Looking forward to appearing on a Nigel Kneale panel as part of this. Should be quite an event!
08.03.2026 20:55 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to appearing on a Nigel Kneale panel as part of this. Should be quite an event!
08.03.2026 20:55 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0M&S have been doing their own version for a while. Yeah, a taste sensation!
25.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Les Dawson entertains the Good Old Days faithful (17th February 1977)
17.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Yes - and he didn’t! He didn’t even move from the Isle of Man until 1946, so we can safely rule that out.
14.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Suggestion: an option on iPlayer etc to replay the last ten minutes of the previous episode of the show you’re watching if you nodded off
12.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0in which Rowland doesn't bite. He barely even takes a little nibble.
06.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Yes / no (I'd have thought it might be a Scouse thing..?)
05.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last year, I had the privilege of teaching a course on writing Gothic short fiction with @commapress.bsky.social, and you can now buy a digital anthology of my students’ wonderful work for just 99p!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GGBB1QZR
It’s essentially the same - though I believe the American TV version with Mickey Rooney softened it.
11.01.2026 19:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It‘s a marvel. I once spent some serious time trying in vain to track down the script of the original BBC TV version, before I found out it‘d been published as part of a book I’d had all along.
11.01.2026 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Kneale claimed that JR was unavailable, but I'm not sure how hard they really tried. I don't think anyone had been bowled over by his performance. Besides, they'd always wanted to cast Morrell, right back to Experiment.
02.01.2026 09:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not quite - this wasn't until the late 1990s.
31.12.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think some of the TV50 stuff was itself recycled from an earlier TV history celebration - ‘TV40’ / 1976..?
30.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For 2026. Big bundle of my BBC radio work releasing on Audible and most other audio platforms, June 18th. Essentially a boxed set, if downloads came in boxes. Eight Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas.
29.12.2025 12:22 — 👍 58 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0
On BBC 4 Extra at 4pm: a repeat of @tobyhadoke.bsky.social’s estimable and effective 2018 radio adaptation of The Road. Genuinely not to be missed if you’re a Nigel Kneale fan.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Seems harsh
26.12.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
24.12.2025 18:08 — 👍 661 🔁 163 💬 8 📌 3“…. all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order…”
25.12.2025 20:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And 75 years ago Frank Randle and co were rocking the aisles in Hulme Hippodrome next door to the Niamos…
Merry Christmas, Robin!
If you like the sort of thing I like, you’ll love this. And indeed the whole Peter Fleming podcast back catalogue - why not blitz the lot over Christmas?
24.12.2025 18:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Line Up = I Am the Fly?
24.12.2025 10:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very sorry to hear of the passing of the great Manchester scene guitarist John Scott - as heard on Jilted John and John Cooper Clarke’s albums, plus many projects with CP Lee, including Blue Monday antecedent Gerry and the Holograms. RIP, John.
21.12.2025 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You hum it, I’ll bling it. Festive music cards at www.8bitnorthxstitch.com or www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch There’s Slade, The Smiths, Wham! and John & Yoko…
12.12.2025 22:39 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Heading to Derby to introduce a screening of Quatermass and the Pit tomorrow as part of this fine day-long celebration, which also features @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @accordingtojond.bsky.social and @bronteschiltz.bsky.social...
Some tickets still available:
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
Tonight! Includes @bronteschiltz.bsky.social reading a Nigel Kneale short story…
04.12.2025 12:49 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It’s been a very good year for celebrations of Nigel Kneale, and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @accordingtojond.bsky.social and I are topping it off with a day of Quatermass at Derby QUAD on 6 December!
🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
To celebrate their birthday, Hammer Films are giving away a generous Quatermass bundle - both of the recent 4K collector’s edition box-sets, plus a t-shirt and a poster.
Enter now, BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
hammerfilms.com/pages/celebr...
A bit of a labour of love, this: the remarkable story of Salford band The Montgolfier Brothers and the phenomenal success of their song Between Two Points.
www.northernsoul.me.uk/roger-quigle...
