Matt White

From my perspective it's the podcasts that are evil!

"You must break through the fog of lies the podcasters create around podcasting. Let me help you to know the subtleties of not-having-a-podcast."

It fled to the east - sunny day in Llani.

ONS criticises hit TV series Industry over characters impersonating staff Head of statistics agency tells BBC that depiction risks undermining ‘delicate relationship’ with public

This is fucking annoying. I worked an an interviewer for five years: they do an amazing job in difficult circumstances, gathering the data that government needs to function. There's enough suspicion and mistrust on the doorstep as it is without this bollocks.
#ONS
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Love the fact that you can understand Gaelic. That's years' worth of lessons and Duolingo right there

One of the things I love about the old languages is the enthusiasm and love among its speakers. Welsh isn't spoken that much in our town but twenty miles west things get poetic.

It's also got the friendliest squirrels in the world in my experience.

You're probably going to do try this, but just in case: I'm a big fan of universities and language societies in this kind of situation. When we made The Sin-Eater we got a killer translation of our Welsh dialogue from Aberystwyth University.

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Hmmm ... dal for dinner tonight methinks.

Thank you! I try - I love the sense of inspiration I get from them guess, they are all achievable (apart from L&H of course). I'm working on a sci-fi comedy feature today funnily enough - and when I need a break I'll come back to my ghostly audio drama :-)

- Low-fi sci-fi that does mind-bending things in a fun/accessible way
- Proper ghost stories with just enough jump scares to keep things interesting
- Laurel and Hardy in ANYTHING
- Spy thrillers with tension over spectacle, preferably Cold War

And can you imagine what it's like for those of us who don't have the cachet of fame...those of us who trudge through the trenches of shorts...us 'little' women with big ideas banging our heads against walls as we try & try again...what's the definition of insanity again? Oh yeh, a female director.

Ah OK - how is it going now, do you have more writing time? I found that I could work in short bursts between day-job stuff, but I struggled to stitch them together into something sustained.

Thanks Jenna! For me it was more of a side-effect of taking on a busier job for a year; I started loads of projects but didn't actually write any scripts. How did the re-org work for you?

2025 was a big hiatus, so I'm enjoying just writing again. Just finished the spew draft of a spooky audio drama pilot, and slogging through a micro-budget horror feature about eggs.
#Scriptsky

Many years ago I was developing a script with a producer, and his notes were incomprehensible to me, until he mentioned John Truby. So I read The Anatomy of Story. It made no difference to how I wrote the story, but our conversations became so much less stressful.

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Thanks Tim!

God speed!

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For me it's this splosh: www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/284/balven...

It was an honour to be asked to write the introduction for this beautiful new hardback volume - with gilded edges, no less - of Welsh Folk & Fairy Tales by Flame Tree Publishing as part of their Collector’s Editions series.

Available in all good bookshops as of today 💫

Didn't finish anything last year, so ... finish the WIP and hook back into the places where I could sell something like that ..

We did it for completion funding, which meant we already had loads of stuff to share (and props to sell). Would definitely do it again. It's not easy, but then again making a short film isn't easy!
And it's an opportunity to refine your project and connect with new friends around the world.

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Happy birthday Sam! Enjoy your best age

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.

Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

In 2025, I wrote two short films. I planned and outlined loads, but nothing got past the start line.

There are good reasons for this, and I don't feel bad about it.

But some of those reasons are no longer there, and I'm buzzing to get something new written.
#scriptsky

Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for three sisters tortilla soup | The new vegan The three sisters are corn, beans and squash, which go together just as well as they grow together, as proven by this thick soup with avocado and tortilla

Three sisters soup! Fresh and tasty and plenty of fibre and protein. This is a UK interpretation but it rocks (hope the link works):
www.theguardian.com/food/2023/no...

A two-hander horror movie about a live-in carer who gets roped into protecting his client against something demonic. Of course it's not as straightforward as that but my lips are sealed for now.

BBC Two - Beacons: Short Films from Wales, Series 4, Fisitor Stalked by grief and a nightmarish creature, Ioan must survive Christmas Eve.

Over on the BBC iPlayer we have Fisitor, a short about the Mari Lwyd, set on Christmas Eve and with some strong Ghost Stories for Christmas vibes: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...