James Goss
@gossjam.bsky.social
Writer and audio drama producer living in a cave in Turkey so you don't have to. Hickson in the streets, Rutherford in the sheets.
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Samuel Barnett's Unknown
Science Fiction Podcast · Updated weekly · A supernatural quest around London for a missing Shakespeare play with actor Samuel Barnett (Dirk Gently, The History Boys) and Tom Price (Torchwood, My Mate...
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You can listen to Samuel Barnett's Unknown here. First episode contains TWO ghosts.
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Tomorrow on Samuel Barnett's Unknown, Sam's about to get his Netflix job, Tom finds out about Shakespeare's illegitimate daughter, and they read what survives of the missing play Cardenio.
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Tomorrow on Samuel Barnett's Unknown, Sam's about to get his Netflix job, Tom finds out about Shakespeare's illegitimate daughter, and they read what survives of the missing play Cardenio.
The Ledger İs Kept is Raymond Postgate's weakest book. Which is still like saying Tunnock's worst teacake. İt's a sublimely-written tragedy about a dead nuclear scientist. #PenguinGreenCrime
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Ledger İs Kept is Raymond Postgate's weakest book. Which is still like saying Tunnock's worst teacake. İt's a sublimely-written tragedy about a dead nuclear scientist. #PenguinGreenCrime
Turkish tutor has set me a passage where Yunus wonders why the boys in his dorm are slipping out to meet in a shed at night.
Me (without thinking): for sex, obviously.
Tutor: (severe look)
Turns out they are building an electric car.
Me (without thinking): for sex, obviously.
Tutor: (severe look)
Turns out they are building an electric car.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Turkish tutor has set me a passage where Yunus wonders why the boys in his dorm are slipping out to meet in a shed at night.
Me (without thinking): for sex, obviously.
Tutor: (severe look)
Turns out they are building an electric car.
Me (without thinking): for sex, obviously.
Tutor: (severe look)
Turns out they are building an electric car.
Heading back to London. Surprise message from Royal Mail who have decided to deliver a mattress late. While I was in Somerset.
But no worries. İt's in my "safe space"... Which turns out to be my doorstep.
But no worries. İt's in my "safe space"... Which turns out to be my doorstep.
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Heading back to London. Surprise message from Royal Mail who have decided to deliver a mattress late. While I was in Somerset.
But no worries. İt's in my "safe space"... Which turns out to be my doorstep.
But no worries. İt's in my "safe space"... Which turns out to be my doorstep.
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love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
Very proud of Dad who despite what happened last time (ie being rescued from a flood by speedboat) has decided to go to Monmouth for the weekend. By train this time (as the waters took away the car).
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Very proud of Dad who despite what happened last time (ie being rescued from a flood by speedboat) has decided to go to Monmouth for the weekend. By train this time (as the waters took away the car).
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A Cheese Selection box... where the majority of choices are cheese with fruit in them.
Truly, the nightmare before Christmas
Truly, the nightmare before Christmas
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A Cheese Selection box... where the majority of choices are cheese with fruit in them.
Truly, the nightmare before Christmas
Truly, the nightmare before Christmas
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How does Batman's mum call him for dinner?
She doesn't because she was brutally murdered in front of her son.
She doesn't because she was brutally murdered in front of her son.
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
How does Batman's mum call him for dinner?
She doesn't because she was brutally murdered in front of her son.
She doesn't because she was brutally murdered in front of her son.
On Samuel Barnett's Unknown this week, the terrible story behind London's maddest museum, Sir John Soane's House. And yes, there's a demon twink at the bottom of it. There always is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
On Samuel Barnett's Unknown this week, the terrible story behind London's maddest museum, Sir John Soane's House. And yes, there's a demon twink at the bottom of it. There always is.
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‘It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre. When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
‘It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre. When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”
Michael Innes: What Happened At Hazelwood - tricksy, literary, multiple narrator "country house murder in the snow" mystery. Some really good laughs and Innes is determined to be readable rather than smart. Deserves a reprint. #PenguinGreenCrime
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Michael Innes: What Happened At Hazelwood - tricksy, literary, multiple narrator "country house murder in the snow" mystery. Some really good laughs and Innes is determined to be readable rather than smart. Deserves a reprint. #PenguinGreenCrime
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If I had a 2 million pound house I would sell it, buy the <£200k flat I live in beside the trendiest bit of Glasgow, and spend the rest on 18 thousands tonnes of Rowntrees Randoms which are 1p a gram in Tesco.
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
If I had a 2 million pound house I would sell it, buy the <£200k flat I live in beside the trendiest bit of Glasgow, and spend the rest on 18 thousands tonnes of Rowntrees Randoms which are 1p a gram in Tesco.
On a GWR train that isn't caught behind a slow running service and I don't know what to do with myself.
