS BOOK, THE FIRST GHOSTS: ANCIENT SUMERIAN CUNIFORM GHOST STORIES JON DEAR WARNS: No DIGGING, THE STORY OF THE BBC'S A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*
*via Zoom
Natch
23.11.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Present and correct!
23.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thor IS IT THO’ meme.
23.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I THINK YOU’LL FIND that’s film.
23.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Think that’s a personal choice but I doubt anyone will judge you too harshly.
23.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Jane, and very much look forward to reading wherever. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social has written about why he’s leaving substack.
23.11.2025 12:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oooh ta.
23.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah. Yeah, no.
22.11.2025 20:26 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Where's that come from?
22.11.2025 20:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0But I prefer yours.
22.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was meant to have a British Museum element. :)
22.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Why go to England at all?? Just build the fucking rocket in Egypt!
22.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well that’s what links the two locations.
A more pertinent question is why use the house at all?
Still, good news about Amateur Photographer.
22.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Egypt! He’s in the bloody pyramid.
22.11.2025 18:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Natch
22.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Harry comes all the way back to Scotland to tell the Doctor he’s staying. 👍🏻
22.11.2025 18:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
