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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 1h

ADAM BUXTON Podcast:
EP.263 - ZADIE SMITH
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7h

On Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, “Everybody Scream,” Florence Welch confronts real-life horror with gothic fury. “These new songs don’t ripple with doubt but with fear and fury,” Grace Byron writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tVQBb6

Florence Welch Learns How to Scream

On Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, Welch confronts real-life horror with gothic fury.

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Steve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 14h

They’re running Under Milk Wood as originally broadcast, for the first time, this weekend on R4 Extra. Obviously, it’s brilliant. And I highly recommend a listen. It still sounds amazing; truly timeless. The most dated bit is the credits - but, oh, those character names.

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 14h

"Bond was inspired to write the first story — published in 1958 — by the sight of Jewish refugee children arriving from Europe. He thought of Paddington as a refugee."
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Revealed: a sneak preview of Paddington the Musical — and its furry star

It’s the most hotly awaited musical of the year — but how do you make a marmalade-eating bear sing, walk, talk and dance on stage? Alice Jones finds out

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 15h

What a treat! A radio adaptation of John Fowles' The Magus starring Tom Burke, Charles Dance, Hayley Atwell et al. on BBC radio 4 🎭📻
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Magus by John Fowles, 1. Welcome to Phraxos

Nicholas Urfe is drawn into a world of trickery and illusion.

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 19h

Rosalía: Lux review — surrender to this exquisite work

The Catalan breakout star’s 18-track new album, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, is one to listen to without distractions
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Rosalía: Lux review — surrender to this exquisite work

The Catalan breakout star’s 18-track new album, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, is one to listen to without distractions

www.thetimes.com

iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 19h

Train Dreams review — Felicity Jones leads an unforgettable frontier drama

The story, adapted from the novella by Denis Johnson, has a fable-like quality that’s immediately enhanced by the dry, gnomic narration of Will Patton.
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Train Dreams review — Felicity Jones leads an unforgettable frontier drama

Premiered at Sundance and snapped up by Netflix, this is already a contender for the 2026 Oscars — led by superb performances from Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 19h

‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother
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‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother

After grief brought Dev Hynes home, he reconsidered the county that shaped him. The result is a masterful new album – made with a little help from Lorde and Zadie Smith

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 19h

Amy Taylor from Amyl and the Sniffers: "We have the most diverse crowd ever — the ladies, the truck drivers, the weirdos — so it’s good to plant a seed in people who might not otherwise think about these things.”
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Amyl and the Sniffers: ‘AC/DC are passing the baton on to us’

The Australian punks sing about feminism, trolls and hyperinflation — and now they’re selling out Alexandra Palace

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders

From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are crafting their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 1d

The FT again bursts the AI hype with actual reality.

AI’s awfully exciting until companies want to use it: Rightmove edition - on.ft.com/491pzLj via @FT

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see Colin get the recognition he deserves:

"The elder Greenwood has always been Radiohead’s secret weapon..."

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 1d

The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór …
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A green wall. On it is a piece of another wall, cut out to encompass a mural by Alasdair Gray. On the left, a red semi-heraldic Scottish lion rampant is sitting at a table, using a laptop computer. One foot is under the table grasping a computer mouse (which resembles a real mouse, apart from the cable coming out of its nose and linking it to the laptop). A scroll of paper emerges from the laptop's screen, and the lion is using a quill pen to write on it. The scroll has handwriting on it, saying

words
wards
wurds
Scots
Scottish
Scotch
Scoatch
Caledonian

The scroll rolls out of the top of the laptop screen and across the rest of the wall, becoming a banner reading

SCOTTISH Books

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/3LsPthh

Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert

Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to see that Thom has entered his Bob Dylan era, channeling the spirit of quixotic line deliveries, vocalisations and generally mixing up the medicine on Radiohead's The Bends.
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Radiohead 11/5/25 “The Bends” at Movistar Arena in Madrid,Spain

YouTube video by Gregory M

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3d

“The amplitude, the riot and hoot…of One Battle After Another make for cineplex joy. It is only once out of the theater that we may sense that this frantic diversion has left its central material essentially unconfronted.” —Jonathan Lethem

Frantic Realism | Jonathan Lethem

Paul Thomas Anderson fits a generation’s worth of cineplex joys into One Battle After Another, but the revolution refuses to get off the couch.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Wings by Paul McCartney review – a brilliant story of post-Beatles revival

A compelling oral history traces the rise one of the most successful bands of the 70s from the ashes of a creative breakup

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 3d

KÖLN 75 looks fun. John Magaro (who is stacking up a pretty amazing filmography) as Keith Jarrett!

Köln 75 International trailer

YouTube video by ScreenFlanders

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

"Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run" is a revealing history of the post-Beatles years and captures the low-budget, zesty spirit of McCartney’s often derided band
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Why you’re wrong about Paul McCartney’s Wings

This revealing history of the post-Beatles years captures the low-budget, zesty spirit of McCartney’s often derided band

www.telegraph.co.uk

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 4d

And if you've never saw Vidz back in the day, do yourself a favour, all of their fantastically anarchic shows are available on youtube!

www.youtube.com/@VIDZ_Spamja...

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The anarchic video rental review show Vids, devised and hosted by Nigel Buckland and Stef Gardiner was a must-watch weekly late-night treat, and first aired in 1998. Almost all* the VIDS here are so...

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 4d

Here is Stef reading from Alasdair Gray's magnificent Lanark a couple of years ago for Gray Day.

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Gray of the Day 73 Stef Gardiner reads from Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’

YouTube video by Alasdair Gray Archive

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 4d

I love it when my obsessions collide in unexpected ways! For example, I was delighted when I discovered that Stef Gardiner one half of the wonderfully irreverent late night 90s Channel 4 film review show, Vidz, also was Alasdair Gray's last assistant!

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 4d

"The Folies Bergère was a notorious pick-up joint where women were treated as commodities to be hired. It was something Manet also wanted us to notice. ...Brice turns the woman-bar-mirror triangulation on its head and recasts the females as sassy barroom Amazons"
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Instead of attacking the old masters, this exciting show has fun with them

Subservient women in Manet, Caravaggio and Degas fight back in Lisa Brice’s paintings

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 4d

Drama on 4: Samhain By Ben Lewis.

Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song, inspired by the myths and rituals surrounding the Pagan festival of Samhain.

Claire and her husband David are staying in a isolated old house on the remote Scottish island of Jura...

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Samhain

By Ben Lewis. Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song.

www.bbc.co.uk