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On a GWR train that isn't caught behind a slow running service and I don't know what to do with myself.
The Electric Monk
I think I've finally found the AI use that will end humanity.
Cults creating worshippers that don't exist to praise their gods that (sorry religionists) don't exist, burning up the planet in a race to create the most fake prayers to show theirs' is the true faith.
pagesix.com/2025/11/25/e...
Cults creating worshippers that don't exist to praise their gods that (sorry religionists) don't exist, burning up the planet in a race to create the most fake prayers to show theirs' is the true faith.
pagesix.com/2025/11/25/e...
Music fans enraged as AI-generated ‘singer’ tops the holiday charts: ‘Seriously?’
“Solomon Ray is no longer ‘the AI experiment.’ He is now the biggest new voice in gospel music – period.”
pagesix.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Electric Monk
Halloween episode of High Potential in which the daughter gets a plotline about sulking and the product placement is just as subtle
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Halloween episode of High Potential in which the daughter gets a plotline about sulking and the product placement is just as subtle
I wonder what became of him.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I wonder what became of him.
Is the daughter on High Potential the worst television character since Scrappy Doo?
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Is the daughter on High Potential the worst television character since Scrappy Doo?
Jurassic by @verbatimfoley.bsky.social is for everyone who has had a stupid yet cunning work colleague. It's grotesque, it's hilarious, it's Oleanna with Raptors
sohotheatre.com/events/juras...
sohotheatre.com/events/juras...
Jurassic - Soho Theatre
A late-night screening of a certain Steven Spielberg classic causes carnage on a university campus.
sohotheatre.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Jurassic by @verbatimfoley.bsky.social is for everyone who has had a stupid yet cunning work colleague. It's grotesque, it's hilarious, it's Oleanna with Raptors
sohotheatre.com/events/juras...
sohotheatre.com/events/juras...
Me: I can do a meeting before the 8th December and then I fly home.
Them: how about the 9th?
(That thing where you script a reply with lots of exclamation marks to try and seem good hearted while internally crying)
Them: how about the 9th?
(That thing where you script a reply with lots of exclamation marks to try and seem good hearted while internally crying)
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Me: I can do a meeting before the 8th December and then I fly home.
Them: how about the 9th?
(That thing where you script a reply with lots of exclamation marks to try and seem good hearted while internally crying)
Them: how about the 9th?
(That thing where you script a reply with lots of exclamation marks to try and seem good hearted while internally crying)
Amazon has started sending me WhatsApp deals unsolicited and I'm 😐
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Amazon has started sending me WhatsApp deals unsolicited and I'm 😐
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I'M GETTING PUBLISHED!
Not one but TWO plays for your enjoyment: "It Walks Around The House At Night" & "Jurassic", Feb 2026. The oddest double-volume ever, ghosts and dinos mushed together.
Pre-ordering would mean a lot! Support your local nerdy playwright! www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/it-walks-aro...
Not one but TWO plays for your enjoyment: "It Walks Around The House At Night" & "Jurassic", Feb 2026. The oddest double-volume ever, ghosts and dinos mushed together.
Pre-ordering would mean a lot! Support your local nerdy playwright! www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/it-walks-aro...
It Walks Around the House at Night & Jurassic
It Walks Around the House at Night & Jurassic - Two Plays; Two new plays from an award-winning playwright.
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'M GETTING PUBLISHED!
Not one but TWO plays for your enjoyment: "It Walks Around The House At Night" & "Jurassic", Feb 2026. The oddest double-volume ever, ghosts and dinos mushed together.
Pre-ordering would mean a lot! Support your local nerdy playwright! www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/it-walks-aro...
Not one but TWO plays for your enjoyment: "It Walks Around The House At Night" & "Jurassic", Feb 2026. The oddest double-volume ever, ghosts and dinos mushed together.
Pre-ordering would mean a lot! Support your local nerdy playwright! www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/it-walks-aro...
New episode of Samuel Barnett's Unknown now live. Sam's looking for the missing Shakespeare play Cardenio. Tom's looking for somewhere to record a self-tape. Will they find their dream inside the maddest house in London?
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
New episode of Samuel Barnett's Unknown now live. Sam's looking for the missing Shakespeare play Cardenio. Tom's looking for somewhere to record a self-tape. Will they find their dream inside the maddest house in London?
Next time on Samuel Barnett's Unknown - The House That Spite Built, and the 18th Century's most elaborate hoax.... Launches tomorrow.
Trigger Warning: Contains Alexander Pope
Trigger Warning: Contains Alexander Pope
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Next time on Samuel Barnett's Unknown - The House That Spite Built, and the 18th Century's most elaborate hoax.... Launches tomorrow.
Trigger Warning: Contains Alexander Pope
Trigger Warning: Contains Alexander Pope
Village treasures on display
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Village treasures on display