@gillis49.bsky.social
Editor at longform/immersive specialist harpoon.productions. Creator of BBC News Magazine in days of yore. Chair @wansteadfringe.bsky.social “One of the most impressive beards I've ever seen” - forensic psychologist Sohom Das
“Haribo declined to comment.“
11.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That definitely should not have been the last paragraph.
11.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me too. 40 years in.
05.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excellent beard action!
28.09.2025 21:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Alan Connor and Giles Wilson at the Wanstead Book Festival
The best party of the 2025 @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival was chatting with the great @alanconnor.bsky.social about crosswords, quizzing, Monty Python, Bach, suits, and 100 other things.
28.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Taking the recommendation
28.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult speaking to Giles Wilson
The finale of the @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival — an uncommonly pleasant evening talking Bazball with @nickhoultcricket.bsky.social and @boothcricket.bsky.social
26.09.2025 23:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Generally Radio 3 needs less news.
22.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@billybragg.bsky.social Thanks for Saturday night Billy, was very moving —and a magical moment when BBC News flashed above your head. Best ever Great Leap Forwards. Regards from Wanstead.
22.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Went for a walk to where the fires raged this summer in Wanstead Flats. Happy to see new growth: toadflax, ragwort and yarrow, which together sound like a line from an olde English fairy tale.
#wansteadflats #afterthefires #regeneration #toadflax #ragwort #yarrow #autumn #transition
Fascinating Dan thank you
21.09.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Giles Wilson and Rory Cellan-Jones after Wanstead Fringe/Wanstead Book Festival event
Excellent to spend the evening with my old friend @rorycj.bsky.social for @wansteadfringe.bsky.social chatting about #sophiefromromania, Parkinson’s, and that other place
18.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 166 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0This!
“You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”
Bravo Hannah
13.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CHANGE OF VENUE FOR WANSTEAD BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT!
I will be in conversation with the wonderful writer, film-maker, walker John Rogers @thelostbyway.bsky.social upstairs at the Bull at 129 Wanstead High Street (close to Wanstead underground station) this Sunday.
Just missing a question mark and a full stop.
01.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love #TheHundred. Bite me.
25.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just read VJ Day as JD Vance
15.08.2025 06:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve only just realised the Oval Invincibles logo is an oval.
12.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Photo of his new garden
07.08.2025 21:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can’t wait for #TheHundred and another opportunity to amuse my family with made up team names. Metropolitan Vim vs Severn Spleen. Eastern Numpties vs Anglesey Nailbiter.
04.08.2025 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh for someone to write “Since Brexit”
03.08.2025 18:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@stephencollins.bsky.social Hey Collilo thank you for today’s Guardian cartoon. It’s a new tyranny.
02.08.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cans of a Brewdog IPA called Mr President with a design slightly reminiscent of the Confederate flag
Read the room, Brewdog
26.07.2025 17:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Britain lost an empire, then found a role, then lost a role.
25.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Weird, huh (for UK readers): a week dominated by Maxwell and Murdoch.
24.07.2025 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh.
22.07.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wonder if Salesforce Sites is in scope
13.07.2025 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amazing. Every word counts.
15.06.2025 18:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A copy of The Aeneid
@dauntbooks.bsky.social Got to love a bookshop that files this under Italy :
08.06.2025 14:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
