Roy Gill
@roygill.bsky.social
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Writes things, sometimes involving a blue box. Likes books, dogs and vinyl 🏳️‍🌈 https://roygill.wordpress.com
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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…
bigfinish.bsky.social
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.
roygill.bsky.social
No Dalek socks, but otherwise…
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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
roygill.bsky.social
Looks like the Wolfes are running
roygill.bsky.social
I would absolutely go watch them do a concert of Kate covers…
roygill.bsky.social
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
roygill.bsky.social
(‘West End Records’ on Beth Orton’s Central Reservation, I’m looking at you)
roygill.bsky.social
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
roygill.bsky.social
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

youtu.be/VxbMKIttjTQ?...
SYSTIR - Army Dreamers (Kate Bush)
YouTube video by The Anúna Collective
youtu.be
roygill.bsky.social
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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roygill.bsky.social
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.off-the-records.com
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?
2? Questions
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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paulburley.bsky.social
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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colemandesign.bsky.social
#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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stoverfandango.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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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stevehorton.mst3k.fan
This is a really good interview.
newyorker.com
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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cathlynsa.bsky.social
'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.
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joemuggs.bsky.social
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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empowermint.bsky.social
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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edmorrish.bsky.social
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.”