Ana Basu

Photo of the side of a red brick building with large mural of a lace pattern covering the entire three storey height

Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt

07.07.2025 04:41 — 👍 795    🔁 95    💬 0    📌 9

lovely writing in #thearchers this week! Lilian getting emotional from Peggy's old shopping lists, Brian expressing regrets, and the will messiness got me doing a happy dance. Sarah Hehir is in my top tier now. However, I need more messiness and less maturity with the grandkids over the will pls 👏👏👏

16.05.2025 20:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And today I realised is John Kearns on Top Coppers all along...

12.05.2025 07:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#TheArchers An everyday story of country folk and their children who weirdly keep getting incarcerated

02.05.2025 18:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Going to see Celia Pacquola tonight at the @sohotheatre.bsky.social. She's about to be Taskmaster AU, come see her before the rest of the world discovers her, loses their shit, and tickets become impossible!!

30.04.2025 07:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Took me a minute to figure out what piles they were were talking about

23.04.2025 11:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Woop!

Made it to the semi-finals/top 5% of the BBC Comedy Collective Bursery Scheme - the furthest I've ever got, and lovely to feel like I'm progressing!

The 'unfortunately' email has never felt so good 🎉🎉🎉
#BBCComedyCollective

22.04.2025 11:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Part 1 of 4 A Peanuts Comic. Once again Lucy has goaded Charlie Brown into trying to kick a football, and (as usual) she jerks the ball away at the last second, sending Charlie flying into the air. This time however Charlie lands heavily on his neck and is killed instantly.

Part 2 of 4 Lucy kicks Charlie Brown to check if he’s dead. Which he is. Exasperated, and worried she’ll be blamed for his death, Lucy begins to drag Charlie’s now lifeless body towards the creek.

Part 3 of 4 Lucy dumps poor ol’ Charlie Brown into the creek and watches him float away.

Part 4 of 4 Lucy heads back to Charlie Brown’s backyard to pick a fight with Snoopy in order to establish an alibi. Unfortunately a disheveled, crumpled man with a cigar is already there. “Miss, have y’seen this dog? He’s best friends with a BIRD. Can you believe that?” That’s right folks. Columbo is here to avenge Charlie Brown.

Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice

19.11.2024 15:28 — 👍 5683    🔁 1762    💬 56    📌 50

I need to stop freezing bread. At this point, it's not helping my problems, and is actively causing new ones.

14.04.2025 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

5 panel comic Panel 1: Title card for a new bbc tv show called “Wash and Rinse Investigate” starring Stephen Wash and Leslie Rinse. Wash: We’re hair stylists! Rinse: Who also solve murders! Panel 2: Wash and Rinse are sitting at a table at an awards show looking smug. The host says: And the stylist of the year award goes to… Panel 3: Host: Detective Inspector John McNash!! Wash and Rinse look shocked to their core Panel 4: DI John McNash, hair and moustache as glossy as a well groomed horse, leaps on stage. He grabs the award, and screams YESSSSS Panel 5: McMash hisses at Wash and Rinse; “THAT’S what it fucking feels like”

All I want is a cosy murder mystery show that includes a scene like this:

13.04.2025 19:10 — 👍 1386    🔁 243    💬 22    📌 6

Writing Topical Comedy with Alex Garrick-Wright & Becca Bain Tighten up your topical gags with some of the finest and funniest comedy writers in Scotland!

If you're interested in topical comedy, @beakachu.bsky.social and I will be leading this workshop on writing funny gags about the news and current events, courtesy of the fantastic @humourmill.bsky.social!

1500- 1700, 30th March at Monkey Barrel in Edinburgh!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-to...

18.03.2025 10:52 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

WELP - today I found myself loving BBC2's Chess show, and that Martin Short and Meryl Streep are dating. This year has completed

17.03.2025 21:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aw, 6music celebrating ladies on International Women's Day! Brilliant!

Wait

10.03.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blood, Sex and Money Audiobook on Libro.fm Glenda Jackson stars in this award-winning BBC Radio series, inspired by literature's greatest ever whistleblower, Émile Zola, and his epic saga of the Rougon-Macquart family ‘Unmissable’ Daily Telegr...

Katie Hims is also one of my favourite writers for
The Archers

and you can find Blood, Sex and Money here:
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

5/5 (yes, I'm done)

23.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(having tried listening to some of the newer non-British productions - they sounds straight out of old-timey radio)

We should be proud of this work.

4/5

23.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've learned so much about writing from listening them, and it's such a great opportunity for new writers.

Also with the rise of podcasts and audiobooks, audio drama has never been so popular. The BBC's back catalogue and expertise in making them is beyond enviable 3/5

23.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right now I'm listening to the Blood, Sex, Money series of Emile Zola adaptations by @danrebellato.bsky.social, which are phenomenal, star the most ridiculously famous actors (Glenda Jackson, Anna Maxwell-Martin, Robert Lindsay...), and is something that could never be done on TV

2/5

23.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent Hundreds of hours of original plays have been cut from the corporation’s programming in recent years. If the trend continues, a valuable training ground for writers will be lost

What a brilliant piece by radio dramatist Katie on what we lose by cutting radio drama to (less than) the bone.

bit.ly/41ru5OO

I've been able to experience so many classics and new writing through BBC's radio dramas - it's the first place I heard Mike Bartlett 1/5

23.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Expectation selects three writers from 10-Page Call Out opportunity - BCG Pro Night Bus by Ana Basu, Farmed Out by Jessica Brooks and Winging It by Wisdom Charis are the projects TV production company Expectation have selected from the recent BCG Pro 10-Page Call Out opportunit...

So this is lovely news!! comedy.co.uk/pro/news/823...

Thank you BCG Pro and Expectation Entertainment!!

14.02.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much Mike!

14.02.2025 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello Bluesky!

I'm giving my socials a new coat of paint, with hopefully no exchange for my soul ("but it's so profitable!").

All listed with a shiny linktr.ee/anabasu, and a cartoon to soften the blow of how boring this message is

11.02.2025 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0