Jon Dear
@accordingtojond.bsky.social
Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
A superb episode which seemingly came from a tv series rather than begetting one. I wrote the accompanying essay for its release in the third volume of Play for Today sets from the BFI.
Play for Today - The Mayor's Charity (29th November 1977). Written by Henry Livings, directed by Mike Newell and starring Thora Hird, Frank Windsor, Roy Kinnear, Terence Rigby and Phil Davis.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A superb episode which seemingly came from a tv series rather than begetting one. I wrote the accompanying essay for its release in the third volume of Play for Today sets from the BFI.
This will only be bettered by the fans’ excuses.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This will only be bettered by the fans’ excuses.
God this is an interesting but depressing thread.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
God this is an interesting but depressing thread.
Lummie!
London film lovers!
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Lummie!
Not doing it again of course but if you check out #stonetapelive you’ll find lots of fun facts and info about the production curtsey of me, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social
Cult sci-fi-horror classic THE STONE TAPE (1972) tonight at 10:10pm #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Not doing it again of course but if you check out #stonetapelive you’ll find lots of fun facts and info about the production curtsey of me, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social
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November 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Now wanting the Ladybird Quatermass books… May have to write them first. “Victor is feeling ill. Poor Victor. Look out for that cactus!”
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
HOLY SHIT IT’S QUATERMASS II!
Piccadilly Circus
The Ladybird book of London,
1961
Artist: John Berry
The Ladybird book of London,
1961
Artist: John Berry
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
HOLY SHIT IT’S QUATERMASS II!
Sian’s interview with Aster.
Links to the full video of the interview can be found here, as part of my analysis.
www.room207press.com/2020/06/we-d...
www.room207press.com/2020/06/we-d...
We Don't Go Back #93: Midsommar (2019)
I’m not sure what there is left to say about Midsommar . Increasingly, writing about it has become something of an obligation (and if ther...
www.room207press.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Sian’s interview with Aster.
I’ll die on the hill of Ari Aster being a terrible filmmaker.
Ari Aster's ambitious riff on American right and leftwing politics is extremely familiar and barely enlightening
Available now on various VoD platforms:
dmovies.org/2025/05/16/e...
Available now on various VoD platforms:
dmovies.org/2025/05/16/e...
Eddington - DMovies
Ari Aster's ambitious riff on American right and leftwing politics is extremely familiar and barely enlightening - now available on VoD
dmovies.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I’ll die on the hill of Ari Aster being a terrible filmmaker.
Best bit of The Running Man? When the audience made the bloke on his phone leave the auditorium.
Sadly that wasn’t in the film.
Sadly that wasn’t in the film.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Best bit of The Running Man? When the audience made the bloke on his phone leave the auditorium.
Sadly that wasn’t in the film.
Sadly that wasn’t in the film.
Just learned about Jack Shepherd. Hope in the Year Two, Bill Brand and *the* definitive Renfield.
Superb.
Superb.
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just learned about Jack Shepherd. Hope in the Year Two, Bill Brand and *the* definitive Renfield.
Superb.
Superb.
You know that Sophie Ellis-Bextor thing we did last year, that everyone really liked? Let’s do that again but much worse.
Ronan Keating to host BBC One's #NewYearsEve celebrations. More details:
www.tvzoneuk.com/post/newyear...
www.tvzoneuk.com/post/newyear...
RONAN KEATING TO HOST BBC ONE'S NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATIONS
Get ready for the ultimate New Year’s Eve party as global music legend Ronan Keating takes centre stage to lead the celebrations into 2026. Ronan Keating & Friends: A New Year’s Eve Party promises a n...
www.tvzoneuk.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
You know that Sophie Ellis-Bextor thing we did last year, that everyone really liked? Let’s do that again but much worse.
New episode time!
Dave and I take too many prescription drugs, settle into our trendy settee-cum-fireplace and look at porny photos of Susan Scott while discussing representations of female desire as only cis men can.
