Joe Cushnan

Christmas is coming, like it or not. Might as well have a larf! www.feedaread.com/books/Jolly-...

Here's a fun book you might enjoy like my unsolicited reader below. Book available here www.feedaread.com/books/Jolly-...

YouTube video by Cowboyangel The Last Thing On My Mind - Tom Paxton & Liam Clancy.flv

Tom Paxton is 88 today. Here he is with Liam Clancy. The Last Thing on My Mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMi...

First time in the big BBC to record Front Row and I was so excited, a nice man gave me an impromptu tour of the whole building. Even got to peak into the studio where Radio 1 was going out live though I’m so old I haven’t a clue which presenters I was looking at.

I’ll be on Front Row on Radio 4 this evening talking about all things uncanny and unsettling in literature. Tune in after 7 or catch up later on BBC sounds.

One of Northern Ireland's funniest writers. @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

A favourite autograph in my collection.

At the tone leave your name and message. I'll get back to you.

So sad that this brilliant broadcaster left us so soon. Tragic. Stephen Clements 1972 - 2020.

One of my heroes. The great showman. One from my autograph collection.

The only book the great Russell Harty wrote. And a good one too.

What are you looking at, Pilgrim? One hanging on my wall.

The brilliant Tommy Steele is 88 and I have his autograph.

I think it's impossible not to love Bill Bailey. One from my autograph collection. Hat's off!

The first ever manager of British Home Stores, Belfast. Frank Robinson. I have a story there.

With all the celeb chefs churning out cook books, this is our most used tome. Published in the 1970s.

Clint. From my autograph collection.

After a visit to the John Rylands Library in Manchester, I became aware of Irish sculptor John Cassidy. I've written a piece about him for a forthcoming Ireland's Own.

Stormont's first Irish and Ulster-Scots commissioners appointed The announcement comes more than two months after BBC News NI revealed Pól Deeds and Lee Reynolds had been offered the posts.

Priorities? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel launches strikes on Gaza, reports say, after Netanyahu orders 'powerful' attacks - live updates Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating the ceasefire, with Israel's defence minister alleging Hamas attacked IDF soldiers in Gaza.

No one with an ounce of sense knew this cease fire would last. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Doctor Who 2026 Christmas special confirmed by BBC The BBC says it remains

Doctor Who. Get over it. It's done. Fly away, Doc. Retire. Please! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Politics, anywhere, it seems, government v opposition agenda is attack, attack, attack. Is there no common ground to enjoy? US, UK and elsewhere?

I liked this movie. What a cast!

YouTube video by Chris Salmon Apache - Hank Marvin - 2000

84 today. Happy birthday, Hank Marvin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB91...

Exciting news. I’m at Penguin HQ this week recording an audiobook of #TheRaptures Soon you’ll be able to hear the good folk of Ballylack sounding the way they sound in my head.

Thankfully I don't rely on freelance writing to earn a crust. Most editors honour their commitments to publish. But a few are, well, just lazy, and leave me hanging by a thread, before, after much prompting, back-pedalling and withdrawing the agreed commission. 🫣

📣 Poets! 📣

How good does this look!? Overcoming self doubt and improving publication rate sounds very promising...

#WritingSky #Workshops #Poetry

Being a writer nowadays is approximately 60% dragging a too full suitcase through train stations and city streets in a far too hot coat and the wrong shoes while the rain pisses down relentlessly

YouTube video by paulharris1967 VAL DOONICAN & CHARLIE McCOY

Val Doonican and Charlie McCoy play theme from The Old Grey Whistle Test www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAcR...

After a week of Rishi Sunak talking about his political failures, lo, he gets a job as a Sunday Times columnist. #politicalshowbiz