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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Sep 11

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great to get @katiecrosson.bsky.social expert take on what the relaunched #PlayforToday strand could be ⬇️
#televisionhistory #tvdrama #mediahistory

Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Play for Today (2025) could foster solidarity between people facing issues that might not immediately appear connected, through a programme that joins up the dots. Here are 9 ways it can live up to its namesake (me for The Conversation) theconversation.com/play-for-tod...

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

theconversation.com

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Couldn’t agree more with this!

Dr Tom May @dreamcargoes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's a strong @theconversation.com piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social detailing 9 aims the new Play for Today (Channel 5) should have, to emulate the original in today's context. I'd only personally add: make it in *quantity* in a lasting, fixed timeslot.
theconversation.com/play-for-tod...

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

theconversation.com

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks Ian! 🤩

Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks, Richard! ☺️

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social on PFT's non-negotiables.

theconversation.com/play-for-tod...

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

theconversation.com

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Sep 2

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

tcnv.link

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Sep 2

*THE GENOCIDE in Palestine; working to get this changed back to my original wording.

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Play for Today (2025) could foster solidarity between people facing issues that might not immediately appear connected, through a programme that joins up the dots. Here are 9 ways it can live up to its namesake (me for The Conversation) theconversation.com/play-for-tod...

Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

theconversation.com

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 19

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Resonance | University of California Press

online.ucpress.edu

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just under three weeks until the belated launch event for Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene at the Barbican. We'll have copies for sale, and Spencer Banks on the panel. And Cinema 1 is the best possible way of seeing the glorious 2016 remaster. Tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Penda’s Fen (12*) + ScreenTalk with Spencer Banks, Ian Greaves and Gareth Evans | Barbican

David Rudkin’s mystical TV film on paganism, and a discussion with actor Spencer Banks and writer Ian Greaves, whose new book reveals how the masterpiece was made.

www.barbican.org.uk

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is an important point. The 'general public' are now excluded from WAC facilities following the recent policy changes.

Dr Paul Lee @drpaullee.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've emailed and asked my name to be placed on the list. When I last visited the WAC 20 years ago, access was more or less free (the only proviso being that you had to book in advance). Now, independent researchers who don't have a commission for a book or article etc. have no access.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Aug 17

!!!!!!! words to come www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’

Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds

www.theguardian.com

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Backlisted! A Taste of Honey, and what Shelagh Delaney did next 🎈 with @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social and me. @backlisted.bsky.social
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...

245. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney — Backlisted

Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an ...

www.backlisted.fm

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Everywhere I can find with availability seems to be 9-5 ☹️ but I will keep looking — good to know something else exist(s/ed)!

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Aug 5

okay maybe there is an obvious answer to this question because ??? but: how do adults will full time jobs take driving lessons? everything is booked up and 2 hour sessions mon-fri 9-5 ??? please 🚗 help 🚗

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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.

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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Why Cats Meow sounds like a John Berger book you’d pick up feeling bemused and have a life changing experience 40 pages in

David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · Jul 16

My daughter has been making little books, including The Adventures of Esther’s Cats, Why Cats Meow, and an untitled one about a dog, a cat, some snails, and a monster with 40 heads. When I told her that I liked them, she said that she would bury one with me in my grave!

Three books of different sizes, hand written by a small child, with drawings of cats. Colourful star stickers on the biggest one.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jul 11

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Ghouls @julso.bsky.social · Jul 11

@bookhaus.bsky.social is a third of the way to its target with 50 days left. Let's guarantee it gets there:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

bookhaus - Bristol's radical home

I have managed bookhaus since the beginning. The owners have decided to retire, and I am raising the funds to buy it and carry on our legacy

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Netpol @netpol.org · Jul 2

Because of the impending ban on Palestine Action, it seems very likely "To Kill A War Machine" will no longer be available to download after tomorrow evening so get your copy (and details of the last public screenings nationwide) here tokillawarmachine.com

To Kill a War Machine

tokillawarmachine.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 1

Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action

UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism The home secretary is coming under increasing pressure to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action, as UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warned that proscribing the group would conflate protest and terrorism. In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · Jun 27

If you need cheering up, or even if you don't, I strongly recommend CMAT's set from earlier.

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