And then we talk about Luciano Ercoli’s first film…
Dave and I take too many prescription drugs, settle into our trendy settee-cum-fireplace and look at porny photos of Susan Scott while discussing representations of female desire as only cis men can.
And then we talk about Luciano Ercoli’s first film…
Episode 46: The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
Podcast Episode · Due signori in giallo · 21/11/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New episode time!
Dave and I take too many prescription drugs, settle into our trendy settee-cum-fireplace and look at porny photos of Susan Scott while discussing representations of female desire as only cis men can.
And then we talk about Luciano Ercoli’s first film…
Dave and I take too many prescription drugs, settle into our trendy settee-cum-fireplace and look at porny photos of Susan Scott while discussing representations of female desire as only cis men can.
And then we talk about Luciano Ercoli’s first film…
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Brexit left the UK divided societally, impoverished economically, and diminished internationally.
Farage, Johnson et al acted to undermine the nation state of the UK for their own (or other's) nefarious ends.
They should be hauled up for treason.
(h/t @richardbentall.bsky.social)
Farage, Johnson et al acted to undermine the nation state of the UK for their own (or other's) nefarious ends.
They should be hauled up for treason.
(h/t @richardbentall.bsky.social)
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Brexit left the UK divided societally, impoverished economically, and diminished internationally.
Farage, Johnson et al acted to undermine the nation state of the UK for their own (or other's) nefarious ends.
They should be hauled up for treason.
(h/t @richardbentall.bsky.social)
Farage, Johnson et al acted to undermine the nation state of the UK for their own (or other's) nefarious ends.
They should be hauled up for treason.
(h/t @richardbentall.bsky.social)
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Some Udo Kier tonight I think.
Michael Sarne’s Road to San Tropez (1966).
Michael Sarne’s Road to San Tropez (1966).
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Some Udo Kier tonight I think.
Michael Sarne’s Road to San Tropez (1966).
Michael Sarne’s Road to San Tropez (1966).
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
Happy Doctor Who Day everybody.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Happy Doctor Who Day everybody.
I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*
*via Zoom
*via Zoom
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’m doing my Ghost Stories talk in New York!!*
*via Zoom
*via Zoom
Rotten weather so have curled up in bed with @eddierobson.bsky.social, @cooraysmith.bsky.social, @paulkirkley.bsky.social and @oliver-wake.bsky.social.
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Rotten weather so have curled up in bed with @eddierobson.bsky.social, @cooraysmith.bsky.social, @paulkirkley.bsky.social and @oliver-wake.bsky.social.
I dunno, I’m pretty sure that’s Dick Emery and Larry Grayson outside.
On this day 22nd November 1859 Cecil Sharp, founder of the English folk-song revival was born. (Here he’s pictured overhearing a gardener singing)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
Artist: Martin Aitchison
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I dunno, I’m pretty sure that’s Dick Emery and Larry Grayson outside.
Don’t worry Liverpool, it’s West Ham next.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Don’t worry Liverpool, it’s West Ham next.
A simply astounding line up of speakers and events. Particularly looking forward to the talk on railway ghosts, as well as hearing from people like Tracy Fahey, Catriona Ward, Alison Moore and @willmac23.bsky.social!
UK Ghost Story Festival 2026 Archives | Derby QUAD
View our latest season/festival: . See what the available times are for this event.
www.derbyquad.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A simply astounding line up of speakers and events. Particularly looking forward to the talk on railway ghosts, as well as hearing from people like Tracy Fahey, Catriona Ward, Alison Moore and @willmac23.bsky.social!
*Wakes up*
*Checks on Ashes and Ukraine peace deal*
*Goes back to sleep for ever*
*Checks on Ashes and Ukraine peace deal*
*Goes back to sleep for ever*
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
*Wakes up*
*Checks on Ashes and Ukraine peace deal*
*Goes back to sleep for ever*
*Checks on Ashes and Ukraine peace deal*
*Goes back to sleep for ever*