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Roy Gill

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Writes things, sometimes involving a blue box. Likes books, dogs and vinyl 🏳️‍🌈 https://roygill.wordpress.com

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 26d

Really happy to say I have a new Doctor Who audio adventure in this set, out in December - “Lure of the Zygons”! Mysterious Spaceships and Shapeshifting Monsters! 2 parts/2 hours! I hope you’ll give it a listen…

Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 26d

The Eighth Doctor v Zygons! 📣 Click https://bgfn.sh/8zygons to read all about December's forthcoming adventure. 📣 Paul McGann! 📣 Nicola Walker! 📣 Hattie Morahan! 📣 It's about time!

Sean Longmore's cover artwork for Doctor Who: Empty Vessels, featuring the Eighth Doctor in his Dark Eyes leather jacket ensemble, holding the sonic screwdriver. Behind him is a Zygon, holding a crystal. Either side are Helen (and her doppelganger) in a Zygon ship and Liv in a spacecraft corridor.

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

No Dalek socks, but otherwise…

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 1d

An episode of Call My Bluff with Tom Baker is on BBC4 tonight at 9pm

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Call My Bluff, 27/05/1977

Robert Robinson hosts a game of word definitions and deceptions. With Tom Baker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

These behind-the-scenes box set previews are always a treat —- get in my ears! 🤤

Kenny Smith @finishedzine.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW EPISODE!�

#DoctorWho Season 13 blu-ray preview (part one)? ✔️

@petercrockersvs.bsky.social on picture restoration? ✔️

@nothinglane.bsky.social on the PDF archive? ✔️

You know what to listen to!

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442: The Making of Season 13 on Blu-ray (part one)

The countdown has begun - there's less than a week until Season 13 arrives on Blu-ray in the UK. As ever, we preview this eagerly-anticipated release by speaking to some of the people involved in the

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the Wolfes are running

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I would absolutely go watch them do a concert of Kate covers…

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

Oh for a lovely HD copy with restored soundtrack! (Wish I’d kept my VHS. I swear the sound was better)

That Network set with Get Lost! was an absolute treat at the time though

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 2d

(‘West End Records’ on Beth Orton’s Central Reservation, I’m looking at you)

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 2d

No, no. This makes sense to me

(There is no help, only the process)

Similarly: a price sticker must be removed after purchase UNLESS it’s somehow survived decades from a record store that no longer exists then it must be treated as a holy relic, IMO

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous cover of Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers that crossed my timeline today (and really made me think about the lyrics). I particularly like the way the chorus is handled by two ‘arguing’ voices

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SYSTIR - Army Dreamers (Kate Bush)

YouTube video by The Anúna Collective

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh, but you wouldn’t stick direct onto the CD if it had a cardboard sleeve, would you?

Or would you?

*waits anxiously for answer*

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lesley7007.bsky.social @lesley7007.bsky.social · 2d

Otter on the Water of Leith

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 2d

I got asked if I was student in the Apple Store…

(I suspect they sell a lot of laptops this way)

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 2d

For scale: Mabel with Harry Hill's faithful friend, Stouffer.

A small tabby cat next to a bizarre, blue soft vinyl cat.

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 2d

#DoctorWho Postcards are now available to buy! 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books in another universe, in a different time. Get them here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 2d

An excellent podcast, intelligently moderated & full of thoughtful, articulate people talking about the fine work they do under often sensitive & sad circumstances. I learned a lot.
Podcast options: linktr.ee/missingeps_pod
Donations to Film Is Fabulous: filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-...

filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 3d

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
youtu.be/CK02j_Mi6iE?...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Another week of previously lost radio, courtesy of the Hidden Treasures strand. Every day this week at 2.30pm :
An Uncommon Love (Micheline Wandor)
The Gortys Triangle (Rod Beacham)
Vendetta For A Judge (James Follett)
Eyes of the Buddha (Victor Pemberton)
So Easy To Forget (Val Gielgud)
Fantastic.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hidden Treasures - Episode guide

All episodes of Hidden Treasures

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal

The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Horton is writing a graphic novel @stevehorton.mst3k.fan · 2d

This is a really good interview.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 3d

'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 3d

Modest proposal:

BBC BRING BACK 'TOMORROW'S WORLD'.

Science, tech, environment reporting are woeful currently. Something that blasts excitement about what a golden age we're in of discovery (vaccines, computing, space exploration etc etc) but can also be a trojan horse for warnings on climate etc

the presenters of 1980s Tomorrow's World

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 3d

“Something for the weekend, sir?”

Solon, giving Morbius a short back and (in)sides.

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James T. Harding @empowermint.bsky.social · 3d

The original statuette, currently in the Louvre, is much cooler: collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

Looking forward to Debenhams’ full series of slightly melted-looking copies of ancient statues with massive penises added.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 3d

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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