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Jon Dear

@accordingtojond.bsky.social

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Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 33m

It was more a quip than an exhaustive list.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 36m

Sorry Zack.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 38m

At MY party, Rick.

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 39m

The Plotters is one of Doctor Who’s best comedies.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 39m

The Highest Science and Only Human are both excellent novels

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 40m

Gareth Roberts.

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 45m

He was a superb Doctor Who writer so you’d have hated him anyway.

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 45m

And Closing Time was shit, Gareth.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h

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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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 2h

Many happy returns.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 14h

Listen out for a familiar voice.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 14h

Let me know what you think.

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 14h

For local calls in Norfolk we had a three digit one.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 14h

Terrifying. Have you seen Snap?

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 18h

“Abigail’s Party, a single play written by Mike Leigh, was watched on BBC2 by 18 million people [in 1977] and we all talked about it the following day. Well, those days are over" - Jimmy Mulville

'Those days' being almost HALF A CENTURY AGO. And it was BBC1. And 16 million watched by most accounts.

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...