Paddy Bullard's Avatar

Paddy Bullard

@paddybullard.bsky.social

Head of the Department of English Literature (joint appointment), University of Reading.

160 Followers  |  198 Following  |  10 Posts  |  Joined: 24.10.2023  |  1.674

Latest posts by paddybullard.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image

Edith Sitwell’s ‘Façade’, music by William Walton, Peggy Ashcroft Reading. Clips: www.instagram.com/reel/DKUBbGC...

31.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They’re beautiful objects, so self-possessed in their seriousness, and so utterly obsolete today. They merit reanimation!

31.05.2025 09:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Paddy Bullard (@paddybullard) • Instagram photos and videos 36 Followers, 204 Following, 16 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Paddy Bullard (@paddybullard)

I’ve started a little social media project to bring them back to life. There’ll be occasional posts here, but the main stream of clips and photos are on Instagram: www.instagram.com/paddybullard...

31.05.2025 09:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image

I found this stash of poetry on vinyl in a supply cupboard at the place where I work. A beautiful, odd collection, unplayed it seems in fifty years.

31.05.2025 09:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius reveals the surprising life and lasting impact of the groundbreaking author – ‘I stole her plot for Bridget Jones’ Explore how the author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma ripped up the rulebook and reinvented the novel

Austen telly tonight, with my head talking, probably briefly, if it hasn’t been cut www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

26.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Detail of an early modern image of a person blowing a trumpet on a horse backgrounded by words and a sun

Detail of an early modern image of a person blowing a trumpet on a horse backgrounded by words and a sun

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

18.05.2025 11:26 — 👍 96    🔁 58    💬 0    📌 2
Cover of spoken word Coleridge album

Cover of spoken word Coleridge album

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is incredibly good. Semi-dramatised Ancient Mariner with Robert Hardy, Richard Burton and John Neville. Burton doing Frost at Midnight on side 2!

19.05.2025 06:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Really enjoyable and easy listening by literary vinyl standards, honest! Finnegans Wake by James Joyce with terrific Siobhan McKenna (she did Ulysses too) and v game Cyril Cusack. Caedmon TC1086

17.05.2025 09:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Recordings from 1963, although Jones dates the writing itself to 1964, with bits from 1950 or earlier

16.05.2025 08:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

I started listening to them last night. I’m at the deep end with David Jones. Mainly The Anathemata and The Hunt.

16.05.2025 08:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Post image

I’ve found a stash of about 100 poetry records where I work. Could anything be more obsolete and wonderful?

16.05.2025 08:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@paddybullard is following 20 prominent accounts